Independence Day
($100) Americans wear these three colors on July 4.
Answer: What is red, white, and blue? They are the colors of the American flag.
($100) Eat, drink, and be this.
Answer: What is merry? This phrase appears three times in the Bible. It first appears in Ecclesiastes 8:15.
. ($100) Jimmy Stewart’s friend in the 1950 film Harvey is this animal.
Answer: What is a rabbit? Harvey is a human-sized, invisible rabbit.
($100) A man or an item delivered by the post office
Answer: What is mail/male? A male delivered the mail today.
($100) An American observance on July 1 honors large and small animals that we visit at this place.
Answer: What is zoo? It’s American Zoo Day on July 1.
($100) He is the president of Russia.
Answer: Who is (Vladimir) Putin? He has been in power since the year 2000. He served twice nominally as prime minister.
($200) This document was adopted on July 4, 1776.
Answer: What is the Declaration of Independence? It was signed on July 2 in Philadelphia, but Congress approved it on the fourth. Six of its signatories also signed the Constitution.
($200) This hour represents the very last minute
Answer: What is eleventh? This is not a direct quote; rather, it is a concept portrayed in the Parable of the Laborers in Matthew 20:1–16.
($200) In this 1952 film, Jimmy Stewart plays Buttons the Clown, and the name of the film is also the tagline for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Answer: What is The Greatest Show on Earth? The film portrays the lives of circus entertainers.
($200) Something simple or ordinary or a form of air transportation.
Answer: What is plain/plane? She wore a plain dress on the plane.
($200) On July 2, the world commemorates these flying objects that visit us from the outer reaches of the universe.
($200) On July 2, the world commemorates these flying objects that visit us from the outer reaches of the universe.
($200) It is the capital of Russia.
Answer: What is Moscow? It’s also the largest city in Russia, with more than 12 million residents. The second-largest city is St. Petersburg, formerly known as Leningrad and Petrograd.
($400) In 1982, the Canadian holiday known as Dominion Day was renamed to this.
Answer: What is Canada Day? Canada Day is celebrated on July 1 each year and commemorates Canada’s birthday. If July 1 falls on a Sunday, then the federal holiday is observed on July 2. It was first celebrated as Canada Day in 1983. Canada became completely independent in 1982, but it is still part of the British Commonwealth.
($400) The blind leading this appears in Matthew 15:14.
Answer: What is blind? The first use of this phrase is credited to the Roman poet Horace.
($400) Jimmy Stewart portrays this famous big band leader in the eponymous 1954 film.
Answer: Who is Glenn Miller? The full title is The Glenn Miller Story. June Allyson plays the female lead of Helen Burger.
($400) A verb that means “to form letters or words using a tool such as a pen or pencil” or a synonym for correct.
Answer: What is write/right? Because of computers and other devices, some people find it hard to write right
($400) On July 15, we commemorate this gooey pasta dish that is popular with children.
Answer: What is toss-up? It could also be described as a 50–50Answer: What is mac and cheese? Why not celebrate the day with some fancy three-cheese mac and cheese on Mac and Cheese Day? chance of something happening.
($400) The Kremlin complex is the heart of this square.
Answer: What is Red? The complex houses five palaces and four cathedrals, and it is surrounded by a moat and a wall with 20 towers.
($600) On July 14, Bastille Day is celebrated in this country.
Answer: What is France? It commemorates the day Parisians stormed the Bastille, which led to the French Revolution. Power was returned to the people of France, who gained independence from the monarchy.
($600) Cast pearls before these.
Answer: What is swine? This appears in Matthew 7:6
($600) Jimmy Stewart stars as Charles Lindbergh in this 1957 film that depicts Lindbergh’s career.
Answer: What is Spirit of St. Louis? His airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, was the first to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.
($600) A verb meaning “to carry” or “a long, narrow corridor”
Answer: What is haul/hall? They haul their luggage down the hall to their room.
($600) On July 20, we celebrate that familiar nighttime heavenly body that goes from new to full.
Answer: What is moon? The July full moon is called the thunder moon, wort moon, or buck moon.
($600) According to the book The Human Organization of Time, the Russian Olympic team was 12 days late to the 1908 Olympic Games because this calendar was still used in Russia, instead of the Gregorian calendar.
Answer: What is Julian? The Olympics were held in England, where the Gregorian calendar had been in use for more than 150 years.
($800) On Canada Day, many Canadians display the flag, which has this symbol on it.
Answer: What is maple leaf? The maple leaf has been a symbol of Canada since 1834. Maple trees are abundant in Canada, and their sap has always been an important part of Canadian life. Canada provides 75 percent of the world’s maple syrup.
($800) A fly in this medication refers to a thing that spoils something.
Answer: What is ointment? Ecclesiastes 10:1 states, “Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor.” The modern idiom appeared in the 18th century.
($800) In 1938, Jimmy Stewart stars as Jean Arthur’s boss in a film whose title implies that you might as well spend your money while you’re here on Earth because...
Answer: What is You Can’t Take It with You? Stewart plays the vice president of a company that is owned by his greedy father. Stewart and Arthur also co-star in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
($800) Past participle form of an action taken with a ball or a royal seat.
Answer: What is thrown/throne? King Edward VIII wasn’t thrown off the throne; he abdicated.
($800) July 29 is a great day to serve these little chicken parts with buffalo sauce and blue cheese dressing.
Answer: What are wings? It’s National Chicken Wing Day.
($800) This is the longest railway in the world.
Answer: What is Trans-Siberian Railway? It runs nonstop from Moscow to Vladivostok, almost the entire length of the country. The trip takes almost 152.5 hours; that’s 6.3 days.
Answer: What is maple leaf? The maple leaf has been a symbol of Canada since 1834. Maple trees are abundant in Canada, and their sap has always been an important part of Canadian life. Canada provides 75 percent of the world’s maple syrup.
Answer: What is Hong Kong? Under the “one country, two systems policy,” Hong Kong operated autonomously. In 2020, it officially came under China’s authority.
($1,000) In Exodus 3:1–22, you will find a land of milk and this.
Answer: What is honey? A land of milk and honey is a place that promises great prosperity and comfort.
($1,000) In this 1955 film, Jimmy Stewart plays an ex-pilot who is recalled to the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War.
Answer: What is Strategic Air Command? His co-star is June Allyson, who plays Sally Holland. In real life, Stewart was a pilot for the Army Air Corps during World War II and retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserve in 1968 with the rank of brigadier general.
($1,000) A small fabric package filled with potpourri or a verb meaning “to strut”
Answer: What is sachet/sashay? She proceeded to sashay into her bedroom to place an aromatic sachet in a drawer.
($1,000) On July 6, we honor the affectionate greeting that was once called bussing.
Answer: What is kissing? It’s always a great day to kiss someone you love.
($1,000) Found in Siberia, it is the deepest and oldest lake in the world.
Answer: Lake Baikal. It is also the largest freshwater lake by volume and often mistaken for a sea.