Animals
The beefalo, a hybrid domestic animal, is 5/8 beef cow & 3/8 ____.
What is a buffalo?
Another one of your parents' offspring
What is a sibling?
In a standard Monopoly game, there are 32 green houses & 12 of these that are red; try to build one on Board Walk!
What are hotels?
With over a thousand patents under his belt, this inventor created the incandescent light bulb, film, and the phonograph to name just a few
Who is Thomas Edison?
Gerontology
What is the elderly or aging?
A beetle with middle femurs that look like bulging biceps was named for this Austrian-born actor and former California governor
Who is Schwarzenegger?
A Robert McCloskey children's book wanted you to "Make Way" for these small birds from a pond
What are ducklings?
Variants of this game include Omaha, Seven-Card Stud, and Texas Hold’em
What is poker?
Plant burrs sticking to a dog's fur inspired Swiss inventor George de Mestral to create this fastener brand
What is velcro?
Dermatology
What is skin?
Fans visiting Graceland sometimes leave these stuffed animals from a 1957 hit song on Elvis’ grave
What are teddy bears?
A young tree bigger than a seedling but not yet timber size
What is a sapling?
This Hasbro game has infantry, cavalry & artillery pieces in different colors
What is Risk?
To find the bullet in James Garfield, Alexander Graham Bell created an early one of these, but mattress springs confused it
What is a metal detector?
Anthropology
What are people?
English dramatist John Webster noted, “they that sleep with dogs shall rise with” these pesky insects
What are fleas?
An abandoned child, perhaps on a doorstep
What is a foundling?
Harry, Henry, Homer & Happy were the original names of these triply alliterative marble munchers
What are the Hungry Hungry Hippos?
This inventor was not only a founding father but also the creator of the lightning rod, the glass harmonica, and bifocals
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Entomology
What are insects?
It’s the Italian name for squid, whose meat is firm and chewy
What is calamari?
The name of a novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published in 1938
What is The Yearling?
2, 4, 8, 16, 32 & 64 are marked on the die called a doubling cube in this game
What is backgammon?
In 1830 Edwin Budding patented the mechanical this for the "cropping or shearing" of "grass-plats and pleasure grounds"
What is a lawn mower?
Cynology
What are dogs?