Brilliant Answers
Table For Two
Ologies
The Nifty 50s
Word Up
100

Diamonds are made entirely of this element

What is carbon?

100

This utensil is placed to the left of the plate in a place setting

What is the fork?

100

The study of animals

What is Zoology?

100

Teenagers in the 1950s often wore leather jackets, slicked-back hair, and rode motorcycles like these "rebellious" kids

What are greasers?

100

This word for a four-legged domestic animal comes from Old English "hund"

What is "dog"?

200

This term refers to tiny imperfections or flaws inside a diamond

What are inclusions?

200

This Italian term refers to pasta that is cooked "to the tooth"

What is al dente?

200

The study of rocks and earth

What is Geology?

200

This American brand of soda became part of the teen culture in the 1950s 

What is Coca-Cola?

200

DAILY DOUBLE

This word for the beginning of the day comes from the Old English "morgen"

What is "morning"?

300

This diamond cut, developed in the early 1900s, is designed to maximize brilliance

What is the round brilliant cut?

300

This term means food is cooked quickly at high heat in a pan

What is sauteed?

300

The study of plants

What is Botany?

300

This dance craze, made famous by Chubby Checker, involved the hips but without moving feet

What is the Twist?

300

This word for "king of the jungle" comes from Latin "leo"

What is "lion"?

400

On the Mohs scale, which measures the relative hardness of minerals/gemstones, diamonds rank at this number between 1-10

What is 10?

400

This French term on a menu means "according to the menu" or "one dish at a time"

What is "a la carte"?

400

The study of ancient civilizations

What is Archeology?

400

This 1950s musical trend, blending country and rhythm and blues, was popularized by Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins

What is rockabilly?

400

This 9-letter word for an insect may have come about because people believed this bug ate uncovered dairy products

What is butterfly?

500

The famous Hope Diamond gets its blue color from trace amounts of this element

What is boron?

500

DAILY DOUBLE

The location of the oldest restaurant in the U.S. is located in this East Coast state

What is Boston? 

500

The study of words and their meanings

What is etymology?

500

This popular 1950s toy involved plastic building blocks that could be snapped together to create different shapes

What is Lego? (introduced internationally in 1958)

500

The name of this reference book has the same roots as 'treasure'--& don't give us a synonym for it

What is a thesaurus?