OCTOBERFEST
AMAZING ANIMALS
GEOGRAPH"E"
THE "WORLD" SERIES
SOUNDS SPOOKY
FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHS OF 20th CENTURY
DDs+FJ
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This baseball player is known as "Mr. October" (Matthew Agostino's dad also laid down in front of his car in parking lot once)

Reggie Jackson

400

This largest animal also produces one of the loudest sounds, up to 180 decibels that can be heard 100 miles away

Blue Whale 

400

It has a 440-mile border with Colombia

Ecuador 

400

This 1995 film with Kevin Costner as The Mariner became a Universal Studios "tidal wave of explosive action"

Waterworld 

400

A British kid might use this 5-letter word instead of mother

Mummy

400

1969: The first lunar footprint was photographed by this man (who was actually the 2nd person to walk on the lunar surface).


Buzz Aldrin 

400

Morro Bay features one of these, defined as a partly enclosed coastal body of water where river or creek water mixes with sea water


Estuary 

800

Led by Orson Welles, the Mercury Theatre panicked the U.S. with a live radio dramatization of this work on October 30, 1938

War of the Worlds 

800

The foveal area in this part of a buzzard's eye has 1 million photoreceptors per square millimeter

Retina 

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Seen here is the view from Queens looking over this body of water

 

The East River 

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This 2006 book inspired a movie:
"An Oral History of the Zombie War"

World War Z

800

This spooky type of author writes a book but gives credit to another

Ghostwriter 

800

1999: Brandi Chastain ripped her jersey off to reveal her sports bra after scoring the winning penalty kick at this stadium located just 20 miles from Glendora


The Rose Bowl

800

This critically endangered bird with a stately and alliterative name is the largest flying land bird of North America 

California Condor

1200

In October 1936 power from this massive project on the Colorado River began turning on lights & radios in the Western United States

Hoover Dam

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The Sumatran type of this predator is still around, but the Javan & Bali subspecies are no more

Tiger

1200

You can attend the Sun City Music Festival out in this West Texas town

El Paso 

1200

In the even-numbered years of 2010, 2012 & 2014 this team won the World Series

San Francisco Giants 

1200

There are 3 species of this mammal, which uses echolocation & feeds on livestock

Vampire Bat

1200

1932: It still remains unclear who actually took this photograph aptly titled "Lunch atop a ________"

Skyscraper 

1600

She joined the Supreme Court as its second female justice October 4, 1993

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

1600

Some animals are highly resistant to snake venom, like the mongoose & this sweet-sounding creature also called a ratel

Honey Badger 

1600

DAILY DINGER #1

PLEASE MAKE A WAGER

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In 2005, making only their fifth World Series appearance ever, this team swept the Houston Astros and haven't returned since

Chicago White Sox

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Sanguinelli is a variety of this citrus fruit whose flesh can be deep red

Blood Orange 

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1989: Tank Man is the title of the photo taken at this square within Beijing 


Tiananmen Square

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20th CENTURY SCIENCE TERMS

This 4-letter word was introduced in London in 1905 by Dr. H.A. des Voeux of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society

2000

In the first united action by the 13 colonies (well, 9 of them), in Oct. 1765 delegates met to work to repeal this British law

The Stamp Act

2000

DAILY DINGER! #2

MAKE YOUR WAGER

2000

Found on the North Saskatchewan River, this petroleum & meatpacking city was established as a fort in 1795

Edmonton 

2000

Each time you enter LAX and battle traffic and drive around that death circle with all of the terminals you are driving along this numerically named street


One World Way

2000

This synonym for ghost comes from the Latin for "to look"

Specter

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1954: Marilyn Monroe's white dress was famously captured blowing upwards in a scene from this movie that has a number in its title.


The Seven Year Itch

2000

U.S. GEOGRAPHY

Of the 10 U.S. states with 2-word names, this one stretches the farthest south