NYC MUSIC HISTORY
PLANTS AND ANIMALS
THE 90s
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GAME SHOWS QUOTES
100
Located on 125th Street in Harlem, this theater's Amateur Night helped launch Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, and Lauryn Hill.
The Apollo Theater
100
This black-and-white native of central China subsists almost entirely on bamboo.
giant panda
100
On October 3, 1995, a Los Angeles jury acquitted this former NFL star of double murder after a televised trial that gripped the nation.
OJ Simpson
100
One kilogram-meter per second squared equals one of these SI units of force.
Newton
100
Adopted at independence in 1962, this Caribbean nation's flag features a yellow saltire dividing green and black triangles.
Jamaica
100
"I'd like to buy a vowel."
Wheel of Fortune
200
Hailing from Hollis, Queens, this trio's 1986 collaboration with Aerosmith on "Walk This Way" broke hip-hop into the MTV mainstream.
Run-DMC
200
These insects communicate the direction and distance of food sources through a figure-eight "waggle dance."
honeybees
200
Quentin Tarantino's 1994 crime film told its story out of chronological order and revived John Travolta's career.
Pulp Fiction
200
James Chadwick won a 1935 Nobel Prize for discovering this electrically neutral subatomic particle.
neutron
200
A green pentagram (a Solomon's seal) sits centered on the red flag of this North African kingdom.
Morocco
200
"Is that your final answer?"
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
300
This Bowery club, whose initials stood for "Country, Bluegrass, and Blues," became the unlikely birthplace of NYC punk in the 1970s.
CBGB
300
Reaching over 350 feet along the California coast, this is the tallest living tree species on Earth.
Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
300
Released in 1997, this James Cameron film became the first movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
Titanic
300
Formulated in 1927, this principle states that the position and momentum of a particle cannot both be known with arbitrary precision.
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
300
A "Sun of May" with a human face beams from the center of this country's blue-white-blue horizontal tricolor.
Argentina
300
"No whammy, no whammy, no whammy....STOP!"
Press Your Luck
400
Originally formed as a hardcore punk band on the Lower East Side, this trio of Adam Yauch, Adam Horovitz, and Mike Diamond pivoted to hip-hop and released Licensed to Ill in 1986.
The Beastie Boys
400
Native to South America and weighing up to 150 pounds, this is the world's largest living rodent.
capybara
400
Released in September 1991, this Nirvana album bumped Michael Jackson's Dangerous from the #1 spot.
Nevermind
400
A 1953 Watson and Crick paper described the double-helix structure of this molecule, drawing heavily on Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction images.
DNA
400
This non-quadrilateral flag represents a very small nation in Asia.
Nepal
400
"Survey says!?"
Family Feud
500
Andy Warhol managed and produced the debut album of this Lou Reed–fronted band, which famously "sold few copies but everyone who bought one started a band."
Velvet Underground
500
Sometimes called "water bears," these microscopic extremophiles can survive boiling, freezing, radiation, and even the vacuum of space.
tardigrades
500
On December 26, 1991, this superpower was formally dissolved into 15 independent republics, ending the Cold War.
USSR / The Soviet Union
500
This theory, accepted in the 1960s, explains how Earth's surface is divided into massive moving slabs that cause earthquakes and build mountains.
plate tectonics
500
This East African nation holds the distinction of being the only country whose flag depicts a modern weapon (a crossed AK-47) with a hoe and an open book.
Mozambique
500
"You are the weakest link. Goodbye!"
The Weakest Link