World Facts
Magazines
TV
I'd Rather Have
A "Bottle" In Front of Me
100

Chinese has more than a billion speakers, with this form being the most common.

Mandarin

100

Topps Magazine (1990-1993) was a quarterly devoted to collecting these

Baseball cards

100

Since the year 2000, this rapper has played "SVU" detective Fin Tutuola

Ice T

100

Instead of any current politician, I'd have lunch with this 16th president & hear about frontier life

Lincoln

100

Found worldwide in temperate seas, it's the most widely recognized species of dolphin

Bottlenose

200

This lake in the Cascade Mountains is the deepest lake in the United States

Crater Lake

200

Dr. Hook & the Medicine show had a hit song about wanting to be on the cover of this music magazine

Rolling Stone

200

In 2020 he was back as Jean-Luc Picard; engage!

Sir Patrick Stewart

200

Instead of a fancy restaurant meal, I'd rather have a backyard cookout serving up grilled these, like brats & chorizos

Sausages

200

It's a place where a road is narrow or blocked, causing traffic to move much more slowly

Bottleneck

300

The Bass Strait separates this smallest state of Australia from the mainland

Tasmania

300

On its list of fictional billionaires, this magazine estimated Superman nemesis Lex Luthor's wealth at $10.1 billion

Forbes

300

Wolf Blitzer is in this CNN title place weekdays from 5 to 7 P.M. eastern

The Situation Room

300

For a good guard dog, I'd pick from the AKC's list of them that includes the Doberman one of these, but not the miniature one

A Pinscher

300

Dr. Spock advises about this practice, "sterilize carefully... germs thrive on milk, just the way babies do"

Bottle feeding

400

Named for a Germanic people, this peninsula forms the continental part of Denmark

Jutland

400

From 1956 to 1963, Joan Didion worked her way up to an associate feature editor position for this women's fashion magazine

Vogue

400

Nat Geo has this "ursine" guy "Running Wild"

Bear Grylls

400

I'd rather see this epic 1962 movie biography set in the desert in a theater at 70mm projection than on a cell phone

Lawrence of Arabia

400

This 1890s invention by William Painter was called a "crown cork" & resembled a monarch's crown

Bottle cap

500

The word "The" is officially part of the name of this tiny African country, highlighted on the map

The Gambia

500

In her book "Save Me the Plums", Ruth Reichl recounts her days as editor in chief of this fancy food magazine that ceased to be in 2009

Gourmet

500

Keri Russell was nominated for 3 straight Emmys playing spy on this FX drama

The Americans

500

Instead of a beer, I'd rather have this French wine that Food & Wine Mag calls "the world's most popular white"

Chardonnay

500

This shrub takes it name from the cleaning implement its flowers resemble

Bottlebrush