Leaps and Bounds
A leap year occurs once in this many years
What is 4?
The final film personally supervised by Walt Disney himself, this 1959 Disney classic features complex, artful drawings and a villain fan favorite-- the witch Maleficent
What is Sleeping Beauty?
This is the largest living shark in the world, and can be more than 20 feet in length and weigh over 2 tons
What is the great white shark?
This element released from plants allows us to breathe on Earth
What is oxygen?
February 27, 1950, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, limiting the president to this many possible terms in office
What is two terms?
These Australian marsupial travels mostly by leaps due to their short front legs and long hind legs
What are kangaroos?
This 1942 Best Picture winner famously contained the lines "Here's looking at you, kid." and "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'."
What is Casablanca?
This war is also commonly known as the "Great War"
What is World War I?
The acronym FYI stands for this
What is "for your information"?
February 12, 1999, the impeachment trial of this President in the U.S. Senate ended
Who is Bill Clinton?
Neil Armstrong famously said, "That's one small step for a man..." and ended it with this phrase
What is "...and one giant leap for mankind"?
Vincente Minnelli filmed this 1944 movie musical a year before marrying its star, Judy Garland
What is Meet Me in St. Louis?
Wayne Gretzky, also known as the "Great One", played this major league sport from 1979 to 1999
What is hockey?
Twenty-six U.S. presidents were this profession before being elected
What are lawyers?
On February 3, 1690, this type of currency was first introduced in what is now the United States in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
What is paper money?
These loud insects can make leaps up to 10 times their body length into the air
What are grasshoppers?
This 1948 John Huston adventure film based on a 1927 novel followed three men on the hunt for riches in Mexico-- it was one of the earliest Hollywood-produced films to be partly shot outside the U.S.
What is The Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
This is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic novel about the Jazz Age in America
What is The Great Gatsby?
The trachea is another name for this part of the body
What is the windpipe?
On February 8, 1885, immigrants from this Asian country first landed in Hawaii
This leap sometimes has to be taken, even when you have no assurance of a positive outcome
What is a leap of faith?
This 1957 Academy Award-winning movie directed by David Lean was set during WWII, and tells of British soldiers who were captured by the Japanese and taken to a prison camp in Thailand-- where they were put to work building a bridge
What is Bridge on the River Kwai?
Daily Double!!
This man was an ancient Macedonian ruler and one of history’s greatest military minds who, as King of Macedonia and Persia, established the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen
Who was Alexander the Great?
People who have celiac disease cannot eat items containing this ingredient
What is gluten?
On February 1, 1884, this authoritative English dictionary was first published as part of a larger book entitled: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
What is the Oxford English Dictionary?