Humble Beginnings
What about L?
Water Creatures
A game of chess?
The year was 1962
100

This company that sells Barbie dolls began by selling wooden frames from a garage. 

What is Mattel? 

100

A baby Sheep.

What is a lamb? 

100

An Eight armed marine animal? 

What is an Octopus? 

100

The game's object is to capture this piece from your opponent.

What is the King?

100

Mick Jagger and his band held their first performance. 

Who are the Rolling Stones? 

200
This company is a multibillion dollar business that runs"the happiest place on earth" and began life as a cartoon. 

What is Walt Disney Company?

200

The title of a Lord's wife. 

What is a Lady? 

200

Fish use these to breathe.

What are Gills? 

200

Each player begins with eight of these pieces on the board. 

What are pawns? 

200

This event was a crisis that almost caused a war between the USSR and USA.

What was The Cuban Missile Crisis? 

300

This famous chewing gum company's owner started by selling baking powder and soap. 

What is Wrigley's?

300

A fragrant light purple flowering bush. 

What is a Lilac? 

300

A Mythical woman who is half human and half fish. 

What is a Mermaid? 

300

This word signifies the move that ends the game. 

What is 'Checkmate'?

300

He became the first american to orbit the earth. 

Who was John Glenn? 

400

Two teachers and a writer founded this now-famous coffeehouse at Seattle Pike Place Market. 

What is Starbucks? 

400

E.B.White book about a mouse named Stuart_________.

What is Little? 

400

The common name for edible crustaceans. 

What is shellfish? 

400

This is the term for attacking the King without capturing him. 

What is 'check'? 

400

This was the goal for Presdient Kennedy's US space exploration. 

What is to put a man on the moon? 

500

This fast food chain began as a roadside stop in Utah during the depression where the Colonel sold his fried chicken, named for another state in the south. 


What is Kentucky Fried Chicken? 

500

The weather event that made the discovery of electricity possible. 

What is Lighting? 

500

Only the males of this sea creature gives birth and raises the young. 

What are sea horses? 

500

These pieces begin at the four corners of the board.

What is a rook? 

500

This Pope convened the Second Vatican Council.

Who was Pope John XXII?