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Plum Island Fun? Facts
100
The traditional drink of the Derby.
What is the Mint Julep?
100
Horses sleep doing this.
What is standing up?
100
These two liquids make a Cape Codder.
What is Vodka and Cranberry Juice?
100
A soft, round cap often worn by artists or military members, could be a raspberry one.
What is a beret?
100
This is approximately 11 miles in length and named for the wild beach plum shrubs that grow on its dunes, but is also famous for the purple sands at high tide, which derive their color from tiny crystals of pink pyrope garnet.
What is Plum Island?
200
The Kentucky Derby makes up one third of the coveted Triple Crown along with the these two other races.
What are the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness Stakes?
200
The Collective Noun for a group of horses
What is a herd?
200
It is said that this is the "dark" part of the drink and the "stormy" part is attributed to the addition of ginger beer.
What is RUM?
200
This hat was worn by what beloved character?
Who was Mary Poppins?
200
The greatest visible pest to humans on Plum Island is this insect.
What is the greenhead fly?
300
Diane Crump (pictured) was the first woman to ever do this.
What was be the first woman jockey to ever ride in the Derby?
300
Humans have only 3 muscles controlling their ears, horses have this many.
What is 10?
300
This favorite bevvy was created by "Trader Vic" Bergeron in 1944 and brought to Hawaii in 1953.
What is a Mai Tai?
300
A chef hat has 100 folds to represent 100 ways to do this.
What is a 100 ways to cook an egg?
300
The names of three of the four municipalities that Plum Island is located in.
What are Newburyport, Newbury, Rowley, and Ipswich?
400
This horse remains the fastest horse in Kentucky Derby history
Who was Secretariat?
400
Horse height is measured in this unit, about 4 inches.
What is a HAND?
400
Japanese people have specialized in a alcoholic beverage called sake or sake made from this fermented grain
What is rice?
400
Black taxis in London have a tall roof so that this type of hats can fit in!
What are bowlers?
400
n 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, Fort Philip was built on the northern point of the island to defend this river.
What is the Merrimack River?
500
Post No. 1 has become known as this.
What is as "the dreaded rail"? (due to its tendency to leave horses boxed in behind other racers, making it difficult to pull away from the pack.)
500
The fear of horses.
What is EQUINOPHOBIA?
500
This word, when uttered, forces us all to drink.
What is Machon?
500
A light, stiff helmet covered in cloth, worn by Europeans in tropical areas in the 1800s.
What is a Pith Helmet?
500
It's the name of this pretty plant.
What is the Beach rose or, for you scientific types, the Rosa rugosa?