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100

This play by Shakespeare, subtitled Or What You Will, opens with the words “If music be the food of love, play on.”

What is Twelfth Night?

100

The first of these, in 1810, celebrated the marriage of Prince Ludvig of Bavaria to Therese, princess of Saxony-Hildburghausen.

What is Oktoberfest?

100

This moody musical genius has been playing the piano since before he could walk. He also enjoys baseball and being with friends, but he’s never happier than when playing a Beethoven piece—even if the black keys of his piano are just painted on.

Who is Schroeder?

100

These marsupial mammas can produce two different types of milk at the same time from different teats to feed a newborn and an older sibling simultaneously.

What is a Kangaroo?

100

English explorers gave this name to the dried Pimenta Dioica because they felt its aroma and taste combined the flavors of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

What is Allspice?

100

A woven textile belonging to a slow three-toed animal.

What is a SLOTH's CLOTH?

100

This Cornell University graduate wrote 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Trumpet of the Swan' and 'Stuart Little."

Who is EB White?

100

On this show, he episode where Little Ricky is born aired on January 19, 1953, and was watched by 71.7% of all American television homes.

What is I Love Lucy?

100

This literary character's cure for warts is to  "swing a dead cat in the graveyard at midnight".

Who is Huckleberry Finn?

200

Brecht's 1928 musical satire Threepenny Opera features this song made famous by Bobby Darin in 1959.

200

Libra is the astrological sign that governs most of October. This one governs the last week or so. 

What is Scorpio?

200

Charlie Brown's father and Charles Schulz's father both share this occupation. 

What is a barber?

200

This very toothy mammal is known for playing dead and is the only marsupial native to North America. 

What is the Opossum?


200

This hardy, perennial herb of the carrot family that is identified by its yellow flowers and feathery leaves. It have a flavor similar to anise and is a primary ingredient in absinthe. 

What is Fennel?

200

The container for boiling liquid which is owned by Hansel's sister.

What is Gretl's Kettle?

200

An editor told this author that his book, The Giving Tree was “too simple” for adults and “too sad” for kids.

Who is Shel Silverstein?

200

These comedians got their famous stage names during a casual poker game when a comic named Art Fisher started giving them nicknames based on their personalities. 

Who are the Marx Brothers?
200

In both the original stories and the modern Sherlock remake, John Watson is a veteran of a war in this country. 

What is Afghanistan?

300

This Arthur Miller play is a political allegory for McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the early 1950s 

What is the Crucible?

300

This man broke the sound barrier in October 1947.

Who is Chuck Yaeger?

300

Lucy, Linus and their little brother Rerun all share this last name. 

What is Van Pelt?

300

This B marsupial resembles a rat but with a short tail, pointed nose and ears, and small eyes. Females have a backward-opening pouch that prevents dirt from entering while they dig,

What is a bandicoot?

300

In October 2017, this company's official Twitter account unfollowed everyone except for the 5 members of the Spice Girls and 6 guys named Herb, cleverly spelling out its famous secret recipe of "11 herbs and spices".

What is KFC?

300

There is no empty space for the soft curly sheep hair

What is The WOOL is FULL?

300

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this character finds the first golden ticket. 

300

This Stooge accidentally shot himself in the foot with a shotgun at age 12, leaving him with a permanent limp that he exaggerated into his famous comedic waddle.  

Who is Curly?

300

H1N1 is a strain of flu named for this animal. it was a global outbreak that lasted from June 2009 to August 2010

What is SWINE?

400

The Lynn Riggs play Green Grow the Lilacs is the source material for this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical (their first together) that debuted on Broadway in 1943 

400

The Americans, from this city, won the first World Series, played from Oct 1-13, 1903. 

What is Boston?

400

Snoopy has a long-running imaginary rivalry against this aviator whenever he pretends to be a WWI flying ace.

400

Australia’s banded anteater is better known as a numbat. Despite its being called an anteater, it feeds exclusively on this insect.

What is a termite?

400

The bark of the cassia tree is often used to produce the Chinese version of this spice, a less expensive version that the Ceylon variety. 

What is Cinnamon?

400

What a hog might wear to cover its bald head

What is a PIG WIG?

400

Author Tomie de Paola based the character in this book, which translates to Grandma Witch, on his own Italian American grandmother Concetta.

What is Strega Nona?

400

The two humpback whales in the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home were named for this comic pair known for his character as straight-man and hers as the scatterbrained silly one. 

Who are George Burns and Gracie Allen?

400

This is the only flavor of Jell-O gelatin to contain real fruit flavoring.

What is Cranberry?

500

In Sweeney Todd, this character makes meat pies out of a judge, a barber, a financier and a piccolo player. 

500

This branch of the US military was born on October 13, 1775

What is the US Navy?

500

This character is a definitive tomboy who wears shorts and sandals, rejects traditional dresses, excels at sports better than most boys, and challenges gender roles she is face with. Her best friend calls her Sir.

Who is Peppermint Patty?

500

This relative to koalas has small eyes, short ears, and virtually no tail. they’re known for pooping cubes and are considered to be pests because of their burrowing.

What is a wombat?

500

Chinese 5-spice is is typically made of these 5 spices.

What are star anise, cloves, fennel seeds, Chinese cinnamon, and Sichuan pepper. 

500

A water pipe belonging to Cheech's partner

What is CHONG's BONG?

500

In 1987 nine animal statues—a mama and eight babies—were erected in this park to commemorate Robert McCloskey's book, Make Way for Ducklings

What is the Boston Public Garden?

500

This American silent film comedian, actor, director, and screenwriter became one of the industry's biggest and highest-paid stars before his career was derailed by a notorious 1921 scandal. After 3 trials and a acquittal, he wasn't able to make a comeback.

Who is Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle?

500

An icosahedron is a three-dimensional geometric shape (polyhedron) with this number of identical equilateral triangles.

What is 20?