Music in
Film
Historic Geography
Space
Food
Etymology
100

This film included Some Day My Prince Will Come

What is SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS?

100

Capital of the Mayans

What is Tikal?

100

This exoplanet with a telescope name (+ the designation 22b) is the first discovered planet deemed to be habitable

What is Kepler?

100

The Hindi word aloo, as used in Indian dishes such as aloo gobi and aloo gosht, means this ingredient

What are potatoes?

100

Observe that the Latin root "opt" can mean either "choose" or this body part

What is the eye?

200

What 2020 Bill and Ted film found them trying to write the song that would save space and time?

What is Bill &Ted Face the Music?

200

In 1492, Christopher Columbus reached the Caribbean, believing he reached this "I" lands.

What are the Indies?

200

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex took a sample of this asteroid in October, 2020, by pogo-sticking off its surface

What is Bennu?

200

coquille St. Jacques:  wine, mushrooms, and this seafood

What are scallops?

200

This Latin root for "fourth" would fit just fine in the milk case

What is quart?

300

This first EGOT winner got his only Oscar as the composer for 1945's State Fair.

Who is Richard Rodgers?

300

This North Island city was the capital of New Zealand before Wellington

What is Aukland?

300

This was the first planet discovered by telescope

What is Uranus?

300

The International Mango Festival is held annually in this capital city, and I'm sure lassi is served

What is Delhi?

300

Latin for this, "mord" is the root of morsel and remorse.  Perhaps he should have been called "Mordula."

What is "to bite"?

400

This alliterative "F" ballet about 3 sailors on leave in New York City was turned into the musical "On The Town"

What is Fancy Free?

400

On April 17, 1824 this country signed a treaty with the U.S., agreeing that 54 degrees, 40 minutes N. latitude was the southern limit of its claim.

What is Russia?

400

Found at its crash site by NASA in 2017, Chandrayaan I was India's orbiter of this object

What is the moon?

400

The savory taste of this Japanese seaweed, popular in soups, shares its first two syllables with a fermented drink.

What is kombu?

400

COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG
"Sky rockets" are these; hope you've got some "bees & honey" in yours

What are pockets (with money)?

500

I SANG THE JAMES BOND SONG in "Thunderball" (or is it Thunder Balls 😉?)

Who is Tom Jones?

500

The Bronze Age burial site of Sammallahdenmäki is found in this modern non-Scandinavian country

What is Finland?

500

On Feb. 20, 1962 the destroyer USS Noa found him floating in the Atlantic after a journey of 75,679 miles

Who is John Glenn?

500

The name for a young haddock split & boned for cooking

What is scrod?

500

Latin for red ochre, this word is an explanatory comment, or in old manuscripts, a chapter heading or initial letter written in red

What is a rubric?