Pasta
2000s Hip Hop
SciOly
Finance
Potpourri
100

What's the favorite pasta in America?

Spaghetti

100

Which rapper’s real name is Curtis Jackson?

50 Cent

100

Driest desert on Earth?

The Atacama Desert

100

Used to calculate an individual's tax liability and meaning gross income minus certain payments made during the year, AGI stands for ___ Gross Income. What adjective goes in the blank?

Adjusted

100

On August 26 1920, which Amendment was added that gave women the right to vote?

19th

200

Which type of pasta is perfect for pasta bake dishes due to its round, tube-like structure, with diagonal cuts at either end?

Penne

200

Which song, inspired by a lullaby, did Eminem write for his daughters Alaina and Hailie Mathers (aka Hailie Jade)?

Mockingbird

200

Most recognized idea of how the universe began?

Big Bang Theory

200

Founded in 1971, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations is better known as what stock exchange?

NASDAQ

200

Barbara Park writes a series of children’s books of a trouble maker girl. What’s the title of the series?

Junie B. Jones

300

What ingredient does fresh pasta contain that dry pasta does not?

Egg

300

“Beautiful” and “Drop It Like It’s Hot” are hip hop songs by Snoop Dogg and which artist?

Pharrell Williams

300

What is the heaviest organ in the human body?

Liver

300

Which type of stock is higher-up on the chain of claim than common stock, but not as high up as bonds?

Preferred

300

Tranquillity Park in this Texas city was built to commemorate the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing

Houston

400

What is the Italian pasta dish from Rome called that is traditionally made with eggs, cured pork, black pepper, and hard cheese?


Carbonara

400

Which 2000s music hit by Kanye West sampled Ray Charles’ “I Got a Woman”?

Gold Digger

400

Which oath of ethics taken by doctors is named after an Ancient Greek physician?

The Hippocratic Oath

400

If you don’t repay a debt, what might a creditor place against your property (for example, your house) as collateral until you pay up?

Lien

400

What is the state flower of Massachusetts?

Mayflower

500

Which country has the 3rd highest pasta consumption after Italy and the US?


Russia

500

Which rapper loves chicken and beer so much that he has an album and a restaurant named after them?

Ludacris

500

The quadriceps is, as the name suggests, a group of four prevailing mus les including the rectus femoris. This group of muscles covers the front and sides of what leg bone?

Femur

500

When the stock market index S&P 500 is referenced in the U.S., technically "S&P" no longer stands for anything. However, what did these two letters previously stand for?

Standard and Poor's

500

Imperfect flowers lack one of these 2 reproductive organs.

Pistils and stamen