THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW
IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER
FROM A "D" TO AN "F"
COMPOSERS ARE QUIRKY
GOING UNDERGROUND
ALL ABOUT DISNEY
Final Jeopardy
200
On a clear day you can see for miles from the 102nd floor of this landmark completed in 1931 by brave people like the ones here
the Empire State Building
200
Letter No. 1 on your Greek hit parade, it precedes male, dog & Centauri
alpha
200
If you're always sitting on this, there's a limit to what you might accomplish
duff
200
Made antisocial by his deafness, he would sit alone in the corner of a crowded tavern eating cheese & herring
Beethoven
200
The shepherd's tree of southern Africa doesn't look like much above ground, but these can go 230 feet down
its roots
200
In 1994, Disney invited theatergoers to "Be Our Guest" at this musical, Disney's first show to play on Broadway
Beauty and the Beast
200
ARTISTS
Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence
400
Oh, baby! In space, with no gravity to keep solid & liquid food down as gas escapes your mouth, you can't do this 4-letter action
burp
400
In 1941 this airline with a Greek letter for a name moved its headquarters to Atlanta
Delta
400
To remove a fedora or Homburg as a sign of respect
doff
400
As a child in the 1850s, Antonin Dvorak was obsessed with these; his house in a Czech village was right near the station
Trains
400
Dept. of more than you needed to know: NYC has 7,400 miles of these pipes, most carrying a mix of wastewater & stormwater
sewer pipes
400
One of the more recent additions to Disneyland is Galaxy's Edge, with rides & attractions inspired by this film franchise
Star Wars
400
Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence
Leonardo da Vinci
600
These tall timepieces were named for a 19th-century song that said, "It stopp'd short--never to go again--When the old man died"
a grandfather clock
600
This letter got some bad publicity when it became a COVID variant first detected in South Africa in 2021
omicron
600
Referring to their relatively small size & low luminosity, the most common stars are the red this type
dwarf
600
Edvard Grieg had a lucky pig & one of these under-bridge-dwelling folklore creatures by his bed & always wished them good night
a troll
600
Analysis shows that a 700s B.C. altar excavated in Israel has traces of this psychoactive 3-letter compound found in cannabis
THC
600
Walt Disney coined this acronym for the experimental prototype community he planned to build in Florida; it would open in 1982
EPCOT
800
Original last name of WWII navy corpsman William Stuart-Houston, who fled Germany & an infamous uncle
Hitler
800
It's letter No. 3 in the Greek alphabet; the same-named "rays" hulked out Bruce Banner
gamma
800
To get information by asking a series of questions of someone after a completed mission or undertaking
debrief
800
Some composers wait for this, a great idea coming to them from the universe; Erik Satie said he got it from 10:23 to 11:47 each morning
inspiration
800
In 1900 an estimated 5 billion of these, not actual canines, lived in underground "towns" in the western United States
prairie dogs
800
In 2006 Disney acquired this computer animation leader that it had first collaborated with on "Toy Story"
Pixar
1000
We got the Beat! Here's the 120-foot scroll of paper that this writer used to type out 1957's "On the Road" in just 3 weeks
Kerouac
1000
It comes before 3 in a term for healthful fatty acids found in fish (the 6 type is found in meat, the 9 in almonds)
Susan B. Anthony
1000
This industrial city of about 650,000 on the Rhine River was first chartered in 1288
Düsseldorf
1000
This "Ring" cycle composer had a compulsion to wear pink silk or pink satin--maybe because of a skin condition, & maybe not
Wagner
1000
This city on Puget Sound was largely destroyed by fire in 1889; you can tour the original site under the rebuilt downtown
Seattle
1000
November 18, 1928 is considered Mickey Mouse's birthday; it's the date he debuted onscreen in this cartoon as a mischievous deckhand
Steamboat Willie