CHIMPS
NOT AN EMPTY GESTURE
SONGS OF LOS ANGELES
LET'S HAVE SOME BREAKFAST!
Final Jeopardy
200

Society in this 1968 film has classes: gorillas are military, orangutans work in government, chimps are scientists

Planet of the Apes

200

Flirting with a member of our audience? Extend a thumb to your ear & a pinkie to your lips indicating this 2-word instruction

call me

200

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer wishes he could live in this ritzy enclave: "that's where I want to be"

Beverly Hills

200

The Belgian type of this breakfast staple got its current popular name due to a naming mix-up at the 1964 N.Y. World's Fair

waffles

200

A.I.

The name of this virtual assistant was inspired by an ancient library once said to contain all the world's knowledge

400

Birds don't, but almost every night, a chimp makes a new one of these tree-beds; researchers want to know: why?

a nest

400

In a gesture popularized by a 2004 Jay-Z hit, to de-stress, just brush the "dirt off your" this

shoulders

400

This Courtney Love band sang of Malibu, "the sun goes down / I watch you slip away / And the sun goes down / I walk into the waves"

Hole

400

If you're taking the meat out of your eggs Benedict, try eggs Florentine, made with heaps of this leafy green


spinach

400

The name of this virtual assistant was inspired by an ancient library once said to contain all the world's knowledge

Alexa

600

Toolmaking was thought human-only until Jane Goodall saw a chimp fishing in a mound, these insects' version of an anthill

 

termite

600

A gesture The N.Y. Times has called "a human version of those best-friends-forever lockets" is the "hand" this

heart

600

Tom Petty went free-fallin' with "all the vampires walkin' through the Valley... down" this long street

Ventura Boulevard

600

Shakshuka is a delish one-pan dish in which the eggs are cooked this way, which also means "stolen" in another sense

 

poached

800

The arms-up pose here is called GHC, "H-C" for "hand clasp" & "G" for this activity that removes parasites plus has a social component

 

grooming

800

Daily Double!!

A Jewish blessing was the inspiration for this split-fingered salute given by a sci-fi race

800

Sheryl Crow didn't want much in "All I Wanna Do"--just to "have some fun until the sun comes up over" this street

Santa Monica Boulevard

800

You need a "Z" to spell this Spanish sausage that's great in a breakfast burrito or a homemade hash

chorizo

1000

This river often forms a dividing line between primate populations, with chimps north of it & pygmy chimps, aka bonobos, south


the Congo River

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It became the first official hand gesture of a U.S. state when Hawaii gave it its due in 2024

the shaka (hang loose)

1000

In "I Love L.A." this legend notes that "from the South Bay to the Valley... everybody's very happy"

(Randy) Newman

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This granola-adjacent Swiss treat made of rolled oats & often dried fruits wasn't a breakfast staple originally

 

muesli

1000

A Jewish blessing was the inspiration for this split-fingered salute given by a sci-fi race

live long and prosper (the Vulcan salute)