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Musical Instruments
Potpourri
100
This large Australian marsupial has a tail so strong it can stand on it while lifting its hind legs.
What is a kangaroo?
100
This is the smallest amount of spare change you have in your pocket if you have 4 different US coins.
What is 41 cents?
100
This unit of volume that equals 35.24 liters, you may love someone this much plus a peck
What is a Bushel?
100
This song by the Chordettes and the Four Aces each performed a version of this song, asking a certain someone to "Bring me a dream."
Who is Mr. Sandman?
Who is Mister Sandman?
100
The Proverbs 17:22 passage "a merry heart doth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dryeth the bones" led to the popular idiom that (THIS) is the best medicine."
What is Laughter?
100
Named after the Greek God of nature and shepherds, this musical instrument consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length and made from typically made from bamboo, giant cane, or local reeds,.
What is a Pan-flute?
100
Sushi chefs require 5 years of training before they are trusted to make this food item.
What is Rice?
200
This bird's eye is bigger than its brain. As by the way are their eggs, as they are the largest of all bird eggs.
What is an Ostrich?
200
This president's face has been on the quarter since 1932, the 200th anniversary of his birth. You may notice that starting in 2022, he's facing the opposite direction.
Who is George Washington?
200
This unit of area derived its name from an Old English word meaning "a field." It was originally defined as the area that could be plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen.
What is an acre?
200
“To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there's the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…" comes from this play about an indecisive young Danish fella.
What is Hamlet?
200
He worked with his brothers (Harpo, Zeppo, Chico and sometimes Gummo) in vaudeville and film. But he was also the first host of You Bet Your Life.
Who is Groucho Marx?
200
The tuba is a more compact, versatile instrument often played in seated positions, while this instrument created and named for the American March King is a larger, circular-shaped tuba designed for marching bands and is typically played standing.
What is the Sousaphone?
200
This 1927 film starring Al Jolson is considered the first "talkie."
What is The Jazz Singer?
300
Lobster have this many legs.
What is 10?
300
Federal law dictates that all US coins contain two mottos; E Pluribus Unum and this.
What is In God We Trust?
300
Sold by this measure, it's 42 US gallons of crude oil.
What is a barrel?
300
15% of the population somnambulate, a fancy way of saying this.
What is sleep walking?
300
In a classic skit from her comedy variety show, "Went With The Wind", costume designer Bob Mackie made a dress for her out of draperies and included the curtain rod.
Who is Carol Burnett?
300
Akin to the xylophone, this percussion instrument consists of a set of metal bars struck with a hammer or mallet to produce musical tones of different pitches.
What is the glockenspiel?
300
This New York Yankees first baseman, known as the Iron Horse, was the first baseball player to be pictured on a Wheaties Box, in 1934.
Who is Lou Gehrig?
400
This is what you get when you cross a zebra and a donkey
What is a Zonkey or Zedonk?
400
The first regularly circulating United States coin to feature a woman of note was the dollar featuring this suffragette, first released in 1979.
Who is Susan B Anthony?
400
In ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, this was the basic unit of length, based on a forearm measured from the elbow to the tip of the outstretched middle finger. Per the Bible, Noah's Ark was 300 long, 50 wide, 30 high.
What is a cubit?
400
The Legend of (this place) by Washington Irving tells the story of a school teacher named Ichabod and horseman without a head.
What is Sleepy Hollow?
400
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, these hard brown shells of a fruit (or maybe a nut) to simulate horse hooves.
400
Concertinas are smaller, more portable version of this bellows-driven instrument, but with buttons on both ends instead of piano keys.
What is an accordion?
400
Ferdinand Magellan, who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Globe (but died before it was complete), named this body of water after the Spanish and Portuguese word for peaceful, after experiencing rough seas and moving into calmer ones.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
The word's the same for this green hopping amphibian and the underside of a horse's hoof
What is a frog?
500
This slang term for a dollar is thought to have originated in the early US frontier days when the hide of a male deer was a common currency, due to the scarcity of coinage.
What is a buck?
500
Based on their weight per dozen, these are categorized into six sizes: Peewee, Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large, and Jumbo.
What are chicken eggs?
500
1 in 4 married couples does this; probably for the best if your partner's snoring keeps you up at night.
What is sleep in separate beds?
500
Flo was a character on Alice, but also had her own eponymous sitcom spin off. This is her famous catch phrase that she would say to her boss, a lot.
What is Kiss My Grits?
500
These are the four instruments in a standard string quartet.
What is First Violin, Second violin, viola and cello?
500
The largest waterpark in the world is in this United Arab Emirates city. Its called Aquaventure and its attractions include at least 105 waterslides, underwater hotel rooms, a lazy river and a chance to snorkel with sharks
What is Dubai?