British Isles
Starts with "G"
Journalism
Sudden Death
Trivia
200

Many of these drinking establishments still have separate saloon sections for the upper class.

What are pubs?

200

The study of aging.

What is gerontology?

200

Newspaper from which Archie Bunker got his version of the news.

What is the New York Daily News?

200

Nickname for worktime between midnight & 6am.

What is the graveyard shift?

200

"Unusual” middle name of former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara.

What is Strange?

400

While green is the color of Eire, this color is claimed by Northen Ireland Protestants.

What is orange?

400

Condition caused by too many cars in one area, prohibiting movement in any direction.

What is gridlock?

400

ABC’s Paris correspondent from 1976-1989, was formerly Pres. Kennedy’s press secretary.

Who is Pierre Salinger?

400

Two racers finishing in a tie.

What is a dead heat?

400

None of the members of this Herb Alpert band are Hispanics.

Who are the Tijuana Brass?

600

Side dish for beef, named for a dessert & an English county, though it’s not sweet & is served all over Britian.

What is Yorkshire pudding?

600

Socially constructed roles, behaviors and or attributes that society associates with being a woman, man, girl or boy.

What is gender?

600

The last time this medieval device had someone’s head was in France back in 1977.

What is the guillotine?

600

Words with which Betty Furness assured appliance buyers.

What is “You can be sure if it’s Westinghouse”?

800

Soldiers still guard Scotland’s royal crown in this castle where the Scottish kings lived.

What is the Edinburgh Castle?

800

Francisco Franco’s superlative title.

What is generalissimo?

800

Beginning in NYC, this tabloid which sells over 5,000,000 copies a week, mostly in supermarkets, moved their headquarters to Florida in ’71, but then moved back to their original location in 2014.

What is the National Enquirer?

800

Alternatives in motto of New Hampshire.

What is live free or die?

800

Title character’s favorite baseball player in “The Old Man & the Sea”.

Who is Joe DiMaggio

1000

England has not been invaded by a foreign enemy since this landmark date.

What is 1797?

1000

Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.

What is grotesque?

1000

Although its New York edition died in 1967, its international edition stayed alive & well in Europe until 2013.

What is the Herald Tribune?

1000

It’s legal in Uruguay, provided you follow the rules & don’t use a submachine gun.

What is dueling?

1000

In 1907, he became a bank robber to raise funds for fledging Bolshevik Party.

Who is Stalin?