WINE, WOMEN AND SONG
A.I., CARAMBA
BLACK HISTORY
GESTURES
PENNIES
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
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This late country icon famously teamed up with Kenny Rogers on "Islands in the Stream" and runs her own line of California wines, including a signature Rosé

What's Dolly Parton?

200

These tests asking users to select blurry bikes or cats to prove they aren't robots are obsolete—AI can pass them faster than humans

What are CAPTCHAs?

200

Founded at Howard University in 1908, Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation's largest Black sorority, initiated this future veep in 1986

Who is Kamala Harris?
200

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

What is call me?

200

In the 15th century it was played in England under the name shovel-penny; we know it as a deck game on a cruise ship

What is shuffleboard?

200

Money paid to release one from jail & a large bundle of goods

What is bail/bale?

400

Selena Gomez released a hit single named after this Spanish wine punch made with chopped fruit and red wine

What is Sangria?

400

"Timely" word for the input you provide to an A.I. system in order to obtain a result

What is prompt?

400

Often credited as the 1st Black man to cross the American continent, York contributed to the 19th c. expedition of this duo

What's Lewis and Clark?

400

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

What is shoulders?

400

Inspired at a bus stop, this Beatles song refers to sights & characters on a street in Liverpool

What is Penny Lane?

400

Flung & ceremonial chair

What is thrown/throne?

600

On her album "30" this superstar sang she was "soaking it all up for fun, but now I only soak up wine"

What is Adele?

600

When an AI confidently invents a fake historical fact or a non-existent court case, scientists borrow this term from medical psychology

What is hallucination?

600

By 2007 Kirk Franklin had won so many Stellar Awards, honoring work in this music genre, they let him co-host the ceremony

What's gospel?

600

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

What is heart?

600

When going to a hardware store, it might be helpful to know that these are usually sold in penny lengths

What are nails?

600

Kix or Count Chocula & a story published in sections in consecutive issues of a magazine

What is cereal/serial?

800

In a 1995 megahit, Alanis Morissette found "a black fly" in a glass of this

What is Chardonnay?

800

This type of A.I. makes new stuff based on old stuff, the "G" in ChatGPT

What is generative?

800

Journalist & activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett helped found this civil rights organization in 1909

What's NAACP?

800

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

What is hang loose/shaka?

800

Pennyworth is the last name of this comic book hero's butler & loyal confidante

Who is Batman?

800

To kill & a winter vehicle

What is slay/sleigh?

1000

Her album "The Rise & Fall of a Midwest Princess" includes a track about a "Red Wine Supernova"

What is Chapelle Roan

1000

The U.S. military consistently uses this A.I. model, developed by Anthropic and named after a French mathematician

What is Claude?

1000

With a logo in mind for a new organization, SNCC sent a colleague to the Atlanta Zoo in 1966 to snap pics of this feline

What's panther?

1000

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

What is live long and prosper?

1000

It's a tradition to leave pennies atop this assassin's tombstone at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore

What's John Wilkes Booth?

1000

Financial gain & the biblical Amos or Jeremiah, for example

What is profit/prophet?