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Potpourri
100

Ms. Bonnie Parker was born in Texas; she and this man, her fellow outlaw and paramour, were media darlings of the American press in the US in the 1930s. They are said to have murdered at least 13 before meeting their own end during a standoff in Louisiana in 1934.

Who is Clyde Barrow?

100

This author's first book was adapted into a movie in 1976 and he has been a mainstay in the the world of film adaption ever since, from Carrie to The Green Mile to A Man Named Chuck which came out just last year. 

Who is Stephen King?

100

Though now popular at tailgates and Super Bowl parties all around the country, un-breaded chicken coated in hot sauce is named for this New York town. 

What is Buffalo?

100

Originating in Germany in the 1600s, this holiday decoration didn't catch on widely until Queen Victoria was photographed with her family in front of an evergreen tree draped with it.

What is tinsel?

100

"heaviness" and "linger"

What are WEIGHT and WAIT?

100

In 1747 naval surgeon James Lind discovered the cure for this fatal malady was a diet containing citrus fruits.

What is scurvy?

100

This many African countries border the Niger River.

What is five? (Guinea, Mali, Niger, Benin, and Nigeria)

200

Leslie Van Houten, Tex Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Susan Atkins were all tried as accomplices of this murderous cult leader in 1960s Los Angeles County.

Who is Charles Manson?

200

Written by Mario Puzo and adapted to film by Francis Ford Coppola, this book  introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and their powerful legacy of blood and honor. 

What is The Godfather?

200

A famous dish around here (its on the menu at least once a month), this dish features elbow macaroni, ground beef, tomato sauce, seasonings, and sometimes grated cheese 

What is American Chop Suey?

200

It is the largest landlocked county in Ireland.

What is Tipperary?

200

"round object" and "cry, wail"

What are BALL and BAWL

200

First theorized by Einstein's theory of relativity in 1916, these were first confirmed to exist in 1971, and first photographed in 2019.

What are black holes?

200

Miyoshi Umeki was the first Asian person to win an academy Award for her onscreen performance in the 1957 film __________, which means "goodbye" in Japanese.

What is Sayonara?

300

Anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted, along with this man, for the murders of Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter in 1920 in Boston and they were executed for the crime 7 years later. Some historians believe this conviction may have been tainted by prejudice against immigrants. 

Who is Nicola Sacco?

300

This book by Alice Walker became an Oscar nominated film in 1985, followed by a Broadway musical in 2004 and then a film of that musical in 2023. It follows the life of a Black woman in the early 1900s American South, as she overcomes abuse, racism, and sexism to find her voice and self-worth. 

300

The Hatch Chili Festival celebrates, every Labor Day, the spicy peppers grown for generations in the Hatch Valley of this US state.

What is New Mexico?

300

American musician Tiny Tim made this 1929 song a hit, with his rendition in 1968.

What is "Tiptoe Through The Tulips With Me"?

300

"he tells untruths" and "stringed instrument"

What are LIAR and LYRE?

300

French biochemist Nicolas-Theodore Gobley first crystallized the primary molecule of this, creating the world's first artificial flavor.

What is vanilla?

300

This marine mammal evolved from a terrestrial, four-legged animal to its current form in a relatively brief ten million years, first appearing in the oceans around 50 million years ago.

What is the whale?

400

At age 21 in 1864, Lewis Powell was assigned to kill Secretary of State William Seward while this actor and co-conspirator sneaked into Ford's Theatre to assassinate another high ranking official. 

Who is John Wilkes Booth?

400

This book, considered by Tolstoy to be his first true novel, tells the story of a Russian socialite and her doomed love affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. It has been made into films at least 14 times, including the 1933 Greta Garbo version and the 2012 version starring Kiera Knightley.

What is Anna Karenina?

400

Traditionally served in Pennsylvania and Delaware, this regional favorite is a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices

What is Scrapple?

400

At 1.9 calories per mint, this confection by Ferrero has delighted dieters since its introduction in 1969.

What is Tic Tac?

400

"small nails" and "government levy"

What are TACKS and TAX?

400

Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum clock in the middle of the ________ century, and they were the most accurate timekeepers in the world until the 1930s.

What is seventeenth? (1656 to be precise)

400

Of his hit 1978 song The Gambler this artist said "I learned a long time ago, I can't win enough money to excite me, but I can lose enough to depress me...so I don't gamble."

Who is Kenny Rogers?

500

Harley Davidson Ironwing was the accomplice of Colton Harris-Moore, known as the _________ Bandit. The 2-year manhunt for Harris-Moore ended when his final stolen aircraft crash landed in the Bahamas in 2010.

What is Barefoot?

500

Winning Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director along with 5 other Academy Awards, this 1994 film was based on a 1982 novel by Thomas Keneally, about an industrialist who outwitted the Nazis and saved approximately 1200 Jewish people from the Holocaust. 

What is Schindler's List?

500

The barbecue from the eastern (or lowland) part of this state is characteristically thin, vinegar-based, and of medium spiciness.

What is North Carolina?

500

Before its association with online dating, this substance, used with a flint, offered people an easy way to kindle a fire on the go.

What is tinder?

500

"conserve" and "side post of a doorway"

What are JAM and JAMB?

500

Canadian Frederick Banting and his team were the first to create an extract, in 1922, of this biologic substance, thereby winning a Nobel Prize and preventing countless deaths from diabetes.

What is insulin?

500

The world's peatlands (bogs) cover just 3% of the Earth's surface, but _________ percent of the world's soil carbon.

What is thirty?