FDR 4422 WHH 31 Days

Question 1

Where my love lies waiting silently for me is a lyric from this Simon & Garfunkel hit about a musician on the road

Answer 1

Homeward bound

Question 2

Hockey version of a three word phrase for the edge the team has that’s playing for friendly fans in the city where it’s based

Answer 2

Home ice advantage

Question 3

Shakespeare
Giving her desdeMona’s this piece of cough, which as it turns out is nothing to sneeze at

Answer 3

Handkerchief

Question 4

Shakespeare
Spoiler goneril and this woman’s bodies brought out

Answer 4

Regan
Re ghin

Question 5

Shakespeare
And our park and this character with an ass his head

Answer 5

Bottom from a Midsummer night’s dream

Question 6

Shakespeare
enter Polonius and this doomed duo who definitely get exeunted
Ex e ewww tid

Answer 6

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Hamlet

Question 7

Enter the ghost of young Prince Edward to this title king and not a friendly ghost

Answer 7

Richard the third

Question 8

This beloved character introduced the song rainbow connection in a 1979 film

Answer 8

Kermit, the frog

Question 9

Dan in his characteristic drip style greyed rainbow was among his last great purely abstract paintings

Answer 9

Pollock

Question 10

There’s no actual rainbow variety of this vegetable. It’s just a mix of colored varieties.

Answer 10

Swiss chard

Question 11

Great Odens Raven!
this name of the rainbow bridge that leads the Asgard gives me the chills

Answer 11

The bifrost

Question 12

His gravity rainbow was considered for a Politzer prize, but then deemed un unreadable, turgid and obscene
Tur gid rhymes with kid

Answer 12

Pynchon
Pitchin

Question 13

A state of Missouri video for these dwellers says if a tornado or even a bad thunderstorm is coming get out

Answer 13

Mobile home dwellers

Question 14

This 1929 novel is an autobiographical portrait of Thomas Wolf’s early life growing up in Asheville, North Carolina

Answer 14

Look homeward, angel

Question 15

Translate the doc talk
Apoplexy is a dated term for this

Answer 15

Stroke

Question 16

In 1969 he released his Nashville skyline album that featured the hit lay Lady lay and a duet with Johnny Cash.

Answer 16

Bob Dylan

Question 17

This endower of a New York City school for performing arts was born at sea in 1836 and his parents immigrated from France to America

Answer 17

Augustus Juliard

Question 18

Mark Twain predicted he would die when this was in the sky just as it had been when he was born - he was right

Answer 18

Hallie’s comet

Question 19

Fourth of July babies include this 19th century Italian patriot who is inspired by the American fight for liberty

Answer 19

Garibaldi

Question 20

Reported last words of this Pulitzer winning play right in 1953 “I knew it”
Born In a hotel room and died in a hotel room

Answer 20

Eugene O’Neill

Question 21

In a bygone tradition, Elizabeth, the second was born in the presence of this British cabinet official for domestic affairs

Answer 21

Home Secretary

Question 22

Translate the doc talk
Pyrexia
Rest drink, plenty of fluids and take some aspirin, Advil or Tylenol

Answer 22

Fever

Question 23

Translate the doc talk
Cervicalgia ser vuh kal ghuh
Literally this

Answer 23

Neck
Pain in the neck in fact

Question 24

Translate the doc talk
Myocardial infarction in fark shun
It’s life-threatening

Answer 24

Heart attack

Question 25

Translate the doc talk Bruxism It can happen while awake or asleep

Answer 25

Teeth grinding

Question 26

With her cowboy Carter album she roped in the top spot on both the billboard 200 and country album charts

Answer 26

Beyoncé

Question 27

His Tuskegee country album consists of duets of his hits, including endless love with Shania Twain and sail on with Tim McGraw

Answer 27

Lionel Richie

Question 28

This Aussie Megastar went country in a pop sort of way for her 2018 album golden

Answer 28

Kylie Minogue

Question 29

She was part of a country supergroup with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris and they recorded two Trio albums together

Answer 29

Linda Ronstadt Ron stad

Question 30

ANIMALS & NATURE Ancient Egyptians acute fevers and skin conditions with which plant, now often used to make soothing teas?

Answer 30

Chamomile

Question 31

BIOGRAPHIES Preferring El Productos because they stayed lit onstage, which comedian claimed he smoked 10–15 cigars a day for 70 years? +100 correct

Answer 31

George Burns

Question 32

SCIENCE & TECH Speeding at 700 miles per hour above the Mojave Desert, in 1947 who became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound? +100 correct

Answer 32

Chuck Yeager

Question 33

Airing his grievances over wasteful federal spending, this senator releases an annual report inspired by which fictional holiday popularized by Seinfeld? +100 correct

Answer 33

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul Festivus

Question 34

GEOGRAPHY Destroyed and rebuilt several times—most recently during World War II—which city is nicknamed Phoenix City for the way it has risen from the ashes?

Answer 34

Warsaw

Question 35

MONEY & NUMBERS Meaning “people’s currency” in English, renminbi is a formal term for the currency used in which country?

Answer 35

China

Question 36

VOCAB A person known for their probity is unlikely to… +100 correct

Answer 36

tell a lie

Question 37

HISTORY & SOCIETY Since William the Conqueror’s rule in 1066, which have been the two most common first names for British kings, with eight uses each?

Answer 37

Henry and Edward

Question 38

ANYTHING GOES The 1995 short film “The Spirit of Christmas,” featuring a fight between Jesus Christ and Santa Claus, led to the creation of which show?

Answer 38

South Park

Question 39

ARTS & CULTURE Designed by Inuit people, which footwear is named after a Yupik word for “bearded seal,” whose skin is used to make them? +100 correct

Answer 39

Mukluk

Question 40

ANYTHING GOES Which cocktail is a variation on a Manhattan, aptly named, as it is made with Scotch instead of American whiskey?

Answer 40

Rob roy

Question 41

BIOGRAPHIES A longtime fan of the “Man of Steel,” Nicolas Cage named his younger son Kal-El, the birth name of which comic hero? +100 correct

Answer 41

Superman

Question 42

MONEY & NUMBERS Sometimes called “red gold” because of its high price, which spice requires thousands of crocus flowers to produce a single ounce? +100 correct

Answer 42

Saffron

Question 43

HISTORY & SOCIETY In 1947 and again in 1965, wars for control of Kashmir broke out between which countries

Answer 43

India and Pakistan

Question 44

GEOGRAPHY Formed by the asteroid strike thought to have caused dinosaur extinction, the Chicxulub crater is located on which peninsula? +100 correct

Answer 44

Yucatán

Question 45

SCIENCE & TECH In 1885 Louis Pasteur saved a nine-year-old boy’s life by using infected spinal cords to create the first vaccine for which disease?

Answer 45

Rabies

Question 46

ANIMALS & NATURE Found in tropical areas such as the Florida Everglades, which type of tree can survive in water 100 times saltier than most other plants? +100 correct

Answer 46

Mangrove

Question 47

The device known as a Foucault pendulum is used to demonstrate what natural occurrence?

Answer 47

Earths rotation

Question 48

In U.S. professional auto racing, what color flag traditionally is waved to signal that there is one lap to go?

Answer 48

White

Question 49

Following his legendary "You talkin' to me?" line in Taxi Driver, what does Robert De Niro say next?

Answer 49

Well in the only one here

Question 50

Noted medical school professor Dr. Joseph Bell was the inspiration for what fictional character?

Answer 50

Sherlock holmes

Question 51

The Rhine River flows through

Answer 51

six European countries: Germany, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, and the Netherlands

Question 52

The Danube River flows through

Answer 52

ten European countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine