Potpourri Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A verbal prompt for an actor
a cue
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| From the Latin for “tail”, it’s what the Brits stand in to get in to see a movie
a queue
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The actress seen <a>here</a>, a star in Hong Kong & then on American TV, goes by this 1-letter last name
Q.
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s a rowing team or all of the personnel serving aboard a ship
a crew
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Royal Botanical Gardens of southwest London
the Kew Gardens
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Craig Ferguson is a proud Glaswegian–a native of this city
Glasgow
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Sheet retailers try to impress you with this number, 300 or 600 or even 1,500
thread count
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Crooked House seen <a>here</a> was completed in 2003 in Sopot in this country; the <a>language</a> over the door is a big clue
Poland
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Alfalfa has a long one of these primary roots; on older plants it can go down 50 feet
a taproot
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s the illustration facing the title page of a book
the frontispiece
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Though it has 3 initials in its name, this telecom giant gets only one for its stock symbol–“T”
AT&T
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 2010 it became the first Scandinavian band to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
ABBA
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This first permanent English settlement in America was named for a British king
Jamestown
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In the 1960s flight attendants from this U.S. airline wore Gay ’90s & Russian Cossack costumes
Alaska Airlines
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Barry Manilow was born in Brooklyn; Michael Dukakis was born in this Massachusetts town
Brookline
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1993 the FCC required analog TVs sold in the U.S. to display this to help the deaf & the non-English speaking
closed captions
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| By definition, it’s what you do at an ingress
enter
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Timbo the elephant lived at Shambala, the retreat of this former Hitchcock movie actress, & liked when she fed him Clorets
Tippi Hedren
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If Simon LeBon had stomach acid going up his esophagus & causing heartburn, he’d be suffering this
acid reflux
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 8-letter term for a jug of Pooh’s favorite stuff, or for the wax structure that a queen bee builds to store her nectar
honeypot
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Dark drinks like scotch have lots, vodka less, of impurities called congeners, a culprit in this nasty condition
a hangover
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Norris McWhirter, track announcer at the first sub-4-minute mile, began compiling this book the same year
the Guinness Book of World Records
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Scary–in 1991 the N.Y. Supreme Court ruled that a home buyer could void the sale as he hadn’t known the house was this
haunted
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A century-old painting of these animals playing poker was one of a pair that fetched $590,400 at a 2005 auction
dogs
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Schopenhauer wrote that to do this “is to halve your rights and double your duties”; so he never did
to marry
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Dentist who helped out the Earps at the O.K. Corral
Doc Holliday
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Astrologically, January begins with this sign & ends with Aquarius
Capricorn
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This system was introduced in U.S. autos in 1978 to help keep control when stopping
antilock brakes (ABS)
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This type of horse race began as a contest toward a church tower
the steeplechase
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Nazi invasion of this nation
Russia
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Music from Paul Dukas accompanies a section of this 1940 film, as the powerful wizard summons spirits
Fantasia
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A statue of a gal holding one of these bugs in Enterprise, Ala. praises it for pushing the town to try new crops
a boll weevil
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Eddie Murphy took the cake when this tubular snack looked for the “nuttiest celebrity laugh” in 1999
Ho Hos
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This island nation may have been named for 3 peaks on one island & something smoked by natives on the other
Trinidad & Tobago
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This title guy’s pal says, “That… hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, torments him so, that he will sure run mad”
Romeo
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| While Agnus Dei refers to Christ, it actually means “lamb of” this
God
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Would Cary with this last name have seemed as suave if he’d gained fame as Archibald Leach?
Grant
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s the syllable used for the third tone of any major diatonic scale
Mi
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The moon has a Sea of Tranquility & a Sea of this, a synonym of tranquility
Serenity
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This word that means bravery or valor comes from the Latin for “heart”
courage
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| There are only 12 letters in the alphabet of these American islands
Hawaii
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew tries to sell you a cell from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.</a>) The W44S multimedia phone combines Sony’s multimedia, like digital TV, with the phone technology of Ericsson, based in this country
Sweden
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford, & a lodger
the House of the Seven Gables
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This developer of the first practical helicopter built & flew the first 4-engine aircraft in 1913
Sikorsky
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Chitin is the main component in this supportive outer covering of lobsters & insects
the exoskeleton
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In the American colonies in the 1770s, the British East India Company had a monopoly on the sale of this beverage
tea
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| “Taste the rainbow” of fruit flavors with this candy brand
Skittles
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew gives the clue while playing the bass.</a>) In music, it describes a tone lowered a half-step in pitch, like when I go from here to here
flat
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Flaneur is a French term for this kind of lazy person, also a type of shoe
a loafer
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This famous 19th c. clipper ship shares its name with a brand of scotch
Cutty Sark
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A special flower for April, it can be oxeye or shasta
a daisy
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Contrary to its name, this yellow mustard brand introduced in 1904 is American
French’s
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Heloise says to remove this from the screen in the clothes dryer & toss it to the birds; they’ll use it in their nests
lint
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| She was born Martha Jane Canary in Missouri; the original “calamity” in her life may have been her parents’ death
Calamity Jane
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A G.I. Joe introduced in 2000 is supposed to be one of these Native Americans who were code talkers in WWII
Navajo
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1903 the first pack of this brand carried the line “for educational color work”
Crayola
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1899 this pair started their research with a biplane flown like a kite
the Wright Brothers
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Title of the chief of the DOJ
the Attorney General
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Used in martial arts, this hand weapon, 2 sticks joined by a cord or chain, is also called karate sticks
nunchaku (or numchucks)
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a diagram on the monitor.</a>) Instead of running around the curve, save strides & run <a>this</a> straight line that touches the curve, from the Latin for “to touch”
a tangent
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On the way to becoming the name it is today, “Covent Garden” lost this letter
N
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s the large river that runs through Albuquerque & Brownsville
Rio Grande
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Its chemical symbol is Sn
tin (stannous)
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This British archaeologist’s last dig (the one they put him in) was at Putney Vale Cemetery in 1939, not in Egypt
Howard Carter
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Hanukkah song “Maoz Tzur” shares its English title with this Christian hymn that “clefts for me”
“Rock Of Ages”
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The name of this language, in the language itself, is “Igpay Atinlay”
Pig Latin
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew performs an experiment.</a>) Some clay, a very sharp pencil & a horseshoe magnet will make a simple one of <a>these</a> devices–you don’t even need a needle
a compass
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Since 1910, the color that borders the covers of “National Geographic”
yellow
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates a phrase on the monitor.</a>) In proofreading, a mark like the red one here indicates that the writer should do this with the words
switch them (or transpose them)
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 14-letter word for cooperation between 2 partners, leading to smoother political sailing
bipartisanship
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Wahine, a magazine devoted to women in this sport, wiped out in 2001
surfing
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Raul Rodriguez is a famed designer of these, & he’s often seen riding on one on January 1st with his pet macaw
float
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This ancient Hebrew measure equal to about 2 quarts sounds like a synonym for “taxi”
cab
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In Britain, it’s a pullover sweater; in America, it’s a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse
jumper
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Toronto’s coat of arms boasts an artist’s depiction of 3 rivers flowing into this body of water
Lake Ontario
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s the number of cells in your average dinoflagellate
one
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (<a>Jeff Probst reports from China.</a>) The Chinese province of Jiangxi has been famous for centuries for this ceramic, whose name is derived from the Latin for “pig”
porcelain
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On an alphabetical list of U.S. states, this 43rd state comes immediately after the 50th state
Idaho
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ponce de Leon’s tomb is in this capital city
San Juan
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In a song from Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man”, this many trombones “led the big parade”
76
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Using a 200-year-old technique, a V.A. hospital in Long Beach, Calif. has utilized these fly larvae to treat patients
maggots
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ranking just above a captain, not behind him, it’s a U.S. Navy admiral with 1 star
a rear admiral
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1989 Pope John Paul II added these 2 automobile-related acts to the official list of Catholic sins
speeding & drunken driving
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| For one game, minor league baseball’s St. Paul Saints used these on top of the dugout to reenact big plays
mimes
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Technically, a carpet is fixed to the floor but one of these lies free
a rug
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Andrassy is the luxury shopping street of this capital of Hungary
Budapest
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s not just Dijon; Meaux also is known for this condiment
mustard
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Jazzman Bucky Pizzarelli uses a 7-string one of these
a guitar
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Royal Tyrrell Museum of this -ology has 35 complete dinosaur skeletons
paleontology
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s the country closest to the wreck of the Titanic
Canada
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The flat-topped table mountain overlooking Cape Town is often under its own cloud cover, aptly called this
Table Cloth
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 2003 Portland coach Maurice Cheeks got an “assist” before the game when a 13-year-old girl forgot these
the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner”
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ronald Reagan was partly deaf in his right ear because this happened to close to it on a movie set
a gunshot
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 1950s Bulgarian leader Vulko Chervenkov, who followed the Soviet model, was known as “Little” this dictator
Stalin
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Shelley & Eliot would be happy to know that April is the national month for this form of writing
poetry
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The cotton gin worked by removing these small, pesky items from the cotton
seeds
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If you stare at a bright red dot & then at a white wall, you’ll see an afterimage of the same dot in this color
green
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from UC Santa Cruz.</a>) A membership program here at a UC Santa Cruz aquarium is named for the sea type of <a>this creature</a>–not to be confused with the banana type, the university’s mascot
slug
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Disgraced soldiers once left the military with percussion playing–hence this modern idiom
to be drummed out
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| As a winner of this, you may be awakened in Stockholm’s Grand Hotel by Swedes in St. Lucia’s Day costumes
the Nobel Prize
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| These 2 words preceded “England Inne” in the name of a romantic getaway in Stowe, Vermont
Ye Olde
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| First 2 words of Variety’s headline about rural audiences rejecting rural movies, preceding “Hick Pix”
Sticks Nix
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| <a>This</a> newsman’s long career has included driving Marguerite Oswald to see her son in custody on Nov. 22, 1963
Bob Schieffer
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In “Gulliver’s Travels”, Swift described this type of creature as “the most unteachable of all brutes”
a Yahoo
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A popular kids’ book tells “The True Story of” this trio of oinkers–from the wolf’s perspective
the Three Little Pigs
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If you’re a “Junior” member of this organization, think outside the box to earn your Cookie Biz badge
the Girl Scouts
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| These “proud” birds also knwn as peafowl like to fly up into trees at night to roost
peacocks
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| When you read about these warrior women in Greek mythology, notice that they don’t have “.com” after their names
the Amazons
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In what could be the first-ever eviction, they got the heave-ho for taking an unauthorized meal break in Genesis 3
Adam & Eve
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Donald Trump’s rather unique hairstyle has been called a “pompad-over”, a combination of pompadour & this
a comb-over
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In May 1998 the Supreme Court gave 24.2 acres of this island to New Jersey & 3.3 acres of it to New York
Ellis Island
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1946 he won California’s 12th district seat, in part by implying Democrat Jerry Voorhis had Communist ties
Richard Nixon
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1984 this food co. had a Vt.-only stock offering at $10.50 per share; Unilever bought the co. in 2000 for $43.60 per share
Ben & Jerry’s
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The flag of Chile has just one of these, 49 fewer than the U.S. flag
a star
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Python & Scorpion aren’t merely animals, they’re 2 of these rides at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
roller coasters
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Of Ketchupseed, Mustardseed or Onionseed, the one who’s a fairy in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Mustardseed
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This apparatus that female gymnasts compete on is just 4 inches wide, so don’t lose your equilibrium
the balance beam
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If you have any Na, you’ve got sodium; if you have any Ne, you’ve got this gas
neon
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The pitcher looks in for <a>this</a>, he doesn’t like what he sees… he’s shaking it off…
the sign
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| <a>This</a> martial art is said to have been inspired by the slow, sinuous movements of a snake
tai chi
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| <a>This</a> type of dance shares its name with something you might serve with chips
salsa
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| U-Haul claims to be the largest installer of these permanent devices that’ll keep your trailer attached
hitches
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Lou Jacobs clowned around for this circus for 60 years, 1925 to 1985
Ringling Brothers
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In Churchill’s saying, “He who is not a liberal at 20 has no heart… He who is not a conservative at 40 has…” this
no head
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Workers using radium to make these glow at an Orange, N.J. factory had resulting health problems
watch faces (or watch dials)
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The extreme right-hand door of St. Peter’s is only opened in this type of year, which comes next in 2025
a Holy Year
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Acme Thunderer is one of these used by many sports referees
a whistle
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The potage this Biblical character sold his birthright for was made from lentils
Esau
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| North Dakota’s state song is “North Dakota Hymn”; this state uses “The Old North State”
North Carolina
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| His frenzied female devotees were called maenads, or, from his other name, Bacchus, bacchantes
Dionysus
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Located about 8,500 feet up in the Andes is this judicial capital of Bolivia
Sucre
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ahoy! This symbol of a cereal is the commander of the S.S. Guppy
Cap’n Crunch
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Denmark’s Gorm dynasty began with Gorm; next was Harald Bluetooth, then Sven Fork-this facial feature
beard
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| When Billy Batson said this word, he got the wisdom of Solomon & the speed of Mercury
Shazam
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew walks a dog at Yale University</a>) Handsome Dan is number 15 in the line of Yale mascots, including one who was cared for by this man, later Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1937 Fred Noonan disappeared along with this person
Amelia Earhart
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Some think this Irving Berlin song should replace “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem – it’s easier to sing
“God Bless America”
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Politicians often complain about having to make appearances on this “unappetizing poultry” circuit
the “rubber chicken” circuit
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| There are Blue & White branches of this African river
the Nile
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| VP Garret Hobart cast the deciding vote against independence for these formerly Spanish Pacific islands
the Philippines
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The website for this Bureau of the Treasury department is www.moneyfactory.com
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 2001 Sweden & the U.S. honored this award’s 100th anniversary with a set of postage stamps
the Nobel Prize
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Select Comfort Corporation makes these with adjustable firmness
mattresses
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On an NHL rink, it’s the color of the center line
red
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 2003 a nationwide Free Slurpee Day was on this date
11-Jul
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This flower got its name from the belief that bees got a sweet substance out of it
honeysuckle
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A first name for girls, it’s also a burger without the bun
Patty
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s our equivalent of a German U-boat
submarine
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Forever, or a fragrance by Calvin Klein
Eternity
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s what the “Z” stands for in zip code
Zone (Zone Improvement Program)
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Without this “effect”, the average temperature on Earth would be about 0 degrees
greenhouse effect
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Most candy is made by crystallizing this
sugar
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This drink has been traced back to the Ethiopian province of Keffa or Kaffa (maybe the source of its name, too)
coffee
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Pindar tells of one of these races in which 40 teams were entered and only one finished
a chariot race
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This daily chronicler of the fashion industry launched “W”, a bi-weekly, in 1972
Women’s Wear Daily
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Western state whose 2-letter postal abbreviation sounds like a deadly sin
Nevada (NV/envy)
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| First name of director Marshall, Garry’s sister
Penny
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Edison proposed using sheets of this metal, used with cadmium in a battery, as a substitute for paper in books
nickel
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Things that are commonplace are a this “a dozen”
dime
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This “master” takes care of clothing & providing sustenance for a body of troops
quartermaster
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Founded in L.A. in 1965, this rent-a-car agency was acquired by Chrysler in 1990
Dollar Rent-a-Car
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In computer lingo this punctuation mark is called a bang or pling
exclamation mark
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from a skating rink in New York City) This famed NYC complex is home to NBC, Radio City Music Hall &, of course, the skating rink
Rockefeller Center
$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Perhaps Mel Gibson knows that cereology is the study of these, which seem to make the rounds overnight
crop circles
$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Think about it – Helianthus is the scientific name of this rather large flower
sunflower
$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a ski slope in Colorado) My snowshoes are keeping me from sinking by distributing this over a wide area
weight
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Oxford graduate Hugh Grant played a student at this other British university in the coming-of-age film “Maurice”
Cambridge
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Traditionally, the ballet “Suite en Blanc” is performed without scenery, in costumes of this color
White
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Puerto Ricans eat mofongo, a mashed plantain dish that gets its strong flavor from cloves of this
Garlic
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s the official language of Bahrain
Arabic
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This 19th C. Norwegian wrote incidental music for Bjornstjerne Bjornson’s play “Sigurd Jorsalfar”
Edvard Grieg
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If you have a cat, make sure to clean out this box regularly
litterbox
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Devil’s food & angel food are types of this dessert
cake
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Double-dribbling & shooting air balls are undesirable activities in this sport
basketball
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Financially, you want to avoid this color ink – that means a deficit
red
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| From the Latin for “put in place of”, it’s the kind of teacher who may get a hard time from your class
substitute
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A truly terrified person is said to be “shaking in” this footgear
Their boots/shoes
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Cirque du Soleil performs its dazzling “Alegria” show at the Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi in this state
Mississippi
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Heloise says to remove this from the screen in the clothes dryer & toss it to the birds; they’ll use it in their nests
Lint
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Aviatrix is a feminine form of this noun
Aviator
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The 1999 Tony for Scenic Design went to “Not About Nightingales” by this late Southern playwright
Tennessee Williams
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s a space for whales to breathe through, either in their heads or in ice above them
Blowhole
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In a term for a genial, sociable person, it follows “Hail Fellow”
“Well Met”
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A decisive victory or change, perhaps made with a “new broom”
Clean sweep
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Situation seen here: if it’s black’s move, it results in a draw
Stalemate
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A special flower for April, it can be oxeye or shasta
Daisy
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (<a>Hi, I’m Vanna White at Christian Dior in New York City.</a>) This actress was wearing a Dior gown when she won her first Oscar for “BUtterfield 8”
Elizabeth Taylor
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If your computer has this kind of “base”, you should know it’s the plural of “datum”
data
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The original “Calamity” in her life may have been her parents’ death while settling Salt Lake City
Calamity Jane
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| His Ninth Symphony includes the “Ode to Joy”; his opera “Fidelio” includes “O Nameless Joy”
Ludwig van Beethoven
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 22 Jermyn Street, The Savoy & The Covent Garden are all hotels in this city
London
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Miss Piggy knows this Muppeteer’s original last name was Oznowicz
Frank Oz
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| “Common Sense” guy who wrote, “Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, in defense of our liberty tree”
Thomas Paine
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Male sea spiders carry the eggs on a special pair of these until they hatch
Legs
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| These bivalves are the main ingredient in the French dish moules mariniere
Mussels
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The 2 basic types of saddles are English & this type preferred by cowboys
Western
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This chess piece that usually looks like part of a castle is sometimes called a castle
Rook
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Specifically, this 12-letter word describes a person between 90 & 100 years old
Nonagenarian
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Creole concoction of meat & seafood is so good Hank Williams wrote a song about it in 1952
“Jambalaya”
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Goto is the surname of the young Osaka-born violinist known by this single name
Midori
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The portrait on the U.S. $5 bill is from a photograph taken at this man’s studio
Mathew Brady
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A device named for this woman drove around Mars
Sojourner Truth
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In this sport a long basket called a cesta is worn on one hand
jai alai
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| December 1997 saw the 2 millionth one of these in California: “THINICE”
Vanity/personalized license plate
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Washington thought of this general, in him “The spark of daring might flame into rashness”
Mad Anthony Wayne
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| To go next to your piece of the Berlin Wall, you can buy a lump of coal from this ship that sank in 1912
Titanic
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In World War I, the women who had this job were known as “Hello Girls”
Telephone operators
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Before taking the Russian throne in 1762, she changed her name, her language & her religion
Catherine the Great
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Alessandro Alessandroni was the performer who added this to the music in “A Fistful of Dollars”
Whistling
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Though he wrote about 40 plays in all, only 11, including “Clouds” & “Frogs”, survive intact
Aristophanes
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Country in which you’d find the Book of Kells
Ireland
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1943 the Supreme Court said that those whose religious beliefs prohibit it don’t have to recite this
Pledge of Allegiance
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Colorless, flammable hydrocarbon found in gasoline; you should have its number
Octane
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Manly men know it’s the main androgen
Testosterone
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Deneb is the brightest star in this constellation whose name means swan
Cygnus
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Related to the fear of falling, climacophobia is the fear of climbing these
stairs
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Givenchy, Armani & Nicole Miller have chic shops on this street synonymous with the ad industry
Madison Avenue
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Heloise cleans this bowl by pouring in cola that has gone flat & letting it soak for an hour
toilet bowl
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Spanish for “sauce”, this chip dip may be so spicy it’ll make you want to dance
salsa
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He became clerk of the Pennsylvania assembly in 1736
Ben Franklin
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On maps, this rodent’s name precedes creek, falls, island, &, of course, dam
Beaver
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Belomancy is a form of divination in which these are drawn at random from a quiver or other container
Arrows
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Some foreign X-ray scanners may ruin rolls of this, so keep them in a special lead-lined bag
Film
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Kennedy Center’s grand foyer is lit with 18 of these crystal items; they each weigh a ton
Chandeliers
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Dedicated in 1910, the capitol building in this Kentucky city was designed to resemble the U.S. capitol
Frankfort
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Asian country leads the world in the production of rice & pears
China
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A synonym for the British PM, this London street was named for a Secretary of the Treasury commission
Downing Street
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It means to soak meat like beef or chicken to flavor, tenderize or preserve it
Marinate
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On October 10, 1995 he retained his world chess title by defeating India’s Viswanathan Anand
Garry Kasparov
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This basic ingredient of glass can be derived from sand, flint or quartz
Silica
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1219 the Order of the Dannebrog was established; in 1671 this European country revived it
Denmark
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Greek god killed Python, the serpent that guarded a shrine on the slopes of Mount Parnassus
Apollo
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Handsome Dan, this Ivy League university’s first bulldog mascot, now resides in a glass case, stuffed
Yale
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This monkey named for an arachnid is noted for its long, slender limbs & great agility
Spider monkey
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| St. Jerome prepared this Latin version of the Bible at the end of the 4th century
Vulgate Bible
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Grown in the northeast U.S., the round white or Katahdin type of this tuber is excellent for boiling
Potato
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This computer maker’s NASDAQ symbol is AAPL, not MAC
Apple
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Huitzilopochtli was the war & sun god of this civilization
Aztecs
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This president’s 1961 farewell address warned of the influence of “The Military-Industrial Complex”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| With a fan that circulates hot air, this type of oven cooks 25% faster than conventional ovens
Convection oven
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ganymede & Callisto are the largest moons of this largest planet
Jupiter
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The dromedary type of this mammal has 1 hump; the Bactrian has 2
Camel
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This airline was founded in 1920 as the Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd.
Qantas
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1783 these brothers demonstrated their hot air balloon to Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette
the Montgolfier brothers
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In mythology Laius & Oedipus both reigned over this Greek city
Thebes
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The origins of this company can be traced back to the production of a car called the Dat in 1911
Nissan/Datsun
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ash Wednesday is a movable feast falling this many days, excluding Sundays, before Easter
40
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1950 this former first lady won the second Four Freedoms Award
Eleanor Roosevelt
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The National Air & Space Museum’s planetarium is named for this German-American physicist
Albert Einstein
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Snaketown on the Gila River in this state is the best-studied village of the Hohokam culture
Arizona
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Arthur Mitchell & Karel Shook co-founded the Dance Theatre of this place
Harlem
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He was 4 1/2 years old when he became Sweden’s crown prince in 1950; now he’s king of Sweden
Carl Gustav XVI
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It was the 1990 date of the last official U.S. census; no fooling
1-Apr-90
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| One of these was added to 1992 at 7:59:59 P.M. EDT June 30
Second
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The 4-H Clubs are an extension service of this U.S. cabinet department
Agriculture
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The YMCA found his indoor versions of soccer & rugby too violent, so he invented basketball
James Naismith
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 1 of the 2 cities whose Bee is among the top 100 U.S. newspapers in circulation
Fresno & Sacramento
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Willem Einthoven devised a way to measure & record its electrical current, thus producing the EKG
the heart
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1032 this Venetian official gave up most of his authority but remained commander of the army & navy
The Doge
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This is Mississippi’s state tree – its flower is the state flower
Magnolia
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A thin sheet of fine wood applied over cheaper material for decoration
Veneer
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Some historians consider this first “Dark Horse” the best president between Jackson & Lincoln
James K. Polk
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| At the 1996 burial of Larry LaPrise, this song’s author, we guess they put his right foot in, put his right foot out…
the Hokey Pokey
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He joined the Boston Symphony as a violinist in 1915 & began conducting in the ’20s
Arthur Fiedler
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| New ones of these in 1996 include 847 for Illinois & 330 for Ohio
area codes
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In Haitian folk belief, it’s a soulless corpse reanimated by a voodoo priest or bocor
a zombie
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Guinea pigs are used to diagnose this disease because of their low resistance to the tubercle bacillus
tuberculosis
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| At the 1996 Summer Olympics, she withdrew from the heptathlon but won a bronze for the long jump
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He wrote, “As Gregor Samsa awoke… He found himself transformed into a gigantic insect”
(Franz) Kafka
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In literature, restoration refers to the period after the return of this king to England’s throne in 1660
Charles II
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Meaning loathsome, this adjective is used to describe a particular Himalayan “snowman”
abominable
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Sculpted by Phidias, this ancient wonder rose 40 feet with skin made of ivory
the statue of Zeus at Olympia
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| MRI, which stands for this, cannot be used on patients with pacemakers or artificial metal joints
magnetic resonance imaging
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Commonly used title of clergyman Mason Weems, known for his 1800 biography of George Washington
Parson
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This country’s pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair was designed by Lucio Costa & Oscar Niemeyer
Brazil
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| From the Latin for “betrothal”, it’s a marriage partner, either husband or wife
Spouse
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The garden of “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary” includes these, along with cockleshells & pretty maids
Silver Bells
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This British author’s 2 middle names are Ronald Reuel
J.R.R. Tolkien
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1885 this Nez Perce chief & his people were moved to a reservation in Washington where he died in 1904
Chief Joseph
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1976 the U.S. Mint issued a medal commemorating his flight through the sound barrier
Chuck Yeager
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Cakes rise in an oven because baking powder or yeast in the batter produces this gas
Carbon Dioxide
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Navigational instruments are displayed at the Maritime Museum near Franklin Court in this Penn. city
Philadelphia
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On Jan. 16, 1969 Metroliner high-speed train service began between New York City & this city at the other end
Washington, D.C.
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Cumberland Falls in the southeast of this state is called the “Niagara of the South”
Kentucky
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Neewollah, a festival for this holiday, is observed each year in Independence, Kansas
Halloween (“Neewollah” backwards)
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This branch of the Justice Department administers the National Crime Information Center
FBI
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Denver newspaper was given a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service
The Denver Post
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Some say that Jesse James was with this man & his gang when they raided Lawrence, Kansas
William Quantrill
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This principality & Switzerland are joined in a customs union
Liechtenstein
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is Illinois’ busiest; this airport is second
Chicago Midway
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| One of this country’s shekels can be broken down into 100 agorot
Israel
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In the basic form of this game, each player gets a card with 5 horizontal rows of numbers from 1 to 75
bingo
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Peau de soie, a textile with good drapability & body, is woven from this fiber
silk
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Lydia & Xenia are women’s names derived from this language
Greek
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The fad involving this type of radio followed the oil embargo of 1973-74
CB (citizens’ band) radio
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The seven of these include pride, lust & envy
Seven Deadly Sins
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Hull House founder was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale
Jane Addams
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A maker of data communications equipment, U.S. Robotics is named for this author’s book “I, Robot”
Isaac Asimov
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Harvey Penick, a mentor to many of the greatest players in this sport, passed away in 1995
Golf
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In Arthurian legend, Morgan le Fay is the ruler of this island
Avalon
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This U.S. composer was born July 4, 1826 to William Barclay Foster, a Pennsylvania merchant
Stephen Foster
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The “peace”, introduced in 1945, is one of the most famous hybrid tea varieties of this flower
a rose
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Founded in 1862, this government department that deals with farmers was given cabinet status in 1889
The Department of Agriculture
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Kleptophobia is the fear of doing this; if you wanted to do it all the time you’d be a kleptomaniac
stealing
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1803 this emperor’s youngest brother, Jerome, married an American teenager in Baltimore
Napoléon
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Discoveryland is Euro Disney’s equivalent of this futuristic land found in Disneyland & Disney World
Tomorrowland
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The French call this musical instrument la petite flute
the piccolo
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| “Museita’s Waltz” is a highlight of this composer’s 1896 opera “La boheme”
Giacomo Puccini
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Charles Schulz said Snoopy didn’t become a lead character until he began walking this way
on two feet
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s a synonym for a lie as well as the type of tale told by Aesop
Fable
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Any Brit can tell you that a Liverpudlian is one of these
Someone from Liverpool
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Persil is the French word for this ever-popular garnish
Parsley
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The national conference of these two religious groups sponsors Brotherhood-Sisterhood Week
Christians and Jews
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Watermelon, pumpkin & sunflower ones can be toasted like nuts & served as hors d’oeuvres
seeds
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Chatfield Memorial Garden is one of many lovely gardens in this Garden State
New Jersey
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s a cookhouse on wheels, or a pet food that probably isn’t made in one
a chuck wagon
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| These shoes must be roomy, because ads say, “There’s a little kid and his dog inside every pair”
Buster Browns
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A pleasure carriage with a raised driver’s seat, or the 19th century British queen for whom it was named
Victoria
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The pattern of the fibrous tissue in wood, it’s tough to go against it
the grain
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Staves are bound to form one of these containers of rather fun monkeys
a barrel
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Completes the title of the Strauss waltz “Tales from the…”
the Vienna Woods
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The gray wolf can also be found lumbering around under this name
the timberwolf
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The object in this Scottish Highland game is to make sure the log leaves your hands & travels straight
the caber toss
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| “The Key Reporter” is a newsletter published by this college & university honor society
Phi Beta Kappa
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Shorthand teacher Emma Dearborn originated this fast form of shorthand around 1924
speed writing
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| When asked if she wore falsies, this ’50s sex symbol said, “Those who know me better, know better”
Marilyn Monroe
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| These 2 words for conical deposits found in caverns come from the Greek “stalassein”, meaning “to drip”
Stalactites & Stalagmites
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The stalklike part of a stamen, or the threadlike conductor in a light bulb
Filament
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He coined the phrase “Blow your own trumpet” in his operetta “Ruddigore”
William S. Gilbert
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Wines from this state include Chesapeake Blanc, Plantation Blush & James River White
Virginia
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The first 13 people to win the Nobel Prize for Literature were from this continent
Europe
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Of mollusks, algae or dinosaurs, the last one to appear on Earth
Dinosaurs
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Of the 4 sections in a typical orchestra, the 1 that includes the most musicians
String section
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 2 of the 6 U.N. members whose names begin with the letter “L”
Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya & Luxembourg
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Of the planets in our solar system, this one is last alphabetically
Venus
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This rock star not only had the most No. 1 songs by a solo performer, he also had the most No. 2 hits
Elvis Presley
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| “Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars” is this disk jockey’s TV & radio sign-off
Casey Kasem
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Students who don’t want to dissect a real one of these can order a cloth one named “Ribbit”
Frog
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In flowers, the anther is part of the stamen in which this is produced
Pollen
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The 12 divisions of a horoscope are known by this “homey” name
Houses
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Havana brown cat is so named because its coat resembles the color of these
Cigar
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi
Georgia
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The number of times a year the snow goose sets off on a migration
2
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| MCA Home Video has sold over 15 million copies of this movie, calling it the all-time top-selling video
“E.T.”
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In November 1988 this former leader of CCR was acquitted of plagiarizing – himself
John Fogerty
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Energy Dept. picked this state in which to build the estimated $4.4 billion Supercollider
Texas
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Serving briefly under Reagan, he didn’t sign any dollar bills until Bush appointed him Treasury secretary
Nicholas Brady
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The one punctuation mark necessary to every declarative sentence
Period
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| You’d find the numbers 7, 8 & 9 written entries in an encyclopedia in this order
Eight, Nine & Seven
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The science of matter & energy, it involves optics, acoustics & thermodynamics
Physics
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| She won 3 golds in swimming at the ‘88 Olympics & was chosen homecoming queen of her school
Janet Evans
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| She lived her last 45 years in Chicago’s Hull House
Jane Addams
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Bob Eckhardt won 1 of these contests in 1989 with “Whooeee! Whooo Pig, Whooo Pig, Whooo Pig! Whoeee Whoeee”
Hog-Calling Contest
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In names of nuptial magazines, this word follows Southern, Southern Calif., & Modern
Bride
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In-Mut-Too-Yah-Lat-Lat was the Indian name of this Nez Perce chief who would “fight no more forever”
Chief Joseph
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| James Paxton designed this London “palace” for the 1st World’s Fair in 1851
Crystal Palace
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The word that completes the title of the musical “A Day in Hollywood A Night in the…”
Ukraine
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1988 officials in this country admitted they had printed false maps for years to fool enemies
USSR
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Hannibal had 38 of these animals when he began crossing the Alps, but few survived the ice & snow
Elephants
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Imported into Brazil from Africa, these “killer” insects escaped the lab & bred with locals
Bees
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The U.S. Army awarded 8,612 medals after this 1983 invasion although fewer than 7,000 troops were there
Grenada
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Both the father & son of the Frankish leader Charles Martel were named this
Pippin
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The leaders of these clubs for young females now wear uniforms designed by Bill Blass
The Girl Scouts
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Though its name is French, papier-mache was 1st used on this continent, not Europe
Asia
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This 5th Ave. museum sells pins representing its unofficial mascot, William the Hippo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It can be a colorful vegetable dish, an herb liqueur or a shade of yellowish-green
chartruese
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Seen in religious art, a mandorla is an aureole of light shaped like this nut used in marzipan
almond
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Queen Anne’s lace is the ancestor of this orange vegetable & has roots resembling it
the carrot
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The primary source of this food is the Apis mellifera
honey
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| “Jennifer” derives from the Celtic form of this legendary Queen’s name
Guinevere
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This publication says it’s “no more a magazine about NYC than Time is a magazine about wristwatches”
The New Yorker
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Luxurious legwear, or a 1957 movie musical starring Fred Astaire, who didn’t wear them
silk stockings
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A feminist might tell you it’s what the letters in “NOW” stand for
National Organization of Women
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| What a Spaniard usually drinks from a “bota”
wine
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| There is a small population of blue whales that can be seen in this famous Canadian river
the Saint Lawrence
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The “Pig Bowl” is a California charity football game between people of this occupation
law enforcement
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1978, Pat Donahue ate almost 2 lbs. of these in 68 seconds without sipping a single Gibson
(pickled) onions
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On July 20, 1987, a prankster changed the Hollywood sign to read “Ollywood”, referring to him
Oliver North
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Guinness says Jean Chapman set a record in ‘82 by putting out 6,607 flaming torches in this in 2 hours
her mouth
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Arthur D. Little proved you can make a silk purse out of this: his is in the Smithsonian
a sow’s ear
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Tho this saint was known for curative powers, the “dance” named for him is really the disease chorea
St. Vitus
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In October, 1986, the U.S. mint issued the first of these in more than fifty years
Gold Coin
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Iva D’ Aguino, who in 1977 received a presidential pardon, was better known by this nickname
Tokyo Rose
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Guinness says the greatest number of people saved by one man from death were saved by him in 1944-45
Raoul Wallenberg
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He won a lifetime membership in the U.S. Duffers Association after missing the first golf ball he swung at on the moon
Alan Shepard
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Once denied a driver’s license, this general secretary of the U.S. Communist party is usually driven to work
Gus Hall
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| C.O.D. stamped on a package stands for this
cash (or collect) on delivery
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Keeping the “bells” comes from early practice of a sailor having to turn this over every 30 minutes
an hourglass
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Number of months that do not have 31 days
5
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This expression comes from medieval custom of placing lips on signature after signing a document
sealed with a kiss
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Though it’s been around since the ’20s, many ignore this device that protects sterility when opening a Band-aid
the little red tear string
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Arlington, Va. office building covers over twice the area as the Great Pyramid of Cheops
the Pentagon
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s said this cleric, French prime minister under Louis XIII, exercised by jumping over furniture
Cardinal Richelieu
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In Marriott hotels, this religious book is found in drawers along with the Gideon Bible
Book Of Mormon
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Instrument for measuring walked distances that works by responding to body motion
a pedometer
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Of the female elk, moose or reindeer, the one which has antlers
the reindeer
