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Frequently washing up on Caribbean beaches in large brown, pungent masses, sargassum is a type of…
Seaweed
Who won a Tony Award in 2010 for her theatrical performance in Fences, then an Oscar in 2017 for the same role in the movie adaptation?
Viola Davis
Split between these 2 countries during colonial times, Hispaniola is an island divided politically into
Spain and France
the Dominican Republic and Haiti
First generally available in Japan and South Korea in 1988, the varicella vaccine protects against which disease?
Chickenpox
Designed to help practitioners push their limits, this type of yoga must be performed in a studio that is at least 105F
Bikram Yoga
The first name of which actor, born in Lebanon and raised in Canada, is a Hawaiian word meaning “cool breeze over the mountains”?
Keanu reeves
If a person’s boss has a reputation for being penurious, what might they expect as a holiday bonus?
Nothing
Lasting more than 700 years, the Reconquista was an attempt by European Christians to expel which group from Spain and Portugal?
Moors
When introduced in 2010, the Bitcoin logo was criticized for resembling the baht, the currency for which country?
Thailand
Because it’s tough for bacteria to grow in it what food can last thousands of years
Honey
If it’s store properly, honey, can literally last forever scientists have found honey more than 5000 years old
The coin pocket in jeans was originally meant to store what
Watch
these pockets were introduced by Levi Strauss and company in 1879 and were meant to keep pocket watches safe and secure
This NBA team shares its name with an old-fashioned type of baggy pants
New York Knicks
Washington Irving coin the term Knickerbocker for New York socialites and the term gradually refer to their baggy pants and eventually to the NBA team
Due to an old contract, the lead role of this action movie was offered to 70-year-old Frank Sinatra
Die hard
Die hard technically has a prequel the detective a1968 film that was one of the biggest hits of Sinatra’s acting career
Birds have hollow bones which allow birds to do what
Store more oxygen
Bird skeletons aren’t any lighter than the same size mammal skeletons, but they do let birds store more oxygen, which helps them fly
What came first moving stairs, called escalators or the verb to escalate
Moving stairs
, the escalator was invented in 1900 but the verb to escalate wasn’t in regular usage until 1944
Science
physicist, John Wheeler said he coined this term as a faster way to say completely collapsed objects
Black hole
wheeler the father of modern relativity named black holes
From Greek for beyond and heavy, it’s a type of chamber used to treat decompression sickness
Hyperbaric
Beastly rhyme time
an equitable Kodiak
Fair bear
Beastly rhyme time
A pocket burrowers slip on shoe
Gopher loafer
Beastly rhyme time
A plastered pole cat
Drunk skunk
Beastly rhyme time
A krait blunder
Crate
Snake mistake
snake that’s what a crate is
Beastly rhyme time
cease fire between ganders
A goose truce
Or geese peace
In a fairytale this title bird is brought to the Emperor of China, but eventually replaced by mechanical one
The Nightingale
Among the characters created by this beloved author, where Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins
Beverly Cleary
Fast friends, Jess and Leslie create their own secret Kingdom in the woods, then tragedy strikes in bridge to this place
Terabithia
Is he a sailor or a genie? unclear but he’s fastidious and he reps the brand brand that makes magic erasers
Mr. clean
This big dude is a brand mascot whose name was inspired by a type of large pea
The Jolly Green giant
Oh yeah! Richard Burke was the original voice of the pitcher shaped mascot for this drink brand
Kool-Aid
Edward bear is this character’s more formal name
Oh wow Winnie the Pooh
Jamie Journals in Jim Benton’s alliterative best selling series, dear dumb this
Diary
The full name of this planters mascot is Bartholomew, Richard Fitzgerald, Smythe
Mr. peanut
The drum in a close dryer is an example of the basket type of this spinning device seen in many lab
Centrifuge
William Harvey attempted this process in 1628, but it wasn’t safe until the advent of donor compatibility tests in the early 1900s
Blood transfusion
Einstein, patented an innovative refrigerator, but couldn’t sell it after Dupont came up with this freezing stuff
Freon
A technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer is used in this process; in 1996 it resulted in a sheep named dolly
Cloning
Also a papal name
From Latin for good and fate, it’s an old timey word for an inn keeper
Also a papal name
Boniface
Also a papal name
As far as astrological signs go, this one fits the bill
Leo
A twin tailed mermaid is the mascot of this behemoth chain
Starbucks
When in comes before this word, meaning, merciful, it often describes nasty weather
Clement
Also a papal name
Also a papal name
It follows presumed in the title of a Scott turrow thriller
Innocent
It follows salt in the name of a gunpowder component
Peter
Also a papal name
Peoples Sexiest man alive
He was hunking it up on LA law when chosen in 1987 ; now he’s even sexier on in the kitchen with him am I right?
Harry Hamlin
Peoples Sexiest man alive
Two years after Creed 2 this actor was sexy man number one in 2020
Michael B Jordan
Peoples Sexiest man alive
Great Scott! in 1989 This actor was older balder and better. We only wished he’d really played celebrity Jeopardy.
Sean Connery
Peoples Sexiest man alive
He’s got the egot He’s a master musician. He’s married to Chrissy Teigen so why not also be the sexiest man alive in 2019
John Legend
Peoples Sexiest man alive
2016 covered duly reported this part-time pro wrestler was sweet, smart, and sculpted. If you smell what the Ken is cooking.
Dwayne Johnson The Rock
This archipelago about 60 miles off the coast of Morocco is Spain southernmost autonomous community
The Canary Islands
To show Columbus wasn’t first across the Atlantic in 1893 a Viking ship replica sailed from Norway to a big party in this city
Chicago the Columbian expo was there 1893
This great Sue leader often were tinted glass goggles as in 1881 portraits
Sitting bull
Early baseball star Harry Wright stands with his English born dad Sam a star in this sport
Cricket
