Bedtime Stories | Know Your Veggies | Comic Relief | Famous Kentuckians | Above Your Head |
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What is The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
In this story, the main character gets into trouble by snacking on vegetables from Mr. McGregor's garden.
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What is a tomato?
Lycopene creates the red color of this vegetable that is actually a fruit by scientific definition.
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What is Marx or the Marx brothers?
Chico, Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo and Harpo all share this name.
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Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Often called "The Great Emancipator" and arguably our most famous Kentuckian, this lanky man was also known for his wrestling skills.
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What is the sun?
This giant, natural nuclear fusion reactor converts hydrogen to helium to keep us warm and alive.
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What is Winnie-the-Pooh?
Ashdown Forest in Sussex, England is the setting for the adventures of this bear "of very little brain" and his friends.
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What is spinach?
Medieval artists used this leafy green vegetable to make green pigment.
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Who is Ace Ventura: Pet Detective?
When Snowflake, a dolphin and mascot of the Miami Dolphins football team, goes missing the night before the Super Bowl, only this ace detective can find him.
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Who is Loretta Lynn?
This daughter of Kentucky coal miner, Melvin "Ted" Webb wrote the lyrics "Well, I was borned a coal miner's daughter, in a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler."
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What is refraction?
The fundamental process involved in the creation of a rainbow is the bending of light, also called this.
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What is Pippi Longstocking?
The red-headed heroine of this story can pick up a horse with one hand. Her name is also the title of the book.
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What is a bell or sweet pepper?
This is the only member of the capsicum genus that does not produce capsaicin.
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What is the movie Airplane!?
This is the movie in which you hear this exchange between characters Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack:
Rumack: Can you fly this plane, and land it? Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious. Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley. |
Who is Johnny Depp?
This actor from Owensboro, Kentucky has collaborated with Tim Burton on eight different films and was voted "Sexiest Man Alive" two times by People magazine.
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What are Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter?
These are the five planets visible to the naked eye - though not all at the same time.
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What is Make Way for Ducklings?
Michael the policeman saves Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, Quack and their mom from busy Boston traffic in this classic.
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What is maize or corn?
This domesticated grass was developed by the Olmec and Mayans and does not exist as a wild species.
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Who are Mike Myers and Dana Carvey?
These two actors play Wayne Campbell and Garth Agar in a Saturday Night Live skit that later become two movies.
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Who is Hunter S. Thompson?
This gonzo journalist once said "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
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What is August 2006?
Pluto lost its planet status in this month and year.
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What is The Wind in the Willows?
Pink Floyd took the title of their album "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" from a chapter in this famous story by Kenneth Grahame.
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What are lentils?
These legumes that originated in Central Asia were found in the tombs of ancient Egyptians.
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What is Arsenic and Old Lace?
Abby and Martha are two sweet old ladies who have a bad habit of ending the presumed suffering of lonely old bachelors by serving them elderberry wine spiked with arsenic, strychnine and "just a pinch of cyanide" in this 1940s comedy.
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Who is bell hooks?
This pen name of feminist writer, Gloria Jean Watkins, is not capitalized, in part to distinguish the writer from her maternal grandmother from whom she took the name.
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What is stratus, cumulus or stratocumulus?
There are three types of clouds that appear below 6,000 feet in the atmosphere. Name one of these.
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