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100
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.
100
What is a tomato?
Lycopene creates the red color of this vegetable that is actually a fruit by scientific definition.
100
What is Marx or the Marx brothers?
Chico, Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo and Harpo all share this name.
100
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.
100
What is the sun?
This giant, natural nuclear fusion reactor converts hydrogen to helium to keep us warm and alive.
200
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.
200
What is spinach?
Medieval artists used this leafy green vegetable to make green pigment.
200
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.
200
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."
200
What is refraction?
The fundamental process involved in the creation of a rainbow is the bending of light, also called this.
300
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.
300
What is a bell or sweet pepper?
This is the only member of the capsicum genus that does not produce capsaicin.
300
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.
300
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.
300
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.
400
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.
400
What is maize or corn?
This domesticated grass was developed by the Olmec and Mayans and does not exist as a wild species.
400
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.
400
Who is Hunter S. Thompson?
This gonzo journalist once said "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
400
What is August 2006?
Pluto lost its planet status in this month and year.
500
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.
500
What are lentils?
These legumes that originated in Central Asia were found in the tombs of ancient Egyptians.
500
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.
500
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.
500
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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