Challengers:
Travis Kissire (Boise): Deputy public works director
Christina Paul (Davie, FL): Foreign service officer
JR:
TREE-VIA
COMMON BONDS
OTHER GOOD BOOKS
21st CENTURY SPORTS
EUROFOOD
WHAT “IZ” IT?
$200 “IZ”:
NOAA calls it “precipitation…of water less than 0.5mm in diameter”.
Adriana: “What is drizzle?”
$400 “IZ”:
A magical sorcerer; it was also slang for “excellent” in the 1920s.
Adriana: “What is wizard?” ($600)
$600 “IZ”:
A wisp of hair curling askew; GARNIER sells an “anti”-this serum.
Travis: “What is frizz?”
$800 “IZ”:
This seasoned pork sausage’s popular in Mexico.
Adriana: “What is chorizo?” ($1400)
$1K “IZ”:
It’s Sid Meier’s video game series where you start at the dawn of history & can get to the Space Age.
Travis: “What is ‘Civilization’?” ($1600)
$200 Book:
If you’re looking for updates on the March sisters try Good Wives by this 19th century American woman.
Adriana: “Who is Alcott?” ($1600)
$400 Book:
Flannery O’Connor titled a collection of short stories A Good Man is these 3 words- preach, sister.
Adriana: “What is Hard to Find?” ($2K)
$600 Book:
P.G. Wodehouse continued his tales of Bertie Wooster in Very Good this guy- Bertie’s manservant.
Adriana: “What is Jeeves?” ($2600)
$800 Book:
Angelic Aziraphale & demonic Crowley were friendly rivals in this comedic tale of pending apocalypse by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett.
Adriana: “What is Good Omens?” ($3400)
$1K Book:
Pearl S. Buck won a Pulitzer for this novel set in China.
Christina: “What is The Good Earth?”
$800 Eurofood:
Answer: DD.
Colcannon is a traditional dish made w/ potatoes & this veggie that puts the “col” in the name.
“What is collard greens?”…easy come, easy go on that $1K- what’s cabbage?
$600 Eurofood:
On “Searching for Italy” Stanley Tucci’s Turin tour incl. bagna cauda- it means this, which you step into.
Adriana: “What is a hot bath?” ($4K)
$200 21st Century Sports:
Since 2022 this NYC grand slam tennis tournament has used a system called Hawkeye instead of humans to call balls in or out.
Christina: “What is the U.S. Open?”
$400 Eurofood:
At bars in Lisbon small plates are called petiscos; in Madrid the small dishes are called these.
Christina: “What are tapas?” ($600)
$1K Eurofood:
Smoked herring eaten as these, prev. shunned as the breakfast of a bygone Britain, is making a comeback.
Travis: “What are kippers?” ($2600)
$200 Tree-via:
This subtropical marsh region of Florida has the largest mangrove forest in the continental U.S.
Adriana: “What are the Everglades?” ($4200)
$200 Common Bond:
Video, ticker, Scotch
Adriana: “What is tape?” ($4400)
$400 Common Bond:
Mug, booster, jump
NOBODY GETS SHOT
$600 Common Bond:
Jon, Dicky, Uzi Ver
Adriana: “What are Lils? Lil rappers?” ($5K)
$800 Common Bond:
A smile, an egg, the books
Travis: “What are things you can cook?” ($1800)
TS #2: Things you can crack
$1K Common Bond:
Cymbals, the stock market, uninvited guests
Adriana: “What are things that crash?” ($6K)
$200 Eurofood:
The German pastries here are Schnecken meaning these animals w/ coiled shells; eating the actual creature’s more of a French thing.
Travis: “What are snails?” ($2K)
$400 Tree-via:
These tall trees of the myrtle family are native to Australia where they’re also known as gums & stringybarks.
Christina: “What are eucalyptus?” ($1K)
$600 Tree-via:
This tree in the cashew family’s grown for its edible green nuts.
Adriana: “What is pistachio?” ($6600)
$800 Tree-via:
Quebecol is a compound derived from the sap of this tree.
TS #3: Sugar maple
$1K Tree-via:
A slight breeze will cause the leaves of this aspen to tremble, thus its name.
Travis: “What is a quaking aspen?” ($3K)
$400 21st Century Sports:
In ’07 this NL squad became the 1st team w/ 10K losses; in ’08 they won the World Series behind Cole Hamels & Ryan Howard.
Christina: “Who are the Chicago Cubs?” ($600)
TS #4: Phillies (they currently have the best record in MLB this season)
$600 21st Century Sports (Bill Cowher):
“I coached the 1st 6th-seeded team to reach the Superbowl even though this quarterback of my Steelers threw for half as many yards as the Seahawks passer.”
Adriana: “Who is (Ben) Roethlisberger?” ($7200)
$800 21st Century Sports:
A bit like Sci-Fi’s Anywhere Door or Phoenix Gate it opened on Oct. 15, 2018 to whisk college athletes to a new school.
TS #5: Transfer portal
$1K 21st Century Sports:
Then w/ Oklahoma City this master of the triple double became the 1st back-to-back MVP of the NBA All-Star Game since the ’50s.
Adriana: “Who is Durant?” ($6200)
TS #6: Russell Westbrook
ATTEMPTED LT: $2200
UNATTEMPTED LT: $2K
TOTAL LT: $4200
CS:
Adriana: $6200/Christina: $600/Travis: $3K
DJ!:
JUNE 4 EVER MORE
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS
MODERN POTPOURRI
FEELING A LITTLE ART “C”
ANY PORT
IN A STORM
$1200 Port:
Piraeus is not only this capital city’s main port it’s a terminus for railway passengers.
Travis: “What is Athens?” ($4200)
$1200 “C”:
This American expatriate modeled for Edgar Degas incl. his painting “At the Milliner’s”.
TS: Mary Cassatt
$1600 “C”:
This 1948 painting depicted a young woman trying to crawl up a hill to her farmhouse.
Adriana: “What is ‘Christina’s World’?” ($7800)
$400 Idioms & Expressions:
Boxing gave us this idiom for the best & closest spot to watch the action of any kind.
Adriana: “What is a ringside seat?” ($8200)
$800 Idioms & Expressions:
This term for a stockpile of cash’s more often applied to money to wage a political campaign than a military 1.
Travis: “What is a war chest?” ($5K)
$1200 Jun. 4:
1940: the last of 340K troops were hastily evacuated from this seaport.
Adriana: “What is Dunkirk?” ($9400)
$1200 Idioms & Expressions:
This tradition where you meet the pope’s a snide expression meaning to show extreme subservience to anyone (Raychell Rose would agree).
Travis: “What is bend the knee?” (aka kiss the ring)($6200)
$1600 Idioms & Expressions:
Answer: there it is, 1 of the DDs in this rd- he’s wagering $3800 to go for the lead.
Sticky foot pads called pulvilli are needed if you want to literally be this & listen to others’ conversations while unseen.
“What is…on little cat feet?”- oh no; you would be a fly on the wall.
$2K Idioms & Expressions:
Janis Joplin’s last concert was fronting a band w/ this 3-word name meaning all out & incl. a synonym for to dance.
TS: Full Tilt Boogie
$2K “C”:
“Head of a Bandit” is 1 of the surviving sculptures by this double “C” Frenchwoman who destroyed much of her own work.
Travis: “Who is Camille Claudel?” ($4400)
$1600 Port:
A major European port this 2nd-largest Dutch city straddles both banks of the New Meuse.
Adriana: “What is Rotterdam?” ($11K)
$400 Modern Potpourri:
Choose letters wisely on this New York Times game that feted its 1Kth puzzle by lighting up the Empire State Building.
Travis: “What is ‘Wordle’?” ($4800)
$800 Modern Potpourri:
K is for this brand offering k-rounds coffee pods.
Adriana: “What is KEURIG?” ($11,800)
$1200 Modern Potpourri:
Be careful- a fake Windows update could be this named for the fee you’ll have to pay hackers.
Christina: “What is ransomware?” ($1800)
$800 “C”:
Answer there: DD #2.
Picasso called this Post-Impressionist known for his “Bathers” series the “father of us all”.
“Who is (Paul) Cezanne?”…correct for another $1K.
SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $2K (June 4 Ever More)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $11,600
TOTAL DJ! LT: $13,600
Pre-Final S:
Adriana: $17,400 (LOCK)/Christina: $2400/Travis: $4800
CHALLENGER CORYATS:
Christina: $3200/Travis: $8600
FJ!: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
This character in a series of popular books begun in 1934 promised “I’ll stay till the wind changes”.
CHRISTINA: “Who is The Wiza Winnie the Pooh“ (BUSTS)
TRAVIS: “Who is Mary Poppins?” = $9599
ADRIANA: “Who is Mary Poppins Poppins?” = $24,400 $116,200
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