1. Complete this analogy: strawberries and cream : Wimbledon :: mint juleps and burgoo :: ______.
I’m pretty sure this is the Kentucky Derby. I confess that I’m basing this solely on the juleps — I don’t know what burgoo is.
2. What rock act is a duo made up two men, one named Russell, the other surnamed Russell?
I love this question, but I have no answer.
3. Name the nutrient *and* the disease that both take their name from the Latin word “scorbutus.”
Let me recreate my mental riffing: Scor? Butus? Botulism? Scabies? Scabs? Scorbus? Ascorbic acid and scurvy — that’s my guess.
4. The American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout event is held annually one week before what holiday?
Based on nothing more than dim memories, I think this is Thanksgiving.
5. What future head of state, in office from 1945 to 1969, was a baker at Boston’s Parker House Hotel in 1913?
I like this question, too, but have no idea. Golda Meir doesn’t work, and neither does Castro, which are the two names that spring to mind unbidden.
6. What 1678 work’s full title includes the clause “From This World to That Which Is to Come”?
Hmm. Utopia? Paradise Lost? The Divine Comedy? Forced to guess, I choose the latter, but I’m pretty sure it’s wrong.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. locations? Amarillo, TX; Chimney Rock, NE; Greenwich, CT; Moscow, ID; Pensacola, FL; Sitka, AK; Wheeling, WV.
I have no idea.
#5: de Gaulle?