WORDPLAY
"Kayak," "racecar" and "level" are all examples of this.
What is a palindrome?
I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can't go outside.
What is a keyboard?
Released the same day in July 2023, two wildly mismatched blockbusters gave audiences this portmanteau.
What is Barbenheimer?
By its own account this company was founded in 1889 making hanafuda playing cards -- and it still sells them today.
What is Nintendo?
A naval engineer working on springs to steady shipboard instruments dropped one, watched it walk, and accidentally invented this.
What is the Slinky?
Typists and font designers have leaned on this nine-word sentence for over a century, because it packs all 26 letters into 35.
What is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"? (also accept: a pangram)
The more of me you take, the more you leave behind.
What are footsteps?
Two years before The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered, Will Smith won his first Grammy rapping alongside this DJ.
Who is DJ Jazzy Jeff?
A Stanford student misspelled this mathematical term -- 1 followed by 100 zeros -- while checking whether the domain was free.
What is a googol?
Before it was a toy, this compound was sold to scrub coal soot off wallpaper.
What is Play-Doh?
Rearrange all nine letters of DORMITORY and you get this two-word phrase for what a dormitory frequently is.
What is a dirty room?
Light as a feather, yet not even the strongest person alive can hold me for more than a few minutes.
What is your breath?
Stranger Things sent this 1985 Kate Bush song to No. 1 in the UK in 2022 -- 37 years after its release.
What is "Running Up That Hill"?
Founded in 1938 as a small trading company dealing in dried fish, produce and its own noodles, its name means "three stars."
What is Samsung?
With a base rent of just $2, this brown property is the lowest-rent square on the standard Monopoly board.
What is Mediterranean Avenue?
Every letter of the alphabet turns up in the names of the fifty US states except this one.
What is Q?
Two fathers and two sons went fishing. Each caught exactly one fish, yet only three fish were caught.
What is: there were only three people -- a grandfather, his son and his grandson
It won Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammys and made its singer the first Black woman to win Best Country Album.
What is Cowboy Carter?
Founded in 1865 as a Finnish pulp mill, this company's group later made rubber boots and tyres before it ever made a phone.
What is Nokia?
In the original British Cluedo this character is a clergyman; the classic North American edition demoted him to plain "Mr."
Who is Reverend Green?
The name for the dot above a lowercase i or j.
What is a tittle?
A man studies a portrait and says, "Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son."
Who is the speaker's son?
In 2025 Sean Baker won four Oscars in a single night -- tying Walt Disney's record, and the first ever to do it for one film. What film reeled in this distinct honour?
What is Anora?
Jeff Bezos incorporated Amazon under this name, dropping it when his lawyer said it sounded like "cadaver."
What is Cadabra?
Erno Rubik's puzzle spent years in Hungary under this original name before Ideal Toy rebranded it in 1980.
What is the Magic Cube?