Taking the Driving Test
Rocks & Minerals
It's Time for Time
Business Pairs
Drop a Letter
100
This state agency, the DMV for short administers the test
Department of Motor Vehicles
100
H2O below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it's considered a mineral if it's formed naturally
ice
100
As a unit of time, an eon generally lasts for this many years
a billion
100
Dave had a place with games near the restaurant of a guy with this nickname; the 2 teamed up in 1982
Buster
100
Drop an "E" from a lavish meal to get this verb meaning to abstain from food
fast (from feast)
200
This alliterative method to get your car alongside the curb just might be on the test
parallel parking
200
Lodestone, a naturally magnetic rock, contains this elemental metal
iron
200
A standard "hour" of treatment with a therapist lasts this many minutes, 83.33% of an hour
50
200
This ice cream chain is named for brothers-in-law Burt & Irv
Baskin Robbins
200
Drop the "L" from a type of bedspread to get this verb that means "to resign"
quit (from quilt)
300
[DD]
To take the test in most states, you'll need this proof of financial responsibility in case anything goes wrong
insurance
300
Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of this 4-letter substance, particles of soil smaller than .002 millimeter
clay
300
The days-in-each-month mnemonic that starts with these 4 words has been traced back to 1425
"30 days hath September"
300
Fancy British cars were born after 1904, when Charles Stewart Rolls got into business with this Henry
[Henry] Royce
300
Drop the "T" from intense fear to get this mistake
error (from terror)
400
Mirrors aren't enough--look over your shoulder to check these areas before changing lanes
blind spot
400
To make quartz you need oxygen & this element--& lots of crystallization
silicon
400
Leap seconds are sometimes added to clocks because this is slowing down
rotation [of the Earth]
400
This bookstore chain traces its roots to 1873 & a book business in Wheaton, Illinois
Barnes & Noble
400
A synonym for "vision" drops its "T" & becomes this sound of relief or weariness
sigh (from sight)
500
Failing to give this 3-word clearance to pedestrians can be an automatic failure
right of way
500
Crystals fall into seven systems based on the arrangement of the axes they form; the three axes are equal length & all perpendicular in this symmetric one, known by a 5-letter adjective
cubic
500
[DD]
Jet lag is a disruption in these rhythms of the body, from Latin words for "about the day"
circadian [rhythm]
500
Drop the "F" from a word meaning very cold & it comes this, stiff or unyielding
rigid (from frigid)