Contronyms
It can mean on view, like the moon, or no longer visibly functioning, like a light bulb
What is "out"?
This smallest planet is the fastest moving, circling the Sun in 88 days
What is Mercury?
Nonreturning boomerangs have been used by these first people of Australia for centuries to hunt, dig, and skin animals
Who are the Aborigines?
Exodus 12 tells the story of this Jewish holiday
What is Passover?
Der Schwarzwald
What is Germany?
Something firm and immovable, or to move back and forth like a cradle
What is "rock"?
This Utah body of water is several times more saline than the oceans
What is the Great Salt Lake?
The bend near the middle of a boomerang is called this, also a joint in the body that can bend
What is the elbow?
Union leader Peter McGuire is given credit for creating this holiday in 1882
What is Labor Day?
Sumatra Rainforest
What is Indonesia?
It can mean repaired, or no longer working, like a spayed dog
What is "fixed"?
To prevent Marines from landing, in 1991 this country dumped millions of gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf
What is Iraq?
The 1922 discovery of his tomb revealed a weapons stash including swords, bows, slingshots, and boomerang-like throwsticks
Who is Tutankhamun?
April 22 was chosen for this observance because it fell between Spring Break and final exams
What is Earth Day?
Fundy National Park
Something you didn't notice, or watchful supervision of a project?
What is "oversight"?
The name of these 2 states goes back to a Sioux word for "friend" or "ally"
What are North and South Dakota?
Ever fashion forward, this DC Comics superhero wears a royal tiara that can also be weaponized as a boomerang
Who is Wonder Woman?
Thanksgiving is followed by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and this weekday named for a certain way to shop
What is Cyber Monday?
Epping Forest, Forest of Dean
What is England?
It can mean an assortment of different types, or one type in particular
What is "variety"?
The term "Cold War" was first used in print by this British author in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb"
Who is George Orwell?
Possibly the world's oldest boomerang was found in 1987 in a 23,000-year-Polish cave and was made out of the tusk of one of these
What is a woolly mammoth?
Until 1952 it was known as Armistice Day in the United States
What is Veterans' Day?
Tongass National Forest
What is the United States?