Inaugurating a President
Compound Words
Books for Kids
Protest This
A Visit to the ISS
100

John Quincy Adams didn't take his oath with his hand on a Bible; he used a law book that included this document that he read from

The Constitution 

100

ORD or SFO

Airport 

100

   

This book asks, "Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat them with a fox?" 

Green Eggs and Ham

100

Beyond the barricades in 2019, Hong Kongers sang, "Do you hear the people sing?" from this musical

Les Miserables

100

Conducting an experiment that could help us diagnose & treat health problems in space, in 2016, I became the first person to sequence the base pairs of this material while in orbit

DNA

200

James Madison was honored at the first of these inaugural events, held at Long's Hotel with tickets costing $4 a person


Ball

200

 The coccyx, colloquially

Tailbone

200

This 1962 classic by Ezra Jack Keats has been praised for advancing multiculturalism

The Snowy Day

200

In 2008 a Guy Fawkes mask became a symbol of this shadowy 9-letter protest group

Anonymous

200

Look up in the sky at dawn or dusk & you might be able to spot the ISS flying overhead; it's visible thanks to nearly an acre of the arrays that provide this type of power

Solar

300

Even when inaugurations were in this month for over a century, snow could still be an issue as it was for President-Elect Taft

March

300

A woodchuck is one of these giant squirrels, also a compound word

Goundhog

300


A baby bird hatches alone & asks a dog, a hen & a kitten the title question of this classic book 

Are you my mother?

300

"Immortal Beloved" is a biography of a composer while the 1992 movie with this one-word title is about a Saint Bernard

Beethoven

300

ISS crew members have gone on more than 230 of these assembly & maintenance excursions; I've been on four, & in 2019, Jessica Meir & Christina Koch made the first all-female one

A spacewalk

400

This man flubbed some of the words while administering the oath to Barack Obama, so they did it all again a day later

John Roberts 

400

She used me as her mere this, a synonym for toy

Plaything

400

A chapter in "The Wizard of Oz" is "The Council with" these folks

The munchkins

400

On February 1, 1960 a Woolworth's lunch counter in this North Carolina city was the site of nonviolent protest

Greensboro

400

ISS crew members have gone on more than 230 of these assembly & maintenance excursions; I've been on four, & in 2019, Jessica Meir & Christina Koch made the first all-female one

SpaceX

500

A new blueberry variety of this treat was created for Ronald Reagan's 1981 inauguration

Jellybean

500


It gets its name because it's said to combine the flavors of cinnamon, clove & nutmeg 

All spice

500

"Merlin Missions" are books in this "Magic" time-traveling series for older readers

The Magic School Bus 

500

People in this Scandinavian country couldn't fly their flag under Prussian rule, so they bred protest pigs with its colors  

Denmark

500

One of the perks of working on the ISS is the incredible view; here's this cape from 250 miles overhead that's played a key role in the history of space flight

Cape Canaveral

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