Let's Hit Highway 101
Pop Goes the Culture
Also Known As
Going to Planetary Extremes
Parenting
"Mom" and "Dad"
100
A Civil War fortress & the Bay Area Discovery Museum are on either side of this landmark with a main span of 4,200' that carries the 101
Golden Gate Bridge
100
Tawny Newsome got animated & boldly went on the "Lower Decks" of this long-running sci-fi franchise as Beckett Mariner
Star Trek
100
The pound sign or octothorpe on your socials
Hashtag
100
It's got the strongest gravity of any planet, nearly 2 1/2 times ours
Jupiter
100
Early February brings the world day for parents to do this, a bonding & cognitive benefit, so yes, Berenstain Bears one more time
Read to Kids
100
It's defined as an embarrassing, unoriginal attempt at humor--wanna hear one?
Dad Joke
200
Just off the 101 is this filmmaking theme park, where tourists saw George the fisherman become shark food from 1976 to 2001
Universal Studios
200
There's a fungus among us, & as Ellie, Bella Ramsey has to deal with it in many, many horrific ways on this HBO drama
The Last of Us
200
Rapper Shawn Carter
Jay Z
200
The greenhouse effect, not just proximity to the sun, makes it the hottest of the planets
Venus
200
Let grandparents do this with candy & late nights--it's part of their role & face it, they won't--someday they--you know what I mean
Spoiling
200
Merriam-Webster defines this as "a typically suburban mother who accompanies her children to their...games"
Soccer Mom
300
An hour north of Eureka, a different drive-through awaits you in Klamath near the national park named for this large type of tree
Red Wood
300
He took us to church & No. 2 on the Hot 100 in 2014, & in 2024, this one-named Irish singer went one slot higher with "Too Sweet"
Hozier
300
Myanmar
Burma
300
It not only has an odd axis of rotation, it's also the coldest planet, with temps approaching -400 Fahrenheit
Uranus
300
Is this OK in front of your kids? Ali Wentworth & Heidi Klum have publicly said it is for them & theirs
Nudity
300
This paternal name for a rich benefactor comes from "Little Orphan Annie"
Daddy Warbucks
400
This state capital is at the south end of Puget Sound is geography 101
Olympia
400
In this 1998 film Jane Kaczmarek was Tobey Maguire's mom in color; Joan Allen was his mom in black & white
Pleasantville
400
The court security officer
Bailiff
400
Mostly hydrogen & helium, it has the lowest average density of any planet in the solar system & would float in a really big tub
Saturn
400
Resource family is now the term in California for these "parents" who take in kids often en route to adoption
Foster Parents
400
Cripes! It's time to scram! To beat it! To do this, originally Civil War-era slang for retreating in haste
Skedadle
500
Hop off the 101 onto the Pacific Coast Highway to see this landmark owned by a newspaper biz giant; it even had its own airport, built in the 1920s
Hearst Castle
500
An escaped convict named Stagg R. Leigh writes "My Pafology" (or does he?) in this 2023 Jeffrey Wright film
American Fiction
500
Conqueror Timur
Tamerlane
500
It has the most eccentric orbit of any planet, varying between 29 million & 43 million miles
Mercury
500
Some airports & other spaces have installed Pluie, a self-sanitizing type of this often desperately needed furniture item
Changing Table
500
This spice of the ginger family is popular in Indian food
Cardamom