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Plant Lore
The Disney Villain Who Said...
Yikes, You Got a "V" in Math
100
Some websites like to curate to your tastes, creating what's called an FYP, this for short.
For You Page
100
In a confusing turn of events, this Hasbro game of "marble chomping madness" has a unicorn edition (but the same name).
Hungry Hungry Hippos
100
Blow on the seeds of this plant to make a wish; pick its flowers on St. George's Day to make its wine.
Dandelion
100
"That's enough. Off with their heads!"
The Queen of Hearts
100
In algebra, it's a letter or symbol that stands in for an unknown value.
Variable
200
Did someone just walk up & overshare, unsolicited, every awful thing that's happened to them? That's textbook this dumping.
Trauma
200
Hyacinth Hippo is the star of the "Dance of the Hours" segment of this Disney film.
Fantasia
200
Paired with "jolly" in the U.S., this plant was called Christmas in parts of England & used as a Christmas tree.
Holly
200
"All that's left now is to kill Elsa... and bring back summer."
Hans
200
Velocity is this type of quantity that has both magnitude and direction.
Vector
300
This six-letter adjective is a combination of words meaning famished & mad.
Hangry
300
A viral sensation in 2024, Moo Deng is a pygmy hippo at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in this country.
Thailand
300
Berries from this tree were once used as medicine by the Greeks and Romans, but we are more familiar with their use in gin.
Juniper
300
"The daughter of the great sea king is a very precious commodity."
Ursula
300
For a sphere, this measure is (4/3) PI r3.
Volume
400
Stop with the doomscrolling! Embrace this two-word phrase that suggests coming into contact with a fescue or Bermuda type.
Touch Grass
400
A baby hippo is among the animals seen running circles around a chameleon in the opening scene of a movie about this peculiar primate.
Curious George
400
On Pentecost, rose petals are dropped through the oculus of this storied Roman building.
Pantheon
400
"Without the Genie, boy, you're nothing."
Jafar
400
Vertical angles share this; circles and spheres completely lack them.
Vertex
500
Britain, your breakfast food is on the way out, and your national drink is here for good. This word has replaced the idiomatic beans when gossip is being shared.
Tea
500
A blue hippo from Egypt's Middle Kingdom is the unofficial mascot of this New York City museum that displays him.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
500
The oldest living specimens of these perennial spiny plants would have experienced the granting of Arkansas statehood, the Trail of Tears, both World Wars, and the Watergate scandal (if they weren't stuck in the desert).
Saguaro Cacti
500
"You poor simple fools, thinking you could defeat me. Me? The mistress of all evil? Well here's your precious princess."
Maleficent
500
A number that can be made by multiplying digits within it, like 1,260 = 21 x 60, is this monstrous type; 21 & 60 are the "fangs."
Vampire