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Drop a Letter
100
In 2002 15-year-old poet Caroline Bird published her acclaimed debut volume, including "Spilt" this, over which she cries
Milk
100
H2O below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it's considered a mineral if it's formed naturally
Ice
100
Winning 4-2, France claimed victory in the 2018 men's soccer World Cup final held in this Russian capital
Moscow
100
As a unit of time, an eon generally lasts for this many years
A billion
100
This carrot-topped Viking explorer colonized Greenland
Erik the Red
100
Drop an "E" from a lavish meal to get this verb meaning to abstain from food
Fast
200
John Keats, part of this passionate early 19th century movement, wrote his 1st known poem at about 18 & didn't live to see 26
Romanticism
200
Lodestone, a naturally magnetic rock, contains this elemental metal
Iron
200
The oldest of pro tennis' 4 Grand Slam tournaments is this one held in England since 1877
Wimbeldon
200
A standard "hour" of treatment with a therapist lasts this many minutes, 83.33% of an hour
50
200
In 1492 he was given the title "Admiral of the Ocean Sea"
Christopher Columbus
200
Drop the "L" from a type of bedspread to get this verb that means "to resign"
Quit
300
The documentary "Louder Than a Bomb" follows teens competing in one of these violent-sounding poetry events
Poetry Slam
300
Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of this 4-letter substance, particles of soil smaller than .002 millimeter
Clay
300
The IJF is the International Federation for this martial art that gives belts of rank from white to black
Judo
300
The days-in-each-month mnemonic that starts with these 4 words has been traced back to 1425
30 days hath September
300
Once he started working for Spain in 1517, he was known by a Spanish form of his name, not the Portuguese Fernão
Ferdinand Magellan
300
Drop the "T" from intense fear to get this mistake
Error
400
This Welshman was just 18 when he wrote "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
Dylan Thomas
400
To make quartz you need oxygen & this element--& lots of crystallization
Silicon
400
In 2018 Jessie Diggins & Kikkan Randall dashed across the snow for the 1st Olympic gold by U.S. women in this sport
Cross-country Skiing
400
Leap seconds are sometimes added to clocks because this is slowing down
The rotation of the earth
400
He set sail from England in December 1577 & completed his circumnavigation of the world on Sept. 26, 1580
Francis Drake
400
A synonym for "vision" drops its "T" & becomes this sound of relief or weariness
Sigh
500
1760s teen Thomas Chatterton wrote of this astronomer's "System", "Our Earth supreme / rolls with the planets round the solar gleam
Copernicus
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 this symmetric one, known by a 5-letter adjective
Cubic
500
A tournament in this sport named after a school is held yearly among Argentina, South Africa, Australia & New Zealand
Rugby
500
Jet lag is a disruption in these rhythms of the body, from Latin words for "about the day"
Circadian
500
In 1911 local Quechua speaker Melchor Arteaga led Hiram Bingham to this "lost" Incan city
Macchu Picchu
500
Drop the "F" from a word meaning very cold & it comes this, stiff or unyielding
Rigid