Vintage Vocabulary
The vocabulary word tactile deals with this one of the five senses.
What is touch?
Bella Swan is the heroine of this vampire-n-werewolf saga that peaked in popularity when Mr. Clements was in high school.
What is Twilight?
What is Maine?
The bee type of this bird is the world's smallest bird species.
What is hummingbird?
This star of Jumanji and Moana was given the name "The Rock" during his time as a professional wrestler.
Who is Dwayne Johnson?
Name both of the two colleges Mr. Clements attended.
What are USC and Claremont Graduate University?
This vocabulary word means "a brief illustrative story about a person's life," but it is often confused with the medicine a person takes to recover from poison.
What is anecdote?
This largest lizard on Earth shares the second part of its name with a mythical creature that is part of the Chinese zodiac.
What is the Komodo dragon?
San Francisco is the closest city you can swim to from this prison island, although I wouldn't recommend trying it.
What is Alcatraz?
This is the celestial body that passes near the Earth every 76 years, not quite as often as the reindeer that shares part of its name.
What is Halley's Comet?
This singer's current Romantic Tour has featured the songs "Treasure" and "I Just Might" at nearly every show.
Who is Bruno Mars?
This is the ASB class that Mr. Clements advises at TC.
What is PLUS?
The word southpaw means that a person (usually an athlete) does this.
What is throw (or punch) with their left hand.
Satoshi Nakamoto is the invented name of the founder of this currency.
What is bitcoin?
I have a dream that you can work hard to name this largest African island, home to lemurs.
What is Madagascar?
Sweet choice of clue! This molecule, formula C12H22O11, is commonly found in kitchens and pantries.
What is sugar?
This nemesis of Perry the Platypus shares his first name with a brand of ketchup. (Yes, we'll need the full name, academic title included.)
Who is Dr. Heinz Doofenschmirtz?
This is the month of Mr. Clements's birthday.
What is October (28)?
The passage of time is inexorable, meaning this.
What is cannot be slowed (or stopped)?
This legendary British king was married to Guinevere and received mystical help from Merlin.
Who is King Arthur?
Dino-mite! This is the desert that spans China and Mongolia, where paleontologists have found a vast amount of prehistoric fossils.
What is the Gobi Desert?
I hope this clue ignites your memory: of the three major types of rock, this is the kind that is formed when lava cools.
What is igneous?
This singer's mother-given name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, but her fans, the Little Monsters, know her better as this.
Who is Lady Gaga?
This is the celebrity Mr. Clements dressed up as (and shaved his face for!) during Homecoming week.
Who is Frank Sinatra?
This is the term for somebody opposed to new technology; the original ones smashed looms and knitting frames.
What is Luddite?
This is the Germanic folklore character who brings children good dreams; more recently, his entrance has been announced by Metallica.
Who is The Sandman?
An enclave country is a nation completely surrounded by the territory of one other country; there are three of them in the world - you only have to name one.
Vatican City, San Marino (surrounded by Italy), Lesotho (surrounded by South Africa)
This species, the world's tallest grass, can grow up to 3 feet in a single day.
What is bamboo?
I'm going to give you a clue you can't refuse: this 1972 mafia movie was nominated for 10 Oscars and won three of them, including Best Picture.
What is The Godfather?
Mr. Clements lived in this city of 11,082 people between the ages of 2 and 16.
What is Canyon Lake?