A day in June
Punctuation
An Explosive category
Old Books
"Good" Entertainment
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On June 30, 1859 a French acrobat became the first daredevil to cross these falls on a tightrope

Niagara Falls

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It marks an ending; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, even puts one at the end of her signature

Period

100

Alfred Nobel added an inert substance to very unstable nitroglycerin to make this more easily handled explosive

Dynamite

100

The "Arabian Nights" tales include one about Prince Husain, who flies around on a magical one of these

Carpet

100

An apatosaurus named Arlo befriends a human boy in this 2015 animated film

the Good Dinosaur

200

King John sealed this "in the meadow...called Runnymede...on the 15th day of June in the 17th year of our reign"

The Magna Carta

200

The "air" version of these usually signals that a speaker is being sarcastic

quotes

200

A paper cylinder holding a weak explosive, or a red, white & blue popsicle brand

Firecrackers

200

"Sing aloud unto God our strength", says this biblical book of poems meant to be sung

Psalms

200

Sam Smith bemoans his expertise at breakups in this hit song from 2017

Too Good at Goodbyes

300

The first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944 is known as this letter-perfect name

D-Day

300

It was Ladislav Sutnar who put telephone area codes inside these

parentheses 

300

It's the term used for the process of destroying a building by using explosives to make it collapse inward on itself

implosion

300

Dating from 3,500 years ago, this civilization's "Book of the Dead" is a manual for the afterlife

Egypt

300

On this sitcom ordinary woman Kristen Bell believed she was sent to the wrong region in the afterlife

The Good Place

400

He sent a war message to Congress June 1, 1812; on June 18, Congress declared war on Great Britain

Madison

400

Commas separate phrases in a series; when the phrases contain commas, separate using these

semicolons 

400

The largest explosion in earth's recorded history was from one of these on Indonesia in 1815

Volcano

400

In "Analects" this ancient Chinese philosopher said, "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them"

Confucius

400

This 1966 Beach Boys hit hopes to leave you with "Excitations" 

Good Vibrations

500

The first section of this city's famed Boardwalk along the New Jersey shore opened on June 26, 1870

Atlantic City

500

An em one is longer than an en one

dash

500

These sudden outbursts of energy on the sun's surface are the largest explosions in the solar system

solar flare

500

Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles wrote 2 plays named for this complex & troubled King of Thebes

Oedipus

500

"Lucid Dreams" is a top 10 hit from this 2018 Juice Wrld album

Goodbye and Good Riddance

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