FIRST LINES OF HIT SONGS
FIRST LINES OF HIT SONGS
SITCOMS
PARENTING
COUNTRY BY BEER
SUPERMARKET SWEEP
MINERALOGY
100
"There's a fire starting in my heart, reaching a fever pitch it's bringing me out the dark"
Rolling in the Deep
100
In a "30 Rock" episode, this Tina Fey character learns from her high school reunion that she was actually a mean girl
Liz Lemon
100
Between 1999 & 2007 this educational practice went up nearly 75% & kids don't even have to get out of their jammies
Home Schooling
100
Dos Equis
Mexico
100
I could've had this brand's vegetable juice--instead, I'll grab its "Splash" of berry blend
V8
100
Used in a dusting powder, this 4-letter mineral is a 1, meaning the softest, on the Mohs hardness scale
Talc
200
"On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair, warm smell of Colitas rising up through the air"
Hotel California
200
Yvette Nicole Brown played Shirley Bennett, a Greendale College student--that's nice!--alongside Donald Glover & Alison Brie on this NBC show
Community
200
As the first line of defense against germs, make sure your kids do this frequently, & not just before a meal
Wash their hands
200
Kirin
Japan
200
I could go for this company's root beer--it has that "frosty mug taste" & I do so like the taste of mugs
A&W
200
Term for the tendency of some minerals to break along irregular lines; it sounds like what can happen to a bone
Fracture
300
"Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River"
Take Me Home, Country Roads
300
"Sorry, we're closed" was the last line of this show in an episode entitled "One for the Road"
Cheers
300
To perform this on kids aged 1 through 8, it's 2 breaths & 30 one-handed compressions per cycle
CPR
300
Victoria Bitter
Australia
300
When clear & colorless, this common mineral is known as rock crystal
Quartz
400
"I've never seen a diamond in the flesh, I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies"
Royals
400
Ed O'Neill was a longtime TV dad on "Married... with Children" & then again on this sitcom that ran from 2009 to 2020
Modern Family
400
Melanie Bazarte subtitled her "Parenting 101" book "Because Kids Don't Come With" these
Instructions
400
Carlsberg
Denmark
400
By 1962 this brand "summited" & became the best-selling toothpaste in the U.S.--guess I won't be setting a trend if I buy some
Crest
400
A gem, or for that matter, a romance or an activity can "lose its" this, the way a mineral reflects light
Luster
500
"Well, it's one for the money, 2 for the show, 3 to get ready, now go cat go"
Blue Suede Shoes
500
And there's this actress who played the sitcom roles of Maude Findlay & Dorothy Zbornak
Bea Arthur
500
Parents who hover too much over their kids have come to be called this type of parents, after a certain aircraft
Helicopter parents
500
Grolsch
The Netherlands
500
The heck with the diet! I'm buyin' Vaanillaa Swiss Aalmond ice cream from this braand founded by Reuben Mattus
Haagen-Dazs
500
Almandine is a type of this gemstone that's been favored by lapidaries since ancient times & lends its name to a very dark red
Garnet