Homonyms
Seas
Animal Kingdom
Sports
Authors
100
Spell a word referring to a part of a sentence that is a homonym for another word meaning the sharp nails on animal toes.
C-L-A-U-S-E
100
The Bering Sea forms a part of the border of what U.S state?
Alaska
100
There are more than 500 species of fish with specialized organs that produce electric discharges. These include certain rays, skates, catfish, and what snakelike, scaleless fish?
eels
100
In what sport do you get 15 for your first point, 30 for your second point, and 40 for your third point?
tennis
100
Who wrote "Goosebumps" series of scary stories?
R.L Stine
200
What term can mean a chest of drawers or a department or subdivision of a government?
bureau
200
The Red Sea forms the northeast border of what continent?
Africa
200
What is the common name for the Proboscidea, the largest living land mammals?
elephants
200
Tiger Woods became a professional athlete in what sport in 1996?
golf
200
This is what American author's epitaph? Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.
Edgar Allan Poe
300
Spell the homonym that sounds like a female deer but means unbaked bread.
D-O-U-G-H
300
Which Scandinavian nation is bordered by the North Sea, the Barents Sea, and the Norwegian Sea?
Norway
300
These giant horselike beasts are readily recognized by the dewlap, a bell-like appendage beneath the throat. The bulls have broadly palmate antlers, sometimes with a spread of six feet. Name these animals of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho
moose
300
What term, first used in a popular sport at the beach, also refers to exploring the Internet with no particular goal or flipping through channels looking for a TV program of interest?
Surfing
300
Who wrote this? "I am the Ghost of the Christmas Present, said the Spirit. "Look upon me!"
Charles Dickens
400
Spell the word which means "to receive" which is a homonym for another word that means "other than."
A-C-C-E-P-T
400
What body of water could you reach by traveling north from Tunisia or west from Lebanon or south from Monaco?
Mediterranean Sea
400
An officer who crossed the Isthmus of Panama with Balboa in 1513 told Panama's governor about a land to the south where people drink golden vessels and have animals that are half sheep and half camel. What kind of animals was he talking about?
llamas
400
These are moves in what sport? Lutz, death spiral, salchow, split, double axel, Bielmann spin, Choctaw, flying camel,
Skating
400
This line from a poem written by whom? Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice.
Lewis Carroll
500
What term as an adjective means "vulgar" and as a noun indicates the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages or a channel at the edge of a street?
gutter
500
Aside from the Pacific, Mexico borders what two seas?
Caribbean Sea, Sea of Cortes
500
What is A whale's lungs and windpipe are connected only to its nasal passage and not to its mouth. Name the outer opening of its nasal passage
blowhole
500
Participants compete in a small ring with a sand floor. The object of the game is to push the opponent out or have some part of his body touch the ground. Name this Japanese sport.
sumo wrestling (sumo)
500
The author of "The Swiss Family Robinson" also wrote the words to the national anthem in what country?
Switzerland
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