Colleges
In addition to being the oldest college in the United States, this college is an Ivy League, and has a newspaper called "The Crimson"
What is Harvard?
County or state festival; Reasonable
What is fair?
The smallest monarchy, and the smallest country in the world, Vatican City is ruled by this holy leader
Who is the pope?
An abbreviation formed from the first letters of a series of words and pronounced as one word
What is an Acronym?
Nursery rhyme waterspout crawler; Marvel crime fighter.
What is the Itsy-Bitsy-Spiderman
It is not an Ivy League school, but this prestigious university's basketball team is coached by the legendary "Coach K"
What is Duke?
a concave metal plate (as of brass or bronze) that produces a brilliant clashing tone when struck; a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process
What is a symbol(cymbal)?
The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Battle of Hastings where this Norman King defeats Edward the Confessor.
Who is William the Conqueror?
A word or phrase that is spelled them same both forward and backward
What is a palindrome?
Celestial body of extremely intense gravity that scores an ace in golf
What is a black hole-in-one?
What is Brown?
To ride waves; Medieval farm worker
What is surf(serf)?
This king helped spread Christianity through Europe and helped reunite western Europe, as well as being the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
Who is Charlemagne?
A polite, tactful, or less explicit term used to avoid the direct naming of an unpleasant, painful, or frightening reality
What is an Euphemism?
Night sack for a snoozing boy scout that's the set of skills available to someone like a magician
What is a sleeping bag of tricks?
This school located in the Midwest has above a 90% graduation rate, and has produced the most Heisman winning college football players of any school.
What is the university of Notre Dame?
To smell really bad; to inflict
What is reek(wreak)?
This king of France brought France to its highest power during the late 17th century, and is the longest reigning monarch out of any monarch in European history.
Who is Louis XIV?
a word with two opposite meanings, e.g. Sanction (' a penalty for disobeying the law' and 'official permission or approval for an action')
What is a contranym?
Fred Flintstone's catchphrase; a style of singing popular in the 1950s.
What is Yabba-Dabba-Doo-Wop
This university named after an American entrepreneur and philanthropist has one of the top music programs with the "Peabody Institute"
What is Johns Hopkins University?
an army officer of high rank, just below a brigadier general; a softer, usually edible part of a nut, seed, or fruit stone contained within its hard shell
What is a colonel(kernel)?
This king built the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC
Who is Cyrus II of Prussia?
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect
What is an Oxymoron?
A disaster-defying breakfast chain that serves pancake alternatives to 435 members
What is the waffle house of representitives?