Sharp Things
Getting Your "M-B-A"
"S"ports Talk
Rhyme Time
King Me
"D" Plus
400

Medicine in the "Star Trek" world involves a "laser" one of these surgical instruments

A Scalpel


400

Similarity in appearance; I see the...

resemblance

400

Also a term for an Old West gunfight, it's a way to break a tie at the end of overtime in soccer

shootout

400

Rose-colored substance used to write a letter

pink ink

400

Greece's George I supported a movement to revive this sporting event abolished in 393 A.D.

the olympics

400

Ambition, or the way Phil Mickelson starts a round

a drive

800

To have a selfish motive, or to possess an implement that needs sharpening

having an axe to grind

800

To accept a concept willingly; hug it out!

embrace

800

2-word term for the device being used by the competitors seen here

starting block

800

A hex put on a handbag

purse curse

800

In 1922 King Victor Emmanuel III refused to proclaim martial law to stop this man's march on Rome

who is Mussolini

800

The black plastic of the solar bag allows for rapid absorption of the sun's rays speeding up the heated air molecules, which become less this than the cool air outside, causing the bag to float

dense

1200

The company Festool introduced a gas-powered one of these tools in the 1920s

a chainsaw

1200

To board a ship, or to start an enterprise

embark

1200

This football position shares its name with one of the ways to score in a football game

safety
1200

Reddening of the face in the presence of someone you're crazy about

crush blush

1200

In 1643 at age 4, he became king of France; he'd hang around for 7 more decades

Louis XIV

1200

Traditionally, money & goods given by a bride's family to a groom

dowry

1600

A leather strip called a strop is traditionally for sharpening this

straight razor

1600

A thin layer of body tissue lining an organ

membrane

1600

To take a tennis match 6-1, 6-2 is to "win in" these

straight sets

1600

Mathematically 3 pigs or hogs, squared

nine swine

1600

An attack by Frederick the Great, king of this Germanic nation, led to the war of the Austrian succession

Prussia

1600

Today something you all aspire to, in ancient Rome it was a document folded double acting as a sort of passport

diploma

2000

In Islamic tradition Zulfikar, one of these, passed to the caliph Ali on Muhammad's death

a sword


2000

Type of "organization" that encompasses a number of smaller groups

umbrella

2000

Broadcaster Eddie Doucette coined this term for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's trademark arcing shot

skyhook

2000

Fun, little-known facts about a landlocked country in South America

Bolivia Trivia

2000

Charles III, Philip V & Alfonso XII all ruled this country

Spain

2000

From the Hindi, it's another name for blue denim jeans

dungarees

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