Words Within Words
A small flowing body of water contains this, 500 sheets of paper
What is a ream?
Add a letter to "wordplay" to get this activity prevalent in pirate movies
What is swordplay?
Of all the “Romeo and Juliet” Broadway rip-offs, the most famous is this Hudson-adjacent drama that features Tony and Maria’s love in the context of a teenage street gang war
What is West Side Story?
Term for a volcano that hasn't erupted in many, many years, but still might
What is dormant?
Black people are mysteriously disappearing in this 2017 directorial debut of Jordan Peele
What is "Get Out"?
A number above a trillion is pierced by this, a product you can get from dewalt
What is a drill?
Add a letter to "aspirin" to get this ambitious word
What is aspiring?
One of Broadway's longest-running musicals, this Jonathan Larson show with a four-letter title featured characters singing about how they couldn't afford to pay their New York City landlord
What is Rent?
If your lab has a tile counter, don't use it to place solid carbon dioxide, AKA this; the adhesive will be destroyed
What is Dry ice?
In 1984, a house in Hollywood got the cinematic address "1428 This" for the first time
What is "Elm Street"?
Inside a domesticated fowl is this word of disgust; it's paired with the "the" in gen z slang for a dating turnoff
What is the ick?
Insert a letter in "confer" to get this type of shade giver
What is a conifer?
Named for a major Midwestern city, this long-running Broadway musical features songs like "All That Jazz," "Cell Block Tango," and "Mr. Cellophane"
What is Chicago?
Knowing what the D in DNA stands for should tell you this noun, the sugar found in DNA
What is Deoxyribose?
The first Oscar in the new makeup category went to rick Baker in 1982 for turning David Naughton into one of these (in London)
What is a Werewolf?
A word for an underground cemetery hides this mexican food offering
Put a letter in "defied" to get this word that's just divine
What is deified?
With over 10,000 performances, this spooky performance is the longest running show in Broadway history
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
Still mysterious but described as a "repulsive force", it makes up 70% of the universe, more than the same-named "matter"
What is dark energy?
Bram Stoker's widow got a court order to have this 1922 German silent classic destroyed--but it survived, as vampires do
What is Nosferatu?
A word for booze has this 4-letter silver salmon inside of it
What is a coho?
Drop 1 letter into "Denture" to get this word meaning to alter chemical composition
What is denature?
"There's No Business Like Show Business" is a song written by Irving Berlin for this classic Broadway musical about the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley
What is Annie Get Your Gun?
Embryonic stem cells divide and give rise to more specialized ones like neurons for the brain in this process
What is differentiation?
This 1973 cult classic about pagan rites on a small Scottish isle ends with the burning of the title effigy & some other things
What is "Wicker Man"?