The Elements
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's doctoral thesis concluded that this element, number 1, was over a million times more prevalent in stars than previously believed.
What is hydrogen?
The most popular variant of poker is this, played in casinos all around the world.
What is Texas Hold 'em?
A small variant of a canoe is one of these.
What is a kayak?
Sometimes considered the "crown jewel" of British Columbia, this capital city was considered one of the top 20 cities in the world for quality of life in 2019.
What is Victoria?
Considered out of date is a simple way to define an object or viewpoint that is this.
The first one on the table whose symbol doesn't match the name, this element, number 19, is found in bananas and is highly reactive with water.
What is potassium?
Contrary to most trick-taking card games, you are more inclined to avoid taking tricks in this card game with a "love"ly name, cause the lowest score wins.
What is Hearts?
The first Monday in August is "this" statutory holiday.
What is Civic?
What is Charlotte?
After the initial disruptive phase in the early 2020s, COVID-19 in a weakened form has since become this worldwide.
What is endemic?
Although it is in the same column as the deadly elements mercury and cadmium, this element, number 30, is absolutely essential for human life in trace amounts.
What is zinc?
Also known as "vingt-un", busting is never more appropriately named for losing in this card game, the most popular casino banking card game worldwide.
What is blackjack?
Used to refer to women in a polite, respectful and sometimes upper-class manner.
What is Madam?
This girl's name gave its name to two important cities - the largest in Australia, and also a smaller counterpart in Nova Scotia.
What is Sydney?
People in this room have very strong forms of this type of relationship with other people in this room.
What is interpersonal?
DAILY DOUBLE
The first element, number 43, discovered artificially was this one, and its name comes from the Latin word for "synthetic".
What is technetium?
Segundo Sánchez Santos and Alberto Serrato designed this game in 1939, which means "basket" in Spanish, as a time-efficient but still engaging alternative to Bridge.
What is Canasta?
If you tear this cuff in your body, you are looking at minimum 6 months recovery, and longer for sporting activities.
What is rotator?
The capital of the Tuscany region in Italy; among its major draws include the Duomo and their iconic purple-jerseyed football team.
What is Florence?
DAILY DOUBLE
Although commonly referred to as a sphere, the Earth is actually a very slight version of this 7-lettered term.
What is an ovaloid?
The rarest naturally occurring element on the Earth is this radioactive one, number 85, with only 30 grams being present at any given time.
What is astatine?
Trick-taking is only one part of this game played with two decks of 24 cards - you are melding cards as much as much as the game melds decks!
What is Pinochle?
When someone or something is treated in a more godly or holy manner, they are considered to have been this.
What is deified?
Ruled by the Ottomans for over 300 years, this Bulgarian capital was spelt by them with a Y instead of the official I spelling used today.
What is Sofia?
Using one of these specialised agricultural tools will largely eliminate the need for manual labour shovelling for crops.
What is an undercutter?