Weights and Measures
Grammar
Games
Colors
Sports
200

A Baker's Dozen

13


200

Made on the typewriter with 2 hyphens or on a track by running 100 yds.

A dash
200

It's normal chess move is one square in any direction

The king
200

Colors that blend to make chartreuse

Green and Yellow

200

This "underhanded" game can be played slow or fast pitched

Softball

400

Weighing device used by "justice"and supermarket cashiers.

Scales
400

Italics are indicated in a manuscript by doing this to the word

Underlining

400

Mythical creature that serves as 1 type of honors tiles in Mah Jongg

Dragon

400

When you're blooming with health, you're "in" it

In the pink

400

Sonja Henie won 10 straight world championships in this sport

Figure Skating
600

Cups of butter in a pound

2

600

These are always written out as words when appearing at the beginning of a sentence

Numbers

600

Card game played in this Carpenters hit: There was a man, a lonely man…

Solitaire

600

Ring Lardner, Dalton TRumbo, and Will Geer were on one in the 50s

A Blacklist

600

The last player to hit .400 was this Boston Red Sox great in 1941

Ted Williams

800
From Latin "uncia", measurement taken from the width of a thumb

inch

800

This cigarette’s ads created grammar controversy over use of like and as

Winston

800

7 or 11 in craps, or Robert Redford in a movie

A Natural

800

Colorful causeway Elton John bids adieu to in '73 hit

The Yellow Brick Road

800

In 1988, this may be played in the "alleys" of Seoul as an Olympic demonstration sport

Bowling

1000

Number of feet in a fathom

6

1000

Used to separate phrases or clauses which themselves contain commas

Semicolon


1000

Number of cards in a bridge trick

4

1000

It was said rajahs gave their rivals these animals to create financial burden

White Elephants

1000

It is said there are more handball players in this US metropolis than anywhere in the world

New York

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