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Lewis Carroll's White Queen said of this girl's age, she "believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast"

Alice

400

Upright,
spinet,
ballroom grand

piano

400

A dating app named for this profession seeks out "rural singles, cowboys, cowgirls, ranchers... & country folk"

farmers

400

This Nissan SUV sounds like a fleet of warships

Armada

400

On Jan. 20, 1969 this U.S. state capital experienced a near-record low of 52 degrees, which is not how winter works there

Honolulu

400

Due to a German astrologer's dire prediction for 1524, Count von Iggleheim built a 3-story this, like a son of Lamech did

an ark

800

Jesus said, "If you have" this, "nothing will be impossible unto you"

Faith

800

CR2,
D,
AAA

batteries

800

Lily is the name of the character you can try to impress on this language-learning app

Duolingo

800

A trendy fellow, perhaps listening to indie music & devoted to pour-over coffee

a hipster

800

Ho ho whoa! On Christmas in 2021, Santa could've worn shorts & a tank top in the 69-degree heat that baked this Ohio "Queen City"

Cincinnati

800

The Great Cycle of the Long Count calendar named for this civilization ended in 2012; many thought the world would end, but nope

Mayan

1200

"When you have excluded the impossible" Holmes said, "whatever remains, however improbable, must be" this

The truth

1200

Octavo,
quarto,
folio

pages (book sizes)

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This social media app that began as an internal Twitter project by then CEO Jack Dorsey hit 30 million users in January 2025

Bluesky

1200

If your parents went to a fraternity or sorority & you want to go to the same one, you're considered one of these

a legacy

1200

This city named for David & not Luther got less than .1" of the wet stuff during November 2024, part of the L.A. "rainy season"

Burbank

1200

At Ragnarök, this goddess of death supports Loki with an army of rotting corpses

Hel

1600

The quote: "In two words: Im-possible" is attributed to this legendary Hollywood mogul

Samuel Goldwyn

1600

Corona,
Panatela,
Presidente

cigars

1600

In 2023 this video-editing company released by TikTok's developer obtained 200 million monthly active users

CapCut

1600

It's the extremely pleasant name for that itty bitty bouquet of flowers

a nosegay 

1600

This Persian Gulf nation & 2022 World Cup host averages about 60º in February, so hitting 35 that month in 2017... brr

Qatar

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This Frenchman prone to predicting doom said the year 1999 would bring "a great king of terror" from the sky

Nostradamus

2000

This suave Brit played a psychiatrist with a nubile young daughter in the 1968 farce "The Impossible Years"

David Niven

2000

Stellar,
intermediate,
supermassive

black hole

2000

This "Project" that offers more than 70,000 ebooks is named for a 15th century German

Gutenberg

2000

An old-timey adjective referring to bawdy, vulgar speech

ribald

2000

This name precedes a station as well as dry valleys in Antarctica, where continental temps hit 70 degrees above average in Mar. 2022

McMurdo

2000

This fiery Florentine martyr warned "The sword of the Lord" was coming "quickly & soon"; so, Florence, shape up!

Savonarola

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