Etymologies
Grammar Police
One Hit Wonders
2007 in Review
Average Joes
100

The origin for this food comes from the very man who requested it; that is, meat between two pieces of bread.

What is a sandwich?

100

Items are hung. Whereas people are sometimes...

What is hanged?

100

Built in 2600 BC, these are nearly 2000 years older than the other ancient wonders.

What are the Great Pyramids?

100

Most everyone has one now, but they were first introduced by Steve Jobs in 2007.

What is an iPhone?

100

The popular and hilarious response to "Joe who?"

Who is Joe Mama?

200

Credited to Aristotle's theories about women's "wandering womb(s)," this word is often attributed to wild women.

What is hysteria?

200

I'm positive that this term can be used to repeat the meaning of the noun or pronoun, parts of speech, used before it.

What is an appositive?

200

Snakes appear to slither down the stairways during the equinoxes on this modern wonder.

What is the Chichén Itzá?

200

"I open at the close," and the closing literary installment of this popular YA series released in this year.

What is Harry Potter?

200

A true Yankee, this Joe knew ball.

Who is Joe Dimaggio?

300

Predicated on the belief that left-handed people were the children of the Devil, this malicious word has Latin roots.

What is sinister?

300

This homograph for a bodily organ is often found separating two independent phrases.

What is a colon? (:)

300

Though not the God of thunder, this religious statue was struck by lightning in 2014.

What is Christ the Redeemer?

300

Though they rarely beat them out in nature, this team defeated the Bears during Super Bowl XLI (41).

Who are the Colts?

300

This former president was the youngest ever elected U.S. senator at just 29 years old.

Who is Joe Biden?
400

This term comes from the Greek word for foreigners as their non-Greek language sounded like "bar bar bar".

What is a barbarian?

400

Vampire Weekend sings about this kind of collegiate comma which often separates items in a list.

What is an Oxford Comma?

400

Indie's last crusade took place at this modern world wonder. Well...sort of.

What is Petra?

400

Starring natives Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg, this Boston crime narrative clutched the award for Best Picture at the 2007 Academy Awards.

What is The Departed?

400

He makes music under the name Djo, but like that spelling, I've seen stranger things.

Who is Joe Keery?

500

Shakespeare is said to have created this word, now often associated with Justin Bieber instead of the physical movement it once did.

What is swagger?

500

What the what‽ This punctuation mark combines both the glyph and function of a question mark and exclamation point.

What is an interrobang?

500

This commissioner of the Lighthouse at Alexandria and supporter of the Library of Alexandria did not move in silence, unlike the first letter of his name.

Who is Ptolemy II?

500

In 2007, Mauritania became the last country to officially criminalize this act— 142 years after the United States.

What is slavery?

500

The titular role of this school.

Who is Saint Joseph?

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