4-SYLLABLE WORDS
AMERICAN LIT
SPORTS & SONG
"R"IVERS
Help Me Mr. Spock
100


4-SYLLABLE WORDSIt's a shape-shifting optical instrument with bits of glass at the end of a rotating tube

kallidascope

100


This 1966 Truman Capote book combined fiction with facts to tell about 2 drifters who murdered a Kansas family 

In Cold Blood

100

Crowds singing this song at Dodger or Yankee Stadium omit the 1st verse, starting "Katie Casey was baseball mad"

Take me out to the Ball game

100


This colorful river "of the South" runs from N.M. to the Gulf of Mexico; the one "of the North", from N.D. to Lake Winnipeg 

the red river

100

"Diphtheria, pertussis" & this "inoculations... should be started very early"

tetnus

200


This "mouth organ" dates back to an instrument called an aura 

harmonica

200

Thunderhead is the title horse in Mary O'Hara's follow-up to "My Friend" her

Flicka

200

"We Will Rock You" was the B-side of this Queen single; both have become sporting event favorites

we are the champions

200

Have a glass of Cotes du this river, which the Arve River joins after flowing down from Mont Blanc

The Rhone

200



About pregnancy, don't tell Junior about this animal; "Better not to... have him later decide" you lied 

the stork

300

Geographic adjective for the part of Africa shown

Sub Saharan

300

The old money & new money Long Island neighborhoods in this novel are East Egg & West Egg

The Great Gatsby

300


"Ever since I was young, it's been my dream / That I might drive" this machine; "I'd get the ice just as slick as could be" 

a zamboni

300

"The stump that's left" of this "withers and... drops off, usually in about a week"

umbilicial cord 

400


From the Latin for "follow", it's a campaign to subjugate a people because of their religion or race 

persecution

400

In a post-Civil War novel by Allan Gurganus, the "Oldest Living" one of these women "Tells All"

Confederate Widow

400

Since 2002 this Neil Diamond song has been played at every Red Sox home game

Sweet Caroline

400


Samuel de Champlain named this Canadian river for Louis XIII's cardinal minister 

Richilieu

400

"This item is helpful for colic and to prevent thumb-sucking" (& it does give parents some peace)

pacifier

500

No trial & little chance of appeal when you agree to binding this regarding a financial dispute

arbitration

500

Bullfights & heavy drinking are the order of the day in this 1926 novel with a title from Ecclesiastes

The Sun Also Rises

500

Dandy Don Meredith would sing this song on "Monday Night Football" when a game's outcome was decided

The partys over

500

Tributaries of this Midwestern river include the Pecatonica & Kishwaukee but not the Paper or Scissors

Rock River

500


"The average baby gets his first" this "around 7 months" & 20 of them by age 2 1/2 

tooth

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