First Ladies
Parts of Speech
Remember Your Music Lessons
TV Networking
Spring Break
200
She volunteered as a nurse at Union hospitals & toured Union army camps with her husband
Mary Todd Lincoln
200
Does my posterior look big in these pants?:
big
adjective
200
Once I learned to embrace this centuries-old clicking practice device, my drumming skills took off
a metronome
200
"Big Cheese",
"Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives",
"Kitchen Inferno"
Food Network
200
"Spring forward" is half a mnemonic used to remember this, which in the U.S. actually begins still in winter
Daylight Savings Time
400
During the 1960 presidential campaign, she wrote a weekly newspaper column called "Campaign Wife"
Jackie Kennedy
400
What...? Who? Her!:
All of the above
Pronouns
400
With the violin I always have to remember to use the proper amount of this substance on my bow before playing
rosin
400
"Frontline",
"Nova",
"Nature"
PBS
400
This U.S. federal holiday is the only one in the spring
Memorial Day
600
Art history:
The soup cans by this artist were huge in 1962 but his wooden replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes got ink, too
Andy Warhol
600
Her uncle Teddy walked her down the aisle when she married a future president in 1905
Eleanor Roosevelt
600
It's difficult fingering, but mastering barre these on my guitar really paid off
chords
600
"Vice Principals",
"Room 104"
HBO
600
In March on the 1st day of spring at this spot, see the sun skim the horizon to begin 6 months of near-total daylight
the North Pole
800
This wife of Rutherford B. Hayes came from a slave-owning family but she & her parents were abolitionists
Lucy Hayes
800
Ahoy! Surrender your vessel or be boarded by Pirate Pete!:
ahoy
an interjection (or exclamation)
800
Vocal teachers often try to get their students to sing more powerfully by generating a controlled flow of air from this muscle, located just beneath the lungs
the diaphragm
800
"The Walking Dead",
"Better Call Saul"
AMC
800
Before "spring" the season was called this, like a religious fasting period
Lent
1000
This First Lady's final acting role was in "The Sam Darland Story", a 1962 episode of the TV series "Wagon Train"
Nancy Reagan
1000
Here's a very, very, very good clue from our non-lazy, Emmy-winning writing staff:
very
an adverb
1000
Sustain & soft are these parts of a piano
the pedals
1000
"The Magicians",
"The Expanse"
SyFy
1000
In Greek myth, spring was marked by the return from Hades of this daughter of the goddess of agriculture
Persephone