Batman
NBA Nicknames
Hip Hop
Names for Trains
Famous Children's Books
100

As his command center, this place serves multiple purposes; supercomputer, surveillance, redundant power-generators, forensics lab, medical infirmary, private study, training dojo, fabrication workshop, arsenal, hangar and garage.

What is the batcave?

100

This player's nickname, "Dr. J".

Who is Julius Irving?

100

Better known by this stage name, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.'s career began in 1992 when he was discovered by Dr. Dre and featured on Dre's solo debut, "Deep Cover", and then on Dre's solo debut album, The Chronic.

Who is Snoop Dog?

100

The first trains were rope-hauled, gravity powered or pulled by horses, but from the early 19th century almost all trains were powered by this locomotive.

What is a steam engine?

100

The plot centers on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical fruit, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets.

What is James and the Giant Peach?

200

This Batman villain, first appearing in the 1941 DC comic, is most often seen wearing a monocle, top hat, and tuxedo while carrying his signature umbrella.

Who is the Penguin?

200

This player's nickname, "the answer".

Who is Allen Iverson?

200

Hip hop has a distinctive associated slang known by alternate names, such as "Black English", or more popular known as this.

What are ebonics?

200

These were developed to meet medium-demand traffic in urban transit, and consist of a train running on a single rail, typically elevated.

What is a monorail?

200

This book uses distinctive collage illustrations to show 'eaten' holes in the pages and simple text with educational themes – counting, the days of the week, foods, and a butterfly's life stages.

What is The Very Hungry Caterpillar

300

This character, first appearing in the 1948 DC comic, frequently delights in over-stating his "intellectual superiority" and on forewarning both Batman and the police of his capers by sending them complex clues.

Who is the Riddler?

300

This player's nickname, "The Matrix"

Who is Shawn Marion?

300

In the 1970s, an underground urban movement known as "hip hop" began to form in this New York City county.

What is Bronx?

300

These types of trains transport goods or materials (cargo) - essentially any train that is not used for carrying passengers.

What is a freight train?

300

The story is set in Catholic boarding school in Paris. The main character, and title of the book, is the smallest of the girls. She is the bravest and most daring of the girls, flaunting at "the tiger in the zoo" and giving Miss Clavel a headache as she goes around the city doing all sorts of antics.


What is Madeline?

400

Robin made regular appearances in Batman related comic books and other DC Comics publications from 1940 through the early 1980s until the character set aside the Robin identity and became this independent superhero.


Who is Nightwing?

400
This player's nickname, "Hair Canada"

Who is Steve Nash?

400

Companies have used the hip hop community to make their name or to give them credibility. One such beneficiary was Jacob the Jeweler, a diamond merchant from New York with clientele including Lil' Kim, Nas, and this rapper, whose real name is Sean Combs.

Who is Puff Daddy (P.Diddy)?

400

The general term "rapid transit" is used for public transport such as commuter trains, metro and light rail. However, services on the New York City Subway have been referred to as "trains", while services on the London Underground are commonly referred to as these.

What are tubes?

400

This Shel Silverstein book follows the lives of an apple tree and a boy, who develop a relationship with one another. Despite the fact that the boy ages in the story, the tree addresses the boy as "Boy" his entire life.

What is The Giving Tree?

500

The driving force behind Bruce Wayne's character is his experience witnessing this traumatic event, creator Bob Kane mentioning, "there's nothing more traumatic".

What is watching his parents be murdered?

500

This player's nickname, "Satch".

Who is Tom Sanders?

500

For many years, it was the only television channel likely to play hip hop, but in more recent years the channels VH1 and MTV added a significant amount of hip hop to their play list.

What is BET?

500

These trains use two sets of magnets: one set to repel and push the train up off the track, and another set to move the elevated train ahead, taking advantage of the lack of friction.

What are maglev trains?

500

This book tells the story of a teddy bear displayed on a toy shelf in a department store. One day, a young girl named Lisa arrives at the store with her mother and spots the bear. She is eager to buy him, but her mother refuses to spend more money and notices a button is missing from his overalls.

What is Corduroy?

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