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WORD ORIGINS
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Mythology
100
It goes up and down the stairs without moving.
What is Carpet?
100
Gregory Peck stars in this movie adaptation of a book by Haper Lee.
What is to Kill a Mocking Bird?
100
Though it meant "seasickness" in Latin, this 6-letter word now refers to a more general feeling of sickness.
What is Nausea?
100
Coaches on this show will say "My team is full" following the blind auditions.
What is the Voice?
100
THIS INSTRUMENT IS PLAYED BY APOLLO.
WHAT IS LYRE?
200
5x7+9/ (7-5)
What is 22?
200
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again is the opening line of this novel.
What is Rebecca?
200
This Sanskrit word referring to a spoken word or phase come from a word for "to think".
What is mantra?
200
You can't say a word but you can act it out. At parties it can get funny when you start playing this game.
What is Catchphrase?
200
Hercules had completed this many labors.
What is 12?
300
It may seem like a lot but this car can go up 310 mph. So therefore consider the fastest car.
What is Koeningsegg Jesko Absolut?
300
The name of the sub in Jules Verne's '20000 Leagues Under the sea?'
What Nautilus?
300
Theories on the origin of this, style of journalism, include Cajun slang for unhinged jazz and Boston slang a person on a bender.
What is gonzo?
300
Let's hope you don't receive a red x but maybe a golden button in this worldwide franchise of this show created by Simon Cowell.
What is Got Talent?
300
She is the mother of Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon.
Who is Rhea?
400
The guy who invented this sport in 1895 called it mintonette, but the over-the-net exchanges soon got it a new name.
What is Volleyball?
400
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974 is the opening line of this novel by Jeffrey Eugenides.
What is Middlesex?
400
Originally relating to a story of suffering, this word now more commonly refers to a strong emotion of any kind.
What is passion?
400
It is sad when someone dies even when this person has dedicated his entire life to hosting the very game you are playing and participating in.
Who is Alek Trebek?
400
This is the goddess of spring. Her mother is Demeter, the goddess of harvest while her husband Hades is the god of the Underworld.
Who is Persephone?
500
A flibbertigibbet do this action
What is talk your ear off?
500
One night, all the animals at Mr. Jones' Manor Farm assemble in a barn to hear old Major, a pig describe a dream he had about a world where all animals live free from the tyranny of their human masters in a book written by this author.
Who is George Orwell?
500
In 1793 a French clergyman called the destruction of libraries and sculptures this, using the name of a 5th century tribe.
What is vandalism?
500
Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green are all colors and when rolling the dice in this game, especially with others you can get tangled up just like when a powerful storm in a 1996 film with the same title as this game.
What is Twister?
500
Hephaestus is the god of this classical element.
What is fire?