Video Games
Bad Piggies is a spin-off of this popular mobile game
Angry Birds
It's the name of a county in southeastern Washington & of the state's mightiest river
Columbia
This bird with up to 70 wingbeats per second camouflages its nest with lichens
hummingbirds
These items will keep certain insects from getting to your clothes.
mothballs
He painted "Starry Night" in 1889 while checked into an asylum in Saint Remy
Van Gogh
Set not in Hyrule but rather on the Isle of Koholint, "Link's Awakening" is a 2019 Nintendo release in this game series
The Legend of Zelda
The green darner one of these is Washington's state insect.
a dragonfly
Birds of prey are also called these, from the Latin for "to seize"
raptors
This 5-letter word for anything bad also means to be infested with parasitic insects.
lousy
This painter of "Water Lilies" met Renoir when the 2 were students in the same painter's studio
Monet
An 11th-generation countess, she uses archaeological techniques that have been confused with treasure hunting
Lara Croft
The discovery of gold near this double-talk Washington city made it a hotbed of activity in the 1860s
Walla Walla
New Mexico's state bird is this desert dweller
the roadrunner
These segmented sensory appendages on the heads of insects are thought to be touch & smell receptors
antennae
Buonarroti is the surname of this sculptor & painter who gave us "David"
Michelangelo
The 7 rotatable blocks used in this video game have names like Orange Ricky, Hero & Smashboy
Tetris
Located on the Columbia River in central Washington, this city calls itself "The Apple Capital of the World"
Wenatchee
Of the ratites, flightless land birds, this down under denizen is the smallest
a kiwi
Karl von Frisch won a 1973 Nobel Prize for deciphering the dancing "language" of these insects
bees
Looking at soft Camembert cheese inspired him to paint soft pocket watches in "The Persistence of Memory"
Salvador Dali
Notch, the creator of this megahit block-shaping game, made the surface area of its world larger than the earth's
Minecraft
After this 1980 natural disaster, Congress created a natl. monument incorporating 110,000 acres in SW Washington
the Mount St. Helen's eruption
This tropical seabird was named for its supposed lack of intelligence; not afraid of humans, it was easily killed
the boobie
The firefly is not a true fly but one of these insects like a junebug
beetle
This raw, thinly sliced beef is named for a Renaissance painter whose red colors were deep & rich
Carpaccio