Hard Boiled
Hard Rocks
Hard Places
Hard Games
No Hard Feelings
Hard Work
Hard To Spell
100

He is an American martial artist and actor. He has won many martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do.

Who is Chuck Norris?

100

This is a dark variety of chert.  Often used with steel to create sparks and start fire.

What is Flint?

100

This neighboring mountain range has a great song from John Denver about it.

What are The Rocky Mountains?

100

This is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game which involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a square board containing 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

What is Chess?

100

This jealous lion sibling betrayed his brother by throwing him off a cliff in a classic Disney movie.

Who is Scar?

100

The broad term for these people includes various roles like general laborers, carpenters, bricklayers, and roofers. These jobs often involve heavy lifting, repetitive tasks, working outdoors in various weather conditions, and long hours. They require significant physical strength, stamina, and often specialized skills.

What are Construction Workers?

100
  • Definition: A meeting at an agreed time and place.
  • Origin: French.

Rendezvous

200

This anime protagonist is based on Sun Wukong, a main character of the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West.  He is argued by many nerds to be the strongest being among any medium.

Who is Son Goku?

200

This is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock famously used to build the pyramids.

What is Limestone?


200

This is the highest mountain in Greece, legendary home of the gods in Greek mythology.

What is Mount Olympus?

200

This is considered the hardest sport to play due to its high demands for endurance, strength, and mental toughness, requiring athletes to endure physical punishment while maintaining peak performance.

What is Boxing?

200

This Shakespearan character's insidious lies and deceit drive Othello to jealousy and ultimately tragedy.

Who is Iago?

200

Responding to medical emergencies requires physical strength to lift and move patients, often in awkward positions and challenging environments. It also demands the ability to remain calm and focused under extreme stress in this job.

What is Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)?

200

Definition: The middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes. (In Marxist contexts, the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production.)   

Origen:French.

Bourgeoisie

300

He was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of 1960s counterculture, made him a top box office draw for his films of the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. He was nicknamed the "King of Cool" and was know to perform many of his own stunts.

Who is Steve McQueen?

300

This intrusive igneous rock is a light-colored rock with visible crystals of quartz, feldspar, and mica.  Many fancy countertops are made with this.  Don't take it for granted.

What is Granite?

300

This is the second-highest mountain in the world, located in the Karakoram Range on the border between Pakistan and China, known for its difficulty.

What is K2 (Mount Godwin-Austen)?

300

This is a classic side-scrolling shooters known for their relentless enemy waves, limited lives, and instant death upon a single hit. Example: Trying to beat the later levels without the spread gun.

What is Contra?

300

These two families had a legendary and bloody family feud in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States that spanned decades.

Who are the Hatfields and the McCoys?

300

The job deals with designing, developing, and debugging complex software systems requires strong analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, and continuous learning in a rapidly evolving field.

What is a Software Engineer?


300
  • Definition: A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
  • Origin: Greek.

Synecdoche

400

He is an Icelandic professional strongman who is widely regarded as one of the greatest strength athletes of all time. He is the first and only person to have won the Arnold Strongman Classic, the Europe's Strongest Man, and the World's Strongest Man competitions in the same calendar year. 

Who is Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson?

400

This rock is volcanic glass, usually black and shiny, with a conchoidal fracture. It naturally occurs when lava extrudes from a volcano and then cools rapidly.

What is Obsidian?

400

This is a steep and dramatic canyon in Colorado, carved by the Gunnison River, known for its extreme depth and narrowness in sections.

Wha is The Black Canyon of the Gunnison?

400

This is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Founded by Naotoshi Zin on November 1, 1986 as a business software developer, the company released their first video game, King's Field, for the PlayStation in 1994.

What is FromSoftware, Inc.?

400

The literary relationship between these two famous authors was complex, marked by both mutual respect and sharp criticism. While they were contemporaries and giants of American literature, their writing styles and public personas were vastly different, leading to a somewhat prickly and at times openly critical dynamic.  

Who are Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner?

400

This job deals with complex social issues, providing support to vulnerable individuals and families, and navigating bureaucratic systems requires empathy, strong problem-solving skills, and emotional resilience.

What is a Social Worker?

400
  • Definition: A savory sauce made with vinegar, soy sauce, tamarind extract, and various spices.
  • Origin: England.

Worcestershire

500

A different type of stong, this person was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force.

Who is Viktor Emil Frankl?

500

This rock is similar to limestone but with a significant amount of magnesium.  Rudy Ray Moore is best known for having portrayed a character with the same name in stand-up and blaxploitation films, later played by Eddie Murphy in 2019.

What is Dolomite?

500

This is a large system of mountain ranges in Central Asia, spanning countries like China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. The name means the "Mountains of God/Heaven".

What is The Tian Shan?

500

This is an informal term used to describe extreme difficulty in video games. It often refers to games with trial-and-error gameplay and limited or nonexistent saving of progress.  The enduring term originated with games from the mid-1980s to early 1990s, such as Ghosts 'n Goblins, Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, and Battletoads.

What is "Nintendo Hard"?

500

He was a commander-in-chief or military general who reigned as the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company. He is best known for his betrayal of Nawab Siraj-ud-daulah in the Battle of Plassey.

Who is Mir Jafar?

500

Educating others requires deep knowledge of the subject matter, the ability to explain complex concepts clearly, patience, adaptability, and significant time spent on preparation and grading. This job is important.

What is a Teacher/Professor?

500
  • Definition: (of a word) long and pedantic; characterized by the use of long words.
  • Origin: Latin. From sesquipedalis, meaning "a foot and a half long,"

Sesquipedalian

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