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Potpourri
100
To express disappointment via text, one may use the acronym “smh” which stands for...
What is 'Shaking my head'?
100
These two signers of the Declaration of Independence went on to serve as president of the United States.
Who are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
100
In 1991, he was the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. Five years later, he would play the ultimate game on the silver screen against the Monstars.
Who is Michael Jordan?
100
This is when two words are joined to create a new word, like 'rainbow' or 'ballroom'.
What are compound words?
100
A.A. Milne wrote stories about this 'bear of very little brain' for his son, Christopher Robin, which would go on to become best selling children's books.
Who is Winnie the Pooh?
100
This handheld toy spun into popularity throughout schools in 2016-2017.
What are fidget spinners?
200
This artist sings the song “Say So” that’s behind the popular TikTok dance.
Who is Doja Cat?
200
They say 'April Showers' bring an abundance of flora in the following month, but this boat brought the Puritans to the Plymouth Colony.
What is The Mayflower?
200
In the NFL, each of these measures 10 yards by 53 1/3 yards.
What is the end zone?
200
This is used to separate ideas, dialogue from the speaker, and to separate a city and a state.
What is a comma?
200
Mowgli's nemesis and the main antagonist in The Jungle Book is a very large Bengal Tiger.
Who is Shere Khan?
200
This seemingly innocuous pet is part of O.W.A.C.A. (Organization Without A Cool Acronym) when not residing with his red and green haired owners.
Who is Perry the Platypus?
300
This popular game made you suspicious of your best friends when it rose in popularity during the COVID-19 Lockdown.
What is Among Us?
300
France gave the US this monument commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
300
Basketball players learn not to move this foot, the term for the axle around which a wheel turns.
What is a pivot?
300
Words mean things and how we end them does as well. Especially, for instance, when we use these to end them. (-ly, -tion,-est, -ance, and -ing are some examples.)
What are suffixes?
300
After being entombed in ice for 70 years in the Arctic Ocean, this superhero joined the group known as the 'World's Mightiest Heroes' in Marvel's The Avengers.
Who is Steve Rogers or Captain America?
300
This hockey player scored 894 goals throughout his career, making him an NHL record holder.
Who is Wayne Gretzky?
400
This iconic actor who played roles such as JACKIE ROBINSON, JAMES BROWN, THRUGOOD MARSHAL, and T'CHALLA lost his battle with colon cancer in 2020
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
400
A 1711 bill cleared the names of 22 people who were tried in this town, including Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey & John Proctor.
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
400
Long thought to have invented baseball, he fought for the Union at Antietam and Gettysburg.
Who is Abner Doubleday?
400
“Because good writing” is an example of what grammar.
What is a fragment?
400
In a British novel Lord of the Flies, this young character’s last words are, “Which is better–to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
Who is Piggy?
400
After statesman & banker Robert Morris turned down a job offer from George Washington, this man took the job. He now has a hit musical written about him.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
500
You may know her as Lady Gaga, but she uses this for all her legal and government documents.
Who is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?
500
To combat fuel shortages, Congress enacted this for almost 10 months in 1974, from January to October.
What is Daylight Savings Time?
500
This sweet, edible substance is used in the making of golf balls.
What is honey?
500
This punctuation mark is also known as an interrogation point.
What is a question mark?
500
The climatic confession from this main character, who shares a name with the title of this Charlotte Bronte book, was "Reader, I married him."
Who is Jane Eyre?
500
This part of speech replaces a noun in a sentence to make it less repetitive. Examples include, he, which, none, or you.
What is a pronoun?
600
Tiger King clawed its way to the cultural landscape in March 2020. In the true crime docuseries, we see Carole Baskin begin her daily video blogs with this phrase.
What is "Hey all you cool cats and kittens"?
600
On May 1, 1869 these 2 men met at the White House, 4 years & 3 weeks after a more historic meeting between them.
Who are Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee?
600
Love him or hate him, this NHL mascot was introduced in 2018 for the Philadelphia Flyers.
Who is Gritty?
600
Your daily grammar lesson: we don’t not have an example of this 2-word syntactic construction in the clue.
What is a double negative?
600
Much of “The Color Purple” is made up of letters written by her to God.
Who is Celie?
600
Jackson County Early College was founded in Sylva, North Carolina in this year.
When in 2008?