WORD ORIGINS
NOTABLE WOMEN
TECH TALK
SHAKESPEARE
SPORTS & FITNESS
200
'The name of this vehicle dates back to the time of Napoleon when it meant "walking hospital"'
ambulance
200
'This famous 18th century seamstress was a flagmaker for the Pennsylvania navy'
Betsy Ross
200
'This brand's Ultimate G4 could be called the G5, since almost 5 G's is what it originally sold for'
Apple Macintosh
200
'Mercutio declares "A plague o' both your houses" in this play'
Romeo and Juliet
200
'Played in more than 150 countries, it's the world's most popular sport'
soccer
400
'This nickname for potatoes comes from the spade used to dig them up'
spuds
400
'Before she became Princess of Wales in 1981, she was a kindergarten teacher'
Princess Diana
400
'Hi-fi is for playing records; this rhyming term is a standard for network technology'
wi-fi (wireless fidelity)
400
'"Beware the ides of March" is a line from this play'
Julius Caesar
400
'In tennis when a serve does this before landing in the proper service court, it's called a let'
hits the net
600
'From the Greek for "small sound", it's a device used to intensify the voice'
microphone
600
'As head of Harpo Entertainment, she's the first African-American woman to own her own studios'
Oprah Winfrey
600
'Common alliterative term for technology that lets your computer install a device without messy configuring'
plug and play
600
'The basic situation of this play resembles the Elizabethan ballad "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife"'
Taming of the Shrew
600
'It's a deep knee bend; a weightlifter does it with a barbell on his shoulders'
squat
800
'Derived from the Spanish word for "let's go", it means to leave hurriedly'
vamoose (vamonos)
800
'She answered an ad in her college paper looking for astronauts, & in 1983 became the first American woman in space'
Sally Ride
800
'3-letter (sounding like 3-word) name of an instant messaging program introduced in November 1996'
ICQ
800
'"A Midsummer Night's Dream" says, "The course of true love never did" this'
run smooth
800
'Appropriately, red, white & blue are the team colors of this NFL team based in Massachusetts'
New England Patriots
1000
'The name of these "fishy" bacteria that cause food poisoning comes from the pathologist who identified them'
salmonella
1000
'A street in Montgomery, Alabama is named for this woman who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a bus'
Rosa Parks
1000
'It's an HTML command that formats a web page; the "meta" type gives general information about the page'
tag
1000
'This "tale" was acted at court in November 1611, a bit early for its title'
The Winter\'s Tale
1000
'An Olympic gold medalist in 1992, in 2002 she was named the most influential person in figure skating'
Kristi Yamaguchi
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