THE EARLY 20th CENTURY
DO ASK
"RITE"-ING
SCHOOL OF ROCK
REED-ING
200
'The modern racing of these dogs began in 1907 when a stuffed rabbit skin was attached to a motorcycle'
greyhounds
200
'This title character thought, "I must stop this Christmas from coming!...but how?"'
The Grinch
200
'Hackneyed or boring from overuse'
trite
200
'Michael Jackson in this alphabet song: "Reading & writing, arithmetic are the branches of the learning tree"'
"ABC 123"
200
'The reed warbler is this type of creature'
a bird
400
'On May 19, 1910 a headline read, this "brushes earth with its tail"'
Halley\'s Comet
400
'The muses taught this creature the riddle that it asked passers-by: Oedipus answered correctly'
the Sphinx
400
'One of these may have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs'
a meteorite
400
'Nabokov is namechecked in this Police song about a nervous teacher'
"Don\'t Stand So Close To Me"
400
'Sir Carol Reed directed this 1968 movie musical based on a Dickens tale'
Oliver!
600
'The 1913 Owen-Glass Act established this central banking system forcing all national banks to join'
the Federal Reserve
600
'This 1858 poem asks, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"'
The Courtship of Miles Standish
600
'From the Greek for "decision", this plural means standards used for comparison'
criteria
600
'The title tutor in this Swedish group's "When I Kissed The Teacher" was just trying to help with geometry'
ABBA
600
'In 1920 American communist & author John Reed died of typhus in this foreign capital'
Moscow
800
'On Nov. 16, 1907 this 46th state was admitted to the Union'
Oklahoma
800
'The answer to this poetic question: "To the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach"'
How do I love thee
800
'Iron disulfide'
pyrite
800
'The Ramones, about this title institute of learning: "Well, I don't care about history"'
"Rock \'n\' Roll High School"
800
'During the Spanish-American War, he led a committee to investigate the spread of disease in U.S. Army camps'
Walter Reed
1000
'In 1915 this birth control advocate was arrested for obscenity for her pamphlet "Family Limitation"'
(Margaret) Sanger
1000
'Byron asked, "think you, if Laura had been" his "wife, he would have written sonnets all his life?"'
Petrarch
1000
'A typical neuron is made up of an axon, a nucleus & one or more of these'
a dendrite
1000
'Sam Cooke didn't "know much trigonometry", nor "what" this non-electronic calculating device "is for"'
a slide rule
1000
'In this post in the late 19th c., Thomas Reed introduced the "Reed Rules" ensuring majority party control of Congress' agenda'
Speaker of the House
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