FICTIONAL SCHOOLS
SLANG TERMS
THE VICTORIANS
-OLOGIES
OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y"
FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES
100
Pencey Prep is full of phonies according to Holden Caulfield in this book
CATCHER IN THE RYE
100
To make out like this meaning to do well may refer not to a robber but to slang for a slot machine
BANDIT
100
The plight of the poor was shown in works like Horrible this city & The Bitter Cry of Outcast this city
LONDON
100
It's the -ology associated with the symbol seen here that was created back in the '60s
ECOLOGY
100
It's a long eventful journey or ordeal; a mythological one took 10 years
AN ODYSSEY
100
Alice Cooper breaks down the etymology of Milwaukee to Mike Myers in this 1992 film
WAYNE'S WORLD
200
Battle School is where children train to fight in this 1985 Orson Scott Card novel
ENDER'S GAME
200
Alliteration abounds in this 3-word phrase; a very uncomplicated game where you ring someone's doorbell & run away
DING DONG DITCH
200
Prominent feature of women in pre-Raphaelite paintings; model Lizzie Siddal's was said to have filled her coffin
LONG HAIR
200
In pharmacology you learn about the risks of these given in long & horrifying lists at the end of drug commercials
SIDE EFFECTS
200
This raptor flies over water to hunt plunging in feet first to catch fish in its talons
AN OSPREY
200
Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of this 1980 musical title duo has been approved
THE BLUES BROTHERS
300
Chamberlain Maine's Thomas Ewen Consolidated High School hosts a memorable prom in this 1974 Stephen King novel
CARRIE
300
To garner extremely high marks in a school examination is more slangily to do this 3-letter word to that test
ACE
300
By its etymology this Victorian room seen here was an early chat room
A PARLOR
300
A Th.D. from Duke Divinity School is a doctor of this
THEOLOGY
300
From Latin for shaded it means non-transparency in an image
OPACITY
300
10 seconds contestants! Will Forte tries to defuse a nuclear warhead as this 2010 title guy
MACGRUBER
400
In a Y.A. series identical twins Jessica & Elizabeth Wakefield attend this fictional high school in Southern California
SWEET VALLEY HIGH
400
Like the feedback type in a compulsion this you endlessly cycle through checking your social media apps
A LOOP
400
The Broadwood co. led the world in making these instruments & no they didn't prudishly cover the legs
PIANOS
400
Egyptology got a big push from the discovery of his tomb in 1922
KING TUT
400
Numbering about 175,000 these upper Midwesterners are one of the largest native peoples north of Mexico
OJIBWAY
400
Dan Aykroyd wants a green card in this 1993 film (but he's not really from France)
THE CONEHEADS
500
Dotheboys Hall is the place for learning in the Dickens work named for this alliterative lad
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
500
This numerical term for the first person to catch a certain disease now can mean the first person affected by something
PATIENT ZERO
500
In 1877 long before Margaret Sanger, Annie Besant was prosecuted for a pamphlet on this
BIRTH CONTROL
500
Pharology is the study of these structures that help prevent shipwrecks
LIGHTHOUSES
500
Meaning to become bone this verb is used for ideas that have become fixed
OSSIFY
500
In a trailer for his 1995 movie as Stuart Smalley, he said "My father grew up in the Great Depression... his mother's"
AL FRANKEN