Obscure Sports
Genes or Jeans?
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Carpet
Fictional Figures
100
"Wok Racing" is a play on this winter olympic sport, using the large steel cooking pan to fly down this sports icy track.
Bobsled
100
Genes are regions contained in strands of this that make up our chromosomes.
DNA
100
Stay out of my affairs: MYOB
Mind your own Business
100
Carpet is a version of this card game whose name implies that it is played by one person.
Solitaire
100
In his travels Gulliver meets the Houyhnhnms a species of these that can talk.
Horses
200
This sport, involving grand amounts of black powder, involves launching this large hunk of metal to great heights, predominantly used by blacksmiths.
Anvils
200
Only able to replicate within a living cell, these hijack a section of the host's genes, tricking the genome into replicating it.
Viruses
200
Hold on now: JAS
Just a second
200
Princess Leia callously refers to him as a big walking carpet.
Chewbacca
200
Creatures in The Lord of the Rings include hobbits dwarves & these like Legolas.
Elves
300
In 2008, the worlds strongest man pulled this 88,000lb vehicle 100ft.
A Plane
300
The Blue Jean was first developed for this group of hard lived pickaxe wielding laborers in the 19th century.
Miners
300
Occurring away from the Internet: IRL
In real life
300
This traveling item gave its name to Yankees heading south during Reconstruction.
Carpetbaggers
300
Bram Stoker is the author behind one of the most infamous literary monsters, known for its aspirations to move to England from Transylvania.
Dracula
400
Known as the "Last Great Race on Earth", this 1000 mile Alaskan race weaves its way from Nome to Anchorage.
The Iditarod
400
This company is responsible for inventing and patenting the classic "Blue Jean"in 1873.
Levi Strauss & Co.
400
A bit similar to IMHO: FWIW
For what its worth
400
Duran Duran sang of a Massacre on this kind of carpet noting the deathstalk paparazzi.
The Red Carpet
400
In Peter Pan some of these beings are jealous of Wendy & try to pull her into the water.
Mermaids
500
A national sport blending rugby and soccer is known as "Football" or "Footy" in this country.
Australia
500
These traits, first discovered by a monk in the 19th century, describes how some genes only have two possible versions (dominate vs recessive).
Mendelian Traits
500
I know NSFW as National Schools Film Week not as this more lurid warning
Not safe for work
500
Historian Hugh Thomas used this term in describing devastating German aerial attacks on enemy trenches in the 1930s.
Carpet Bombing
500
Sir Gawain doesn't just do battle with the Green Knight but also with these creatures called worms.
Dragons