A DAY IN JUNE
PUNCTUATION
EXPLOSIONS!
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On June 30, 1859 a French acrobat became the first daredevil to cross these falls on a tightrope

Niagara Falls

400

It marks an ending; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, even puts one at the end of her signature

Period

400

Alfred Nobel added an inert substance to very unstable nitroglycerin to make this more easily handled explosive

dynamite

400

The "Arabian Nights" tales include one about Prince Husain, who flies around on a magical one of these

carpet

400

An apatosaurus named Arlo befriends a human boy in this 2015 animated film

The Good Dinosaur

800

King John sealed this "in the meadow...called Runnymede...on the 15th day of June in the 17th year of our reign"

Magna Carta

800

The "air" version of these usually signals that a speaker is being sarcastic

Quotes

800

A paper cylinder holding a weak explosive, or a red, white & blue popsicle brand

firecracker

800

"Sing aloud unto God our strength", says this biblical book of poems meant to be sung

Psalms

800

Sam Smith bemoans his expertise at breakups in this hit song from 2017

Too Good at Goodbyes

1200

The first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944 is known as this letter-perfect name

D-day

1200

It was Ladislav Sutnar who put telephone area codes inside these

Parentheses

1200

It's the term used for the process of destroying a building by using explosives to make it collapse inward on itself

implosion

1200

Dating from 3,500 years ago, this civilization's "Book of the Dead" is a manual for the afterlife

Egypt

1200

On this sitcom ordinary woman Kristen Bell believed she was sent to the wrong region in the afterlife

The Good Place
1600

He sent a war message to Congress June 1, 1812; on June 18, Congress declared war on Great Britain

James Madison

1600

Commas separate phrases in a series; when the phrases contain commas, separate using these

semicolons

1600

The largest explosion in earth's recorded history was from one of these on Indonesia in 1815

volcano

1600

In "Analects" this ancient Chinese philosopher said, "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them"

Confucius

1600

Daily Double

Seen here, she was the voice of Judy Hopps in "Zootopia"

Ginnifer Goodwin

2000

The first section of this city's famed Boardwalk along the New Jersey shore opened on June 26, 1870

Atlantic City

2000

An em one is longer than an en one

dash

2000

These sudden outbursts of energy on the Sun's surface are the largest explosions in the solar system

solar flares

2000

Daily Double

Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles wrote 2 plays named for this complex & troubled King of Thebes

Oedipus

2000

"Lucid Dreams" is a top 10 hit from this 2018 Juice Wrld album

Goodbye and Good Riddance

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