Words and Grammar
Kids in Literature
Baby Development
Babies on Screen
Animal Kingdom
Nursery Rhymes
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Globally recognized as a baby's first word

Mom/Mama

100

This group of four siblings visited a magical land through a wardrobe in C.S Lewis' Narnia series:

The Pevensies 

100

The first primary color a baby can see

Red

100

Arthur the Aardvark's youngest sister, who can speak to dogs, but not people. 

Kate Read

100

What one might call a baby bear

A cub


100

The Black Sheep has three bags full of this material for the singer. 

Wool.

200

The jolly old brits will use this word, from the Scandinavian 'barn' to describe a wee child

Bairn

200

Matilda had Miss Honey to thank for her new life, but she had her father to thank for this last name:

Wormwood.

200

Babies are born without this knobby body part

Knee caps

200

This green, big eared baby took the galaxy by storm in his on-screen debut in 2019.

Baby Yoda/ Grogu 

200

The word for a young deer

Fawn

200
The famer's dog's name-o was this classic group game. 

Bingo.

300

Common term for baby, which comes from the Latin 'not able to speak'

Infant

300

This teen has seen her name published on over 600 book titles since her debut in 1930:

Nancy Drew 

300

Invest early: 90% of this organ is fully developed by age 6

The brain

300
This perfectly prehistoric baby charmed audiences in her first on-screen appearance in 1963

Pebbles Flinstone 

300

The word for a group of birds eggs. 

Clutch.


300

Frère Jacques was doing this activity while the morning bells were ringing. 

Sleeping. 

400

A word describing illnesses or abnormalities from birth.

Congenital 

400

This day's child is indeed full of 'woe', on the big and small screens, as well as on the page, along with her grim and gothic family:

Wednesday Addams 

400

Babies don't develop this fluid until they're about one week old-- they'll use it in excess in the coming years (there's your hint!) 

Tears

400

'Forever young' describes this baby, who's appearance in her show's opening credits features her taking the wheel from her distracted mother

Maggie Simpson

400

A baby beaver is called this endearing term.

A kit.

400

Mama's gonna buy the hushed little baby this animal in the first line of 'Hush Little Baby'. 

Mockingbird. 

500

The term 'Merconium', a baby's first bowel movement, is believed to be inspired by this similarly colored substance, derived from poppies 

Opium

500

The adventures of these child philosophers are considered 'the longest story ever told by one person', with their escapades seeing publication between 1950 and 2000

The Peanuts

500

Shields up: babies don't develop an immune system until they reach this age:

Two-three months

500

This hit cartoon television series featured a cast full of babies, known to espouse gravely: 'a baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do'

The Rugrats

500

You might call a baby snake this word, beginning with 's'.

Snakelet.

500

In 'I've Been Working on the Railroad', the captain repeatedly shouts this phrase. 

'Dinah, won't you blow your horn!'

600

Careful now: saying 'newborn baby' may make you guilty of this grammar faux-pas, a term for saying the same thing twice, but differently. 

Pleonasm 

600

Christopher Robin confuses his friends by leaving a note bearing this misspelled word on his door one morning.  

'Backson'

600

This was the most babies born at one time, to one mother, to survive. 

Nine (nonuplets). 

600

DAILY DOUBLE

The mysterious 'Man in the Planet' sends a confusing, snake-like infant to Henry Spencer in this David Lynch film, which is widely considered a 'bewildering masterpiece'.

Eraserhead. 

600

The term for a baby newt.

Eft

600

'Up and down the City Road, 

In and out the Eagle, 

That's the way the money goes' in this nursery rhyme 

Pop! Goes the weasel.

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