WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH
LITERATURE
CATS & DOGS
A FOR ASCEND
SOUTH DAKOTA
100

A mounted soldier in armor who served a king or lord. 

Knight

100

This Brit's own poor childhood inspired him to write books like David Copperfield.

Charles Dickens

100

The American Kennel Club says these "colorful" dogs retain their puppyish behavior into adulthood

Golden Retriever

100

This object holds information needed in order to send a constituent mail. 

Addresses

100

Tombstone is in Arizona; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Western South Dakota. 

Deadwood

200

This verb means to satisfy, especially one's thirst

Slake

200

This beloved novel whose first word is "Christmas" was adapted for a Christmas 2019 movie, with Meryl Streep as Aunt March.

Little Women

200

From Britain's Isle of Man, the Manx cat is distinctive for its lack of this

a tail

200

The new home of employment data

Affiliations

200

In 1937, a bill was introduced in Congress to add this woman as a 5th figure on Mount Rushmore, but it never happened. 

Susan B. Anthony

300

A small valley

Dale

300

Part one of Les Miserables is "Fantine"; part two is named for this daughter of hers

Cosette

300

The tallest of the working breeds, this dog was actually developed in Germany

The Great Dane

300

Obituaries can be pasted here. 

Ascend Notes

300

In hunting season, Beadle County is a bad place to be a ring-necked one of these, the state bird. 

Pheasant

400

This word usually comes before "out", meaning to barely manage a living

Eke

400

The narrator of this Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute".

The Tell-Tale Heart

400

Developed in what is now Thailand, this popular breed of cat comes in blue point, chocolate point & seal point varieties

a Siamese

400

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All Constituents

400

This former NBC anchorman was once a teenage radio announcer at KYNT in Yankton, South Dakota

Tom Brokaw

500

This geography term meaning a bend or a curve in a coastline sounds like sinking your teeth into something

Bight
500

This character says, "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye"

Holden Caulfield

500

Arguably the best dog breed ever, this precious breed was one of the earliest to be domesticated, in 400 BC. 

The Pug

500

Name: Constituent as _______ : Organization

Account Name

500

The action of this 1959 film moves from New York to South Dakota

North by Northwest

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