Word Origins
Fictional Languages
Pops
Game Shows
Musical Clothing
Weights and Measures
100
This part of an egg gets its name from the old English for "yellow"


Yolk

100
Linguist Marc Okrand created this language spoken by Star Trek's Worf


Klingon

100
If I "Gotta have my pops", I may be hankering for this sugary puffed cereal by Kellogg's


Corn Pops

100
The 2008 film "Slumdog Millionaire" featured a contestant accused of cheating at this trivia competition


Who wants to be a Millionaire
100
In Flo Rida's hit "Low", Shawty pairs these trousers with "boots with the fur"


Apple Bottom Jeans


100
This commonly used metric measure of volume is not part of an official part of the international system of units


Liter (official is cubic meter)


200
The name of this style of aircraft is derived from the Greek, meaning "Spiral Wing"


Helicopter

200
You can be like Daenerys and learn around 4,000 words of this language of Khal Drogo


Dothraki


200
Researchers at Swarthmore College say it takes an average of 144 licks to get to the center of these


Tootsie Pops

200
Pat Sajak and Vanna White have hosted this twist on hangman together since 1982


Wheel of Fortune


200
Right Said Fred's protagonist found that he was far too sexy for this item of clothing in the group's 1991 hit


his shirt (or his hat)


200
This measure, less popular that the foot, is still used to measure the height of horses


Hand

300
The name of this ballroom dance with gliding turns comes from the German for "roll" or "turn"


Waltz

300
Harry Potter acquired the ability to speak this language of snakes from Voldemort


Parseltongue


300
The "Pops" in the name of this Mass Bay Ensemble, led by Keith Lockhart, refers to popular music


Boston Pops


300
The showcase showdown has selected contestants in the final round of this frugal faceoff since 1975


Price is Right

300
These titular shoes earned Kellie Pickler her first gold record in 2009, three years after the song's release


Red High Heels


300
The name and confusing abbreviation for this unit of weight are both derived from the Latin "Libra Pondo"


Pound

400
This word, for the art and science of good eating, goes back to the Greek for "Belly"


Gastronomy


400
J.R.R. Tolkien crafted this language, whose forms include Quenya and Sindarin, long before writing his books


Elvish or Elven

400
These patriotic tricolor frozen treats are also found in stores as "Firecrackers"


Bomb Pops or Rocket Pops

400
This highfalutin' game of tic-tac-toe usually starred Paul Lynde, Joan Rivers or Whoopi Goldberg as the center square


Hollywood Squares


400
According to Bryan Hyland, "She was afraid to come out of the locker" while wearing this for the first time today


An itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini


400
This nautical term refers to length, and traveling 20,000 will get you a fourth of the way from the earth to the moon


A league


500
From the Latin for "Much writing", this machine is a potent deception detector


Polygraph

500
You would say "Doubleplusunwarm" rather than "Freezing cold" in this language from George Orwell's 1984


Newspeak
500
Batman, Batgirl and Green Lantern were the first to be turned into these vinyl figurines, debuted in 2010


Funko Pops


500
This mid-century game of twenty questions featured Dorothy Kilgallen and Arlene Frances


What's My Line


500
On her 2006 album B'Day, Beyonce advises "When he acts wrong", that's when you put on this eponymous garment


A Freakum dress


500
The MIT institutional unit of length was named after Young Oliver in 1958


Smoot

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