It is in celebrating the coming of Jesus that Christians consider the period before Christmas an __________________.
What is advent?
100
Author of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
Who is Mark Twain?
200
Full of life
What is sprightly?
200
large city
What is metropolis?
200
rowdy
What is obstreperous?
200
You say good-bye, and the ___________ makes me sad to leave you.
What is adieu?
200
Author of "The Lady or the Tiger?"
Who is Frank Stockton?
300
Quiet and thoughtful
What is pensive?
300
dangerous
What is perilous?
300
trivial
What is momentous?
300
Every member of the team’s eyes bulged when their coach launched into an angry ___________________ at halftime.
What is tirade?
300
Author of "Wine on the Desert"
Who is Max Brand?
400
To overwhelm by numbers
What is inundate?
400
counterfeit
What is bogus?
400
Nadir
What is apex?
400
It takes the olders boys less time to ___________________ to life on the island than it does the lil’uns.
What is assimilate?
400
Author of "The Necklace"
Who is Guy de Maupassant?
500
To adapt fully
What is assimilate?
500
overpriced
What is exorbitant?
500
homebody
What is vagrant?
500
It might have taken us only two hours to get to my grandmother’s for Hanukkah, but my mother insisted on a __________________ route that would take us past three museums.
What is meandering?
500
First name of the Reverend who prompts the Jim Smiley story.