Acronyms!
MMORPG
massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Jennifer Lopez (m. 2022–2024)
Jennifer Garner (m. 2005–2018)
Ben Afflek
From the old french word for Christmas - it comes from a latin word meaning "birthday"
Noel
American football: defensive tactic where five or more players rush the quarterback to disrupt the offense and make it harder for them to pass the ball
Blitz
These are the 7 common coordinating conjunctions in English
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Blake Lively (m. 2012),
Scarlett Johansson (m. 2008–2011)
Ryan Reynolds
This collection of teachings are found in Matthew and Luke during the Sermon on the Mount and describes many of those who are blessed
The Beatitudes
Soccer: a player commits a foul that prevents an opponent from having a clear and direct chance to score a goal. Under the Laws of the Game, a DOGSO offense usually results in a red card for the player who committed the foul
Denial of Obvious Goal Scoring Oppurtunity
This any set of similar speech sounds that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single basic sound—a smallest possible phonetic unit—that helps distinguish one word from another. There are 44 of these in English.
Phoneme
DDOS
Direct Denial of Service
Katie Holmes (m. 2006–2012), Nicole Kidman (m. 1990–2001), Mimi Rogers (m. 1987–1990)
Tom Cruise
This region north of Mount Carmel and west of the Jordan river contains Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Cana (Canaan)
Galilee
Hockey: a shot that scores in the top of the net, either off or just below the crossbar
Top Cheddar
Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Ablative, and Vocative (and locative) are examples of this in latin
cases
EBITA
Earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves
Catherine Howard
Catherine Parr
Henry VIII
From the Greek for 15th (days after passover) this holiday is celebrated 50 days after Easter and commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles while they were in Jerusalem as told in Acts
Pentecost
Basketball: an offensive tactic/strategy that involves a down screen into a dribble handoff
zoom action
This is a comparative sentence which initially seems to be acceptable but upon closer reflection has no well-formed, sensical meaning. The typical example sentence used to typify this phenomenon is
More people have been to Russia than I have
More phones have games on them than this one
comparative illusion or Escher sentence
CERN
Originally Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research) – The name now just identifies Europe’s leading particle physics lab, though the acronym no longer matches its current official name (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
Amal Alamuddin (m. 2014), Talia Balsam (m. 1989–1993)
George Clooney
Daily Double: Name the 4 authors of the Pentateuch (Torah)
D, J, P, E
Deuteronomist
Jahwist
Priestly
Elohist
Daily Double: Name all 7 ways a batter can reach 1st base in baseball
1 hit
2 walk
3 Hit by pitch
4 error
5 dropped 3rd strike
6 fielder's choice
7 catcher's interference
Name either of the two diacritics found in the Hawaiian language seen in the words Hawaiʻi and pūpū
the ʻokina the kahakō