HODGEPODGE
THERE'S THE RUB
I'LL HAVE SECONDS
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
FARMING
200
The center of this dense cosmic body is called a singularity
blackhole
200
Often made of felt, these classroom mainstays were clapped outside after a vigorous rub inside
erasers
200
The second of Henry VIII's wives, she was the mother of Elizabeth I
Anne Boleyn
200
In "And Tango Makes Three", based on a true story, 2 of these male flightless birds are given a chick to raise at a zoo
a penguin
200
The hard red spring type of this is a specialty of North Dakota; further south in Kansas is where they grow the hard red winter type
wheat
400
To paint this June 1876 battle, artist Edgar Paxson interviewed some of the Native Americans who fought in it
Little Bighorn
400
This phrase means to make something worse; I prefer iodized for my enemies
to rub salt into wounds
400
An Ivy League school was named for British statesman William Legge, the Second Earl of this
Dartmouth
400
A.A. Milne adapted this children's book for the stage & renamed it "Toad of Toad Hall"
The Wind in the Willows
400
Since 2002 the European Union has said you can't feed swill, waste food that includes meat, to these animals
pigs
600
Pumpernickel can get its color from this thick brown syrup that comes from raw sugar
molasses
600
Crickets make their trademark chirp by rubbing these together--stridulation is the scientific term
their wings
600
The second Monday in October is Columbus Day as well as this day that honors America's first inhabitants & tribal nations
Indigenous Peoples' Day
600
E.B. White wrote that this character "had ...a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers"
Stuart Little
600
ay Sommers, who created this '60s sitcom about retreating to the rural, hated hoeing as a kid on a farm in Greendale, N.Y.
Green Acres
800
In 2021 Facebook rebranded itself with this 4-letter name & an infinity-shaped logo
Meta
800
These 4 syllables begin the nursery rhyme about the trio seen here
Rub a dub dub
800
There's a proverbial saying: "The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is..."
now
800
A picture book from 2013 tells of "The Day" these drawing implements "Quit"; blue is tired of only being used on bodies of water
crayons
800
Driving 20-ton vehicles on farmland can mean that the next year you'll get "stuck in" one of these, defined as a wheel track 3" deep
a rut
1000
In 1983 the league of Red Cross Societies added this other shape to its name to reflect its work in Muslim countries
a crescent
1000
In surrealist terms, fumage was making images with smoke; this similar French-derived term was making them by rubbing
frottage
1000
The second president to die in office; it was later confirmed he died of natural causes & not by poisoning
Zachary Taylor
1000
Huckle Cat & Lowly Worm are just 2 of the inhabitants of the busy, busy world of this author & illustrator
Richard Scarry
1000
Heinz sauces--er, sources--ketchup tomatoes from this state's vast & fertile Central Valley
California