Kangaroo Words
Inventors & Inventions
Pluralize It III
Gates
3-Letter Words with "F"
100
Old Mother Hubbard found that the cupboard was this, not its kangaroo word "barren"
bare
100
Imperial court official Tsai Lun produced the first rolls of this in China around 105 A.D.
paper
100
Moose (5 Letters)
Moose
100
This alliterative strait was once called Boca del Puerto de San Francisco
Golden Gate
100
It's found in an idiom with "No... ands, or buts"
ifs
200
Some said the debutante "blossomed" at the ball; others used this word
bloomed
200
Louis Daguerre got photography started & William Fox Talbot helped by making & printing photos using reverse images called these
negatives
200
Stimulus (7 Letters)
Stimuli
200
The name of this ancient city, home to the Ishtar gate, means "gate of the gods"
Babylon
200
One of Santa's helpers, or a Keebler baker
elf
300
You "indolent" lazybones! Stop being so this
idle
300
In 1901 this physicist & inventor sent the first radio message across the Atlantic, from England to Canada
Marconi
300
Crisis (6 letters)
Crises
300
When John F. Kennedy visited this gate in 1963, East Germans put up red curtains so he couldn't see into East Berlin
Brandenburg Gate
300
Going back to the Bible, a minor drawback is sometimes likened to one of these "in the ointment"
a fly
400
You're safe to leave that precious item in my "charge", or in my this
care
400
In 1898 Maria Beasley patented a device for preventing trains from doing this
derailing
400
medium (5 letters)
media
400
Hell Gate, from a Dutch word, connects this "directional" river to Long Island Sound
the East River
400
[DD]
Towards the rear of a ship
aft
500
[DD]
She led him down the path to "destruction", aka the road to this
ruin
500
In a movie Greg Kinnear played Robert Kearns, who fought Detroit over this drizzly day innovation of his
intermittent windshield wipers
500
Forum (4 letters)
fora
500
The Donuimun Gate in this capital was dismantled during Japanese occupation in 1915, so now it's called the Invisible Gate
Seoul, South Korea
500
A dandy dude
a fop