WORD ORIGINS
FABLES & TALES
MUSICAL INTRUMENTS
VOCABULARY
SINGERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
FIRST LINES
100
From Middle English for "coarse meal", this basic corn dish of the South is often thought coarse by Yankees
Grits
100
Of a house of mud, sticks, or bricks, the 1 you won't find in "The 3 Little Pigs"
Mud
100
Instrument traditionally used to play reveille & taps
Bugle
100
Of a barnacle, binnacle, or carbuncle, the one you'd find most useful aboard ship
Binnacle
100
"I, Tina"
Tina Turner
100
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..."
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
200
One's period of greatest success, it goes back to Anglo-Saxon use of "hey" as an expression of joy
Heyday
200
The moral of this fable: people who tell lies won't be believed, even when they tell the truth
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
200
In "Jack & the Beanstalk", it cried out "Master! Master!" & gave jack away
The (Golden) Harp
200
Of a witch, waterfowl, or way out, what you're looking for if you're looking for a egress
Way Out
200
"Happy Trails"
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
200
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream..."
The Old Man and the Sea
300
Commoners in England couldn't cut trees for fuel, but could profit from these, felled by the wind
Windfall
300
German town in which you will find this monument to a tale by the Brothers Grimm
Bremen Town
300
3 types of this instrument are the tenor, plectrum, & 5-string
Banjo
300
Of a buttock, futtock, or fetlock, the 1 not found on a horse
Futtock
300
"Lady Sings the Blues"
Billie Holiday
300
"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that."
A Christmas Carol
400
Highfalutin' & hoity-toity are synonyms for this word from the Latin "over the eyebrow"
Supercilious
400
Hans C. Andersen tale of a girl who freezes to death in an alley while dreaming of her grannie
The Little Match Girl
400
The standard instrumentation of a string quartet
2 Violins, 1 Viola, 1 Cello
400
Of ex parte, ex libris, or ex post facto, the 1 that's not a legal term
Ex Libris
400
"Yes I Can"
Sammy Davis Jr.
400
It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville 9 that day..."
Casey at the Bat
500
"Rise to vote, sir" is one of these, named from the Greek "to run back again"
Palindrome
500
In an Old Norse version of this folk tale, it's a pancake that rolls, not runs, away
The Gingerbread Boy (or Man)
500
From Greek for "self", "idiophones" is another name for this largest family of instruments
Percussion Instruments
500
Of polydactyl, polydipsic, or polydemic, what you'd be if you were stranded in the desert without water
Polydipsic
500
Who's Sorry Now?
Connie Francis
500
"The great fish moved silently through the night water..."
Jaws