FICTION
HEART OF THE "CARDS"
INTERNET SHORTHAND
50'S MUSIC
-ETTE
100
This teen classic from the '60s features brothers Darry, Sodapop & Ponyboy.
What is The Outsiders?
100
Shedding-type game Crazy Eights has this variation, that has extra cards, including Reverse and Draw Two.
What is Uno?
100
IMO, adding an H to this acronym's meaning shows honesty or humbleness.
What is in my opinion?
100
His 50's tracks include "Blue Suede Shoes," "Hound Dog," and "Jailhouse Rock."
Who is Elvis Presley?
100
A person with brown hair.
What is a brunette?
200
One Small Step by Reginald Hill tells the story of two detectives investigating the first murder at this galactic location.
What is the moon?
200
A collectible card game owned by Wizards of the Coast and the first trading card game, it now more often is played online.
What is Magic: The Gathering?
200
A five-letter acronym meaning you're unsure about how new or accurate the information provided is.
What is AFAIK?
200
While he rose to fame in the 50's, his later years he covered contemporary rock artists, such as Nine Inch Nails.
Who is Johnny Cash?
200
The female counterpart to a man who hasn't been married. Both will often have parties shortly before being wed.
What is a bachelorette?
300
In 1990, his "Bourne Ultimatum" was a bestseller.
Who Robert Ludlum?
300
A trick-taking card game, either in partners or "cutthroat," where the suit which the game is named after always trumps.
What is spades?
300
People who are "AFK" on servers or chatrooms are often this.
What is away from keyboard?
300
This quartet's "Take Five" is their signature track, and exemplifies the Cool Jazz genre.
What is the Dave Brubeck Quartet?
300
A plastic cartridge containing magnetic tape with the tape passing from one reel to another.
What is a cassette?
400
This Carolyn Keene character has been solving crimes for more than 80 years; her latest books are her diaries.
Who is Nancy Drew?
400
Solitaire (A.K.A. patience games) exists in many forms, but in card form, it is formally referred to as this.
What is Klondike?
400
In message board terms, to move a post to the top of the forum with a pointless reply, usually to one's own thread. It, like RADAR, isn't often seen as an acronym anymore.
What is BUMP?
400
This artist's 1954 "I Got a Woman," was sampled by Kanye West in his track "Gold Digger" in 2005.
Who is Ray Charles?
400
A small-scale, usually wooden, figure that is moved from above by manipulation of attached strings.
What is a marionette?
500
As this Ernest Hemingway book begins, Santiago had "gone eighty-four days... without taking a fish."
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
500
A three-player trick-taking card game, the national game of Germany, and used to share it's name with feces.
What is skat?
500
This locomotive acronym is used to describe that levels of quality and satisfaction for a product might differ from what the user got.
What is YMMV?
500
His 57' track "Ooby Dooby" got him label Sun Records to take him in, and he went on to become "The Caruso of Rock" and "The Big O."
Who is Roy Orbison?
500
A likeness cut from dark material and mounted on a light ground or one sketched in outline and solidly colored in.
What is a silhouette?