A DAY IN JUNE
PUNCTUATION
AN EXPLOSIVE CATEGORY
PLANTS & TREES
"GOOD" ENTERTAINMENT
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On June 30, 1859 a French acrobat became the first daredevil to cross these falls on a tightrope

Niagara Falls

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It marks an ending; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, even puts one at the end of her signature

a period

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Alfred Nobel added an inert substance to very unstable nitroglycerin to make this more easily handled explosive

dynamite

400

These plants used for clothing are ready for picking

cotton

400

An apatosaurus named Arlo befriends a human boy in this 2015 animated film

The Good Dinosaur

800

King John sealed this "in the meadow...called Runnymede...on the 15th day of June in the 17th year of our reign"

the Magna Carta

800

The "air" version of these usually signals that a speaker is being sarcastic

quotes

800

A paper cylinder holding a weak explosive, or a red, white & blue popsicle brand

firecracker

800

It's quicker to grow tulips from these usually rounded organs rather than from seeds 


bulbs

800

Sam Smith bemoans his expertise at breakups in this hit song from 2017


"Too Good at Goodbyes"

1200

The first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944 is known as this letter-perfect name

D-Day

1200

It was Ladislav Sutnar who put telephone area codes inside these

parentheses

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It's the term used for the process of destroying a building by using explosives to make it collapse inward on itself

implosion (implode accepted)

1200

Koalas spend a lot of time eating and sleeping in this type of tree 


eucalyptus

1200

On this sitcom ordinary woman Kristen Bell believed she was sent to the wrong region in the afterlife

The Good Place

1600

He sent a war message to Congress June 1, 1812; on June 18, Congress declared war on Great Britain

Madison

1600

Commas separate phrases in a series; when the phrases contain commas, separate using these

semicolons

1600

The largest explosion in earth's recorded history was from one of these on Indonesia in 1815

a volcano

1600

DD - Some people drink the juice of this succulent for its health benefits & a gel is used to relieve sunburns

aloe

1600

She was the voice of Judy Hopps in "Zootopia"

(Ginnifer) Goodwin

2000

The first section of this city's famed Boardwalk along the New Jersey shore opened on June 26, 1870

Atlantic City

2000

An em one is longer than an en one

dash

2000

DD - These sudden outbursts of energy on the Sun's surface are the largest explosions in the solar system

solar flares

2000

Native to India and other parts of Asia, a single one of these unusual trees can resemble a small forest

banyan trees

2000

"Lucid Dreams" is a top 10 hit from this 2018 Juice Wrld album

Goodbye and Good Riddance

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