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Word Origins
100

Both North Carolina’s capital & a brand of cigarettes are named for him.

Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?

100

Frogs live on every continent, except this one.

What is Antarctica?

100

Achilles died because his wound here would not do this.

What is heel/heal?

100

Narrow Biblical sea between Saudi Arabia & Africa that’s an intense blue-green in color.

What is the Red Sea?

100

Though an insect larva, its name comes from French for “hairy cat”.

What is a caterpillar?

200

Our country has plenty of good 5cent cigars, but they charge 15 cents for them, said this “cowboy philosopher”.

Who was Will Rogers?

200

A baby frog is called either a tadpole or this.

What is a polliwog?

200

Only a few of these in the Pennsylvania coal fields are under 18 years old.

What are miners/minors?

200

China’s Huang River carriers large amounts of straw-colored earth into this sea.

What is the Yellow Sea?

200

Word “slavery” comes from these eastern Europeans who were often enslaved by conquerors.

Who are the Slavs?

300

California just made a ban on this type of cigarette.

What are menthols?

300

According to the Bible, thousands of frogs, perhaps millions, plagued this country.

What is Egypt?

300

A big kiss upon parting, or the Greyhound that carries you away.

What is a buss/bus?

300

Name of this sea is said to allude not its dark water but its storms.

What is the Black Sea?

300

Term for noisy dance or party which originally meant a kick in the shins.

What is a shindig?

400

General Cigar Company brand & national poet of Scotland.

Who was Robert Burns?

400

Probably best known to TV viewers as Valene Ewing, she had female lead in1972 “Frogs”.

Who is Joan Van Ark?

400

Vacationing on a ship, or people that staff them.

What is cruise/crews?

400

Icebreakers now keep Port of Archangel, on this appropriately-named sea, open in winter.

What is the White Sea?

400

From same root as “senile”, to Romans this body’s name meant a council of old men.

What is a Senate?

500

A cigarmaker by trade, he founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

Who was Samuel Gompers?

500

Anatomical feature absorbed by its body when a tadpole becomes a frog.

What is the tail?

500

Emotional state of a cow who believed.

What is mood/mooed?

500

Dutch settlers named this longest river of South Africa not for its color but their royal family.

What is Orange?

500

Though John Duns Scotus was considered a great philosopher, his followers were later called this.

What is dunces?

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