📜 HISTORY (THINK-WORDED)
100 – Before becoming a country, the U.S. had to formally separate from Britain through this written act
👉 Answer: Declaration of Independence
100 – This group sang about sunshine on a cloudy day in a famous love song
👉 Answer: The Temptations
100 – The more of it you remove, the larger it becomes
👉 Answer: A hole
100 – A giant creature falls from a famous New York building at the end of this film
👉 Answer: King Kong
100 – Remove the first letter from a word meaning happiness, and you’re left with a unit of distance
👉 Answer: Smile → Mile
200 – This early 19th-century deal instantly expanded U.S. land westward without war
👉 Answer: Louisiana Purchase
200 – This blind musician helped define soul music with early hits like “What’d I Say”
👉 Answer: Ray Charles
200 – Every standard deck has 13 of these, but none are alive
👉 Answer: Hearts (cards)
200 – A summer romance leads to the line about not putting someone “in a corner”
👉 Answer: Dirty Dancing
200 – A word that sounds the same even after removing four of its five letters
👉 Answer: Queue
300 – A single assassination in Europe triggered this global conflict in the 1910s
👉 Answer: World War I
300 – This New York singer-songwriter built a career around storytelling songs like one about a bar piano player
👉 Answer: Billy Joel
300 – It can be long or short, wide or narrow, but it always has a neck and no head
👉 Answer: A bottle
300 – A World War II mission begins with one of the most intense beach landings ever filmed
👉 Answer: Saving Private Ryan
300 – A word that secretly contains three double letters in a row
👉 Answer: Bookkeeper
400 – This president became the only one to leave office early due to a political scandal
👉 Answer: Richard Nixon
400 – This female rock singer became the voice behind Fleetwood Mac’s biggest hits
👉 Answer: Stevie Nicks
400 – It’s attached to you, but the “bottom” is actually at the top
👉 Answer: Your legs
400 – A former boxer reflects on missed greatness with the line “I coulda been a contender”
👉 Answer: On the Waterfront
400 – A word where each letter removal still leaves a real word, all the way down to one letter
👉 Answer: Start
500 – This agreement after WWI punished Germany and reshaped Europe
👉 Answer: Treaty of Versailles
500 – This jazz musician’s nickname was a type of bird, and he changed saxophone forever
👉 Answer: Charlie Parker
500 – It never speaks first, but always answers when you do
👉 Answer: An echo
500 – A quiet gunslinger defends a farming family, then disappears into legend
👉 Answer: Shane
500 –
A five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it—but only if you understand what the word means
👉 Answer: Short