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Crossword Clues - "Q"
1980s MTV Music Videos
100
This heavy-weight boxing champion launched a famous indoor grill designed to let the fat and grease drain away from your food.
What is George Foreman?
100
This author published Frankenstein anonymously in 1818 before it was later credited under her real name.
Who is Mary Shelley?
100
In operation from 1938 through the late 1960s, this well-known Tyrrell County landmark now serves as a cultural history museum.
What is the Columbia Theater?
100
A state of enforced isolation to prevent the spread of disease (10 letters).
What is quarantine?
100
1983.
What is "Thriller" by Michael Jackson?
200
Throughout his career, this enthusiastic, bearded pitchman promoted a wide variety of household products, including Orange Glo, Kaboom, and OxiClean.
Who is Billy Mays?
200
Though this author died in 1817, her 1800s novels like Pride and Prejudice were originally published anonymously "By a Lady."
Who is Jane Austen?
200
Beginning as a 99-year federal lease, this state park eventually gained permanent status in 1947, preserving land that surrounds sections of the Scuppernong River and the state's second-largest natural lake.
What is Pettigrew State Park?
200
Nauseous or feeling sick to one's stomach (6 letters).
What is queasy?
200
1985.
What is "Material Girl" by Madonna?
300
These terracotta figurines came in the shapes of animals, celebrities, and cartoon characters, growing a green coat of sprouts after being soaked in water.
What is a Chia Pet?
300
She used the pseudonym Currer Bell to publish Jane Eyre, while her sister Emily used Ellis Bell for Wuthering Heights.
Who is Charlotte Bronte?
300
While docked at Columbia's waterfront in January 1910, this 112-foot steamer caught fire, drifted out into the Scuppernong River, and sank, leaving its historic wreckage on the river bottom.
What is the Estelle Randall?
300
A long or arduous search for something, like the Holy Grail (5 letters).
What is quest?
300
1986.
What is "Walk this Way" by Run-DMC and Aerosmith?
400
Seven-time world karate champion Billy Blanks became a household name by combining martial arts kicks and boxing punches into this high-energy cardio workout video series.
What is Tae Bo?
400
Known as the "Belle of Amherst," this reclusive New Englander wrote nearly 1,800 poems, but fewer than a dozen were published during her lifetime.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
400
First built at Kendrick Creek in 1749 after years of meetings in private homes, this local landmark moved to Elizabeth Town—now Columbia—where its third and current structure was built in 1903 for $15,000.
What is the Tyrrell County Courthouse?
400
An angry argument or disagreement (7 letters).
What is quarrel?
400
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1985.
What is "Take on Me" by a-ha?
500
This plastic, loop-shaped 1990s styling tool allowed users to easily flip a ponytail inside out.
What is a TopsyTail?
500
This author wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, an 1852 anti-slavery novel that helped fuel the abolitionist movement in the United States.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
Established in 1729, Tyrrell County was named in honor of Sir John Tyrrell, who held this royal title over the Carolinas.
What is a Lord Proprietor?
500
An uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear (5 letters).
What is qualm?
500
1985.
What is "Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer?