Codes and Keys
This radio code signals that the message has been received and is understood.
10-4
*Bummer - lose your hint*
From the moment he opened Tiffany & Co. as a fancy goods and stationery store in New York City in 1837, it was clear he had a discerning eye for design. It is ironic that they made the switch to selling this product, given the logic of rock, paper, scissors.
Diamonds/Jewelry
In the original story of Cinderella, when the prince visits the house to find the glass slipper's owner, the stepsisters do this to try and fit in the shoe.
These two dances are among the words used in the radio communications alphabet that begins Alpha, Bravo, Charlie.
Foxtrot & Tango
Identify the proper noun in this sentence:
"Your cousin Throckmorton skateboards from rest down a curved, frictionless ramp."
Throckmorton
In the Monsters Inc. universe, the Child Detection Agency (CDA) uses this code to signal contact with a human child.
23-19
In 1889 Fusajiro Yamauchi began a small business manufacturing “Hanafuda” playing cards in Kyoto, Japan, which has eventually blossomed into this entertainment empire.
Nintendo
In Hans Christian Andersen’s original story, things don’t end so rosily. In fact, the story is tragic throughout, with Ariel’s transformation to human causing her constant agonising pain, before her heart is broken when her prince marries someone else. The Sea Witch informs her that if she kills the prince she will turn back into a mermaid and live. With a tough decision to make, Ariel chooses to do this.
Ariel chooses to sacrifice herself, throwing herself into the sea and becoming sea foam.
Brigham Young University offers this unconventional major of what style of dance?
Ballroom Dance
In the sentence "For lunch they packed several cartons of milk, carrot sticks, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches", the third comma (in bold) is called what?
Oxford Comma
(or serial comma)
Although Minecraft 1.9 runs on around 285,000 lines, and Facebook runs on 62 million lines of code, the Apollo in-flight system that went to the moon only needed around this many lines of code.
(Must be within 5,000)
145,000
It's fitting that Xerox got its start selling this product, given that they made the jump to copiers with the first xerographic image made in 1938.
Photography Paper
The 1695 version of Mulan included in the Sui Tang Romance takes a different path than the movie(s). When Mulan returns home from war she finds that her father has died and her mother has remarried. With her female identity revealed Mulan is ordered to become a concubine. She instead decides to do this.
Commit suicide
Tchaikovsky composed three ballets. Name any two of them.
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty
In the sentence "Brock Purdy threw a spiraling touchdown to Deebo Samuel", what is the predicate?
threw a spiraling touchdown
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This tedious but secretive code is based on both the sender and recipient have access to identical copies of a literary work and using numbers that referred to page, line and position in line of words in the work.
Ottendorf Cipher
This company was originally a soap company that gifted baking powder with their soap. The baking powder became more popular than the soap so they switched to selling baking powder with chewing gum as a gift. The gum became more popular than the baking powder so the company switched to selling gum.
Wrigley's
In the original story of Rapunzel, after the witch finds out that the prince has been visiting Rapunzel nightly, she cuts off Rapunzel's hair and tricks the prince to the tower, only to push him off the tower, leading to the prince going blind. He eventually reunites with Rapunzel, who is able to cure his blindness with this.
Her tears
(They live happily ever after)
In ballet, this is the term one uses for the action of spinning on one foot.
Pirouette
What two things does a sentence need in order to be a sentence?
(Must get both)
Subject and Verb
Sent by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse on May 24, 1844, over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, the first Morse Code message said this.
"What hath God wrought?"
Numbers 23:23
The GAP company was founded by Donald and Doris Fisher in San Francisco in 1969, primarily as this type of store that also sold jeans.
In the beginning, the jeans didn't sell at all, leaving the Fishers close to bankruptcy. They were able to turn the company around and are now profitable jeans sellers.
Record Store
In Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo’s guardian Archdeacon Frollo betrays Esmeralda and sends her to her death. When he laughs as Esmeralda is hung, Quasimodo does these two things, leading to his demise.
(Split points for each correct piece)
He kills Frollo and visits the cemetery where he mourns Esmeralda, eventually dying of starvation on her grave.
Tik Tok has had many trends, and the “Tik Tok Dances” trend was made popular by this teenager, who now makes millions of dollars and has a Kardashians-style TV show with their family.
Charli D’Amelio
Two or more adjectives that modify the same noun in a sentence are called this.
"The plums were cool and delicious."
Coordinate Adjectives