Our Neck of Space
Nursery Rhymes Minus Rhyme
Jargon
Capital Cities
Britspeak
200

This trinary star system is the closest to our sun at 4.37 light years distance.

What is Alpha Centauri?

200

It's what crawled up the water spout.

What is Itsy Bitsy Spider?

200

Instead of "ASAP", doctors say this.

What is "Stat"?

200

You can't really see Russia, just a bunch of caribou.

What is Juneau (Alaska)?

200

You lie down for a nap because you are feeling this.

What is knackered?

400

Like Encke, Swift-Tuttle, and Hale-Bopp.

What are comets?

400

An animal followed this schoolgirl everywhere.

Who is Mary (had a little lamb)?

400

What cops call marching Trump or some other crook in handcuffs past the press on the way to jail.

What is "perp walk" (or "frog march")?

400

Capital of a continent.

What is Canberra (Australia)?

400

It's what you did to the car if you nicked it.

What is stole it?

600

Hottest planet in our solar system.

What is Venus?

600

The story with three bags full of textile fibers.

What is Baa Baa Black Sheep?

600

The president does not score when carrying this briefcase holding nuclear launch codes.

What is the (nuclear) football?

600

The syndrome a Swede might develop if kidnapped.

What is Stockholm (Sweden)?

600

When Hermione 'binned' the spell book pages, she did this to them.

What is threw away?

800

It's the number of planets in our solar system that have rings.

What is four? (Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus)

800

It was once built up with wood and clay.

What is London Bridge (is falling down)?

800

Microsoft brought us this unwanted ending, what BSOD stands for.

What is Blue Screen of Death?

800

Where you might find tiny sausages or the Von Trapps.

What is Vienna (Austria)?

800

Four letter word for one British pound sterling.

What is a quid?

1000

What the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space is called.

What is the Heliopause?

1000

In this riddle, each sack had seven cats.

What is As I Was Going to St. Ives?

1000
Preliminary questioning of a witness is called this, literally meaning "to see to say".

What is "voir dire"?

1000

A type of boot you don't want to step on a kiwi with.

What is Wellington (New Zealand)?

1000

If you tell your story to the Old Bill, you're telling this person.

What is a policeman?

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