Word History
Belief Systems
Anagrammed Scientists
It's only "A" country
Hodgepodge
400
Norman Mailer added a suffix to "fact" to get this, now meaning a fact of little importance
Factoid
400
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants you to know that "Democratic" this, her ideology, involves a living wage, not the gulag
Socialism
400
He changed the world through physics:
LENT INEBRIATES
Albert Einstein
400
Teddy Roosevelt helped bring about independence for this Central American country in 1903
Panama
400
The center of this dense cosmic body is called a singularity
Black hole
800
We didn't have this word for a person who studies the natural & physical world until William Whewell invented it in 1834
Scientist
800
It's a jocular term for the people seen here, or a term for ancient Egyptians who gave honor to Ra
Sun worshippers
800
Safe as milk:
A LUSTIER SOUP
Louis Pasteur
800
Located on the Gulf of Guinea, it takes its name from a great medieval trading empire
Ghana
800
In 2021 Facebook rebranded itself with this 4-letter name & an infinity-shaped logo
Meta
1200
DAILY DOUBLE: Reviewing a murder mystery in 1930, Donald Gordon coined this inquisitive 3-words-in-one word for a detective story
Whodunnit
1200
Millenarians await this happening, Christ's return, & expect it to be more fun than in Yeats' poem of that title
The second coming
1200
Perfect for someone who wrote about the Big Bang:
KNEW THE SHAPING
Stephen Hawking
1200
DAILY DOUBLE: The Tropic of Capricorn passes through this Indian Ocean island nation about 300 mi. south of the capital, Antananarivo
Madagascar
1200
Pumpernickel can get its color from this thick brown syrup that comes from raw sugar
Molasses
1600
Translating a work by Goethe, Thomas Carlyle used this hyphenated term for forgetful, though not to describe a professor
Absent-minded
1600
Theosophy is one of many systems based on belief in this world of mystical revelation, from the Latin for "hidden"
The occult
1600
Well, that's just nuts: AVERAGE CHOWING STRONGER
George Washington Carver
1600
Situated between Sicily & Libya, it was a major strategic base for the Allies during World War II
Malta
1600
To paint this June 1876 battle, artist Edgar Paxson interviewed some of the Native Americans who fought in it
Little Bighorn
2000
Lewis Carroll coined this word, perhaps as a portmanteau of "chuckle" & "snort"
Chortle
2000
"Ru" is the Chinese word for the belief system central to Chinese culture for millennia; we use this word, from a sage's name
Confucianism
2000
Take the test & crack the code:
ANNUAL GRIT
Alan Turing
2000
Home to great mineral wealth, it's the largest country in Central Asia
Kazakhstan
2000
In 1983 the league of Red Cross Societies added this other shape to its name to reflect its work in Muslim countries
A crescent