Calling All Scrabblistas
Z is one of the two letters with the highest number of points, and this is the other one
Answer: What is Q?
Z and Q are each worth 10 points when you make a word with one of them.
“Hope springs” this.
Answer: What is eternal?
The full quote is “Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” It was penned by Alexander Pope in his An Essay on Man.
This synthetic fabric gained massive popularity in the ’70s and was seen in many disco fashions.
Answer: What is polyester?
In the ’80s, polyester went from a disco favorite to an athletic wear must-have.
“Good Vibrations” and “Surfin’ Safari”
Answer: Who are the Beach Boys?
The Wilson brothers, their cousin Mike Love, and a friend formed the band in 1961 in California.
Artist and sculptor Picasso
Answer: Who is Pablo?
He is credited with helping create the Cubist movement along with fellow artist Georges Braque.
Scrabble playing pieces are called this.
Answer: What are tiles?
The 100 tiles are drawn from a bag.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for” this.
Answer: What is tomorrow?
This quote is attributed to Albert Einstein.
Abbreviated YSL, this designer rose to fame in the 1960s and continues to be a sought-after designer today.
Answer: Who is Yves Saint Laurent?
He worked for Christian Dior as a teenager before going on to create his own designs.
“The Sound of Silence” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
Answer: Who are Simon and Garfunkel?
The duo met in elementary school in Queens, New York.
Folk singer Baez known for hits like “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”
Answer: Who is Joan?
Baez helped another folk singer, Bob Dylan, rise to fame in the mid-1960s.
Each player takes this number of tiles for their first move.
Answer: What is seven?
Before play starts, each player pulls one letter out of the bag, and the player with the letter closest to A goes first.
Hope for this and expect that.
Answer: What is the best and the worst?
“Hope for the best and expect the worst.” It means to maintain a positive attitude while preparing for the worst.
His designer jeans and other apparel, sometimes emblazoned with a CK, rose to popularity in the 1970s to early ’80s.
Answer: Who is Calvin Klein?
Klein opened his first shop in 1968 with just $10,000.
“My Girl,” “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” and “Get Ready”
Answer: Who are the Temptations?
In 2019, Rolling Stone named them one of the 125 all-time greatest artists.
Civil rights leader Chavez, who fought for farm workers’ rights
Answer: Who is Cesar?
He formed the National Farm Workers Association and led many marches and boycotts on behalf of farm workers.
This is the publisher of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
Answer: What is Merriam-Webster?
Noah Webster published his first dictionary in 1806 with just 37,000 words, and it included 500 new words never before added to a compendium.
Emily Dickinson wrote that hope is the thing with this.
Answer: What are feathers?
The poem states: “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops—at all.”
This designer’s looks were often worn by Audrey Hepburn, including the black dress she wore in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Answer: Who is Givenchy (gee-vahn-SHEE)?
The frock is considered one of the most influential dresses in 20th-century fashion history.
“What’s Love Got to Do with It” and “Proud Mary”
Answer: Who is Tina Turner?
In addition to her musical talent, she appeared in the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome alongside Mel Gibson.
French general de Gaulle
Answer: Who is Charles?
He also served as president of the Fifth Republic of France from 1959 to 1969
You can swap your tiles by doing this.
Answer: What is giving up a turn?
You can swap some or all of your tiles.
He took his show on the road to entertain American troops around the world.
Answer: Who is Bob Hope?
Hope began entertaining troops during World War II. He was born in England and moved to America when he was four years old.
Designers like Gunne Sax were known for this style of women’s dress, noted for looking like pioneer fashion.
Answer: What is the prairie dress?
The style was similar to dresses worn in Victorian times.
“Dancing Queen” and “Mamma Mia”
Answer: Who is ABBA?
The group gained popularity in the ’70s and announced a reunion in 2021
Women’s rights activist Sanger
Answer: Who is Margaret?
One of her notable achievements was coining the term birth control and helping with its legislation.