Toys My Parents Never Bought Me
Something about Music
Books of the Twentieth Century
One Letter Answers
Sportsball
100
Unlike the Galactic Empire, I was never able to build this 4016 piece superweapon.
LEGO Death Star
100
These seven notes are played in a C major scale.
C D E F G A B
100
If you are ever in Cavendish, you might consider visiting the farmhouse that inspired the setting of this Canadian classic.
Anne of Green Gables
100
This letter denotes the Roman numeral for 500.
D
100
The Super Bowl, the NFL's championship game, has been contested this many times.
55
200
I missed my chance to become a pastry chef when my parents neglected to buy me this working toy kitchen appliance.
Easy-Bake Oven
200
A-C-E are the root notes in this chord.
A minor
200
Cartoonist Bill Watterson opposed commercialization so strongly that you would be hard-pressed to find any official merchandise for his work, namely this daily American comic strip.
Calvin and Hobbes
200
This letter is a mathematical constant approximately equal to 2.718.
e (Euler's number)
200
This colour ball is worth one point in snooker.
Red
300
In this 1998 Special Edition game, my player character could be followed by the series' electrik mouse mascot.
Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition
300
Complete the lyric by singing the next verse:
"And what if I never said to you I was dynamite / And what if I never told you I’m afraid to cry"
"What if I never let you down and said I’m sorry for the nights I can’t remember / What if I never said to you I would try"
300
Humbert Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance as he fawns over the twelve year-old titular character of this novel.
Lolita
300
This titular comic book vigilante is easily recgonisable by his Guy Fawkes mask.
V
300
This Formula One car manufacturer has won eight consecutive World Constructors' Championships, from 2014 to 2021.
Mercedes
400
I could never join by friends in the school yard as they played this card game inspired by Wizards of the Coast's other popular franchise, Dungeons and Dragons.
Magic: The Gathering
400
What is this instrument?
Hammered dulcimer
400
"Stella!" is something you might hear if you wander the streets of New Orleans' French Quarter in this, Tennessee William's most famous play is set.
A Streetcar Named Desire
400
In Morse code, this letter is represented by three dashes.
O
400
"Stumps" are the three vertical posts that support the "bails" and form the "wicket" in this sport.
Cricket
500
Middle schoolers everywhere could be seen taking care of these handheld digital pets...except for me.
Tamagotchi
500
This song by indie rock band Family of the Year was prominently used in Richard Linklater's 2014 film Boyhood.
Hero
500
This Brazilian novel follows Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd on his journey to the pyramids of Egypt.
The Alchemist
500
In the English language, only four letters can be doubled at the beginning of a word. The letter "e" is one of them (e.g., eel). These other letters make up the remaining three.
A (e.g., aardvark)
L (e.g., Lloyd)
O (e.g., ooze)
500
In tennis, the Grand Slam is the achievement for winning all four major tournaments.
For 200 points each, name the four major tournaments.
For an additional 200 points, name them in chronological order.
Australian Open
French Open
Wimbledon
US Open