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RHYME ZONE
(Each response rhymes with "zone")
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ALL'S "VEL" THAT ENDS "VEL"
200

It's typically a small hotel or a house with private rooms offering a place to lay your head & a morning meal.

What is a bed & breakfast?

200

A sweet biscuit-like pastry often in a triangular shape.

What is a scone?

200

Scottish kings:
Malcolm II,
Duncan I,
him

Who is Macbeth?

200

This point for a substance as a liquid is basically the same as the melting point for the same stuff as a solid.

What is the freezing point?

200

Trying to be fair is looking for this kind of "playing field".

What is level?

400

Control C & Control V are the Windows keyboard shortcut for this pair.

What is copy & paste?

400

The typical response for bad puns.

What is groan?

400

Presidents of France: Sarkozy,
Hollande,
him since 2017

Who is Macron?

400

Using mass spectrometry, neon was the first element shown to exist in more than one of these stable variations.

What is an isotope?

400

Gazing at it means being foolishly self-absorbed.

What is your navel?

600

This pair of principles often work together in good design: one catches the eye, the other keeps it there.

What is contrast & balance?

600

Its only function is to mate with the queen bee.

What is a drone?

600

Soviet leaders:
Andropov,
Chernenko,
him (the end)

Who is Gorbachev?

600

This group of 7 elements is on the far right side of the periodic table, not associating with the halogens next to them.

What are the noble gases?

600

To hold or win this means to chair a congressional committee.

What is a gavel?

800

The Pentagon used this jarring term for the intense aerial bombardment of Iraq in 2003.

What is shock & awe?

800

It precedes "the coop" to describe a bird or person who has escaped & vanished.

What is flown?

800

Konbaung Dynasty:
Bagyidaw,
Tharrawaddy,
him

Who is Pagan Min?

800

Rubber is made up of these chain like molecules with a name from Greek meaning "having many parts".

What are polymers?

800

It's said that this "broadens the mind".

What is travel?

1000

In many buddy comedies or crime shows, this trope pairs two opposite personality types — one plays by the rules, the other breaks them.

What are good cop & bad cop?

1000

Equine hue of darkened colors lightened by a mixture of white.

What is roan?

1000

Russian Empire:
Alexander II,
Alexander III,
him

Who is Nicholas II?

1000

The electrons in the outer shell of an atom are called this type of electron, from the Latin for "power".

What is a valence?

1000

This word refers to a sloped edge or surface, often used in carpentry or machining to smooth corners or help parts fit together.

What is a bevel?

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