State Landmarks
Not So Current Slang
A Colourful Category
Starts with "Gh"
Female Singer/Songwriters
200

Grand Teton Mountain

Wyoming

200

As a verb it's to become puffy, like your eye after getting hit; as an adjective, it's just nifty!

Swell

200

If I needed to find a phone number, I would use this popular directory distributed by AT&T

Yellow pages

200

One who pens a book but lets the official credit of authorship go to another

Ghostwriter

200

She is best known for being the lead singer of Paramore

Hayley Williams
400

The Highest Mountain Peak in North America, Denali.

Alaska

400

If you say your word is this, it means what you've said is true and trustworthy (think 007).

Bond

400

 A 1971 dystopian crime film adapted from an  Anthony Burgess novel

A Clockwork Orange

400

The wide use of portable music players in urban communities led to them adopting this nickname

Ghetto blaster

400

This R&B/neo-soul artist's career began after opening a show for D'Angelo in 1994 

Erykah Badu

600

The Liberty Bell

Pennsylvania

600

Slang for a police officer on foot, rather than in a patrol car and also a male first name

Jake

600

"One of the most successful, critically acclaimed, and ground-breaking preschool television series of all time", this 1996 Nickelodeon series lets the audience help Steve solve a puzzle using paw prints.

Blues Clues

600

English is the official language of this African country

Ghana

600

She is the younger of the two daughters of Destiny's Child's manager

Solange Knowles

800

French Quarter and Bourbon Street

Louisiana 

800

A rhythmic motion where a person pushes both hands up in the air to signal that they’re having a great time, usually to the tune of music

Raise the roof

800

* * This coloured shape is a central plot of land in a national capital. It is outside the walls of the Kremlin. 

The Red Square

800

** This adjective meaning "horrible" rhymes with the singer of "Never Gonna Give You Up"

Ghastly

800

Born in BC's lower mainland, this singer won 3rd place in Canadian Idol in 2007, kickstarting her music career

Carly Rae Jepsen

1000

The Four Corners Monument. It actually sits just southeast of the true four state intersection

New Mexico

1000

Homemade or illegal alcohol, usually moonshine, from the prohibition era. Rhymes with a slang word for a dog.

Hooch

1000

The Democratic Kampuchea was a genocidal regime that ruled the Cambodian state under one-party Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism. The Khmer this French colour were members of that communist party.

Rouge

1000

This camouflaged outfit is worn by snipers, hunters and soldiers so that they can't be easily detected.

Ghillie suit

1000

Annie Clark is better known by this stage name, also the name of a Caribbean island nation. She was a former member of Sufjan Stevens's touring band 

St Vincent