2-LETTER WORDS
REMEMBER THE 1990s?
N.Y. TV
COMMUNICATION
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST JACKET
200
Dutch for "yes"
ja
200
In the late '90s, this toy from Bandai helped you attempt adulting by raising a digital pet
Tamagotchi
200
He plays Detective Jake Peralta on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Andy Samberg
200
Someone's dead & there's a party & that's all we can say about the plot of this long James Joyce novel
Finnegan's Wake
400
The 2013 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association included a paper on "The Social Meaning of" this word
eh
400
Pentagon employee Linda Tripp secretly recorded phone calls with this friend who discussed an affair with an older man
Monica Lewinsky
400
Think back...back to a simpler time, a time spent with family, watching this actor play NYC ad exec Don Draper
Jon Hamm
400
A popular 21st century communications device was named for this fruit because of its color & the buttons resembling seeds
a BlackBerry
400
Susie in this Alice Sebold novel is already in heaven, but she watches her murderer covering his tracks
The Lovely Bones
600
"Clumsy" in language, castrated in fact, it's a type of draft animal
ox
600
On July 15, 1997 this designer was killed outside his Miami Beach mansion, an event remembered in a 2018 TV event
Gianni Versace
600
Did the rich prep school kid kill that guy? For 20 years, cops like Jerry Orbach said, yeah, probably, on this NBC show
Law & Order
600
In the debate between oralism & manualism, this 2-word type of communication, Thomas Gallaudet was a manualist
sign language
600
Addie is the "I" who not only passes away but decomposes in this Faulkner novel
As I Lay Dying
800
This biblical word is often found before "& behold"
lo
800
Bringing gifts & astronauts, in 1995 the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with this Russian space station
Mir
800
On Netflix & in NYC, Natasha Lyonne dies over & over again on this series
Russian Doll
800
The Chinese Comm. Party's publicity dept. was once called this dept., a more negative word for getting the message out
propaganda
800
Tolstoy wrote "The Death of" this alliterative man whose life had been "most simple and most ordinary
Ivan Iliyich
1000
As an adjective it denotes huge self-interest, like in describing an entire decade
me
1000
This magazine was launched in 1995 with a cover showing Cindy Crawford dressed as our first president
George
1000
In Manhattan, in the '70s, a stretch of 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues was known as this, the title and setting of a Maggie Gyllenhaal HBO show. Note the "2" in 42nd Street.
The Deuce
1000
In the early 2000s 2 software developers sold the file-sharing program Kazaa & then built this video chat product
Skype
1000
In a Steinbeck tale Jody Tiflin kills a buzzard that's come to feast on his "Red" one of these that just died
pony