Dirty 4-letter Words
The Weather
"Like" A Song
Rivers of the World
State License Plate Mottos
200

Material that makes up an unwanted "bunny" under your bed

What is dust?

200

One of these can travel at a third the speed of light & heat the air in its path to more than 50,000 degrees

What is a lightning bolt?

200

The Steve Miller Band soared with this Top 10 hit way back in 1977

What is "Fly Like an Eagle?"

200

The Amazon River begins not in Brazil but with headwaters in this western South American country

What is Peru?

200

This state "...on my Mind"

What is Georgia?

400

On iron, it's mainly hydrated ferric oxide

What is rust?

400

During Florida summers, some say "it's not the heat, it's" this: the quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere

What is humidity?

400

The Bangles instructed us all with this 1986 hit that was fit for a pharaoh

What is "Walk Like An Egyptian?"

400

The region where this California "capital" river meets the American River was the scene of the state's 1849 gold rush

What is the Sacramento?

400

"Land of Lincoln"

What is Illinois?

600

In 1905, Dr. H.A. des Voeux coined this portmanteau for the air pollution created by the Industrial Revolution

What is smog?

600

The size of these frozen rain pellets range in size from pea-sized to grapefruit-sized

What is hail?

600

Nirvana reached the charts for the first time in 1991 with this grunge anthem

What is "Smells Like Teen Spirit?"

600

In troubled Venezuela, many have scoured the polluted waters of the Quaire/Cuara River in this capital in search of anything of value

What is Caracas?

600

"First in Flight"

What is North Carolina?

800

Chimney sweeps know this word for fine black particles resulting from incomplete combustion

What is soot?

800

For a B.S. degree in this -ology, you have to take courses like weather forecasting & climate dynamics

What is meteorology?

800

This parody of a Madonna song operated well for Weird Al in 1985

What is "Like A Surgeon?"

800

The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire in this state helped spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities, resulting in the Clean Water Act

What is Ohio?

800

"Sportsman's Paradise"

What is Louisiana?

1000

A trademarked degreasing solvent gave us this word for a thick greasy substance

What is gunk?

1000

Latin for "cloud," this large gray type of cloud tends to indicate rain on the way

What is nimbus?

1000

The title of this 2011 single by Selena Gomez & The Scene mentions the kind of song it is

What is "Love You Like A Love Song"?

1000

Follow all 3,900 miles of China's Yangtze River to the East China Sea & you'll wind up in this metropolis

What is Shanghai?

1000

"Unbridled Spirit"

What is Kentucky?