Big Words
You may call this person a prestidigitator if you want. Or just some dude at a party, pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
What is a magician?
This rough collie worked her way into people's hearts from 1954-1973, usually doing something brave like saving Little Jeff or Little Timmy from falling into a well.
What is Lassie?
This card game has versions known as Klondike, Spider, and FreeCell. You can play all those on your computer. Or, with just a deck of cards, I guess.
What is solitaire?
This is the sound an old fashioned clock is said to make. Its also the name of a short-form video sharing social media application.
What is Tick Tock?
This inventor (initials TAE) set up his Invention Factory in Menlo Park in NY. While electricity had been fun to play with up until New Year's Eve, 1879, until that point, no one had found a way to make it a reliable power source, until he demonstrated his incandescent light bulb for the first time.
Who is Thomas Edison?
An otorhinolaryngologist is a medical doctor who focuses on these three face parts and how they work together
What is Ear, nose and throat?
This Disney movie from 1955 tells the story of two dogs falling in love; he's a streetwise street mutt and she's a pampered cocker spaniel. They find love sharing a noodle on a plate of spaghetti.
This name of this C word card game is Spanish for Basket, this name is fitting because the game involves collecting sets of cards and placing them in a "basket" or pile in front of each player.
What is Canasta?
This word means garish, tasteless or vulgar. Maybe even a little trashy. But it can also be in reference to glue in a craft project that hasn't quite dried yet so is a little sticky.
What is Tacky?
We'd heard bits about this pesky virus starting at the end of 2019, but it didn't fully shut down the world till the middle of March. 2020. On New Year's Eve of that year, we saw the authorizations of the vaccines to combat it.
What is COVID 19?
To Mussitate means to speak through these, with a very tense jaw, often in anger or times of stress.
What are your teeth?
This is an American Western television series syndicated during the 1957–58 television season. It was based upon the life of a late 19th-century engineer in the era of pioneering western railroads.
What is Casey Jones?
In this game, you face off with another player, each with your own deck. The higher card wins the hand. When two cards of the same value face off, you face off with another card from the deck. The winner takes all the cards. The goal is to get all the cards.
What is war?
This is a long narrow sled used for the sport of coasting downhill over snow or ice. It typically is made of a lightweight board that is curved upward and backward at the front.
What is a toboggan?
This country singer and songwriter, born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was born on New Years Eve, 1943. He wrote songs you know, like Rocky Mountain High and Leaving on a Jet Plane.
Tintinnabulation is the big word that symbolizes the noise made by these small instruments or perhaps your telephone. Ringy dingy.
This alliterative TV show for nursery school kids predated Romper Room by a year, when it premiered on NBC in 1952. It was hosted by Frances Horwich, aka Miss Frances, who taught the pre-K set.
This card game, which has names of two different liquors in the title, is a two-person game with the goal of taking the 10 cards you've been dealt and make them into sets or runs.
What is Gin Rummy?
This is a paper strip on which messages are recorded in a telegraphic tape machine. You may also know it in the context of a parade after a big win in sports or war.
What is Tickertape?
This song, written by Neil Diamond and made popular by the Monkees (as well as a Donkey in Shrek) hit the #1 spot on the US pop charts in 1966. Just in case you thought love was just in fairy tales . . .
Sesquipedalian can also be used to describe someone or something that overuses big words. The word Sesquicentennial is used to celebrate this long standing anniversary.
What is 150 years?
This movie,based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families. It was also remade starring Bonnie Hunt and Steve Martin in 2003.
What is Cheaper by the Dozen?
This card game was the first played in space, when the crew of Apollo 7 brought a deck of cards on their mission. It is a member of the family of trick-taking games and is a derivative of whist, which had become the dominant such game and enjoyed a loyal following for centuries.
What is Bridge?
By definition, this word could easily have been a "Big Words" clue as well. But it means "reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little, untalkative."
What is Taciturn?
In 2008, 40,148 fans perform the dance associated with this song while the Village People perform during halftime of the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. They establish a Guinness World record!