WORD ORIGINS
A couple of sounds changed places & the German village of Selters became this fizzy liquid
seltzer
Hoosier Hill
Indiana
This type of crane has a bucketlike attachment at the top for carrying a worker
cherrypicker
Will Smith was so smitten with his canine co-star in this 2007 film that he wanted to adopt her
I Am Legend
The very first of these microblogging posts was sent by company cofounder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006
a tweet
Diplomat Jean Nicot introduced tobacco to France in 1560 & this chemical bears his name
NICOTINE
Mount Hood
Oregon
The spot for the center of attention, or a Charlie Chaplin film
limelight
Over 11 total seasons of "The Walking Dead", this "Z" word was surprisingly never used by a character
zombie
To make natural rubber, start by collecting latex by cutting slits in this layer of the rubber tree
the bark
This purplish red color is from the French word for "chestnut"
maroon
Mount Arvon
Michigan
This postseason football game was first played in 1935 to attract winter tourists to Florida
Orange Bowl
Moviegoers were snack-shamed for chewing popcorn too loudly during this mostly silent film directed by John Krasinski
A quite place
A Dutch term for a seller of ineffective medicines led to this word for an incompetent physician
a quack
2 Greek words give us this 10-letter word meaning fear of blood
hemophobia
Mount Whitney
California
the brand of sunscreen you might wear aboard
bannaboat
George Miller had his wife Margaret Sixel edit his 4th installment of this classic post-apocalyptic movie series. Stating that she had never cut an action movie before, and he said if it was edited by "the usual kind of guys, it would look like every other action movie we see." She went on to win an Oscar for her editing work in the film.
Mad Max Fury Road
This word follows Chesapeake, Hudson and Guantanamo in the names of bodies of water
bay
Before it was used for a musical work, this 4-letter word meaning "work" was used by the Romans to designate construction
opus
Guadalupe Peak
Texas
This cluster of small iron balls packed in a canvas tube was once used as a charge for a cannon
grapeshot
In his first-ever TV interview, Cormac McCarthy sat down with Oprah Winfrey after she selected this bleak novel for her book club
The Road
Players of this instrument "are just belligerent, and cocky, and you know just hard-headed" according to Wynton Marsalis
trumpet