Musical Instruments
Kangaroo Words
YA Books
Name the Muppet Team
Scrabble Clues R
Popular Music of the 40s and 50s
Do-Gooders
100
This musical instrument is played by pressing it against the side of your face and blowing into the main hole. The other smaller holes on its body can be pressed down on with your fingers to achieve different notes.
The piccolo is the smaller version and tuned to one octave higher.
What is the flute?
100
The kangaroo is EXISTS; this two letter word is the joey.
What is IS?
100
Her diary detailed her harrowing experiences of hiding with her family from Nazis before being sent to a concentration camp. Her story has impacted more generations than perhaps any other book penned by a child. The book was published two years after she died of typhus, still in a concentration camp, when she was 15.
Who is Anne Frank?
100
Who are Kermit and Miss Piggy?
100
(6 letters) to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner.
What is ramble?
100
These brothers, Don and Phil, are known for hits like Wake Up Little Suzie, All I Have to Do is Dream and Bye Bye Love
Who are the Everly Brothers?
100
Harold Lowe, a 29-year-old officer on board this ship, was the only person who returned to the site of the shipwreck to save survivors. Despite fearing that the his boat would be swamped by desperate people and eventually drowned, Lowe turned his boat around and went back, saving as many as six people from the freezing sea
What is the Titanic?
200
Though valve options do exist, this is typically the only brass instrument that uses a slide rather than valves to change the pitch
What is a trombone?
200
The kangaroo is PREMATURELY; the joey is this five letter word.
What is EARLY?
200
SE Hinton's most popular novel, which she started writing at 15 begins "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had two things on my mind. Paul Newman and a ride home. "
Its a book about the class war, from the eyes of teen Greasers in Tulsa OK as they war against the wealthy Socs
What is The Outsiders?
200
Best friends and roommates; perhaps also romantic partners . . .
Who are Ernie and Bert?
200
(5 letters) the chief religious official of a synagogue
What is a rabbi?
200
This popular jazz clarinetist in the 1940's was nicknames the "King of Swing" and influenced modern jazz music
Who is Benny Goodman?
200
He may have been the gangster scourge of Chicago, but this man never forgot where he came from. In 1931, he opened one of the world's first soup kitchens. According to the Chicago Tribune, he served "120,000 meals" to the poor and homeless in the Windy City.
Who is Al Capone?
300
This large wind instrument is used for cultural music by the indigenous people of Australia
What is the didgeridoo?
300
The kangaroo is SUBSTANDARD, the joey is this three letter word.
What is BAD?
300
At age 19 on a dare, this author came up with the idea for Frankenstein and began to write her manuscript. At age 21, she published the haunting novel anonymously, which led everyone to believe her husband wrote the book. It took 100 years to correct the record.
Who is Mary Shelley?
300
These two are named after equipment you might find in a science lab . . . 
Who are Dr Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant, Beaker?
300
(12 letters) This is a type of organized crime in which the persons set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit.
What is racketeering?
300
This was the stage name of the musician born as Ernest Evans, who was most famous for The Twist and its follow up, Let's Twist Again.
Who is Chubby Checker?
300
Project Linus, named for the Peanuts comic strip character and friend of Charlie Brown, donates these items for babies and teens who are ill or dealing with traumatic life events.
What are blankets?
400
Sometimes called a squeeze-box, thin instrument has a bellows in the center with buttons or piano keys on either side. Very popular in mariachi and polka bands
What is the accordion?
400
The kangaroo is CLOSEMOUTHED; this four letter word is the joey
What is MUTE?
400
This is the name of the school of wizardry and witchcraft that Harry Potter and his friends attend. Its motto is "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus" which means "never tickle a sleeping dragon."
What is Hogwarts?
400
These two cantankerous gents are named after two landmark NYC hotels
Who are Statler and Waldorf? After the The Statler Hilton (now the Hotel Pennsylvania) and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
400
(9 letters) Where you go to lay your money down on the ponies.
What is a racetrack?
400
She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano" and "Sway". She also appeared in the movie White Christmas. You may know her nephew George from his stunning film career and dreamy eyes.
Who is Rosemary Clooney?
400
This Albania-born Catholic nun received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 "for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace."
Who is Mother Theresa?
500
Also known as a French harp, mouth harp or mouth organ, this is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. Also the rare instrument that you can fit in your pocket.
What is a harmonica?
500
The kangaroo is: ABNORMALITY. This seven letter word is the joey.
What is ANOMALY?
500
This series by Lucy Maud Montgomery tells the story of a young orphan girl who mistakenly gets taken in by siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who were hoping for a boy who could help work their farm on Prince Edward Island.
What is Anne of Green Gables?
500
This is the house band for the Muppet Show: Dr. Teeth on vocals and keyboards, Animal on drums, Floyd Pepper on vocals and bass, Janice on vocals and lead guitar, Zoot on saxophone, and Lips on trumpet.
Who are Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem?
500
(11 letters) a game similar to handball, played on a four-walled court but with a short-handled, strung implement and a larger, somewhat softer ball.
What is racquetball?
500
Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen . . . so says this performer who found fame with songs like Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally and Rip It Up
Who is Little Richard?
500
On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of World War I, a remarkable thing happened.Soldiers from these two nations began by singing carols across the trenches and eventually left their trenches to share a Christmas meal and time to just be regular people.
What are England and Germany?