Jeopardy! And the 10 rings
Telling a bedtime story
The Richter Scale
Same First and Last Letter
The Wild West
100

In a book by this man, the hobbit Frodo gets a ring granting invisibility from his cousin Bilbo.

Tolkien

100

A huntsman cuts into a wolf's stomach to let this girl and her grandma escape, but the wolf lives! OK, until the girl kills it using stones.

Little Red Riding Hood

100

Charles Richter developed the first widely used earthquake scale at this Pasadena school of science & engineering

Caltech

100

Prancer & Cupid were famous ones

Reindeer

100

The autobiography of former slave Nat Love tells of his days of "riding, roping, and shooting" as a famous one of these

cowboy

200

"Five golden rings" is a line from this holiday song.

12 days of Christmas
200

Let's thumb through this tale...Title girl swims well, gets human legs, Wait, she kinda dies at the end?

The Little Mermaid

200

The deadliest earthquake ever recorded struck this country's Shaanxi province in 1556

China

200

In 2017 the maximum length of this went from 140 to 280 characters

a tweet

200

The Oregon, Mormon & Old Spanish were famous these via which settlers from points east reached the West

Trails

300

In the late 1990s, Galileo images revealed that this largest planet has a ring made of dust particles.

Jupiter

300

A Seussian home invasion, now that's what he'll do! / He'll mistreat a fish! Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo!

The Cat in the Hat

300

A flatboat pilot said an 1812 quake in Missouri was so powerful it made the waves on this big river run backwards

the mississippi

300

A short bit of praise from a critic or a fellow author on the cover of a book

a blurb

300

Seen here, this vehicle that gave way to the railroad was the subject of many a Western movie

stagecoach

400

As Ernestine the telephone operator on "Laugh-In", she would say, "One ringy-dingy, two ringy dingies"

Lily Tomlin

400

...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm!

Hansel and Gretel

400

A huge earthquake struck this capital of Portugal on All Saints' Day, 1755, killing many at mass in churches built of stone

Lisbon

400

Larry Bird, or currently, Jayson Tatum

Celtic

400

Deadwood is in South Dakota; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Arizona

Tombstone

500

When is was first published in 19922, The Ring called itself "The world's foremost" magazine about this sport.

Boxing

500

Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing... sounds more like Stephen King.

Old Mother Hubbard

500

In 1906 a quake caused by a rupture along this fault devastated San Francisco & other California cities

The San Andreas

500

A fancy design of your initials that you use on stationery or clothing

a monogram

500

Based on this nickname, frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannery must have brought trouble along with her

Calamity Jane