HODGEPODGE
THERE'S THE RUB
I'LL HAVE SECONDS
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
FARMING
100
The center of this dense cosmic body is called a singularity
blackhole
100
Often made of felt, these classroom mainstays were clapped outside after a vigorous rub inside
erasers
100
The second of Henry VIII's wives, she was the mother of Elizabeth I
Anne Boleyn
100
In "And Tango Makes Three", based on a true story, 2 of these male flightless birds are given a chick to raise at a zoo
a penguin
100
The hard red spring type of this is a specialty of North Dakota; further south in Kansas is where they grow the hard red winter type
wheat
200
In 2021 Facebook rebranded itself with this 4-letter name & an infinity-shaped logo
Meta
200
These 4 syllables begin the nursery rhyme about the trio seen here
Rub a dub dub
200
There's a proverbial saying: "The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is..."
now
200
A picture book from 2013 tells of "The Day" these drawing implements "Quit"; blue is tired of only being used on bodies of water
crayons
200
Driving 20-ton vehicles on farmland can mean that the next year you'll get "stuck in" one of these, defined as a wheel track 3" deep
a rut
300
Pumpernickel can get its color from this thick brown syrup that comes from raw sugar
molasses
300
Crickets make their trademark chirp by rubbing these together--stridulation is the scientific term
their wings
300
The second Monday in October is Columbus Day as well as this day that honors America's first inhabitants & tribal nations
Indigenous Peoples' Day
300
E.B. White wrote that this character "had ...a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers"
Stuart Little
300
ay Sommers, who created this '60s sitcom about retreating to the rural, hated hoeing as a kid on a farm in Greendale, N.Y.
Green Acres
400
To paint this June 1876 battle, artist Edgar Paxson interviewed some of the Native Americans who fought in it
Little Bighorn
400
This phrase means to make something worse; I prefer iodized for my enemies
to rub salt into wounds
400
An Ivy League school was named for British statesman William Legge, the Second Earl of this
Dartmouth
400
A.A. Milne adapted this children's book for the stage & renamed it "Toad of Toad Hall"
The Wind in the Willows
400
Since 2002 the European Union has said you can't feed swill, waste food that includes meat, to these animals
pigs
500
In 1983 the league of Red Cross Societies added this other shape to its name to reflect its work in Muslim countries
a crescent
500
In surrealist terms, fumage was making images with smoke; this similar French-derived term was making them by rubbing
frottage
500
The second president to die in office; it was later confirmed he died of natural causes & not by poisoning
Zachary Taylor
500
Huckle Cat & Lowly Worm are just 2 of the inhabitants of the busy, busy world of this author & illustrator
Richard Scarry
500
Heinz sauces--er, sources--ketchup tomatoes from this state's vast & fertile Central Valley
California