Solar Eclipses
Hey, That's Sharp!
Homophones
Movie to Stage
State License Plate Mottos
100

The sun is approximately this old

4.6 billion years

100

Some of the hatchets she used in her saloon-smashing have been donated to the Kansas historical society

Carrie Nation

100

To enclose a gift box & to rhyme freestyle

to wrap and to rap

100

Songs in this "ogreish" musical include "Donkey Pot Pie" & "Freak Flag"

Shrek

100

"Famous Potatoes"

Idaho

200

This is the date of the next total solar eclipse visible in the lower 48 states of the US

Aug. 23, 2044

200
In Latin America this large, heavy Spanish-named knife is used for cutting sugar cane & clearing underbrush

machete

200

An antlered ruminant & a frothy whipped cream dessert

moose and mousse

200

This film starring Julia Roberts & Richard Gere moved from Beverly Hills to Broadway

Pretty Woman

200

"...on my Mind"

Georgia

300

This is approximately when the sun will transition to the red giant phase

In about 5 billion years

300

It's the title movie object wielded by Leatherface in several films

chainsaw

300
A medieval union & to apply a valuable-looking cover layer

guild and gild

300

This musical centers on a boy from a family of coal miners who wants to be a ballet dancer

Billy Elliot

300

"Land of Lincoln"

Illinois

400

This is the name of the sun's outer atmosphere

Corona

400

Robespierre lost his head on one of these on July 28, 1794

guillotine

400

A wind indicator & part of the circulatory system

vane and vein

400

This musical says it was "lovingly ripped off from the motion picture 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'"

Spamalot

400
"First in Flight"

North Carolina

500

This is the maximum number of solar eclipses that can occur in any given year

Five

500
The Devil's Rope Museum in McLean, Texas is devoted to the history of this material

barbed wire

500

A stage of development and to disconcert or disturb

phase and faze

500

Tina Fey wrote the book for this musical adaptation about surviving high school cliques

Mean Girls

500

"The Spirit of America"

Massachusetts