THE IVY LEAGUE
LANDMARKS FOR SALE
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
SPORTSTALK

2B OR NOT 2B
(Each correct response here will be two words identical except that one has an extra letter "B".)
100

It was founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island

Brown

100

It cost $1.5 million to build by 1889 but now can be yours! We'll even throw in its antenna! Say oui to this while you can!

the Eiffel Tower
100

We don't see what was so good about this 2-word term for the worldwide 1930s economic disaster

the Great Depression

100

Roll out,
draw play,
yard marker

Football

100

Crumbled rock /
Russian currency

Rubble/Ruble

200

Its official street address is 2960 Broadway

Columbia

200

151 feet tall, Manhattan adjacent, it comes with 29-foot reading lamp attached!

the Statue of Liberty

200

Both pleasant & painful, as in a memory

Bittersweet

200

Stroke play,
wood,
shank

Golf

200

One who tells lies /
moral toughness & character

Fibber/Fiber

300

Its sports teams are known as the Bulldogs

Yale

300

4,500 years old, its royal headdress of limestone makes it the finest in noseless architecture!

the Sphinx

300

Alliterative 2-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops

Friendly fire

300

Rubber,
rundown,
slider

Baseball

300

Speech that's too fast to understand / the end of a pitched roof

Gabble/Gable

400

Its school color is crimson & that's the veritas

Harvard

400

You'll take "El Gigante", a 72-foot one of the Moai, or stone statues on this island? Great, now let's talk shipping

Easter Island

400

2-word term for something supposedly confidential but actually known quite generally

Open secret

400

Striker,
throw-in,
marking

Soccer

400

A fun activity in "hot" water / a fun activity in fast-running rivers

Tubbing/Tubing

500

You'll find this school in Hanover, population roughly 10,000

Dartmouth

500

Sure, it's 1,815 feet tall, but its elevators can rise at 20 feet per second! You'll be home in Toronto in no time!

the CN tower

500

This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "advanced"

Basic

500

Red light,
mucking,
penalty killer

Hockey

500

A British slang term meaning "swindle" / a British aristocrat such as a duke

Nobble/Noble