Colleges and Universities
"Big" Stuff
Rivers
Animals in Italian
Boning Up
200

This university in New York City was founded as King's College and uses a crown as its logo

What is Columbia University?

200

Jazz musicians and jockeys helped give New York City this nickname

What is the Big Apple

200

As the central river artery, this is one of the world's busiest waterways

What is the Mississippi?

200

Avoid the sting as you tell us that un'ape is this insect

What is a bee?
200

The name of this condition that affects mostly women literally means "porous bone"

What is osteoporosis?

400

One of the Ivy League colleges, this one is alphabetically first

What is Brown?
400

If you are under this, you are at the circus

What is the Big Top?

400

Although its ultimate source is still debated, this river flows into the Atlantic

What is the Amazon?

400

If you're called un asino, you're either a fool, or this animal

What is a donkey?

400

This fatty substance inside the bone is a major site of blood cell production

What is marrow?

600

Due to a fire in 1764, few books exist from its original library established around 1638

What is Harvard?

600

Digit also known and the hallux

What is the big toe?

600

From two small sources, this river flows to the North Sea

What is the Rhine?
600

That is the scariest ragno, one of these, I have ever seen! Don't tell Signorina Muffet

What is a spider?

600

Humans have false ribs which are named this way because they do not attach to this breastbone

What is the sternum?
800

This is the youngest school in the Ivy League

What is Cornell?

800

In France this feature of the night sky is known as "le casserole"

What is the Big Dipper?
800

Flowing westward, this river has a drainage basin that covers seven states

What is the Colorado?
800

Un cane is this, ready for a walk?

What is a dog?

800

This bone with a ball and socket joint is about 1/4 of your height

What is the femur?

1000

This is the nickname of the University of Oregon's athletic teams

What are the Ducks?
1000

This theory is the prevailing cosmological model explaining the existence of the observable universe

What is the Big Bang Theory?

1000

The head of this river is dry for much of the year and flows to an estuary on the North Sea

What is the Thames?

1000

Una capra is one of these farm animals

What is a goat?

1000

The smallest bones in the body are found here

What is the ear?