AN EXPLOSIVE CATEGORY
THERE'S AN EMOJI FOR THAT
SILENT LETTER BUT DEADLY
COLORS OF THE RAINBOW
MASKS
200

Alfred Nobel added an inert substance to very unstable nitroglycerin to make this more easily handled explosive

Dynamite

200

This primate has 5 emojis, including smiling, hearing no evil, seeing no evil & speaking no evil

Monkey

🐵🐒🙈🙉🙊

200

Mom might let you run with rock or paper, but never with these

Scissors

200

Sad or gloomy

Blue

200


The Medico de la Peste mask was originally worn in the 17th century by a doctor treating victims of this bubonic contagion

Black Plague

400

A paper cylinder holding a weak explosive, or a red, white & blue popsicle brand

Firecracker

400


A person in this seated, cross-legged yoga position

Lotus

🧘🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️

400

Proverbially, you go "under" it when you head into surgery

Under the knife

400

Unseasoned; verdant

Green

400

These 2 antonymic forms of theater are symbolically represented by masks

Comedy and Tragedy

600

It's the term used for the process of destroying a building by using explosives to make it collapse inward on itself

Implosion

600

For Trekkies, there's this gesture favored by Mr. Spock

Live long and prosper

🖖

600

It's a tool & a deadly weapon in a game of Clue & can also mean to twist violently

Wrench

600

Fear of Communists in early 1950s U.S. politics was this "scare"

Red

600


The "Music Of The Night" might surround you when you wear the mask from this musical

Phantom of the Opera

800

The largest explosion in earth's recorded history was from one of these on Indonesia in 1815

Volcano

800

A man in a suit defies gravity & is doing this synonym for floating, from the Latin for "light"

Levitating

🕴️

800

This "d'etat", a sudden forced change in government, can get dangerous fast

Coup

800

A sensational type of journalism

Yellow journalism

800


"The Man in the Iron Mask" was a mysterious unidentified prisoner held in this country in the late 1600s

France

1000

These sudden outbursts of energy on the Sun's surface are the largest explosions in the solar system

Solar flares

1000

Tree choices include evergreen & this type that, by definition, sheds its leaves annually

Deciduous 

🌳

1000

A silent "C" is the second letter of this agricultural implement, Death's symbolic tool of the trade

Scythe

1000

Historically difficult to produce in fabric dyes, and often associated with royalty, luxury, and spirituality.

Violet

1000


In Latin America skull-shaped masks are popular on this holiday, el Dia de Los Muertos

Day of the Dead