NOT QUITE OLDIES
This 2014 song by Taylor Swift begins with the line “I stay out too late, got nothing in my brain.”
What is Shake It Off?
Raptors are birds of prey that hunt with these sharp curved claws.
What are talons?
These three pigments traditionally form the primary colors for subtractive mixing in painting.
What are red, yellow, and blue?
This punctuation mark ends most declarative sentences.
What is a period?
This Central American country’s flag contains more colors than any other national flag because of its detailed coat of arms.
What is Belize?
This Nickelodeon show about helpful rescue dogs led by Ryder uses the motto “No job is too big, no pup is too small.”
What is PAW Patrol?
The 2011 Adele album that includes “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone Like You.”
What is 21?
This large North American raptor is also the national bird of the United States.
What is the bald eagle?
This street artist from the United Kingdom became famous for politically charged stencil graffiti and remains anonymous.
Who is Banksy?
This mark shows possession in a phrase like “the teacher’s desk.”
What is an apostrophe?
The highest mountain above sea level on Earth.
What is Mount Everest?
This animated PBS Kids show follows a curious girl who learns about science with her pet cat, Squeeks.
What is Nature Cat?
This hip hop duo released the 2003 hit “Hey Ya!”
Who are OutKast?
This NBA team won its first championship in 2019.
What is Toronto Raptors?
This wooden frame holds canvas tightly so painters can work on it.
What is a stretcher frame?
This punctuation mark separates items in a list.
What is a comma?
The longest river in the world, traditionally measured from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
This animated series about a blue puppy and her family became a worldwide hit after premiering in 2018.
What is Bluey?
The 2004 album American Idiot made this punk band into a Broadway musical phenomenon.
What is Green Day?
Raptors have exceptional eyesight that allows them to spot prey from these great distances in the sky.
What are high altitudes?
This gray tool removes graphite or charcoal from paper without damaging it.
What is a kneaded eraser?
This punctuation mark connects closely related independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
The largest ocean on Earth by surface area.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This educational PBS Kids show features a young Latina girl exploring science with her friends and her grandma.
What is Rosie’s Rules?
This 1991 Nirvana lead singer helped launch the mainstream success of grunge music.
Who is Kurt Kobain?
Fans at Scotiabank Arena can enjoy this classic Canadian dish of fries topped with cheese curds and gravy.
What is poutine?
This ancient pigment produced a brilliant blue used in Renaissance paintings.
What is lapis lazuli?
This mark introduces a list, explanation, or quotation.
What is a colon?
With 37 officially recognized languages, this country holds the world record for the most official languages.
What is Bolivia?
In this Disney Junior series, a young princess learns leadership and kindness in the kingdom of Avalor.
What is Elena of Avalor?
Pharrell Williams released this extremely upbeat song in 2013 for the film Despicable Me 2.
What is Happy?
This owl species, one of the largest raptors, is known for ear like feather tufts.
What is the great horned owl?
In printmaking, this tool used to carve linoleum blocks shares its name with a type of woodworking chisel.
What is a gouge?
These marks indicate that a word or phrase is being quoted directly.
What are quotation marks?
The largest desert on Earth.
What is Antarctica?
This PBS Kids show features Molly Mabray, an Alaska Native girl who shares stories and traditions from her village.
What is Molly of Denali?
This 2008 Beyoncé song tells listeners that if a partner liked it, he should have put a ring on it.
What is Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)?
This falcon, the fastest animal on Earth, can exceed 200 miles per hour during its hunting dive called a stoop.
What is the peregrine falcon?
Unlike traditional watercolor, this paint contains added chalk or pigment to create a flat, opaque finish.
What is gouache? (gwash)
These three dots indicate omitted words or a trailing thought.
What is an ellipsis?
The coldest place on Earth, where temperatures have been recorded below −89°C.
What is Vostok Station, Antarctica?
This animated Disney Junior series about a team of young Jedi training on Tenoo introduces preschoolers to the Star Wars universe.
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures
The 2015 Kendrick Lamar album widely praised for blending jazz, funk, and hip hop.
What is To Pimp a Butterfly?
Falcons, hawks, and eagles all belong to this biological class of birds.
What is Aves?
Brushes made from this animal’s tail hair are prized by watercolor artists for their softness and ability to hold large amounts of water.
What is sable?
Named for a typographic unit equal to the width of the letter M, this punctuation mark signals interruption or emphasis in a sentence.
What is an em dash?
The wettest place on Earth, famous for receiving more than 11 meters of rain per year on average.
What is Mawsynram, India?
This Disney Channel animated series follows stepbrothers who spend every summer day building wild inventions while their sister Candace tries to bust them.
What is Phineas and Ferb?
This 1997 song by the Spice Girls repeats the famous line “Tell me what you want, what you really really want.”
What is Wannabe?
This Raptors player from Cameroon became NBA MVP in 2023 after starting his career in Toronto.
Who is Pascal Siakam?
This contemporary American artist is known for painting people of color in poses borrowed from classical European portraiture.
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
This rarely used punctuation mark combines a question mark and an exclamation point.
What is an interrobang?
The oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, often cited in archaeological records for over 10,000 years.
What is Jericho?
This Nickelodeon character lives in a pineapple under the sea and works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab.
Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?