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200

Even out of office, with more than 130 million followers, he gets the vote as the most followed person on Twitter

Obama

200

William Blake wrote about a "Tyger tyger, burning bright, / in the forests of" this

The Night

200

A line from this dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury: "The books leapt & danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze"

Fahrenheit 451

200

Design for living (& working):
REACT THRU ICE

architecture

200

This weekend, you can revisit The Hundred Acre Wood, albeit in a new horror slasher starring this honey-obsessed character after the rights went into the public domain

Winnie the Pooh

400

This saint associated with Christmas has his feast day on December 6

St. Nick (Nicholas)

400

Emma Lazarus wrote "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" to raise funds for the pedestal of this

The Statue of Liberty

400

The title of this Dostoyevsky novel refers to murder & 8 years of hard labor in Siberia. Crime and ________

Crime and Punishment

400

A business class:
KEG ARM TIN

marketing

400

Last night, 1 person was killed and 3 injured in a shooting at a mall in this Texas city, next door to a Walmart where a gunman killed 23 in 2019

El Paso

600

The name of this daily N.Y. Times vocabulary game is actually a play on the name of the software engineer who created it

Wordle

600

Poe used this 3-syllable word 11 times in "The Raven", including as the last word

600

The first Nebula Award winner for Best Novel was this Frank Herbert novel set on the desert planet Arrakis. DESERT POWER!

Dune

600

Sometimes abnormal:
SHY COPY LOG

psychology

600

The Norfolk Southern railway company was a no-show at a public town hall surrounding their toxic chemical spill in this Ohio City (back to back weeks in this category!)

East Palestine

800

Merriam-Webster's unappetizing description of this fermented tea includes "gelatinous mass of symbiotic bacteria"

Kombucha

800

His poem "Jabberwocky" appears in "Through the Looking-Glass", his sequel to "Alice in Wonderland"

Lewis Carroll

800

Locals call Kya the "Marsh Girl" in this recent bestseller by Delia Owens

Where the Crawdads Sing

800

Biofunction junction:
OILY HOG SPY

physiology

800

Jonathan Majors debuts as this Marvel Big Baddie in this weekend's Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania (okay, he was in Loki too but as a variant)

Kang the Conqueror



1000

In 1962, he became the first American (and Ohioan, of course) to orbit the Earth; in 1998, he became the oldest person, at 77, to travel into space


John Glenn

1000

"You may trod me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I'll rise", she wrote


Maya Angelou

1000

From bad to worse in this novel: escaping nuclear war, a plane crashes, killing all the adults; the boys form their own society on an island

Lord of the Flies

1000

What are stars made of? COSY HARPISTS

astrophysics

1000

The City of Columbus filed a lawsuit against these two major car brands (name one) claiming they made vehicles that could be stolen in minutes with a screwdriver and a USB charging cable

Kia and Hyundai