An Onamonapia Romance
Colors of the Rainbow
Compound Words
Around the World
Name
100

When I see you, my beating heart does this, like the wings of a black swallowtail as it flies

Flutter

100

Featured in multiple Icelandic sagas, he was exiled from Iceland in the 10th century & set up camp in Greenland

Erik the Red

100

Today, fewer cars have this installed from the factory; you'll pay extra to have one put in to stash your gum wrappers

an Ashtray

100

Unlike its larger neighbor to the west, Switzerland still uses this as its monetary unit

a Franc

100

By the 1910s he had adopted a last name derived from the Russian for steel

Stalin

200

Ah, yes, my dearest, I can't wait to say words of love to you as we "bill &" do this, like pigeons

Coo

200

In 2023, Xolo Maridueña played Jaime Reyes, also known as this multi-limbed DC superhero

the Blue Beettle

200

A giant city edifice stretching toward the heavens, usually with more than 40 or 50 stories

a Skyscraper

200

On this November holiday in Mexico, families gather to celebrate & remember their loved ones who have passed on

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

200

The Apache leader given the name Goyathlay, meaning "one who yawns", took on this name, perhaps the Spanish version of Jerome

Geronimo

300

Darling, they're playing our song, this one by Charli XCX from "The Fault in Our Stars" soundtrack, & the beat goes on & on

"Boom Clap"

300

It was coined in the 1890s to describe the sensational tactics used by NYC newspapers the World & the Journal

Yellow Journalism

300

This condiment can be white if bottled in vinegar or red if bottled in beet juice

Horseradish

300

Part of a British overseas territory, this huge limestone monolith is a habitat for Europe's only wild monkey, the Barbary ape

the Rock of Gibraltar

300

Born Tafari Makonnen, this emperor died in Addis Ababa in 1975

Haile Selassie

400

I desperately await this sound of you at the doorbell; it's the title of a Thoreau poem with "song" as one of the rhymes

"Ding Dong"

400

Judo practitioners should know this term for land where building is prohibited & nature flourishes

a Green Belt

400

Grade No. 10 is the most porous type of this fabric used to strain liquids

Cheesecloth

400

China's longest river, it's also the longest river in Asia

the Yangtze

400

This billionaire was born György Schwartz in Budapest; his family changed their surname to avoid persecution as Jews

George Soros

500

When you ended things between us, it felt like this word that can precede "happy", with you as Moe & me as Larry

Slap

500

In the 1740s growers of this dye plant in South Carolina benefited from government subsidies

Indigo

500

This phosphorescent glow is produced by certain fungi found on decaying wood

Fox Fire

500

You can get a good feeling for Denmark, literally, with a this & happiness tour, this being a Danish concept for coziness & comfort

Hygge

500

This 18th century French writer may have derived his mononym from an anagram of a Latinized version of his surname, Arouet

Voltaire