14-Letter Words
Fungal Facts
High School History
Starts & Ends with a "T"
Finish the Line: Poetry
200
In arithmetic, this operation yields a "product"
What is multiplication?
200
These prized edible fungi come from the genus Tuber--a sort of reference to where they're often found.
What are truffles?
200
The Spanish Empire is likely responsible for the most complete destruction of an advanced ancient culture in the Aztecs: this man led the charge.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
200
It's a small castle tower or those little talking robotic killers from Portal.
What is a turret?
200
Robert Frost's, "The Road Not Taken" :
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by..."
What is "And that has made all the difference?"
400
It's a comment made that puts things mildly compared to what actually happened.
What is an understatement?
400
A fungus is the culprit in "white nose syndrome", killing more than 6 million of these "blind" animals in North American caves.
What are bats?
400
The Khmer Rouge was a regime that ruled this nation in the 20th century, all the way to 1999 when an insurgency deposed it.
What is Cambodia?
400
It means to test and diagnose a problem you're having with a computer or an appliance & then solve it
What is troubleshoot?
400
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
"Once upon a midnight dreary,
While I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious..."
What is "Volume of forgotten lore?"
600
In the 1950s, the RF-101 was the first supersonic aircraft built for this observational purpose.
What is reconnaissance?
600
Fungi aren't just food to us, just look at these kind of ants who cultivate and eat the fungus that grows on leaves the ants collect.
What are leafcutter ants?
600
As of right now, only 4 US presidents have been assassinated: name 3 of them.
Who are Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy?
600
Don't place your hot dishes directly on the table; put them on this little stand!
What is a trivet?
600
Percy Bysshe Shelley's, "Ozymandias":
"And on the pedestal these words appear —
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings..."
What is "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
800
Rich tech people buying up Oakland homes causes this issue, a focus of the 2018 movie "Blindspotting."Of course, this phenomena happens just about everywhere to a variety of poor neighborhoods.
What is gentrification?
800
The giant type of this mushroom is named for the way it releases spores; it can contain 7 trillion! 
What is a puffball?
800
This famous 5th century A.D. conqueror and mortal enemy to the empires of Central and Eastern Europe was known by some ancient historians as “The Scourge of God,” despite being unable to capture Rome.
Who was Attila the Hun?
800
Mentioned in "A Wrinkle in Time", and as a plot device in Marvel's Avengers, it's a 4-dimensional analogue of a cube, or what Carl Sagan called a hypercube
What is a tesseract?
800
Lewis Carrol's "Jabberwocky":
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun..."
What is "The frumious Bandersnatch?"
1000
In states with no-fault divorce, one partner just has to state a reason things can't work out, such as these "differences."
What is irreconcilable?
1000
LSD was originally created from this fungal disease of cereal grains known to create its own hallucinations
What is ergot?
1000
This Roman Emperor created the Edict of Milan, giving Christianity legal status and a reprieve from persecution...but did not make it the state church of the Roman Empire yet.
Who is Constantine?
1000
From Latin for "to go over", it means passing especially quickly into and out of existence; to be temporary or fleeting.
What is transient?
1000
William Ernest Henley's "Invictus":
"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:"
What is "I am the captain of my soul."