RIGHT BACK ATCHA!
BACK-TO-BACK
LYRICAL LEGACY
PRINCIPLES
SAME FIRST NAME
100
According to a common idiom, a camel's back is finally broken by a one of these.
What is a straw?
100
The phrase "spring forward, fall back" is used in Canada and the U.S. to help remember this practice of moving the clocks.
What is daylight savings time?
100
“You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub."
Who is 50 Cent?
100
Between two principles lies the foundations of Taoism. This principle represents positive, active, or male concepts.
What is Yang?
100
Inventor of Aspirin Hoffman, and YouTube personality "PewDiePie" Kjellberg.
Who is Felix?
200
People of this profession include Cam Newton, Matt Ryan, and Aaron Rodgers.
What is a quarterback?
200
The fifth movie, chronologically speaking, in the "Skywalker Saga."
What is The Empire Strikes Back?
200
“God show me the way because the Devil’s tryin’ to break me down
The only thing that I pray is that my feet don’t fail me now."
Who is Kanye West?
200
In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg principle, or this, asserts a limit to the accuracy to which values of a particle can be predicted.
What is the Uncertainty principle?
200
Second king of the United Monarchy of Israel and Judah, and Hasselhoff, the Guinness World Record holder for most watched man on TV
Who is David?
300
When something is on this, it's of relatively little importance, or the section of stove where pots would simmer in low heat.
What is a backburner?
300
Common idioms for knowing locations include know like a book, know backwards and forwards, and know like the backside of this body part.
What is the hand?
300
“I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek
Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet
Thundering, shaking the concrete.”
Who is The Notorious B.I.G.?
300
A principle made in the U.S. Navy, to ensure that engineers designed with simplification in mind. "Keep it simple, stupid."
What is the K.I.S.S. Principle?
300
The Simpsons' Superintendent Chalmers, and co-creator of role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons Gygax.
Who is Gary?
400
University of Maryland's mascot, Testudo, is a terrapin of this variety, named after the pattern on its shell.
What is a Diamondback?
400
The business-equivalent of the mathematical phrase "back of the envelope," used to describe sketching out a quick, rough idea of a business or product.
What is back of the napkin?
400
“Y’all cowards couldn’t rap this dope with a Zig-Zag.”
Who is Shad?
400
This book satirically observed that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence."
What is The Peter Principle?
400
Children's author Seuss Geisel, and co-founder of modern political Zionism Herzl.
Who is Theodor?
500
An actor who stands upstage, forcing the other actors to face him and turn their backs to the audience, in order to draw more attention to himself.
What is a back-cloth star?
500
The remote part of a farm, with originations in the Homestead Acts, akin to backcountry or backwater.
What is back forty?
500
“My life owes me. Like an overdose, I’m slowly
Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me.”
Who is K'Naan?
500
This principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes.
What is the Pareto principle?
500
American actress Brie Schermerhorn, and Pulitzer Prize for fiction winner Lurie.
Who is Alison?