Fairy Tales
British History
Trees
Holidays
10-Letter Words
200

“The Ugly Duckling” was autobiographical for this shy author.

Who is Hans Christian Andersen?

200

They’ve been guarding British royalty since 1485 & gin bottles since 1820.

What is Beefeaters?

200

Arboreal symbol of strength.

What is oak?

200

October holiday which Mexicans call dia de la Raza is celebrated in the U.S. as this.

What is Columbus Day?

200

Wrinkled or furrowed, as cardboard or iron.

What is corrugated?

400

When Rapunzel did this, it wasn’t he way of being informal.

What is let down her hair?

400

Founder of the nursing profession, she was named after the city in which she was born.

Who is Florence Nightingale?

400

Of the Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge, or the Tree of Righteousness, the 1 forbidden to Adam.

What is Knowledge?

400

Meaning “removal of meat’ it’s Rio’s 4-day pre-Lenten festival.

What is Carnival?

400

Mercy killing.

What is euthanasia?

600

“Not I” said the duck & the cat & the dog when she asked them, “Who will thresh the wheat”?

Who is The Little Red Hen?

600

First Roman army to invade Britian was led by this general.

Who was Caesar?

600

The cry “sap’s a runnin’” refers to this tree.

What is a maple tree?

600

O. Henry called it the most “purely American” holiday.

What is Thanksgiving?

600

At record companies, it’s what the “R” in “A & R” stands for.

What is repertoire?

800

To become the “Sleeping Beauty”, the princess picked her hand on this part of the spinning wheel.

What is a spindle?

800

The penultimate Anglo-Saxon king, Edward was known by this pious title.

What is Edward the Confessor?

800

Continent on which the densest, tallest & most valuable stand of timber is found.

What is North America?

800

Muslims fast during daylight hours for this entire month.

What is Ramadan?

800

In Latin, rosa, rosae, rosam, for example.

What is declension?

1000

It lay in the house that Jack built.

What is malt?

1000

Though it sounds like a grim volume, it’s just William the Conqueror’s survey of the British kingdom.

What is The Domesday Book?

1000

Hindu for “trader” this unusual tree whose branches grown down can look like a mini-forest.

What is the Banyan?

1000

Until 1752, the 13 colonies observed Annunciation Day, the 25th of this month, as New Year’s.

What is March?

1000

From German for “rear”, it’s the region behind a coast or remote from other cities.

What is hinterland?