OBSERVANCES & HOLIDAYS
RHYME TIME
COLLECTIBLES
COMMON NAMES FOR MEDICAL TERMS
SAME VOWEL
FOR A DOLLAR NAME A WOMAN
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A Final Jeopardy! question reads "The third Monday of January starting in 1986", referring to this U.S. holiday.
What is Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
(This seems a little easy, until you realize it was from the first Jeopardy! episode featuring Alex Trebek, in 1984)
200
The inability to get started on something because you're worried about too many possibilities.
What is analysis paralysis?
200
These understuffed toy animals are credited with being the first internet fad, and were sometimes purchased anticipating a high resale value.
What are Beanie Babies?
200
Patella.
What is the kneecap?
200
(-A-A-A-A-A) Before Taylor Swift, "Cruel Summer" was a hit song from this 1980s band.
What is Bananarama?
200
Her likeness has been on dozens of coins and banknotes across England, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
400
Lunar New Year celebrations in this Asian country, during which families visit graves, clean their houses, and eat together, is called Tết.
What is Vietnam?
400
A very large mushroom.
What is a humongous fungus?
400
Tyler the Great Warrior and Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon are highly sought-after in this trading card game.
What is Yu-Gi-Oh?
400
Contusion.
What is a bruise?
400
(U-U-U) Ayer's Rock, in the Western Australian Desert, is better known by its aboriginal name.
What is Uluru?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
This black woman, honoured on Canadian $10 bills, started her own beauty school in Halifax, NS.
600
Sechseläuten is a spring holiday in Zürich that ends with the exploding of the Böögg, an effigy in the form of this well-known wintertime sculpture.
What is a snowman?
(Thanks to Michael Rogenmoser)
600
Instead of your teeth, it's this person installing your braces that has turned yellow, and it could be a sign of liver disease.
What is a jaundiced orthodontist?
600
Get your tweezers! Philately is the collection and study of these small images.
What are postage stamps?
600
Otalgia.
What is an earache?
600
(-O--- -O-- , -O-O--O) A Tenstorrent office, the Joseph Shepard building, and the Aga Khan Museum are in this district of a famous Canadian city.
What is North York, Toronto?
600
Winner of the Nobel Prize for her research in radioactivity, this Polish scientist has been on the French 50 Euro cent coin since 2024.
Who is Marie Curie?
800
This Serbian observance, in which families celebrate their patron saint, was inscribed into the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2014.
What is Слава (Slava)?
(Thanks to Luka Šilobad)
800
An absolutely necessary part of a vehicle's drive train that makes the outer wheel spin faster when turning.
What is an essential differential?
800
Don't you dare use one for eating! These collectibles, often made of silver, were once popular souvenirs to bring home from your travels.
What are (collectible) spoons?
800
"AC", or Ante Cibum.
Before meals.
800
(I--I-I- -I-I--) Fatty foods with little taste.
What are insipid lipids?
800
This women's rights pioneer, suffragist, and abolitionist appeared on US dollar coins in 1979-1981, and then again in 1999.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
1000
This yearly Tamil festival is named after the word for "overflowing", which is also the name of the dish shown here, consisting of rice being boiled with milk and jaggery.
What is Pongal?
(image from the wikipedia page, user Thagadooran)
1000
Uh oh! This pale whale got lost and is now off the coast of a Haïtian city!
What is a Tortuga beluga?
1000
This collectible milkcap game that swept the world in the 90s derives its name from a tropical juice drink that included passionfruit, orange, and guava.
What is pog?
(Adapted from j-archive)
1000
Tinea Pedis.
What is athlete's foot?
1000
(-Y-Y-Y --Y---) A cadence of regularly-occurring planetary alignments.
What is a syzygy rhythm?
1000
The Day of the Colombian Woman is held on the anniversary of her death, and she has appeared on the of Colombian 10000 peso note.
Who is Policarpa Salavarrieta?