Same Word, Different Meaning
Squash
Connecticut History
Board Games
COVID-19
100

A piece of sports equipment OR A winged Mammal

What is a Bat?

100

Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow ball made of this.

What is Rubber?

100

This was the only NHL team to ever call Connecticut home.

What are the Whalers?

100

A fact that serves as an aid in a task or problem, a "hint."

What is Clue?

100

On January 30, of what year, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an outbreak of a “public health emergency of international concernexternal icon”

What is 2020?

200

A racket sport OR A type of fruit.

What is Squash?

200

Squash played an important role to the Native Americans, and even during this feast, now a national holiday.

What is Thanksgiving?

200

On July 6, 1944, a devastating fire, one of the worst in American History, occurred during a performance of this famous circus company, killing almost 200 people and sending 700 more to the hospital.

What is Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus?

200

This is the exclusive control of the supply of or trade in a specific industry.

What is Monopoly?

200

Originating in this city in central China, the coronavirus disease has now spread to almost every country in the world.

What is Wuhan, China?

300

The solid surface of earth OR A punishment for a misbehaving child

What is Ground?

300

TRUE OR FALSE: Pumpkins are Squash

What is True?

300

This city in the center of the state was established in 1635, and named after a city near London that was home to Reverend Samuel Stone.

What is Hartford?

300

Feeling regretful, sympathetic, distressful, or pitiful.

What is Sorry?

300

Because the Coronavirus is so similar to this common virus, the symptoms are very similar, and they are hard to tell apart.

What is the Flu?

400
A category of people or things OR To write something on a computer by pressing keys

What is Type?

400

There are five domesticated species of squash, including C. Pepo (Pumpkins, Zucchini, and Spaghetti Squash),  C. Maxima (Banana Squash), C. Ficifolia (Fig-leaf Gourd), C. Argyrosperma (Japanese Pumpkin) and this sweet tasting squash often roasted, or made into soup.

What is Butternut Squash? (C. Moscbata)

400

This puritan minister, along Governor John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, led and about 100 men into Hartford, establishing Connecticut Colony.

Who is Thomas Hooker?

400

The existence of an individual human being or animal.

What is Life?

400
"COVID19" Actually stands for this.

What is COrona VIrus 2019?

500

A social division of people or things having some attribute in common OR A group of students

What is a Class?

500

Competition matches are typically played best out of this many games.

What is 5 games?

500

This is Connecticut's Latin motto, represented on the state seal and flag.

What is Qui Transtulit Sustinet? (He who transplants will sustain)

500

A process in math, in which a number, is altered or manipulated according to formal rules, such as those of addition, multiplication, and differentiation.

What is Operation?

500

The CDC says that the COVID-19 originated from this animal.

What is a bat?