A DAY OF POP CULTURE

$800

Season 12 of this show was on at the gym & I watched Gigi Goode sashay on the runway.

NUMB WITH NUMBERS

$1,000

A pound & a half of coffee costs $480, so it’s this much per ounce.

HISTORIC POTPOURRI

$600

This first permanent English settlement in America was named for a king across the pond.

ALLITERATIVE PHRASES

$200

Ordinal term for Joe, Jill, Ashley & Hunter, though they don’t all live in the White House.

SCARY STORIES

$1,200

A dead girl observes her family, friends & killer in this 2002 bestseller by Alice Sebold, later a movie.

 IT’S JUST ABOUT TIME

$1,200

Often a dubious purchase, it gives you peace of mind for a longer time & is also called a service contract.

 IT’S JUST ABOUT TIME

$400

Playbill says this period lasts 10 to 15 minutes.

THE 19TH CENTURY

Wagered $3,000 (LOST)

An 1873 book title gave us this phrase for the period in the late 1800s of growth & prosperity & also greed & corruption..

_ OR _

$1,000

Robert Burns wrote, “Liberty’s in every blow, let us” this, meaning succeed at all costs.

& NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

$400

These doglike carnivores weren’t “laughing” so much after losing a 1999 war with lions in Ethiopia.

CAREER IN TECH 

$400

(From Sundar Pichai of Google) This type of degree produces leaders who have grit & adaptability & can analyze systems, like Bill Hewlett (electrical, Stanford) & me (metallurgical & materials, IIT Kharagpur).

_ OR _

$200

The Scottish & Irish custom of guising, dressing in costume & getting rewards, was a predecessor of this activity.

A PLACE WITH DIRECTION

$200

It’s about 450 miles away from Greenland, & the magnetic one is on the move, heading toward Russia.

LYRICS TO REMEMBER

$1,600

This singer: “Don’t show up, don’t come out, don’t start caring about me now, walk away, you know how.”

THE 18TH CENTURY

$400

In 1781 Felipe de Neve had trouble recruiting settlers to found this city despite promising them TV gigs & a Bel Air house-sit.

LYRICS TO REMEMBER

$800

This group in 2009: “I gotta feeling (woo-hoo) that tonight’s gonna be a good night … that tonight’s gonna be a good, good night.”

PITHY WORDS &I’m  PHRASES

$1,200

This group in 2009: “I gotta feeling (woo-hoo) th If fashion is your “bag,” use this designer name when you want to say something is “great” or “going well.”

WE’VE GOT THE BLUES

$800

Crayola crayons in the blue family include azure, baby & this shade that’s also a gemstone associated with the U.S. Southwest.

WE’VE GOT THE BLUES

$400

In 1798 this military branch introduced an early version of its iconic dress blue uniform.

 PITHY WORDS & PHRASES

$2,000

If something is meh, you might say this French phrase, literally “like this, like that.”

LYRICS TO REMEMBER

$400

This septet: “So I’ma light it up like dynamite, whoa, dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, ayy.”

MYTHIC CONSTELLATIONS

$800

Leo is a lion—& not just any lion, but the Nemean one slain by this hero.

MYTHIC CONSTELLATIONS

$400

This constellation depicts the creature that fatally stung Orion.

THE PERIODIC TABLE

$4000 (LOST)

By 1890, discoveries of 3 “nationalist elements” filled table gaps: scandium in Sweden, Germanium in Germany, this in France.

A MINOR IN HISTORY

$200

Enrique Esparza was about 8 on March 6, 1836 & a witness who would “remember” the battle at this mission for decades; Enrique died in 1917.

ABBREV.

$400

On the clock in Denver: MST.

ABBREV.

$600

Let the games begin.

BETWEEN 10 & 20

$600

When writing a haiku, you must use this many syllables.

BETWEEN 10 & 20

$1,000

Developed by chemist Willard Libby, this method named for an isotope is used to date fossils.

DON’T BE SO THIRSTY

$600

A dark mustache on a BYU student may indicate she’s been drinking this, the most popular beverage sold there after water.

ESPN

$400

 I graduated from Harvard, a school that has produced some great sportswriters, like David Halberstam, and some great athletes, like this NBA guard who has spoken out against anti-Asian violence.

ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES

$2,000

James McAvoy struggles with 23 personalities.

20TH CENTURY BOOKS

$1,200

The title structure of this Virginia Woolf novel is across the bay from the Ramsays’ house on the Isle of Skye.

RELIGION

$1,200

In the King James version of the Lord’s Prayer, they’re the 4 words that follow “Our father which art in heaven.”

“TIC” TALK (Words That End in “Tic”)

$400

This type of electricity will lead to the shocking result seen here.

“TIC” TALK (Words That End in “Tic”)

$1,600

From a Greek word for “to select”, it can describe one’s taste in music if they like rap, classical & salsa.

“TIC” TALK (Words That End in “Tic”)

$2,000

It was bad to be deemed this, one who went against the medieval Catholic Church, like Knights Templar leader Jacques de Molay.

HISTORIC STRUCTURES

Wagered $11,000

In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape.

FINE ARTS

A 1920s trip to France inspired him to compose “An American in Paris.”

COMMENCEMENT

$600

This Cleveland museum opened its doors September 2, 1995 & celebrated with a concert.

THE 1920s

$200

It was all the rage & musicians like Louis Armstrong & Bix Beiderbecke made the 1920s its “Age.”

ALL SORTS OF BOOKS

$600

A tale of immigrants from Africa is Imbolo Mbue’s “Behold” these people, also a term for DACA recipients.

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

$400

At Swans Trail Farm in Snohomish, Washington, the whole family can enjoy picking these from trees.

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

$600

On a summer day, you’re not too old to run through these, such as the oscillating type.

NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS

$1,200

With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, he became the second-oldest member of the Supreme Court.

DOUBLE LETTERS WITHIN

$400

A flapping of an insect’s wings, or your eyelashes.

DOUBLE LETTERS WITHIN

$1,600

Enriching a treasury is “filling” these, with the same derivation as a place to put the dead.

DOUBLE LETTERS WITHIN

$2,000

The art of training a horse in precise movements, perhaps to prepare for a competition.

HORROR FILMS

$400

Ewan McGregor plays a grown-up Danny Torrance in “Doctor Sleep”, the sequel to this 1980 classic.

DOCTOR

$400

The title femme of this Flaubert novel is married to a country doctor named Charles.

DOCTOR

Wagered $8,400

In 1793 a French clergyman called the destruction of libraries & sculptures this, using the name of a 5th century tribe.