User:SGuySMW/things/41

9156 (Monday 9 September 2024)

• Let's Hit Highway 101: Golden Gate Bridge; Universal Studios Hollywood; Redwood National and State Parks; Olympia, Washington; Hearst Castle
• Pop Goes the Culture: Star Trek, The Last of Us, American Fiction, Pleasantville, Hozier
• Also Known As: Jay-Z, Myanmar, Bailiff, Timur
• Going to Planetary Extremes: Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Saturn, Mercury
• Parenting: reading books to children, spoiling, foster parent
• "Mom" & "Dad": dad joke, soccer mom, Daddy Warbucks, skedaddle, cardamom
• Historic Groups of 3: Santa Maria (ship), Second Roman Triumvirate, NKVD troika, Ancien régime, War of the Pacific
• From the Italian: aria, ditto, belvedere, camerlengo
• "Hy" Five: hybrid, hypothesis, hyacinth, hyperinflation
• Literary Biography: Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character, Thomas Hardy, Chaucer: A European Life, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
• Churches & Cathedrals: Old North Church, St Mark's Basilica, Saint Basil's Cathedral, Manila Cathedral, Aachen Cathedral
• Songs for the Young and Old: My Generation, Gifted & Black, Only The Good Die Young, Young And Beautiful, New Person, Same Old Mistakes
• Famous Women: Madeleine Albright

9157 (Tuesday 10 September 2024)

• 1890s America: Blacksmith, Pledge of Allegiance, Cracker Jack, Clarence Darrow
• 4 of the Same Consonant: Giggling, Knickknack, Hillbilly, Whippersnapper
• Also Known As: National Thesaurus Day, International Talk Like a Pirate Day, National Tater Tot Day / Day of the Crêpe, International Caps Lock Day, National Barbershop Quartet Day
• Celebrities Who Read Aloud: Julianne Moore, Derek Jacobi, Meryl Streep, Patrick Stewart, Patton Oswalt
• The Mafia: Lucky Luciano, John Gotti, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, Donnie Brasco, Omertà
• Islands in the Sea: Saint Barthélemy and St. George's Caye on the Caribbean Sea; Delos, Naxos, and Patmos on the Aegean Sea; Lindisfarne on the North Sea; Nunivak Island and the Pribilof Islands on the Bering Sea; St. Anastasia Island and Giresun Island on the Black Sea
• Arlington National Cemetery: Old Guard, Space Shuttles Columbia and Challenger, 11:00 AM, Rough Riders, Robert Lincoln
• Uncut Jams: Sugar Magnolia (Grateful Dead), All Too Well (Taylor Swift), Crimson and Clover (Tommy James and the Shondells), A Night in Tunisia (the Quintet), Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull)
• Plays and Playwrights: The Mountaintop (Katori Hall), A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry), Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov), Blithe Spirit (Noël Coward), Miss Julie (August Strindberg)
• Mishmash: Gangnam, reindeer, gondola, should old acquaintance be forgot?, Adam Smith
• Dr. Ken: femur, cartilage, phalange
• Will "CU" Now: Curlicue, curb appeal, cutter, Cuisinart, culmination
• Signs & Symbols: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

9158 (Wednesday 11 September 2024)

• Geography: Mount Fuji, Cardiff, Istanbul, Armenia, Cook Strait
• Holy Something!: Moses, fratricide, macaroni, Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, cow
• Books for Kids: Tuck Everlasting, Yertle the Turtle, The Giver, Good Dog, Carl
• Names in the Dictionary: nick, dawn, chuck, dean, mason
• The Environment: solar panel, carbon dioxide, compost, Dust Bowl, watershed
• TV Reruns: The Amazing Race, Black-ish, Fleabag, Beef (series), Pam Dawber
• Presidential Election Losers: Stephen Douglas, Aaron Burr, Al Gore, William Jennings Bryan, Barry Goldwater
• Filmanthropy: The Beautiful Game, Black Panther, Slumdog Millionaire, Hidden Figures, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Ends in "Eau": Juneau, plateau, trousseau, Fontainebleau, portmanteau
• Amazing Animals: blue whale, buzzard, vampire squid, honey badger, hamadryas baboon
• The Dead Sea Scrolls: Second Temple, Psalms, The Wall Street Journal, Aramaic, Huntington Library
• A Few Colorful Words: pitch black, sepia, auburn, iridescent, alabaster
• World Borders: Russia-Kazakhstan border

9159 (Thursday 12 September 2024)

• A Self-Helping of Books: We've Got Issues, Burnout, making your bed, Ego Is the Enemy
• Bear With Us: Yogi Bear, hibernation, polar bear, Callisto, sun bear
• Sporty Idioms: Monday morning quarterback, on the back nine, full-court press, ducks on the pond, Saved by the Bell
• Animated Films in Other Words: locating the captain of the Nautilus, destroy that thing, Mr. Nader, jubilant tootsies, the ferrous leviathan, every canine shows up in Elysium
• The Clash: World War I, Battle of Hastings, Battle of Pelusium, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Zama
• London Calling: London Eye, Eros, Pall Mall, Whitechapel
• Biblical Fathers & Sons: Joseph, Seth, John the Baptist, Solomon, Japheth
• Starts with "K": kindred, kismet, Kevlar, kanji, kelpie
• A Short Course in Chemistry: base, chemical bond, periodic changes, solvent, Antoine Lavoisier
• TV Characters: Rocky Blue, Pam Beesly, Crypt Keeper, Donny Dunn, whoever George Lopez played
• Mountains: Yosemite National Park, Mount Chelia/Aures Mountains/Atlas Mountains, Mount Etna, Carpathian Mountains, Mount Logan
• Job-pourri: chimney sweep, detasseling corn, pinsetter, cutler, The Quarrymen
• Historic Names: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

9160 (Friday 13 September 2024)

• Stately Preceders: Georgia (as in peaches and Georgia O'Keeffe), Tennessee (as in Tennessee Waltz and Tennessee Walking Horse), Michigan (as in Michigan hot dog and Michigan J. Frog), Florida (as in Florida Man and Florida panther/Florida Panthers), California (as in California Dreamin' and California roll)
• Aquatic Animals: angel shark, brine shrimp, Amphiuma, barnacle, clownfish / sea anemone
• A Little Food, A Little Wine: mousse, orange wine, bunny chow, Shiraz, charcuterie
• Sending Out an "S" to "S": spyglass, sinus, Stellantis, sous, salacious
• The Arts: The Thinker, Swan Lake, Peer Gynt, The Magic Flute, The Blue Boy
• New York's Hottest Club Is...: 2007 New York Giants season, 1977 New York Cosmos season, 1998 New York Yankees season, 1968 New York Jets season, 1994 New York Rangers season
• 21st Century Films: Crazy, Stupid, Love / Gangster Squad / La La Land, Minions (2015 film), The Mummy, Free Guy, Crazy Heart
• Countries' Northernmost Points: Cap des Trois Fourches, Morocco; Rossoya Island, Norway; Monte Caburaí, Brazil; Utqiagvik, Alaska / Northwest Angle, Minnesota; Lapche Pass, Nepal
• Only One Vowel: mint, elm, strand, tryst, knight
• We Have History: Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Habsburg Spain, Risorgimento
• potentially inappropriate category
• For You Page: George R.R. Martin's dedication to Phyllis in A Song of Ice and Fire, Celeste Ng's dedication to those out on their own paths setting little fires in Little Fires Everywhere, Nelson DeMille's dedication to Don DeLillo and Joan Didion in Wild Fire
• British Knights: Ringo Starr

9161 (Monday 16 September 2024)

• 1964 Firsts: 1964 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia, 1964 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk(?), Roger Donlon, Judo at the Olympic Games
• Fun with U.S. State Capital Names: Columbus, Ohio / Columbia, South Carolina, Oklahoma City, Tallahassee, Florida, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Frankfort, Kentucky
• 3-Letter Verbs: lap, wax, mug, gut, cox
• All Lies on Me: perjury, The Invention of Lying, false witness, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Balderdash
• Boxing: Claressa Shields, Budd SChulberg / Muhammad Ali, Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano, Tyson Fury, Joe Louis
• Familiar Furniture: chesser (portmanteau of chess and dresser), sectional sofa, club chair, buffet, banquette
• Working from "Home": mobile home dweller, home ice advantage, Homeward Bound, Look Homeward, Angel, Home Secretary
• inappropriate category
• Gone Country: Beyoncé, Lionel Richie, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Kylie Minogue
• Chasing Rainbows: Rainbow Connection, Greyed Rainbow, Swiss chard, Bifröst, Gravity's Rainbow
• Stage Directions in Shakespeare: giving her Desdemona's handkerchief; goneril and Regan's bodies brought out; enter Puck and Bottom with an ass's head; enter Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern; enter the ghost of young Prince Edward to Richard II
• Exits and Entrances: Leonard Warren, Mark Twain, Augustus D. Juilliard, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Eugene O'Neill
• History: USS Maine

9162 (Tuesday 17 September 2024)

• Historical Decisions: Julius Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon
• Philadelphia: Baker Bowl, Mac's Tavern, Rocky Steps, G. Love & Special Sauce, Fairytale Of Philadelphia / Broad Street
• Out There in Radio Land: citizens band radio, pirate radio, Top 40, Stairway to Heaven, SiriusXM
• Hodgepodge: Western Union, Buenos Aires, Halston, Kuiper Belt
• About the Author: Michael Crichton, John Grisham, George Orwell, Amy Tan, James Baldwin
• "Ize" & "Eers": synchronize, Three Musketeers, civilized, seersucker, cryztallize
• First Ladies' First Names: Bess Truman, Lady Bird Johnson, Edith Wilson, Louisa Adams, Ida McKinley
• Placing Some Geography: Santiago, Kalahari Desert, Danube, Walking the Length of Liechtenstein in a Weekend, Tubmanburg
• Short-Titled Films: Cars (film), Salt (film), Hook (film), Them!
• Conversational Vocabulary: chats, gossip columnist, tête-à-tête, rebuttal, interlocutor
• Mythological Bromance: Lancelot / King Arthur, Robin Hood / Little John, Dionysus / Hephaestus, Damon / Pythias, Anubis / Osiris
• Super Hot Fire: flare, Arcade Fire, Duraflame, Gunpowder Plot, Samhain
• Characters in Book Series: Percy Jackson

9163 (Wednesday 18 September 2024)

• Princes & Princesses: Diana, Princess of Wales; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange; Edward the Black Prince; Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria; Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
• Vancouver, B.C.: Rogers Arena / Vancouver Canucks, Amchitka voyage, HMS Discovery (1789), Waterfront station (Vancouver)