[ { "id": "MWI-0001", "category": "Hollywood Movies", "clue": "A dream within a dream", "hint": "A 2010 Christopher Nolan heist film with a spinning top.", "answer": "INCEPTION", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0002", "category": "US Geography", "clue": "The Windy City", "hint": "Home of Wrigley Field and deep-dish pizza.", "answer": "CHICAGO", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0003", "category": "Tech Icons", "clue": "Fruit-named maker of the iPhone", "hint": "Founded in a Los Altos garage in 1976.", "answer": "APPLE", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0004", "category": "Space", "clue": "The Red Planet", "hint": "Fourth planet from the Sun, home of Olympus Mons.", "answer": "MARS", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0005", "category": "Sports", "clue": "America's pastime", "hint": "Played on a diamond with nine innings.", "answer": "BASEBALL", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0006", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Italian pie born in Naples", "hint": "Margherita is a classic version.", "answer": "PIZZA", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0007", "category": "US History", "clue": "Its bell cracked in Philadelphia", "hint": "Also the name of the famous statue in New York Harbor.", "answer": "LIBERTY", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0008", "category": "Music", "clue": "Instrument with 88 keys", "hint": "Grand or upright — Beethoven composed for it.", "answer": "PIANO", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0009", "category": "Animals", "clue": "National bird of the USA", "hint": "The bald one appears on the Great Seal.", "answer": "EAGLE", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0010", "category": "Science", "clue": "The dense center of an atom", "hint": "Contains protons and neutrons.", "answer": "NUCLEUS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0011", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Captain Ahab's white obsession", "hint": "Moby Dick was one of these giant sea mammals.", "answer": "WHALE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0012", "category": "Hollywood Movies", "clue": "Ship that met an iceberg in 1912", "hint": "James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster: \"I'm the king of the world!\"", "answer": "TITANIC", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0013", "category": "US Geography", "clue": "The Grand Canyon State", "hint": "Its capital is Phoenix.", "answer": "ARIZONA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0014", "category": "Tech Icons", "clue": "Search engine that became a verb", "hint": "Its name comes from a very large number: 10^100.", "answer": "GOOGLE", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0015", "category": "Weather", "clue": "A rotating column of air touching the ground", "hint": "Dorothy rode one to Oz.", "answer": "TORNADO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0016", "category": "Holidays", "clue": "Spooky celebration on October 31", "hint": "Jack-o’-lanterns and trick-or-treating.", "answer": "HALLOWEEN", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0017", "category": "World Geography", "clue": "Earth's largest ocean", "hint": "Hawaii sits right in the middle of it.", "answer": "PACIFIC", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0018", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Greek king of the gods", "hint": "He ruled from Mount Olympus and threw thunderbolts.", "answer": "ZEUS", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0019", "category": "Board Games", "clue": "Kings, queens, and checkmate", "hint": "Played on 64 black and white squares.", "answer": "CHESS", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0020", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "The organ that pumps your blood", "hint": "It has four chambers and beats ~100,000 times a day.", "answer": "HEART", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0021", "category": "Hollywood Movies", "clue": "A great white terrorizes Amity Island", "hint": "\"You're gonna need a bigger boat.\"", "answer": "JAWS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0022", "category": "Nature", "clue": "California's towering giants", "hint": "Tallest trees on Earth, named for their reddish bark.", "answer": "REDWOOD", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0023", "category": "Tech Icons", "clue": "Electric carmaker named after an inventor", "hint": "Nikola was the inventor’s first name.", "answer": "TESLA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0024", "category": "Math", "clue": "A polygon with three sides", "hint": "Its interior angles always add up to 180°.", "answer": "TRIANGLE", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0025", "category": "US Landmarks", "clue": "Four presidents carved in South Dakota granite", "hint": "Mount ________.", "answer": "RUSHMORE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0026", "category": "Colors", "clue": "The traditional color of royalty", "hint": "Mix red and blue to make it.", "answer": "PURPLE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0027", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "The Wright brothers' famous creation", "hint": "First flew at Kitty Hawk in 1903.", "answer": "AIRPLANE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0028", "category": "Music", "clue": "Genre born in New Orleans", "hint": "Louis Armstrong made it swing.", "answer": "JAZZ", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0029", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Breakfast stack drowned in syrup", "hint": "Also called flapjacks or hotcakes.", "answer": "PANCAKES", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0030", "category": "Science", "clue": "The force that keeps your feet on the ground", "hint": "Newton's falling apple made him think about it.", "answer": "GRAVITY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0031", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Nocturnal bird that hoots and can swivel its head about 270 degrees.", "hint": "In stories it is often portrayed as wise, and a group of them is called a parliament.", "answer": "OWL", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0032", "category": "Geography", "clue": "The largest hot desert in the world, stretching across North Africa.", "hint": "Its name comes from the Arabic word for 'desert', and camels are its classic travelers.", "answer": "SAHARA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0033", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Ring-shaped bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.", "hint": "A New York deli favorite, often served with cream cheese and smoked salmon.", "answer": "BAGEL", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0034", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "A word or phrase that reads the same forwards and backwards, like 'racecar'.", "hint": "'A man, a plan, a canal: Panama' is a famous example.", "answer": "PALINDROME", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0035", "category": "Space", "clue": "The planet best known for its spectacular, bright ring system.", "hint": "It is the sixth planet from the Sun and is named after the Roman god of agriculture.", "answer": "SATURN", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0036", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "The framework of 206 bones in an adult human.", "hint": "It gives your body its shape and protects your organs; plastic ones are popular Halloween decorations.", "answer": "SKELETON", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0037", "category": "U.S. Places", "clue": "The largest U.S. state by area, purchased from Russia in 1867.", "hint": "It is home to Denali, the tallest mountain in North America.", "answer": "ALASKA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0038", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Small program you download onto a smartphone or tablet.", "hint": "You find them in your phone's online store: games, maps, banking and more.", "answer": "APP", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0039", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Homer's epic poem about a hero's ten-year voyage home after the Trojan War.", "hint": "Its hero outwits a Cyclops and resists the Sirens; the title now means any long, adventurous journey.", "answer": "ODYSSEY", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0040", "category": "Music", "clue": "Six-stringed instrument strummed by rock stars and folk singers alike.", "hint": "It comes in acoustic and electric versions; Jimi Hendrix was a legend on it.", "answer": "GUITAR", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0041", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Running race covering 26.2 miles.", "hint": "It is named after a Greek town linked to the legend of a messenger who ran to Athens.", "answer": "MARATHON", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0042", "category": "Nature", "clue": "A mountain that can erupt with lava, ash and gas.", "hint": "Mount St. Helens and Hawaii's Kilauea are famous examples.", "answer": "VOLCANO", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0043", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "2013 Disney animated musical about royal sisters Anna and Elsa.", "hint": "Its best-known song is 'Let It Go'.", "answer": "FROZEN", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0044", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Australia's capital city: neither Sydney nor Melbourne.", "hint": "It was purpose-built in the early 1900s as a compromise between those two rival cities.", "answer": "CANBERRA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0045", "category": "Science", "clue": "The gas, chemical symbol O, that humans need to breathe.", "hint": "It makes up about 21 percent of Earth's atmosphere.", "answer": "OXYGEN", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0046", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Alexander Graham Bell received the patent for this invention in 1876.", "hint": "Its modern mobile version fits in your pocket and has a touchscreen.", "answer": "TELEPHONE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0047", "category": "Holidays & Seasons", "clue": "The season between summer and winter, when leaves change color and fall.", "hint": "Americans usually call it by a shorter four-letter name.", "answer": "AUTUMN", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0048", "category": "History", "clue": "French emperor defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.", "hint": "Born on Corsica, he died in exile on the island of Saint Helena; his family name was Bonaparte.", "answer": "NAPOLEON", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0049", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Flightless black-and-white bird that waddles on land and swims in icy seas.", "hint": "The emperor species survives the Antarctic winter by huddling together.", "answer": "PENGUIN", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0050", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Worldwide network that connects billions of computers and phones.", "hint": "You are using it right now to play this puzzle.", "answer": "INTERNET", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0051", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Folded corn or flour tortilla filled with meat, cheese and salsa.", "hint": "A Mexican staple eaten with your hands; many Americans enjoy them on Tuesday nights.", "answer": "TACO", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0052", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "A word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning, like 'knight' and 'night'.", "hint": "'Their', 'there' and 'they're' are a famous trio of these.", "answer": "HOMOPHONE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0053", "category": "Space", "clue": "When the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun and blocks its light.", "hint": "There are solar and lunar kinds; never look at the solar one without proper eye protection.", "answer": "ECLIPSE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0054", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Pair of spongy organs in your chest that take in air.", "hint": "Their millions of tiny air sacs are called alveoli.", "answer": "LUNGS", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0055", "category": "Geography", "clue": "The long African river that flows north through Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea.", "hint": "Ancient Egyptian civilization grew up along its banks.", "answer": "NILE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0056", "category": "Music", "clue": "German composer who kept writing masterpieces after losing his hearing.", "hint": "His Fifth Symphony opens with a famous 'da-da-da-DUM'.", "answer": "BEETHOVEN", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0057", "category": "U.S. Places", "clue": "Los Angeles neighborhood that is synonymous with the American movie industry.", "hint": "Its giant white hillside sign is a world-famous landmark.", "answer": "HOLLYWOOD", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0058", "category": "Science", "clue": "Preserved remains or traces of an ancient plant or animal, found in rock.", "hint": "Paleontologists dig them up to learn about dinosaurs.", "answer": "FOSSIL", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0059", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Reading and writing system of raised dots, invented by a Frenchman who lost his sight as a boy.", "hint": "Each character is a 'cell' of up to six dots, read with the fingertips.", "answer": "BRAILLE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0060", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Arc of colors that appears when sunlight shines through raindrops.", "hint": "Its colors are often remembered with the name ROY G. BIV.", "answer": "RAINBOW", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0061", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Racket sport in which a score of zero is called 'love'.", "hint": "Wimbledon is its oldest major tournament.", "answer": "TENNIS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0062", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Practice from ancient India that combines stretching poses, breathing and meditation.", "hint": "'Downward dog' is one of its best-known poses.", "answer": "YOGA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0063", "category": "Geography", "clue": "The highest mountain above sea level on Earth.", "hint": "It sits on the border of Nepal and China in the Himalayas.", "answer": "EVEREST", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0064", "category": "General Knowledge", "clue": "Global sporting event symbolized by five interlocking colored rings.", "hint": "It is held every four years, in separate summer and winter editions.", "answer": "OLYMPICS", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0065", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Lizard famous for changing its skin color and moving each eye independently.", "hint": "It catches insects with a long, sticky tongue that shoots out at high speed.", "answer": "CHAMELEON", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0066", "category": "Everyday Life", "clue": "Wall chart of the year's days and months that you flip each month.", "hint": "The Gregorian version is the one used in most of the world today.", "answer": "CALENDAR", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0067", "category": "Science", "clue": "The force that resists motion when two surfaces rub against each other.", "hint": "It is why rubbing your hands together warms them, and how brakes stop a car.", "answer": "FRICTION", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0068", "category": "History", "clue": "Massive stone tomb built for a pharaoh at Giza.", "hint": "Its four triangular sides meet at a single point at the top.", "answer": "PYRAMID", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0069", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Green, creamy fruit with a large pit, mashed to make guacamole.", "hint": "It is sometimes nicknamed the 'alligator pear'.", "answer": "AVOCADO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0070", "category": "History", "clue": "Ancient Roman amphitheater where gladiators fought in front of huge crowds.", "hint": "It still stands in the center of Rome and is one of the city's most visited sights.", "answer": "COLOSSEUM", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0071", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Australia's largest hopping marsupial, which carries its baby in a pouch.", "hint": "A baby one is called a joey.", "answer": "KANGAROO", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0072", "category": "Science", "clue": "Laboratory instrument that uses lenses to magnify tiny things like cells.", "hint": "Biology students slide thin glass slides under its lens.", "answer": "MICROSCOPE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0073", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "Grumpy green ogre who lives in a swamp in a 2001 DreamWorks film.", "hint": "His talkative sidekick is a donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy.", "answer": "SHREK", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0074", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Nordic island nation nicknamed the 'land of fire and ice' for its volcanoes and glaciers.", "hint": "Its capital, Reykjavik, is the northernmost capital of any independent country.", "answer": "ICELAND", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0075", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Dome-shaped muscle below the lungs that tightens every time you breathe in.", "hint": "Hiccups are caused by sudden spasms of this muscle.", "answer": "DIAPHRAGM", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0076", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Twisted, knot-shaped baked snack often sprinkled with coarse salt.", "hint": "Soft ones are a ballpark favorite, often dipped in mustard.", "answer": "PRETZEL", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0077", "category": "History", "clue": "U.S. president who delivered the Gettysburg Address.", "hint": "His face appears on the penny and the five-dollar bill.", "answer": "LINCOLN", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0078", "category": "Music", "clue": "Four-stringed instrument played with a bow and tucked under the chin.", "hint": "It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of its string family in the orchestra.", "answer": "VIOLIN", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0079", "category": "Space", "clue": "Rocky object orbiting the Sun, most of which are found in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.", "hint": "A huge one striking Earth is thought to have helped wipe out the dinosaurs.", "answer": "ASTEROID", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0080", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "A phrase whose meaning can't be worked out from its individual words, like 'kick the bucket'.", "hint": "'Break a leg' and 'piece of cake' are everyday examples.", "answer": "IDIOM", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0081", "category": "Sports", "clue": "The sport most of the world calls football, played by kicking a ball into a net.", "hint": "The World Cup is its biggest tournament.", "answer": "SOCCER", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0082", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Huge, slow-moving mass of ice that carves out valleys as it flows.", "hint": "Montana has a national park named after these.", "answer": "GLACIER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0083", "category": "Everyday Life", "clue": "Small bristled tool you use with paste at least twice a day.", "hint": "Dentists recommend replacing it every three to four months.", "answer": "TOOTHBRUSH", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0084", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Landlocked country between Russia and China, homeland of Genghis Khan.", "hint": "Its capital is Ulaanbaatar, and many herders live in round felt tents called gers.", "answer": "MONGOLIA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0085", "category": "Literature", "clue": "First name of the fictional detective who lives at 221B Baker Street.", "hint": "His loyal friend is Dr. Watson, and his creator was Arthur Conan Doyle.", "answer": "SHERLOCK", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0086", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Soft-bodied sea creature with eight arms and no bones, famous for squeezing through tiny gaps.", "hint": "It has three hearts and blue blood.", "answer": "OCTOPUS", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0087", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Wireless technology that pairs your phone with earbuds or a car stereo over short distances.", "hint": "It is named after a 10th-century Viking king of Denmark and Norway.", "answer": "BLUETOOTH", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0088", "category": "Holidays & Seasons", "clue": "Card sent to a sweetheart on February 14, or the sweetheart who receives it.", "hint": "The holiday is named after a third-century saint.", "answer": "VALENTINE", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0089", "category": "Science", "clue": "Antibiotic that Alexander Fleming discovered in 1928 after mold grew on a lab dish.", "hint": "It was the first widely used antibiotic and saved countless lives during World War II.", "answer": "PENICILLIN", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0090", "category": "U.S. Places", "clue": "Florida city known for South Beach, Art Deco hotels and Cuban food.", "hint": "Its NBA team is the Heat.", "answer": "MIAMI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0091", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Japanese art of folding paper into shapes such as cranes.", "hint": "Traditionally it uses no cuts and no glue.", "answer": "ORIGAMI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0092", "category": "Space", "clue": "Earth's only natural satellite.", "hint": "Neil Armstrong walked on it in 1969.", "answer": "MOON", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0093", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Flaky, crescent-shaped French pastry made with lots of butter.", "hint": "Its name is the French word for 'crescent'.", "answer": "CROISSANT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0094", "category": "History", "clue": "Portuguese explorer whose expedition completed the first voyage around the world, though he died along the way.", "hint": "A strait at the southern tip of South America bears his name.", "answer": "MAGELLAN", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0095", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Muscular organ in your mouth that is covered with taste buds.", "hint": "You stick it out when the doctor asks you to say 'ahh'.", "answer": "TONGUE", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0096", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Italian city built on a lagoon, where gondolas glide along canals instead of streets.", "hint": "Its Grand Canal is crossed by the famous Rialto Bridge.", "answer": "VENICE", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0097", "category": "Science", "clue": "Double-helix molecule that carries the genetic instructions of living things.", "hint": "Watson and Crick described its structure in 1953.", "answer": "DNA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0098", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "Comic-book hero from the planet Krypton who poses as reporter Clark Kent.", "hint": "His one great weakness is kryptonite.", "answer": "SUPERMAN", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0099", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Fastener with two rows of interlocking teeth, closed by pulling a slider.", "hint": "You'll find one on most jeans and jackets.", "answer": "ZIPPER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0100", "category": "Music", "clue": "Percussion instruments that a rock band's timekeeper hits with sticks.", "hint": "A full kit includes a snare, a bass kick and cymbals.", "answer": "DRUMS", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0101", "category": "History", "clue": "Seafaring Norse raiders and traders from Scandinavia, known for their longships.", "hint": "One of them, Leif Erikson, reached North America around the year 1000.", "answer": "VIKINGS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0102", "category": "Everyday Life", "clue": "Kitchen appliance that reheats leftovers in minutes and beeps when it's done.", "hint": "Most have a glass plate inside that rotates, and you should never put metal in one.", "answer": "MICROWAVE", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0103", "category": "Science", "clue": "Movement of water through a membrane from a less concentrated solution to a more concentrated one.", "hint": "People say you learn something 'by' this when you absorb it just by being around it.", "answer": "OSMOSIS", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0104", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Spiny desert plant that stores water in its thick stem.", "hint": "The towering saguaro is a famous one in Arizona.", "answer": "CACTUS", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0105", "category": "Geography", "clue": "The coldest continent, covered almost entirely by a thick ice sheet.", "hint": "It has no permanent residents, only visiting scientists at research stations.", "answer": "ANTARCTICA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0106", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Six-point score in American football.", "hint": "It is scored by carrying or catching the ball in the end zone.", "answer": "TOUCHDOWN", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0107", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "The black opening in the center of your eye that widens in dim light.", "hint": "The same word also means a student.", "answer": "PUPIL", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0108", "category": "Animals", "clue": "The tallest living animal, with a very long neck and legs.", "hint": "It eats leaves from the tops of acacia trees on the African savanna.", "answer": "GIRAFFE", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0109", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "German who introduced movable-type printing to Europe around 1440.", "hint": "The famous Bible he printed is named after him.", "answer": "GUTENBERG", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0110", "category": "U.S. Places", "clue": "Tennessee's capital, nicknamed 'Music City' and famous for country music.", "hint": "The Grand Ole Opry is broadcast from here.", "answer": "NASHVILLE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0111", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Small digital picture, like a smiley face or a thumbs-up, used in text messages.", "hint": "The word comes from Japanese, and one of the most used is 'face with tears of joy'.", "answer": "EMOJI", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0112", "category": "History", "clue": "Sword-carrying warrior class of feudal Japan.", "hint": "Their code of honor was called bushido.", "answer": "SAMURAI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0113", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Snack made from kernels that burst open when heated, a movie-theater classic.", "hint": "It is usually topped with butter and salt.", "answer": "POPCORN", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0114", "category": "Music", "clue": "Musical interval from one note to the next note with the same letter name, like C up to the next C.", "hint": "Its name comes from the Latin word for 'eighth'.", "answer": "OCTAVE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0115", "category": "Holidays & Seasons", "clue": "Spring holiday celebrated with egg hunts and chocolate bunnies.", "hint": "Its date changes every year, always falling on a Sunday in March or April.", "answer": "EASTER", "difficulty": "easy" }, { "id": "MWI-0116", "category": "Science", "clue": "Reddish-brown flaky coating that forms when iron reacts with oxygen and water.", "hint": "It is why old nails and car bodies turn orange and crumbly.", "answer": "RUST", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0117", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Classical dance style performed on the tips of the toes, as in 'Swan Lake'.", "hint": "A dancer's short, stiff skirt is called a tutu.", "answer": "BALLET", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0118", "category": "Space", "clue": "Icy object that grows a glowing tail as it nears the Sun.", "hint": "Halley's is the most famous one, returning about every 76 years.", "answer": "COMET", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0119", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Bilbo Baggins is one of these small, furry-footed folk in Tolkien's books.", "hint": "They live in the Shire, in cozy homes dug into hillsides.", "answer": "HOBBIT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0120", "category": "General Knowledge", "clue": "Imaginary line circling Earth halfway between the North and South Poles, at 0 degrees latitude.", "hint": "One South American country takes its name from the Spanish word for it.", "answer": "EQUATOR", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0121", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Black-and-white ocean predator nicknamed the 'killer whale', though it is actually the largest member of the dolphin family.", "hint": "It hunts in family groups called pods; SeaWorld's Shamu was one.", "answer": "ORCA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0122", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "Prehistoric ring of giant standing stones on Salisbury Plain in southern England.", "hint": "Its stones line up with the sunrise on the longest day of the year.", "answer": "STONEHENGE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0123", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Its name means 'little strings' in Italian, and it is usually twirled around a fork.", "hint": "It is classically served with tomato sauce and meatballs.", "answer": "SPAGHETTI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0124", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Norse god of thunder whose hammer flies back to his hand after he throws it.", "hint": "A day of the week, Thursday, is named after him.", "answer": "THOR", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0125", "category": "Science", "clue": "Particle in an atom's core that carries no electric charge at all.", "hint": "Its partner in the core, the proton, carries a positive charge.", "answer": "NEUTRON", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0126", "category": "U.S. Places", "clue": "The only U.S. state made up entirely of islands.", "hint": "Its capital, Honolulu, is on the island of Oahu.", "answer": "HAWAII", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0127", "category": "Music", "clue": "Curved, brass-bodied woodwind instrument central to jazz, invented in the 1840s by a Belgian.", "hint": "Its inventor, Adolphe, named it after his own surname.", "answer": "SAXOPHONE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0128", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "Physicist best known for the equation E = mc².", "hint": "His surname has become everyday slang for a genius.", "answer": "EINSTEIN", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0129", "category": "Everyday Objects", "clue": "It can open a lock, be black or white on a piano, or explain the symbols on a map.", "hint": "In music, it is a song's home note, as in 'C major'.", "answer": "KEY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0130", "category": "Literature", "clue": "F. Scott Fitzgerald's mysterious millionaire who throws lavish parties on Long Island.", "hint": "The narrator, Nick Carraway, watches him gaze at a green light across the bay.", "answer": "GATSBY", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0131", "category": "Transportation", "clue": "Aircraft that lifts straight up using spinning rotor blades overhead.", "hint": "It can hover in place, which makes it ideal for rescues.", "answer": "HELICOPTER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0132", "category": "Space", "clue": "The largest planet in our solar system, famous for its Great Red Spot.", "hint": "It is named after the king of the Roman gods.", "answer": "JUPITER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0133", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "The ordered set of letters used to write a language; English has 26 of them.", "hint": "Its name joins the first two letters of the Greek version.", "answer": "ALPHABET", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0134", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Bean-shaped organ that filters your blood; most people have two.", "hint": "People can live with just one, which is why it can be donated.", "answer": "KIDNEY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0135", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "Ancient city in Jordan carved into rose-red sandstone cliffs.", "hint": "Its towering Treasury facade appears in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'.", "answer": "PETRA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0136", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Sport in which a 'birdie' is one stroke under par and the lowest score wins.", "hint": "The Masters is played at Augusta National in Georgia.", "answer": "GOLF", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0137", "category": "History", "clue": "Last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, famed for her alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.", "hint": "Legend says she died from the bite of an asp.", "answer": "CLEOPATRA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0138", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Golden, sticky food that bees make from flower nectar and that almost never spoils.", "hint": "Edible pots of it have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs.", "answer": "HONEY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0139", "category": "Architecture", "clue": "Coastal tower with a powerful lamp that warns ships of danger at night.", "hint": "The ancient one at Alexandria was one of the Seven Wonders of the World.", "answer": "LIGHTHOUSE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0140", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "Figure of speech that pairs contradictory words, like 'jumbo shrimp'.", "hint": "'Deafening silence' is another classic example.", "answer": "OXYMORON", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0141", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Egg-laying Australian mammal with a duck-like bill and webbed feet.", "hint": "Males have venomous spurs on their hind legs.", "answer": "PLATYPUS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0142", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Programmable machine that can carry out tasks on its own; the word comes from a 1920 Czech play.", "hint": "R2-D2 and C-3PO are famous fictional ones.", "answer": "ROBOT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0143", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Dramatic art form in which the whole story is sung, such as 'Carmen' or 'La Bohème'.", "hint": "Sydney's famous harbor-side landmark is a house built for it.", "answer": "OPERA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0144", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Large island nation off Africa's southeast coast, home to lemurs found nowhere else in the wild.", "hint": "A 2005 DreamWorks animated film shares its name.", "answer": "MADAGASCAR", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0145", "category": "General Knowledge", "clue": "The day with the most or the fewest hours of daylight in the year, around June 21 or December 21.", "hint": "The equinox, its seasonal counterpart, has roughly equal day and night.", "answer": "SOLSTICE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0146", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Bram Stoker's 1897 novel about a vampire count from Transylvania.", "hint": "Its villain sleeps in a coffin by day and is repelled by garlic.", "answer": "DRACULA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0147", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "American inventor of the phonograph who held more than 1,000 U.S. patents.", "hint": "He was nicknamed 'the Wizard of Menlo Park' after his New Jersey laboratory.", "answer": "EDISON", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0148", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Gorgon with snakes for hair whose gaze turned people to stone.", "hint": "The hero Perseus beheaded her by watching her reflection in his shield.", "answer": "MEDUSA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0149", "category": "Everyday Objects", "clue": "It shows you everything reversed, and breaking one is said to bring seven years of bad luck.", "hint": "The Evil Queen in 'Snow White' asks hers who is the fairest of them all.", "answer": "MIRROR", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0150", "category": "History", "clue": "Ancient Greek city-state famous for its fierce warriors and their stand at Thermopylae.", "hint": "King Leonidas and his 300 soldiers came from here.", "answer": "SPARTA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0151", "category": "Space", "clue": "Enormous system of billions of stars held together by gravity; ours is the Milky Way.", "hint": "Andromeda is our nearest large neighbor of this kind.", "answer": "GALAXY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0152", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "Boxing film about a Philadelphia underdog who trains by running up the art museum's steps.", "hint": "Sylvester Stallone wrote it and played the title role.", "answer": "ROCKY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0153", "category": "Science", "clue": "The lightest and most abundant element in the universe, number 1 on the periodic table.", "hint": "Two atoms of it join one atom of oxygen to make water.", "answer": "HYDROGEN", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0154", "category": "Transportation", "clue": "Vessel that travels underwater and uses a periscope to see above the surface.", "hint": "The Beatles sang about living in a yellow one.", "answer": "SUBMARINE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0155", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Saffron-colored rice dish from Valencia, cooked in a wide, shallow pan.", "hint": "It is often loaded with seafood such as shrimp and mussels.", "answer": "PAELLA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0156", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Flexible column of stacked vertebrae running down the middle of your back.", "hint": "On a book, it is the edge that shows on the shelf.", "answer": "SPINE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0157", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "Former island prison in San Francisco Bay nicknamed 'The Rock'.", "hint": "Al Capone was once held there.", "answer": "ALCATRAZ", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0158", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Japanese sport in which heavyweight wrestlers try to force each other out of a circular ring.", "hint": "Its top-ranked champions hold the title of yokozuna.", "answer": "SUMO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0159", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "Leader of India's nonviolent independence movement, honored with the title 'Mahatma'.", "hint": "His 1930 Salt March protested British rule.", "answer": "GANDHI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0160", "category": "Space", "clue": "Giant cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars are born.", "hint": "The one in Orion is visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy patch in the hunter's sword.", "answer": "NEBULA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0161", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Wading bird that often stands on one leg and gets its pink color from its food.", "hint": "It eats shrimp and algae rich in natural pigments called carotenoids.", "answer": "FLAMINGO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0162", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Canopy that slows a person's fall through the air; Leonardo da Vinci sketched one in the 1480s.", "hint": "Skydivers pull a ripcord to open it.", "answer": "PARACHUTE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0163", "category": "Music", "clue": "Singer known as the 'King of Rock and Roll', whose Memphis home was Graceland.", "hint": "His hits include 'Hound Dog' and 'Jailhouse Rock'.", "answer": "ELVIS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0164", "category": "Architecture", "clue": "Dome-shaped shelter traditionally built from blocks of packed snow.", "hint": "It is associated with Inuit hunters of the Arctic.", "answer": "IGLOO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0165", "category": "Geography", "clue": "European river that flows through Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade on its way to the Black Sea.", "hint": "Johann Strauss II wrote a famous waltz about the 'Blue' one.", "answer": "DANUBE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0166", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Shakespeare's young lover from the Montague family.", "hint": "He falls for a Capulet during a famous balcony scene in Verona.", "answer": "ROMEO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0167", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Unwanted junk email, named after a canned meat thanks to a Monty Python sketch.", "hint": "Email services try to filter it into a separate folder.", "answer": "SPAM", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0168", "category": "Science", "clue": "Shot that trains your immune system to recognize a germ without making you sick.", "hint": "Edward Jenner developed the first one, against smallpox, in 1796.", "answer": "VACCINE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0169", "category": "Board Games", "clue": "Property-trading board game featuring Boardwalk, Park Place and 'Go to Jail'.", "hint": "Players collect $200 each time they pass Go.", "answer": "MONOPOLY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0170", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Two-day track-and-field contest made up of ten different events.", "hint": "Its champion is traditionally hailed as the 'world's greatest athlete'.", "answer": "DECATHLON", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0171", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Sudden mass of snow rushing down a mountainside.", "hint": "Backcountry skiers carry rescue beacons in case one buries them.", "answer": "AVALANCHE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0172", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "Paris museum with a glass pyramid entrance that houses the Mona Lisa.", "hint": "Before it was a museum, it was a royal palace.", "answer": "LOUVRE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0173", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Curious girl who follows a White Rabbit down a hole into Wonderland.", "hint": "Lewis Carroll created her in 1865.", "answer": "ALICE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0174", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Sport in which a perfect game is 300 and three strikes in a row is called a 'turkey'.", "hint": "Players roll a heavy ball down a lane at ten pins.", "answer": "BOWLING", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0175", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Armored mammal whose Spanish name means 'little armored one'; one species can roll into a ball.", "hint": "The nine-banded kind is common in Texas.", "answer": "ARMADILLO", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0176", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Instrument Galileo turned toward the night sky, discovering Jupiter's four largest moons in 1610.", "hint": "The Hubble is a famous one orbiting Earth.", "answer": "TELESCOPE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0177", "category": "Board Games", "clue": "Word game played with lettered tiles, in which Q and Z are worth 10 points each.", "hint": "Landing on a 'triple word score' square can triple your points.", "answer": "SCRABBLE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0178", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "South African leader imprisoned for 27 years who later became his country's first Black president.", "hint": "His first name was Nelson.", "answer": "MANDELA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0179", "category": "History", "clue": "Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.", "hint": "Its ruins near Naples preserve streets and buildings frozen in time.", "answer": "POMPEII", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0180", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Cervantes' deluded Spanish knight who charges at windmills, believing they are giants.", "hint": "His loyal squire is Sancho Panza.", "answer": "QUIXOTE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0181", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Greek god of the sea who carries a three-pronged trident.", "hint": "His Roman counterpart gave his name to the eighth planet.", "answer": "POSEIDON", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0182", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Italian dessert of coffee-soaked ladyfingers layered with mascarpone and dusted with cocoa.", "hint": "Its name means 'pick me up' in Italian.", "answer": "TIRAMISU", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0183", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Device that stores chemical energy and releases it as electricity; Alessandro Volta built an early one in 1800.", "hint": "AA and AAA are common sizes.", "answer": "BATTERY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0184", "category": "Space", "clue": "Space traveler; the word means 'star sailor' in Greek.", "hint": "NASA trains them in a giant pool to simulate weightlessness.", "answer": "ASTRONAUT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0185", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "In Greek myth, the first woman, who opened a forbidden jar and released all the world's evils.", "hint": "Only hope remained inside.", "answer": "PANDORA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0186", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Hormone that triggers the 'fight or flight' response when you're scared or excited.", "hint": "Thrill-seekers are sometimes called '___ junkies'.", "answer": "ADRENALINE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0187", "category": "Geography", "clue": "South American country that is home to the mountaintop Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.", "hint": "Its capital is Lima.", "answer": "PERU", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0188", "category": "Architecture", "clue": "Five-sided headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia.", "hint": "It is one of the largest office buildings in the world.", "answer": "PENTAGON", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0189", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "Naturalist whose voyage on HMS Beagle led to his theory of evolution by natural selection.", "hint": "Finches on the Galápagos Islands helped shape his ideas.", "answer": "DARWIN", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0190", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "Opulent royal palace outside Paris, famous for its Hall of Mirrors.", "hint": "Louis XIV moved his court there, and a treaty ending World War I was signed there in 1919.", "answer": "VERSAILLES", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0191", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "The largest internal organ, which can regrow after part of it is removed.", "hint": "Foie gras is made from a goose's or duck's version of it.", "answer": "LIVER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0192", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Spicy fermented cabbage dish served with almost every Korean meal.", "hint": "It gets its red color and heat from chili pepper flakes.", "answer": "KIMCHI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0193", "category": "Transportation", "clue": "Narrow, lightweight boat paddled with single-bladed paddles.", "hint": "Many Native American nations built them from birch bark.", "answer": "CANOE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0194", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Magical land reached through the back of a wardrobe in C.S. Lewis's books.", "hint": "It is ruled by the great lion Aslan.", "answer": "NARNIA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0195", "category": "Science", "clue": "Substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being used up itself.", "hint": "The word is also used for a person or event that sparks change.", "answer": "CATALYST", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0196", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Word or phrase preceded by the # symbol to tag posts on social media.", "hint": "#ThrowbackThursday is a well-known example.", "answer": "HASHTAG", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0197", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Hot spring that periodically blasts a column of water and steam into the air.", "hint": "Old Faithful in Yellowstone is the most famous one.", "answer": "GEYSER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0198", "category": "History", "clue": "British prime minister who led the country through most of World War II.", "hint": "He famously vowed, 'We shall fight on the beaches.'", "answer": "CHURCHILL", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0199", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "Word made by rearranging the letters of another word, like 'listen' and 'silent'.", "hint": "'Dormitory' can become 'dirty room'.", "answer": "ANAGRAM", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0200", "category": "Transportation", "clue": "Rigid airship named after a German count; the Hindenburg was one.", "hint": "A famous rock band added 'Led' in front of it.", "answer": "ZEPPELIN", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0201", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "Wooden puppet whose nose grows longer every time he lies.", "hint": "He was carved by the woodworker Geppetto.", "answer": "PINOCCHIO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0202", "category": "Music", "clue": "Small handheld instrument with reeds that you blow into, a favorite of blues players and Bob Dylan.", "hint": "It is sometimes called a 'mouth organ'.", "answer": "HARMONICA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0203", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Large flightless bird from Australia, second only to the ostrich in height.", "hint": "It appears alongside the kangaroo on Australia's coat of arms.", "answer": "EMU", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0204", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Tiny sea animals whose limestone skeletons build reefs like Australia's Great Barrier Reef.", "hint": "It is also the name of a pinkish-orange color.", "answer": "CORAL", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0205", "category": "Geography", "clue": "The world's largest inland body of water, bordered by Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan and others.", "hint": "It is called a sea, even though it is technically a lake.", "answer": "CASPIAN", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0206", "category": "Space", "clue": "The curved path one object follows around another, like Earth around the Sun.", "hint": "It takes Earth one year to complete one.", "answer": "ORBIT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0207", "category": "Everyday Objects", "clue": "Timekeeper in which sand trickles from an upper glass bulb into a lower one.", "hint": "You flip it over to start timing again.", "answer": "HOURGLASS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0208", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "1999 sci-fi film in which Neo must choose between a red pill and a blue pill.", "hint": "Keanu Reeves dodges bullets in slow motion.", "answer": "MATRIX", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0209", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Fish with a horse-shaped head, in which the male carries the eggs and gives birth.", "hint": "It swims upright and anchors itself to seaweed with its curled tail.", "answer": "SEAHORSE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0210", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "The hardest substance in the human body, forming the outer layer of your teeth.", "hint": "The same word describes a glossy, hard-drying paint.", "answer": "ENAMEL", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0211", "category": "Holidays & Seasons", "clue": "Eight-night Jewish festival of lights celebrated by kindling a menorah.", "hint": "Children play with a spinning top called a dreidel.", "answer": "HANUKKAH", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0212", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Tiny square of color; millions of them make up a digital image.", "hint": "Zoom far enough into a photo on screen and you'll see them.", "answer": "PIXEL", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0213", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Passionate partner dance born in the late 1800s in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.", "hint": "The saying goes, 'It takes two to...' do it.", "answer": "TANGO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0214", "category": "General Knowledge", "clue": "Code of dots and dashes in which SOS is sent as three dots, three dashes, three dots.", "hint": "It is named after Samuel, who co-developed the electric telegraph.", "answer": "MORSE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0215", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Step-by-step set of instructions a computer follows to solve a problem.", "hint": "The word comes from the name of the 9th-century Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi.", "answer": "ALGORITHM", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0216", "category": "Music", "clue": "Liverpool band made up of John, Paul, George and Ringo.", "hint": "Their hits include 'Hey Jude' and 'Yesterday'.", "answer": "BEATLES", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0217", "category": "Science", "clue": "Sound that bounces back to you off a cliff or canyon wall.", "hint": "In Greek myth, she was a nymph who could only repeat the last words of others.", "answer": "ECHO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0218", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "Famous waterfalls on the U.S.-Canada border between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.", "hint": "Daredevils have gone over them in barrels.", "answer": "NIAGARA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0219", "category": "Geography", "clue": "The world's largest island, a mostly ice-covered territory of Denmark.", "hint": "Vikings led by Erik the Red settled it around the year 985.", "answer": "GREENLAND", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0220", "category": "History", "clue": "Mesoamerican empire whose capital, Tenochtitlan, stood on a lake where Mexico City is today.", "hint": "Hernán Cortés conquered them in 1521.", "answer": "AZTECS", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0221", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "Jim Henson's puppet troupe that includes Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.", "hint": "Their 1970s variety show was set backstage at a theater.", "answer": "MUPPETS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0222", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Giant ocean wave usually triggered by an undersea earthquake.", "hint": "Its name comes from the Japanese for 'harbor wave'.", "answer": "TSUNAMI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0223", "category": "Geography", "clue": "The largest country in South America, where Portuguese is the main language.", "hint": "Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue stands here.", "answer": "BRAZIL", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0224", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Spray-painted words or images on public walls, often made without permission.", "hint": "Banksy is a famous anonymous artist of it.", "answer": "GRAFFITI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0225", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "The world's most expensive spice by weight, hand-picked from the flowers of a crocus.", "hint": "It gives paella its golden color.", "answer": "SAFFRON", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0226", "category": "History", "clue": "English settlers who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower in 1620.", "hint": "They founded Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts.", "answer": "PILGRIMS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0227", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Upper-arm muscle people flex to show off their strength.", "hint": "Its name means 'two-headed' in Latin.", "answer": "BICEPS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0228", "category": "Music", "clue": "Austrian child prodigy who composed 'The Magic Flute' and 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'.", "hint": "His middle name, Amadeus, is the title of a 1984 film about him.", "answer": "MOZART", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0229", "category": "Holidays & Seasons", "clue": "Festive season of parades and costumes before Lent, famously celebrated in Rio de Janeiro.", "hint": "New Orleans calls its version Mardi Gras.", "answer": "CARNIVAL", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0230", "category": "Literature", "clue": "British author of '1984' and 'Animal Farm'.", "hint": "His real name was Eric Blair.", "answer": "ORWELL", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0231", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "Very informal words and phrases, often used by a particular group, like 'cool' or 'bling'.", "hint": "Cockney rhyming ___ is a famous British type.", "answer": "SLANG", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0232", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Small pouch attached to the large intestine that sometimes becomes inflamed and must be removed.", "hint": "The same word names the extra section at the back of a book.", "answer": "APPENDIX", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0233", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Mythical king whose wish backfired when everything he touched, even his food, turned to gold.", "hint": "A 'touch' named after him now means a knack for making money.", "answer": "MIDAS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0234", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Sport whose championship trophy, the Stanley Cup, is engraved with the names of winning players.", "hint": "It is played on ice with sticks and a puck.", "answer": "HOCKEY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0235", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye that sends images to the brain.", "hint": "Some high-security doors scan it to identify people.", "answer": "RETINA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0236", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Demigod son of Zeus, famed for completing twelve seemingly impossible labors.", "hint": "Disney made a 1997 animated film about him.", "answer": "HERCULES", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0237", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Seasonal wind shift that brings heavy summer rains to South Asia.", "hint": "India's farmers depend on its rains every year.", "answer": "MONSOON", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0238", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Picture made from many small pieces of colored stone, glass or tile.", "hint": "Ancient Romans decorated their floors with them.", "answer": "MOSAIC", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0239", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Miserly old man visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.", "hint": "His catchphrase is 'Bah! Humbug!'", "answer": "SCROOGE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0240", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "Columned marble temple to Athena that crowns the Acropolis.", "hint": "Built in the 5th century BC, it has become a symbol of ancient Greece.", "answer": "PARTHENON", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0241", "category": "Board Games", "clue": "Board game in which pieces jump diagonally and are 'kinged' when they reach the far row.", "hint": "The British call it draughts.", "answer": "CHECKERS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0242", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Navigation tool with a magnetized needle, first used in ancient China.", "hint": "Its needle swings to point toward magnetic north.", "answer": "COMPASS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0243", "category": "Music", "clue": "Large ensemble of strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion led by a conductor.", "hint": "Its musicians traditionally tune to a note played by the oboe.", "answer": "ORCHESTRA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0244", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Soft French cheese with an edible white rind, often baked in pastry.", "hint": "Camembert is its close cousin from Normandy.", "answer": "BRIE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0245", "category": "Space", "clue": "The first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.", "hint": "Its beeping signal from orbit kicked off the Space Race.", "answer": "SPUTNIK", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0246", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "James Cameron film set on Pandora, a moon inhabited by tall, blue-skinned Na'vi.", "hint": "The word also means a player's on-screen character or profile image.", "answer": "AVATAR", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0247", "category": "Space", "clue": "Former ninth planet, reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.", "hint": "Mickey Mouse's dog shares its name.", "answer": "PLUTO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0248", "category": "Animals", "clue": "The fastest land animal, able to sprint at around 60 to 70 miles per hour.", "hint": "Dark 'tear lines' run from its eyes down to its mouth.", "answer": "CHEETAH", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0249", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Winged horse of Greek myth that sprang from the neck of the slain Medusa.", "hint": "A large constellation in the autumn sky is named after it.", "answer": "PEGASUS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0250", "category": "Science", "clue": "An object's tendency to keep doing what it's already doing, staying still or moving, unless a force acts on it.", "hint": "Newton's first law of motion describes it.", "answer": "INERTIA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0251", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "Spanish artist who co-founded Cubism and painted 'Guernica'.", "hint": "His first name was Pablo.", "answer": "PICASSO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0252", "category": "History", "clue": "Explorer whose 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, reached the islands of the Caribbean.", "hint": "His three ships were the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa María.", "answer": "COLUMBUS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0253", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "Scientist who became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, one in physics and one in chemistry.", "hint": "She discovered polonium and named it after her native Poland.", "answer": "CURIE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0254", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Eccentric candy maker who hides golden tickets in his chocolate bars.", "hint": "Roald Dahl created him; Charlie Bucket wins a tour of his factory.", "answer": "WONKA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0255", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Narrow strait running through Istanbul that divides Europe from Asia.", "hint": "It connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.", "answer": "BOSPHORUS", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0256", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Invention whose name mixes Greek and Latin to mean 'seeing from afar'.", "hint": "You change its channels with a remote control.", "answer": "TELEVISION", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0257", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Japanese martial art whose name means 'the gentle way', built on throws and holds.", "hint": "It became an Olympic sport at the 1964 Tokyo Games.", "answer": "JUDO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0258", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Program such as Chrome, Safari or Firefox that you use to visit websites.", "hint": "It keeps a history of the pages you've viewed.", "answer": "BROWSER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0259", "category": "Science", "clue": "Triangular block of glass that splits white light into a spectrum of colors.", "hint": "Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' album cover shows one.", "answer": "PRISM", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0260", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "Fortified complex of palaces and cathedrals in the heart of Moscow, beside Red Square.", "hint": "Its name is often used as shorthand for Russia's government.", "answer": "KREMLIN", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0261", "category": "Architecture", "clue": "Fortified medieval home with towers, thick stone walls, a drawbridge and often a moat.", "hint": "In chess, it is another name for the rook.", "answer": "CASTLE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0262", "category": "Holidays & Seasons", "clue": "Pointy-eared helper said to build toys in Santa's North Pole workshop.", "hint": "Will Ferrell played one raised among humans in a 2003 comedy.", "answer": "ELF", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0263", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Loose, waterlogged ground that swallows adventurers in countless old movies.", "hint": "Experts say to lie back and float rather than struggle.", "answer": "QUICKSAND", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0264", "category": "Geography", "clue": "The largest island in the Mediterranean, just off the 'toe' of Italy's boot.", "hint": "Mount Etna, an active volcano, towers over it.", "answer": "SICILY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0265", "category": "Transportation", "clue": "Two-wheeled passenger cart pulled by a runner, once common in Asian cities; many today are motorized.", "hint": "Its name comes from the Japanese for 'human-powered vehicle'.", "answer": "RICKSHAW", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0266", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Black-and-white bear from China that spends most of its day eating bamboo.", "hint": "It is the logo of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).", "answer": "PANDA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0267", "category": "Architecture", "clue": "Very tall, many-storied city building; the Empire State Building is a famous example.", "hint": "Chicago's Home Insurance Building of 1885 is often called the first one.", "answer": "SKYSCRAPER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0268", "category": "History", "clue": "San Antonio mission where Texan defenders fell to Mexican troops in 1836.", "hint": "'Remember the ___!' became a famous rallying cry.", "answer": "ALAMO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0269", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "Part of speech for an action or state of being, like 'run', 'think' or 'be'.", "hint": "Every complete sentence needs at least one.", "answer": "VERB", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0270", "category": "General Knowledge", "clue": "Instrument that measures air pressure to help forecast the weather.", "hint": "A falling reading often signals an approaching storm.", "answer": "BAROMETER", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0271", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Hook-and-loop fastener inspired by burrs that stuck to a Swiss engineer's dog.", "hint": "Many children's shoes use it instead of laces.", "answer": "VELCRO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0272", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Strong, concentrated coffee made by forcing hot water through finely ground beans.", "hint": "It is the base of a cappuccino or a latte.", "answer": "ESPRESSO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0273", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "Legendary escape artist who freed himself from handcuffs, straitjackets and locked water tanks.", "hint": "His first name was Harry.", "answer": "HOUDINI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0274", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "Small, green Jedi master who speaks with his words in unusual order.", "hint": "'Do or do not. There is no try,' he says.", "answer": "YODA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0275", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Principled small-town lawyer and father of Scout in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.", "hint": "His last name is Finch.", "answer": "ATTICUS", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0276", "category": "Transportation", "clue": "Train that runs on a single rail, famously circling Walt Disney World.", "hint": "One also carries travelers to Tokyo's Haneda Airport.", "answer": "MONORAIL", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0277", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Episodic audio show you can subscribe to and listen to on demand.", "hint": "Its name was coined in 2004 from Apple's portable music player plus a word for transmitting.", "answer": "PODCAST", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0278", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Small spiny mammal that rolls itself into a prickly ball when threatened.", "hint": "Sega's speedy blue mascot, Sonic, is one.", "answer": "HEDGEHOG", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0279", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Giant electrical spark in a storm that heats the air to hotter than the surface of the Sun.", "hint": "Thunder is the sound it makes.", "answer": "LIGHTNING", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0280", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Jackal-headed Egyptian god who guided the dead and guarded tombs.", "hint": "He oversaw the weighing of a dead person's heart against a feather.", "answer": "ANUBIS", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0281", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Fairy-tale girl locked in a tower who lets down her extremely long hair.", "hint": "Disney's 'Tangled' retells her story.", "answer": "RAPUNZEL", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0282", "category": "Everyday Objects", "clue": "Small cap worn on a fingertip to push a sewing needle.", "hint": "It was one of the classic Monopoly tokens.", "answer": "THIMBLE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0283", "category": "Board Games", "clue": "Rectangular tile marked with pips; stand a row of them up and they topple in a chain reaction.", "hint": "A pizza chain shares its name.", "answer": "DOMINO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0284", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Sudden, temporary malfunction in software or a video game.", "hint": "In 'Wreck-It Ralph', racer Vanellope is called one.", "answer": "GLITCH", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0285", "category": "Architecture", "clue": "Tiered tower with upturned eaves on every level, found at Buddhist temples across Asia.", "hint": "Many have an odd number of stories, often five, seven or nine.", "answer": "PAGODA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0286", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Italian baked dish of wide, flat pasta sheets layered with sauce and cheese.", "hint": "Garfield the cat is famously obsessed with it.", "answer": "LASAGNA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0287", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "Disney fawn whose mother's death is one of film's saddest scenes.", "hint": "His best friend, Thumper, is a rabbit.", "answer": "BAMBI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0288", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "Aviator who in 1932 became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.", "hint": "Her first name was Amelia, and she vanished over the Pacific in 1937.", "answer": "EARHART", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0289", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Flat-tailed rodent that builds dams of branches and mud across streams.", "hint": "It is Canada's national animal.", "answer": "BEAVER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0290", "category": "Transportation", "clue": "Traditional last car of an American freight train, where the crew rode.", "hint": "It was often painted red and had a lookout cupola on top.", "answer": "CABOOSE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0291", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "Joke that plays on a word's double meaning, like 'I used to be a banker, but I lost interest.'", "hint": "A groan is the usual response to one.", "answer": "PUN", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0292", "category": "History", "clue": "Armored medieval warrior who served a lord and followed a code of chivalry.", "hint": "In chess, it is the piece that moves in an L shape.", "answer": "KNIGHT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0293", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Brainless, boneless sea creature that drifts with the current and stings with trailing tentacles.", "hint": "A group of them is called a smack or a bloom.", "answer": "JELLYFISH", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0294", "category": "Science", "clue": "Intense, narrow beam of light used in barcode scanners, eye surgery and light shows.", "hint": "Its name is an acronym ending in '...by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'.", "answer": "LASER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0295", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Island state south of mainland Australia, known for a fierce little marsupial 'devil'.", "hint": "It is separated from the mainland by the Bass Strait.", "answer": "TASMANIA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0296", "category": "Holidays & Seasons", "clue": "Plant hung up at Christmas; tradition says people who meet beneath it should kiss.", "hint": "It grows as a partial parasite on trees such as oaks.", "answer": "MISTLETOE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0297", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Winged Roman god of love who shoots arrows to make people fall in love.", "hint": "He appears on many Valentine's Day cards.", "answer": "CUPID", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0298", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "Giant limestone statue with a lion's body and a human head that guards the plateau at Giza.", "hint": "In Greek myth, one of these posed a riddle about what walks on four legs, then two, then three.", "answer": "SPHINX", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0299", "category": "Music", "clue": "Ticking device that keeps a steady beat for practicing musicians.", "hint": "You set its speed in beats per minute.", "answer": "METRONOME", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0300", "category": "Space", "clue": "Titanic explosion of a massive star at the end of its life.", "hint": "For a few weeks it can outshine an entire galaxy.", "answer": "SUPERNOVA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0301", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "New York's famous theater district, home to long-running musicals.", "hint": "Its best shows are honored each year at the Tony Awards.", "answer": "BROADWAY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0302", "category": "U.S. Places", "clue": "New England city famous for its Tea Party, Fenway Park and a marathon held every April.", "hint": "It is the capital of Massachusetts.", "answer": "BOSTON", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0303", "category": "Music", "clue": "Twangy stringed instrument with a round, drum-like body, central to bluegrass.", "hint": "'Dueling' ones feature in a famous instrumental from the film 'Deliverance'.", "answer": "BANJO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0304", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Olympic sport of shooting at a target with a bow, where the center scores a bullseye.", "hint": "Robin Hood was famed for his skill at it.", "answer": "ARCHERY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0305", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "Figure of speech that compares two things using 'like' or 'as', such as 'brave as a lion'.", "hint": "Its close cousin, the metaphor, makes the comparison without those words.", "answer": "SIMILE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0306", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Racket sport played with a feathered shuttlecock over a high net.", "hint": "It takes its name from an English country estate.", "answer": "BADMINTON", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0307", "category": "Space", "clue": "The hottest planet in our solar system, even though it isn't the closest to the Sun.", "hint": "It is often called the 'morning star' or the 'evening star'.", "answer": "VENUS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0308", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Moving staircase whose name was once a trademark of the Otis Elevator Company.", "hint": "Department stores and subway stations use them to carry people between floors.", "answer": "ESCALATOR", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0309", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Passionate Spanish dance with rhythmic heel stamping, handclaps and guitar.", "hint": "It is most closely linked with the region of Andalusia.", "answer": "FLAMENCO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0310", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Icicle-shaped mineral formation that hangs down from a cave ceiling.", "hint": "Its partner grows up from the floor; one memory trick is that this one holds 'tight' to the ceiling.", "answer": "STALACTITE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0311", "category": "U.S. Places", "clue": "Rainy Pacific Northwest city with the Space Needle and the very first Starbucks.", "hint": "It is the largest city in Washington state.", "answer": "SEATTLE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0312", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Rotating tropical storm with winds of at least 74 mph, rated from Category 1 to 5.", "hint": "In the western Pacific, the same kind of storm is called a typhoon.", "answer": "HURRICANE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0313", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Traveler who wakes up tied to the ground by tiny people in Lilliput.", "hint": "Jonathan Swift wrote about his travels in 1726.", "answer": "GULLIVER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0314", "category": "Geography", "clue": "The world's longest continental mountain range, running down the western side of South America.", "hint": "Llamas and alpacas are native to these mountains.", "answer": "ANDES", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0315", "category": "History", "clue": "The right to vote, which American women won nationwide with the 19th Amendment in 1920.", "hint": "Susan B. Anthony spent decades campaigning for it.", "answer": "SUFFRAGE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0316", "category": "Geography", "clue": "North African kingdom home to Casablanca and Marrakesh, just across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain.", "hint": "Its capital is Rabat.", "answer": "MOROCCO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0317", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Thin membrane that vibrates when sound waves reach it.", "hint": "It separates the outer and middle sections of your hearing organ, and very loud noises can rupture it.", "answer": "EARDRUM", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0318", "category": "General Knowledge", "clue": "Gem linked to the month you were born, such as garnet for January.", "hint": "Diamond is the one for April.", "answer": "BIRTHSTONE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0319", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Western competition featuring bull riding, bronc riding and calf roping.", "hint": "Riders try to stay on for eight seconds.", "answer": "RODEO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0320", "category": "Science", "clue": "Nuclear process that powers the Sun by joining light atoms into heavier ones.", "hint": "It is the opposite of fission, which splits atoms apart.", "answer": "FUSION", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0321", "category": "Holidays & Seasons", "clue": "Creamy holiday drink of milk, sugar and whipped eggs, often dusted with nutmeg.", "hint": "It is traditionally served at Christmastime.", "answer": "EGGNOG", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0322", "category": "Culture", "clue": "Mexican folk band in sombreros and silver-studded suits, playing trumpets, violins and guitars.", "hint": "They often serenade guests at weddings and celebrations.", "answer": "MARIACHI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0323", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Tree-dwelling mammal of Central and South American rainforests, famous for moving extremely slowly.", "hint": "It shares its name with one of the seven deadly sins.", "answer": "SLOTH", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0324", "category": "Science", "clue": "Object whose like poles repel and opposite poles attract, and which grabs iron but ignores aluminum.", "hint": "You might use one to stick a note to the fridge.", "answer": "MAGNET", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0325", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Flexible tissue that shapes your nose and outer ears and cushions your joints.", "hint": "A shark's entire skeleton is made of it.", "answer": "CARTILAGE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0326", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "Founding Father who flew a kite in a thunderstorm and appears on the $100 bill.", "hint": "His first name was Benjamin.", "answer": "FRANKLIN", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0327", "category": "General Knowledge", "clue": "Official booklet you show at borders to prove your identity and citizenship.", "hint": "Border officers stamp it when you enter a country.", "answer": "PASSPORT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0328", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "London palace where guards in tall bearskin hats perform the Changing of the Guard.", "hint": "It is the British monarch's official London residence.", "answer": "BUCKINGHAM", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0329", "category": "Architecture", "clue": "Carved stone creature on a cathedral roof that doubles as a rain spout.", "hint": "Notre-Dame de Paris is famous for them.", "answer": "GARGOYLE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0330", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "Deaf and blind American author who learned to communicate with the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan.", "hint": "Her first name was Helen.", "answer": "KELLER", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0331", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Device that connects a home network to the internet, once famous for its screeching dial-up sounds.", "hint": "Its name blends 'modulator' and 'demodulator'.", "answer": "MODEM", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0332", "category": "Music", "clue": "Jamaican music style with a laid-back offbeat rhythm, made world-famous by Bob Marley.", "hint": "'One Love' and 'No Woman, No Cry' are classics of it.", "answer": "REGGAE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0333", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Olympic sport of swordplay using a foil, an épée or a sabre.", "hint": "Competitors wear white suits and mesh face masks.", "answer": "FENCING", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0334", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Nearly invincible Greek warrior of the Trojan War whose only weak spot was his heel.", "hint": "A tendon at the back of your ankle is named after him.", "answer": "ACHILLES", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0335", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Winter Olympic event that combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting.", "hint": "Its name means 'two contests'.", "answer": "BIATHLON", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0336", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "Word part added to the front of another word, like 'un-' in 'undo'.", "hint": "Its opposite is a suffix.", "answer": "PREFIX", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0337", "category": "History", "clue": "German city divided by a wall from 1961 until 1989.", "hint": "It is Germany's capital.", "answer": "BERLIN", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0338", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Fertile green spot in a desert where underground water reaches the surface.", "hint": "Weary caravan travelers rested at them among date palms.", "answer": "OASIS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0339", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "The world's smallest independent country, entirely surrounded by the city of Rome.", "hint": "The Sistine Chapel, with Michelangelo's painted ceiling, is inside it.", "answer": "VATICAN", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0340", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Great hall in Norse myth where warriors who died in battle feast with Odin.", "hint": "Valkyries carry fallen heroes there.", "answer": "VALHALLA", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0341", "category": "Science", "clue": "Weight on a string or rod that swings back and forth, once used to keep clocks accurate.", "hint": "Galileo is said to have studied its steady swing while watching a lamp sway in a cathedral.", "answer": "PENDULUM", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0342", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Riding ocean waves while standing on a board, a sport rooted in Hawaiian culture.", "hint": "Duke Kahanamoku helped popularize it around the world.", "answer": "SURFING", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0343", "category": "Music", "clue": "Large stringed instrument played sitting down, held between the knees and bowed.", "hint": "It sounds lower than a viola but higher than a double bass.", "answer": "CELLO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0344", "category": "Holidays & Seasons", "clue": "Spring Jewish festival marking the Exodus from Egypt, celebrated with a Seder meal.", "hint": "Matzah, an unleavened bread, is eaten during it.", "answer": "PASSOVER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0345", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Flightless bird of Mauritius that was hunted to extinction in the late 1600s.", "hint": "'Dead as a ___' is a common saying.", "answer": "DODO", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0346", "category": "Science", "clue": "Sour-tasting substance with a pH below 7, such as lemon juice or vinegar.", "hint": "It turns blue litmus paper red.", "answer": "ACID", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0347", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark, who asks 'To be, or not to be'.", "hint": "The same word means a small village.", "answer": "HAMLET", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0348", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Country known for bagpipes, kilts and the legend of a monster in Loch Ness.", "hint": "Its capital is Edinburgh.", "answer": "SCOTLAND", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0349", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Small, triangular bone at the front of the joint in the middle of your leg.", "hint": "Its medical name is the patella.", "answer": "KNEECAP", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0350", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Old English epic hero who slays the monster Grendel and, many years later, a dragon.", "hint": "It is one of the oldest surviving poems in the English language.", "answer": "BEOWULF", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0351", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Vast, frigid region covering most of Russia's Asian territory.", "hint": "Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake, lies there.", "answer": "SIBERIA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0352", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Bird that hammers tree trunks with its beak to find insects and carve out nests.", "hint": "Its skull and long tongue are specially adapted to absorb the shock of rapid drumming.", "answer": "WOODPECKER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0353", "category": "Board Games", "clue": "Guessing game in which players call out grid squares like 'B-4' to find and sink a hidden fleet.", "hint": "Each player hides five vessels, from a carrier to a destroyer.", "answer": "BATTLESHIP", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0354", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Blinking line or arrow on a screen that shows where you are pointing or typing.", "hint": "You move it with a mouse or a trackpad.", "answer": "CURSOR", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0355", "category": "History", "clue": "Paris fortress-prison stormed on July 14, 1789, sparking the French Revolution.", "hint": "France celebrates its national day on the anniversary.", "answer": "BASTILLE", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0356", "category": "Transportation", "clue": "Small but powerful vessel that pushes or pulls huge ships into harbor.", "hint": "It has enormous pulling power for its size.", "answer": "TUGBOAT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0357", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "Clownfish with a small 'lucky' fin whose father crosses the ocean to find him in a 2003 Pixar film.", "hint": "His forgetful helper is a blue tang named Dory.", "answer": "NEMO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0358", "category": "Everyday Objects", "clue": "Mary Poppins floats down from the sky holding one.", "hint": "It opens over your head when rain starts to fall.", "answer": "UMBRELLA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0359", "category": "U.S. Places", "clue": "Michigan city nicknamed 'Motor City' as the historic home of the American auto industry.", "hint": "Motown Records was founded here.", "answer": "DETROIT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0360", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "Fourteen-line poem, a form Shakespeare used 154 times.", "hint": "Its name comes from the Italian for 'little song'.", "answer": "SONNET", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0361", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Caribbean island nation famous for cigars, salsa music and classic 1950s cars.", "hint": "Its capital is Havana.", "answer": "CUBA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0362", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Soft, sweet fruit packed with tiny seeds; in Genesis, Adam and Eve cover themselves with its leaves.", "hint": "A famous cookie called a Newton is filled with it.", "answer": "FIG", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0363", "category": "Space", "clue": "Vehicle that reaches space by burning fuel and blasting exhaust downward.", "hint": "The Saturn V launched Apollo astronauts toward the Moon.", "answer": "ROCKET", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0364", "category": "Transportation", "clue": "Vehicle that glides over land or water on a cushion of air.", "hint": "British engineer Christopher Cockerell invented it in the 1950s.", "answer": "HOVERCRAFT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0365", "category": "Architecture", "clue": "Tall, slender tower of a mosque from which the call to prayer is traditionally made.", "hint": "A mosque may have one, two, four or even six of them.", "answer": "MINARET", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0366", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "Word formed from the first letters of a phrase, such as NASA or SCUBA.", "hint": "ASAP is an everyday example.", "answer": "ACRONYM", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0367", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Device with a lens and a shutter that captures photographs.", "hint": "Its name comes from the Latin word for 'chamber'.", "answer": "CAMERA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0368", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Boy raised by wolves in Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book'.", "hint": "His friends include Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther.", "answer": "MOWGLI", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0369", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "Giant radioactive reptile nicknamed the 'King of the Monsters', which first stomped through Tokyo in 1954.", "hint": "It was created by the Japanese film studio Toho.", "answer": "GODZILLA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0370", "category": "Space", "clue": "A planet that orbits a star other than our Sun.", "hint": "Thousands have been discovered by telescopes such as Kepler.", "answer": "EXOPLANET", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0371", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Sport played with an oval ball in which players score 'tries' and forward passes are not allowed.", "hint": "It is named after the English school where it began.", "answer": "RUGBY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0372", "category": "Movies & Entertainment", "clue": "1978 musical in which Danny and Sandy fall for each other at Rydell High.", "hint": "John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John starred in it.", "answer": "GREASE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0373", "category": "Words & Language", "clue": "A single unit of sound in a word; 'banana' has three of them.", "hint": "Haiku poems are measured by counting these.", "answer": "SYLLABLE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0374", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Scandinavian country famous for its fjords and the summer 'midnight sun'.", "hint": "Its capital is Oslo.", "answer": "NORWAY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0375", "category": "Famous Places", "clue": "Vast Tanzanian plain famous for the great migration of wildebeest and zebras.", "hint": "Its name comes from a Maasai word for 'endless plains'.", "answer": "SERENGETI", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0376", "category": "U.S. Places", "clue": "Colorado's capital, nicknamed the 'Mile High City'.", "hint": "Its NFL team is the Broncos.", "answer": "DENVER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0377", "category": "Food & Drink", "clue": "Soybean curd pressed into soft white blocks, a protein staple of vegetarian cooking.", "hint": "It soaks up the flavor of whatever it is cooked with.", "answer": "TOFU", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0378", "category": "Music", "clue": "Small four-stringed, guitar-like instrument closely associated with Hawaii.", "hint": "Its name is often said to mean 'jumping flea'.", "answer": "UKULELE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0379", "category": "Animals", "clue": "Playful river or sea mammal that floats on its back and uses rocks to crack open shellfish.", "hint": "Sea ones sometimes hold paws while they sleep so they don't drift apart.", "answer": "OTTER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0380", "category": "Mythology", "clue": "Half-man, half-bull monster kept in a labyrinth on Crete.", "hint": "Theseus found his way back out using a ball of thread.", "answer": "MINOTAUR", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0381", "category": "Animals", "clue": "The only mammal capable of true flight; it navigates in the dark by echolocation.", "hint": "Many species sleep hanging upside down.", "answer": "BAT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0382", "category": "Transportation", "clue": "Underground railway; London's is nicknamed the Tube.", "hint": "New York City's runs 24 hours a day.", "answer": "SUBWAY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0383", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Fairy-tale servant girl who leaves a glass slipper behind at the royal ball.", "hint": "Her fairy godmother turns a pumpkin into a coach.", "answer": "CINDERELLA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0384", "category": "Everyday Objects", "clue": "Danish interlocking plastic bricks whose name comes from the words for 'play well'.", "hint": "Stepping on one barefoot is famously painful.", "answer": "LEGO", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0385", "category": "Literature", "clue": "Shakespeare's Scottish nobleman who murders his king, spurred on by three witches and an ambitious wife.", "hint": "Superstitious actors call it 'the Scottish play'.", "answer": "MACBETH", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0386", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Remote-controlled flying device often used to take aerial photos and video.", "hint": "The same word names a male honeybee.", "answer": "DRONE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0387", "category": "Holidays & Seasons", "clue": "Bird that is the centerpiece of an American Thanksgiving dinner.", "hint": "Each year the U.S. president 'pardons' one.", "answer": "TURKEY", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0388", "category": "Board Games", "clue": "Stacking game in which players pull wooden blocks from a tower until it topples.", "hint": "Its name comes from a Swahili word meaning 'build'.", "answer": "JENGA", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0389", "category": "Space", "clue": "Streak of light made when a space rock burns up in the atmosphere, often called a 'shooting star'.", "hint": "The Perseids are a famous annual shower of them.", "answer": "METEOR", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0390", "category": "General Knowledge", "clue": "Annual book of calendars, weather predictions and tide tables; Benjamin Franklin published a famous 'Poor Richard's' one.", "hint": "The Old Farmer's version has been published since 1792.", "answer": "ALMANAC", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0391", "category": "Human Body", "clue": "Tiny bumps that rise on your skin when you're cold or scared.", "hint": "R.L. Stine wrote a famous series of spooky children's books with this title.", "answer": "GOOSEBUMPS", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0392", "category": "Geography", "clue": "Island city-state at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, known for its spotless streets.", "hint": "Its symbol is the Merlion, half lion and half fish.", "answer": "SINGAPORE", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0393", "category": "Famous People", "clue": "Greek philosopher who taught by asking questions and was sentenced to drink hemlock.", "hint": "His student Plato wrote down his ideas.", "answer": "SOCRATES", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0394", "category": "Technology", "clue": "Detection system that bounces radio waves off objects; its name reads the same backwards.", "hint": "Air traffic controllers and weather forecasters rely on it.", "answer": "RADAR", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0395", "category": "History", "clue": "Series of medieval religious wars in which European armies marched toward Jerusalem.", "hint": "Richard the Lionheart led troops in the third one.", "answer": "CRUSADES", "difficulty": "hard" }, { "id": "MWI-0396", "category": "Science", "clue": "Gradual wearing away of rock and soil by wind, water and ice.", "hint": "Over millions of years, the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon this way.", "answer": "EROSION", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0397", "category": "Inventions", "clue": "Car safety strap whose modern three-point design was introduced by Volvo in 1959.", "hint": "'Click It or Ticket' reminds drivers to wear one.", "answer": "SEATBELT", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0398", "category": "Sports", "clue": "Board on four wheels used for ollies and kickflips; it became an Olympic sport at the Tokyo Games.", "hint": "Tony Hawk is its most famous pro.", "answer": "SKATEBOARD", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0399", "category": "Nature", "clue": "Tall plant whose young flower heads turn to follow the Sun across the sky.", "hint": "Its seeds are a popular ballpark snack.", "answer": "SUNFLOWER", "difficulty": "medium" }, { "id": "MWI-0400", "category": "Architecture", "clue": "Arched stone channel the ancient Romans built to carry water into their cities.", "hint": "The Pont du Gard in southern France is a famous example.", "answer": "AQUEDUCT", "difficulty": "hard" } ]