Through the looking glass | A Category Full of Holes | Pun-ishment | World o Facts | Gems & Jewels |
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What is a dream
Alice finally decides that her journey through the looking-glass was one of these but doesn't know whose it was
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What is 9
A par 3 golf course often has this many holes, half as many as a regular course
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What is "because it's pointless"
The reason it's futile to write with a broken-tipped pencil
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What is the Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia was part of the region nicknamed this "Crescent
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What is a diamond
"Ring" in if you know that this gem is the hardest substance found in nature
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Who are Tweedledum and Tweedledee
These 2 brothers have "Dum" & "Dee" embroidered on their collars
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What is a poncho
In case of rain when camping, always keep one of these South American cloaks with a hole in it ready for wear
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What is the LAN down under
Punning on a Men at Work song, it's what the computer geek called a local area network he built in Melbourne
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What s a Tasmanian devil
In 2006, Warner Bros. pledged to help these Australian animals stricken by a cancer epidemic
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What is a ruby
This gem is most prized when its color is pigeon's blood red
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Who is Humpty Dumpy
An egg that Alice buys grows larger & larger & eventually becomes this wall-sitter
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What is a black hole
The nearby Andromeda Galaxy has a supermassive one of these at its center
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What is a small medium at large
4-word bulletin put out by the police department after the tiny psychic escaped from custody
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What is Labor Day
A 1937 general strike in Trinidad is commemorated every June 19, celebrated as this day
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What is a tiger's eye
Folklore affirms that spheres made from this precious stone, ojo de tigre, help in attaining business success
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What is the Jabberwocky
"All mimsy were the borogoves" in this poem whose first & last stanzas are exactly the same
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What are perforations
Until these holes on postage stamps were introduced in the 1850s, stamps had to be cut by hand
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What is You can run, but you can't Hyde
It's what Dr. Jekyll's asst. said to him after his formula turned him into a sprinter & not his old evil self
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What is Castle Rock
A symbolic fortress of Scotland overlooking Edinburgh, or a Rob Reiner movie company
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What is lapis lazuli
This 2-word gemstone was once ground to produce ultramarine, a deep blue paint pigment
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Who is the Red Queen
This "colorful" royal advises Alice to "Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time"
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Who was James Whitcomb Riley
This "Hoosier Poet" recalled "long, lazy... happy days of yore" in his poem "The Old Swimmin' Hole"
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What is a parisite (Paris site)
Things that can be seen from the Eiffel Tower or animals that live & feed on other animals
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What are the horse latitudes
Found at 30° N. & S., these regions are thought to be so named because becalmed ships had to lose animal weight
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What is topaz
Citrine, a translucent yellow quartz, is often sold as this gem
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