"Of course," said Norah, after a quarter of an hour's silence, "you want to make the words difficult and define them as subtly as possible." "Of course," I said, wrestling with '?—?.' I could only think of one word, and it was the one everybody else was certain to have. "Are we all ready? Then somebody begin." "You'd better begin, Norah, as you know the game," said Mrs. Gerald. We prepared to begin. "Mine," said Norah, "is a bird." "---," we all shouted; but I swear I was first. "Yes." "I don't think that's a very subtle definition," said Dennis. "You promised to be as subtle as possible." "Go on, dear," said Gerald to his wife. "Well, this is rather awkward. Mine is——" "---," I suggested. "You must wait till she has defined it," said Norah sternly. "Mine is a sort of feathered animal." "---," I said again. In fact, we all said it. Gerald coughed. "Mine," he said, "isn't exactly a—fish, because it——" "---," said everybody. "That was subtler," said Dennis, "but it didn't deceive us." "Your turn," said Norah to me. And they all leant forward ready to say "---." "Mine," I said, "is—all right, Dennis, you needn't look so excited—is a word I once heard a man say at the Zoo." There was a shriek of "---!" "Wrong," I said. Everybody was silent. "Where did he say it?" asked Norah at last. "What was he doing?" "He was standing outside the ---'s cage." "It must have been ---." "It wasn't." "Perhaps there's another animal beginning with '?' and ending with '?,'" suggested Dennis. "He might have said,'Look here, I'm tired of this old ---, let's go and see the _-doesn't-__,' or whatever it's called." from "Once a Week" by A.A. Milne
The six wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr
The first few digits of pi: 3.1415926
The planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The Mohs mineral scale of hardness: Talc, Gypsum, Calcite, Fluorite, Apatite, Orthoclase, Quartz, Topaz, Corundum, Diamond
The Great Lakes (in no particular order): Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Superior, Erie
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Radio waves, Microwaves, Infrared, Visible light, Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma rays
The Color Spectrum: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
All Boys Should Come Home Please
How I like a drink? Alcoholic, of course!
My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Noodles Tall Girls Can Find And Other Queer Things Can Do
HOMES
Raging Martians Invade Venus Using X-ray Guns
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
ARAGON
TWO
EARTH
GYPSUM
ONTARIO
RADIO
YELLOW