High School Reunion Tournament: Test Your Knowledge and See If You Can Respond to These Quarterfinal Triple Stumpers

TECH TALK These days, more than 70% of Internet traffic is this type of video that typically uses data compression

LET'S TAKE A SPRING BREAK Spring break is major party time on the beaches of SPI, this Texas spot

BODIES OF WATER In ancient times the Dardanelles Strait was called this & was associated with the story of Hero & Leander

CROSSWORD CLUES "T" Math term for a digression (7 letters)

A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN With a mission to increase awesome & decrease suck & to champion causes to help others, fans of my brother Hank & I & our VlogBrothers videos are called these from the misreading of the name of a video game

A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN I wrote alternating chapters with David Levithan for a novel that follows two very different teens--one gay & one straight--who share this same name

TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY NYC's Riverside Branch pioneered open these, despite librarians' fears that patrons would steal the books

TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY This city's main public library, named for Mayor Harold Washington, has a teen learning center called YOUmedia

TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world's first known library in the 600s B.C.

AN "F" IN HISTORY U.S., British & Iraqi forces retook this Iraqi city in the second battle of it at the end of 2004

AN "F" IN HISTORY Like a university, a river in British Columbia is named for this explorer who reached its mouth in 1808

ON TIKTOK A big food trend a couple of years back was this fluffy baked item made with egg whites, sugar & cornstarch

POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS As the title of a John Cusack movie sums up, Martin Blank is a hitman going to his reunion in this Detroit suburb

POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS In the reunion movie "10 Years", she played the girlfriend of her then-husband

TRAVEL FACTS A legacy of its colonial past, Burundi's currency is this, divided into 100 centimes

TRAVEL FACTS Say yes to grandma when she wants to take you on a cruise to the stretch of the Yucatan coast invitingly called the "Mayan" this

THE PRESIDENTIAL VICTOR He waxed Wendell Willkie in wartime

TV SWITCHEROO In 2006 "Monday Night Football" began airing on this network after decades as a mainstay on ABC

TV SWITCHEROO Lacey Chabert voiced this character on the first season of "Family Guy", but Mila Kunis picked up the ball & ran with it

TV SWITCHEROO After a big time jump in season 9 of this show, we find a new actress playing young Judith Grimes & she's there to help the survivors

LITERARY MOVEMENTS Poet & playwright Amiri Baraka is considered the founder of this 1960s & '70s movement, BAM for short

LITERARY MOVEMENTS For their gallant verses & loyalty to Charles I, 1600s poets like Richard Lovelace were known as these mounted knights

A JOLLY RHYME An act of sheer madness or idiocy

A JOLLY RHYME A camera mounted on a cart is used for this type of movie shot in moving toward a subject or out for the reverse

FASHION Look for clothes & shoes in this vivid purplish red named for an Italian town; Pantone named it 2023's color of the year

COLLEGE FOOTBALL It's a real cat fight at the Bayou Classic, with the Jaguars of Southern Univ. facing the Tigers of this state univ. of Louisiana

ASTRONOMY & SPACE A cluster of young stars, this group of astronomical siblings includes Electra, Maia & Alcyone

YOU SEEM UPSET You can leave in a cab or in an Uber but please, not in this bad mood, also a verb meaning to blow

YOU SEEM UPSET You seem this, from the Latin for "to put in motion" & used to describe patients in a disturbed state

AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS He modeled Gravesend Academy in "A Prayer for Owen Meany" after his alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS This Pulitzer winner for "The Underground Railroad" has a degree from Harvard & received the 2018 Harvard Arts medal

ANNUAL EVENTS The jazz festival named for these L.A. towers built by Simon Rodia has been grooving annually since 1976

LITERARY REUNIONS In the "Odyssey" Odysseus has a brief but memorable reunion with Argus, one of these, as he returns to Ithaca

SHORT, TINY & SMALL Lasting a mere 2 months, 17 days in 1483, the fifth king of this name was the shortest-reigning male monarch of England

DESCRIBING THE HORROR FILM FRANCHISE A high school plane trip to Europe! What could possibly go wrong?; making death mad... problematic; hi, Mr. Bludworth!

STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL When it comes to blood, this literally means "red cell"

BLACK HISTORY In 1930 "Don't buy where you can't work" was a slogan of this economic strategy vs. stores that wouldn't hire African Americans

HOME FROM COLLEGE The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi is logically located in this city--take grandma to mass if you're home for Easter

HOME FROM COLLEGE Looking for a Waffle House with your buddies? Don't be fooled by the museum in this Atlanta suburb, named for naval hero Stephen

NONPOTENT POTABLES Meaning "red bush", this caffeine-free South African tea has surged in popularity in recent years

COMPANIES IN HISTORY In the 1960s Benjamin Rubin of Wyeth Laboratories invented the 2-prong bifurcated one of these that helped eliminate smallpox

COMPANIES IN HISTORY With this grain-cutting device, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. helped win the Civil War as Union grain exports kept Europe neutral

BEFORE & AFTER A period of need to save up for that falls on the Mexican holiday just after Halloween

THE GOLDEN AGE Born around 470 B.C., this figure from the golden age of Greek culture went around barefoot asking annoying questions

SOUTHERNERS This Georgian has ranged from a rural wife in "Raising Arizona" to an executive on "Succession"

PURE POETRY In 1950 "Bitter Strawberries" by this Boston-born woman became her 1st nationally published poem; not bad for a 17-year-old

BEFORE & AFTER 3 of a kind plus a pair for the family that lost England's Wars of the Roses

RAPPERS He's seen here actually in a hoodie around the time of "Doris", his major label debut album

HOBBIES & PASTIMES It's the fancier word for the hobby of stamp collecting

13-LETTER WORDS From Latin, it's the science or philosophy of law

THEY WROTE ‘EM "A Passage to India" (1924)

THEY WROTE ‘EM "Chorus of the Captains", a poem performed via video at the 2021 Super Bowl

MEDIEVAL TIMES The innocent-if-you-sink, guilty-if-you-float method of justice was called trial by this, a word meaning any painful experience

GET “SET” The babies of this primate from the forests of South America are usually born as twins

CARPE DIEM In 1916 Congress moved the start of the Supreme Court's term from the 2nd this day in October to the first, where it has remained

ONOMATOPOEIA These 2 words that differ by one vowel combine to mean a change of heart

ONOMATOPOEIA This loud disturbance arose "out on the lawn" in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"

GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! Monkeys & rhinos were literally in the house & the game was afoot in this 1982 Caldecott Medal winner by Chris Van Allsburg

BRIDGES Though its name means "new bridge", it's the oldest existing bridge across the Seine

POP MUSICIANS "Expensive Pain" by this Philly rapper debuted at No. 3 in 2021

ENERGY GLOSSARY CFLs, compact fluorescent lamps, light up by exciting atoms of this silver-colored element

IN THE SPORT Inherited runners, apparel play, pickoff

THAT’S D-MINUS WORK The software that signals a printer leaves the letter D behind & becomes a body of water

BIRDS NEAR WATER Also the name of a Marine Corps aircraft, this raptor is alternately known as a fish eagle

IN THE SPORT Eight-count, accidental butt, cutman (for said accidental butt)

IN THE SPORT Penalty killing, plus-minus, the five-hole, “the biscuit” (that’s what everyone’s chasing)

BIRDS NEAR WATER This bird of the genus actitis gets its name from running along seashores making short, high-pitched noises

ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS Craig Alanson created this series of novels, ExForce for short, as a “military space opera”

HIT ALBUMS 2020’s “Eternal Atake” was a smash for this rapper born Symere Woods

HIT ALBUMS With 2012’s “Babel”, this not-actually-a-family band topped the charts & won an Album of the Year Grammy

ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS In 11 books by C.S. Forester, this intrepid sailor starts as a midshipman & ultimately becomes an admiral

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