Character Acting
This popular TV character, Phil Dunfy, starring as one of the main father figures on the hit "Modern Family," worked as a ___________.
What is a real estate agent?
Formally known as an ichthyologist, this animal scientist specializes in the study of _______.
What are fish?
Where is Afghanistan?
A parent may give the ___________ treatment to their child for misbehaving.
What is silent?
Supposedly the oldest riddle in the world: “There is a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?”
What is a school?
In this sitcom, this central character, bafflingly worked as an operator at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.
Who is Homer Simpson?
A popular and very practical college major, this field is often described as the "dismal science," as while it is not a physical science, it studies the relationship between market forces, incentives, and human behavior.
What is economics?
In 1953, an armistice, not a peace treaty was established between these two countries. While not actively involved in armed conflict, they are still "officially at war."
Where are North Korea and South Korea?
This adjective describes something as extraneous, unnecessary, or beyond what is required.
What is superfluous?
"Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. The Pope has one but never uses it. Madonna doesn't have one. What is it?"
A last name (surname)?
On the medical drama, House MD, Dr. Eric Foreman played the role of this medical subspecialist.
What is a neurologist?
A vexillologist is an expert in the study of the history, meaning, usage, and symbolism of these national items.
What are flags?
First seen in WWI, this type of conflict refers to the limited and stalled advancement of both belligerents with little to no gain on either side.
What is trench warfare?
We refer to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun as a year. The time period that describes the same orbital period of an object about a heliocentric body is known as a _____.
What is a sol?
"As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks. Each sack had seven cats. Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, how many were there going to St. Ives?"
What is one?
What is district attorney/prosecutor?
A medical doctor who specializes in treating disorders of the glands and organs that produce hormones in known as ______________.
What is an endocrinologist?
This country in Southeast Asia, formerly known has Burma, is considered to have the longest continuous active civil war (1948 - current).
Where is Myanmar?
This type of plant is well adapted to arid, dry environments and contains thick fleshy tissues designed for storing water.
What is a succulent?
"What has keys but can't open locks? What has branches but no fruit? What can run but never walk?"
You would never expect this, but before taking on the role of the Italian dictator of the Axis Powers, Benito Mussolini, actually worked as a stint as one of these professionals.
What is an elementary school teacher?
Petrology, not often a word you will hear in casual conversation, refers to the study of the formation, composition, structure and evolution of these objects.
What are rocks?
This catchy term used to describe the political, geographical, and ideological boundary between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, is said to have fallen upon the collapse of the Soviet Union.
What was the Iron Curtain?
Clinically, these two words mean exactly the same thing. They describe a speech fluency disorder in which the flow of vocal communication is disrupted. Presently, there is no cure for this condition.
What are stuttering and stammering?
“This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.”
What is time?