History
This is the name given to the intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th to 19th centuries.
What is the Enlightenment?
Things you have to do around the house, like washing dishes, clothes, cleaning, etc.
What are chores?
This English idiom means "good luck" and is very frequently used in theater.
What is "break a leg"?
The five animal kingdoms are: animalia, plantae, fungi, monera, and ___________.
Jay is from New York, and he lives in a small wooden shack on the muddy banks of this major US river.
What is the Hudson River?
He was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII, and then again during the 1950s.
Who is Winston Churchill?
The daughter of my sister.
Who is my niece?
This usually means that a person is getting an ideal outcome from two possibilities. Think "hannah montana".
What is "the best of both worlds"?
The scientific name for table salt.
What is sodium chloride?
In the Philippines they speak this language that has some similarities to Castilian Spanish, due to Spain's colonial influence on the islands.
What is Tagalog?
This group of people led a working class revolution in Russia in 1917.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
The son of my brother.
Who is my nephew?
We will talk about that problem when it is more relevant to our circumstances.
What is "we will cross that bridge when we come to it"?
His cat is both dead and alive.
Who is Schrödinger?
Roberto was born and raised in the murky waters of this enormous swampy ecosystem in the south of Florida.
What are the Everglades?
He was the leader of the communist revolution in China during the 1940s and 1950s, then late became chairman of the Chinese communist party.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This phrasal verb is used to describe the moment when two people promise to marry one another.
What is "to get engaged"?
This means to get something over with, because it is inevitable.
The process in which a solid immediately evaporates into a gas, as in the case of CO2
What is sublimation?
In Olivia's homeland of Wales, there exists a town on an island that has the longest name of any place in the United Kingdom. Its name is ____________.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
This is the name given to the sensational style of news reporting that dominated the media at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This phrasal verb describes the way in which two or more people (usually siblings) behave towards one another.
What is "to get along"?
The person we were just talking about arrived (as we were talking about them).
What is "speak of the devil"?
The name of the compound found in plant cells that gives plants their green color and allows them to photosynthesize.
What is chlorophyll?
Louisiana waterway. It's not a river. It's not a stream. It's not a creek. It's not a brook. It's a __________.
What is a bayou?