Tough Stuff
This texture says "expensive handbag" to one person and "get out of the water" to another.
What is alligator skin?
This Manhattan intersection is so bright at night that astronauts can reportedly pick out its glow from high above Earth.
What is Times Square?
This golf term for one stroke under par is also the name of a small bird.
What is a birdie?
This American doctor developed the first successful polio vaccine and chose not to personally patent it.
Who is Jonas Salk?
Soil plus water plus sunlight plus patience are the basic ingredients for doing this.
What is growing a plant?
The phrase "season the pan" often refers to cookware made of this.
What is cast iron?
This burst of light lasts only a fraction of a second but can make everyone in a photo blink at exactly the wrong moment.
What is a camera flash?
Score once: nice. Twice: great. Three times: you've earned this sports phrase.
What is a hat trick?
This children's television host made generations of kids feel that being kind, curious, and a little weird was perfectly okay.
Who is Fred Rogers?
Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly: these stages make up this dramatic biological transformation.
What is metamorphosis?
Yesterday's baguette often becomes this before becoming croutons.
What is stale bread?
This phrase means there's finally hope that a difficult situation is almost over.
What is "light at the end of the tunnel"?
This basketball play usually requires two people, good timing, and at least one person being much better at jumping than most of us.
What is an alley-oop?
During the Civil War, this formerly enslaved woman worked for the Union as a scout and spy as well as helping people escape slavery.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Part divided by whole times 100 is the basic recipe for finding this mathematical quantity.
What is finding a percentage?
Contractions, dilation, and one extremely consequential arrival are parts of this process.
What is childbirth?
Eight minutes after light leaves this star, some of it lands on your face.
What is The Sun?
The scoreboard changes, but absolutely nobody on your team celebrates when you score this.
What is an own goal?
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" belonged to this champion boxer and outspoken activist.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Your body grows and repairs itself partly because individual cells repeatedly perform this process.
What is cell division?
Hot water, a rubber glove, or angrily handing it to someone else are common strategies for defeating this household opponent.
What is a stuck jar lid?
For centuries, this bright coastal beacon has told sailors, essentially, "not here."
What is a lighthouse?
Sports fans often fall in love with this competitor precisely because the odds are against them.
What is an underdog?
In the 1890s, this New Yorker began treating sick people in Lower East Side tenements and went on to create Henry Street Settlement.
Who is Lillian Wald?
Unlike almost every other moment in soccer, a field player is specifically supposed to use their hands during this play.
What is soccer throw-in?