Literary Moms
One of the most beloved mothers in literature is Marmee, the mother of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March in this novel by Louisa May Alcott.
What is Little Women?
This metal is the most recycled material on earth.
What is Steel?
This portmanteau refers to the crossing of the first two meals of the day.
What is Brunch?
There once was a lunatic Dane ...
Whose father was horribly slain ...
His mum married the swine ...
Who'd committed the crime ...
And his girl ended up in a drain.
What is Hamlet?
Legend has it that Chloris, the goddess of flowers, stumbled upon the lifeless body of this god of love while walking through the woods one day. Saddened by its death, she turned his body into a flower so beautiful that all the gods would consider it the Queen of Flowers. His mother named it Rose, an anagram of his name.
Who is Eros?
This song was first published in 1956 with the lyrics: "Sun lights up the daytime/ Moon lights up the night". It became Peggy Lee's signature song in 1958
What is Fever?
Kate Winslet keeps this award, which she won for the 2008 film, The Reader, in her bathroom, so that her guests can hold it and make speeches into the mirror shame-free.
What is the Oscar or Academy Award?
This character in Pride and Prejudice is the mother of 5 daughters. She is portrayed as silly, trying to find wealthy husbands for her daughters, but she is only trying to secure good futures for Elizabeth, Jane, Lydia, Mary and Kitty.
Who is Mrs. Bennet?
This metal alloy, composed of copper and zinc, is naturally antibacterial so its often used for doorknobs and handrails in public spaces.
What is Brass?
Put a ground up hamburger with a tasty tomato sauce and an elbow variety of pasta into a mix to get this (either homemade or in a Chef Boyardee can)
What is Beef-A-Roni?
There once was a woman called Kate ...
Who made all her suitors irate ...
But then one of the guys ...
Cut her right down to size ...
Feminism came centuries too late.
What is Taming of the Shrew?
This often yellow flower is also known by name of the famous Greek god Narcissus, who loved himself above anyone else in the world
What is the daffodil?
Made popular by Patsy Cline in 1961, Crazy was actually written by this red-headed stranger in 1958
Who is Willie Nelson?
in 1910 , he became the first US President to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at a Major League baseball game, the opening game of the Washington Senators season against the Philadelphia Athletics.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This bad mom from Greek mythology takes revenge on her husband, Jason, by killing their children in a play by Euripides.
Who is Medea?
The highest melting point for metal is at 3422°C., for this metal listed as W on the periodic table.
What is Tungsten?
Mayocue is a blend of mayonnaise and BBQ sauce. Mayoracha, go figure, is a mix of mayonnaise and sriracha. This is what you get when you mix mayonnaise with everyone's favorite tomato-based condiment.
What is Mayochup? (called Fry Sauce in Utah and Idaho)
There once was a murderous Scot ...
A friend of the king he was not ...
He slew his best friend ...
but got killed at the end ...
and his wife went as mad as a pot.
What is The Scottish Play?
According to Greek mythology, these aquatic flowers were named for a race of people who ate fruit and flowers, which made them forget about all worldly concerns.
What are Lotuses?
These three B words make up the title of the torch song from Pal Joey, a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical from 1940.
I'm wild again, beguiled again
A simpering, whimpering child again
What is Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered?
Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton share this distinction among U.S. presidential candidates.
What is winning the popular vote but not the electoral college vote?
After being told she'd given birth to a daughter, Daisy Buchanan, a character in this novel said, "I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
What is The Great Gatsby?
Dating back to 3300 BCE, a man was found with an axe made entirely of this metal (from the Latin Cuprum), which they believe he refined himself.
What is Copper?
Mix these two fruits together to get a pluot or an aprium.
What are a plum and an apricot?
There once was a girl named Miranda
Who flirted with one Ferdinand, a
Shipwrecked young prince
Who, after a rinse
Played chess with her on the veranda.
What is the Tempest?
Named for the Greek Greek Goddess of the Rainbow, this perennial flower comes in bearded and not bearded varieties and in a myriad of colors.
What is the Iris?
Best known for songs like "Oh Pretty Woman" and "Only the Lonely," this singer/songwriter's most yearn-ful song, "Crying" was first released in 1961.
Who is Roy Orbison?
Pentateuch translates to "five books" in Greek. The Pentateuch is the first five books of the Old Testament, namely these.
What are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?
The mothers in this book by Amy Tan, Suyuan, An‑mei, Lindo, and Ying‑ying use their stories or chinese traditions to connect with their modern daughters.
What is The Joy Luck Club?
The ability of a metal to be drawn into wire is a measure of this.
What is Ductility?
This portmanteau of a dish, with its earliest named origins stemming from Louisiana and Chef Paul Prudhomme, consists of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, which is then stuffed into a deboned turkey.
What is a turducken?
There once was a crazy old fool ...
Whose daughters were terribly cruel ...
and due to his pride ...
the whole lot of them died ...
but that's a victory for the gene pool
What is King Lear?
The botanical name for this bloom is 'helianthus'. The myth associated was it is about a water nymph who so loved Apollo that she ruined the life of his mortal princess lover. He ignored her till her death, when she was transformed into a flower that always faced her love.
What is the sunflower?
Starting in the Brill Building and co-writing songs for girl groups with her then husband Gerry Goffin, this singer songwriter's torch songs include "So Far Away," and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?"
Who is Carole King?
Chimpanzees, gorillas and koalas have this distinctly distinctive human feature covered under the study of dactylography.
What are fingerprints?