Acronyms
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
Beat and beet
In the number 12345.6789, this digit is in the thousandths place
8
Telephone- 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
In the first version of this tale, the girl and grandmother both die. In a second version, a hunter cuts them out of the belly of a wolf.
Little Red Riding Hood
ROFL
Rolling On Floor Laughing
An accomplishment and the things at the bottom of your legs
Feat and Feet
1/2 + 1/3
5/6
Over 300 uses for peanuts- 1917ish
George Washington Carver
Stepsisters cut off parts of their feet to fit into a shoe. They deliberately make themselves disabled, thinking their lives will become easier as royalty. Then, birds pluck out their eyes.
Cinderella
ACLU
American Civil Liberties Union
A military organization and a dead body
Corps and corpse
The volume of a rectangular prism with a base that is three inches by five inches and a height that is seven inches (WITH PROPER UNITS)
105 cubic inches
Daily Double
Lightning Rod-1752
A king rides by and rapes an unconscious woman. She gives birth to twins while she’s still comatose. Trying to breastfeed, one of the babies removes the poisoned splinter from her finger, waking the woman.
Sleeping Beauty
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
A small, natural stream and a harsh, high pitch
creak and creek
1/4- 1/6
1/12
The printing press- 1450
Johannes Gutenberg
Because she can't force herself to kill the prince with a dagger- the only way to return to her original form- the protagonist of this tale throws herself into the sea, where her body dissolves into sea foam.
The Little Mermaid
NAACP
National Association for Advancement of Colored People
Daily Double
Rented and the lowest amount
Kenny ate 1/5 of the birthday cake. His sister ate 2/6 of the cake. This much cake was left
7/15
Paper- 2nd century BCE
Cai Lun (Chinese court official)
In this fairytale, the evil queen (who is actually the protagonist's step mother)'s punishment is being made to dance wearing a pair of red-hot iron shoes until she falls over dead
Snow White