"L" WORDS
A cowboy swings this looped rope overhead to catch a runaway animal.
What is a lasso?
Anchoring a plant in the soil, these underground parts also soak up water and minerals.
What are roots?
This Pennsylvanian NFL team name nods to the city's blast furnaces and mills used for its industrial metal industry.
Who are the Steelers?
Meant for dipping in milk, this bitter-sweet cookie is an American best-seller.
What is an Oreo?
What someone might say if a taskis no trouble or too simple.
What is easy peasy
A bit of this can go a long way, though many are split on its existance; a trait that brings good fortune.
What is luck?
Bees and hummingbirds are unwitting couriers in this process that lets flowers reproduce.
What is pollination?
This NBA team moved from Minneapolis, the "Land of 10,000 Lakes," to a city with no lakes of note.
Who are the Lakers?
These marshmallow birds are a springtime staple, and some people microwave them just to watch them puff up.
What is Peeps?
An overweight house pet or maybe someone with a lot of wealth.
What is a fat cat?
A gap in the wording of a law or contract that lets you avoid its intent.
What is a loophole?
Plants make their own food from sunlight and release the oxygen we breathe as a byproduct in this process.
What is photosynthesis?
This Canadian NBA team got its name through fan contest in 1994, possibly motivated by a famous Spielberg blockbuster that released a year earlier.
Who are the Raptors?
Developed for soldiers in 1941, these tiny candy-coated chocolates have a hard shell that keeps them from melting in your palm.
What are M&M's?
A magician’s phrase, it has come to mean trickery or nonsense.
What is hocus pocus?
In Greek myth, Daedalus designed this maze to hold the Minotaur.
What is a labyrinth?
This orchard technique of joining a cutting from one tree onto the roots of another is very similar to a surgery technique used on the human body, with the same name.
What is grafting?
Brooklyn's baseball team was named for residents who had to avoid the city's streetcars: the team later moved to the west coast.
Who are the Dodgers?
Invented in Austria in the 1920s as a breath mint for adults, this rectangle candy now deals in collectable characters.
What is Pez?
When a country’s brightest minds leave for better opportunities abroad, this is the rhyming name for that exodus.
What is brain drain?
Half-hearted and careless, this five-syllable adjective has four "A's," begins and ends with an "L," and describes working with no enthusiasm.
What is lackadaisical?
This pigment chemical, in plants, uses magnesium to absorb red and blue light and reflects the color we see in leaves.
What is chlorophyll?
This team's name made more sense in their original city, New Orleans, but not in Utah, where they play now.
Who are the Jazz?
Mars named this peanut-packed bar after the family's favorite racehorse.
What is Snickers?
An informal term for a skilled attorney, mixed with a bird of prey.
What is a legal eagle?