Beefy "T"s
Idioms & Expressions
New York Society
Television by the Number
Nonfiction
200

This hyphenated "tip" of meat is named for its 3-sided shape

tri-tip

200

An adynaton is an idiom referring to an impossibility, like "when" this event involving swine happens

when pigs fly

200

The National Society of Colonial Dames in the state of New York manages Van Cortlandt House, the oldest home in this most N. borough

the Bronx

200

This title ZIP code was first addressed in 1990, repackaged in 2008 & sent again in 2019

90210

200

"Khe Sanh" is a section in "Dispatches", Michael Herr's 1977 memoir of this war

Vietnam

400

The beef julienne at Benihana has mushrooms in this sauce

teriyaki

400

Rover knows it's the hottest period during the summer

dog days

400

Verses written in transit vehicles in NYC & other cities are courtesy of the Poetry Society of America & are called "Poetry in" this

motion

400

Scott Caan booked 'em as Danno on the reboot of this cop show

Hawaii Five-O

400

One chapter in this book by Stephen Hawking is "The Origin & Fate of the Universe"

A Brief History of Time

600

In a taco, lengua meat is braised this part of the cow

tongue

600

Watch what you consume according to this; in German it's a pun, "Man ist was man isst"

You are what you eat

600

Head to the Hispanic Society of America for a dazzling art collection, like Martín Gómez's 16th century retablo, also known as this type of piece

an altarpiece

600

On this NBC sitcom Tracy Morgan said, "I yelled 'baba booey' at Walter Cronkite's funeral"

30 Rock

600

In "A Grief Observed", he left the land of Narnia to grapple with his feelings of loss after his wife's death

C.S. Lewis

800

Chateaubriand traditionally uses a large steak from this area beneath the ribs

the tenderloin

800

To gain experience is "to cut" these canine teeth of the upper jaw

the eye teeth

800

Located at 680 Park Avenue, the Americas Society was founded by David of this wealthy family to build understanding in our hemisphere

Rockefeller

800

In a cartoon title debuting in 2005, Ben found a device that transformed its wearer into this many possible alien creatures

10

800

DAILY DOUBLE

Oliver Sacks wrote about patients who recovered from a sleeping sickness in this book that became a Robert De Niro movie

1000

The honeycomb type from the second stomach chamber is considered the best type of this meat

tripe

1000

A humorist wrote, "Why not go" here, take a chance in unknown territory? "Isn't that where the fruit is?

out on a limb

1000

Crusading against "obscene" literature from the 1870s to the 1950s, the NYSSV was the New York Society for the Suppression of this

vice

1000

On this series, Mahershala Ali was one of thousands of missing people who got returned on the same day

The 4400

1000

This biologist wrote the classics "Silent Spring" & "The Sea Around Us"

Carson

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