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American Founding Father, famous for his large signature on the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
Picked a peck of Peter Piper pickled peppers.
What is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"?
This type of farming uses natural methods, avoiding synthetic chemicals.
What is organic farming?
Still used in British culture, a "stone" is a unit of weight equal to this many pounds.
What is 14 pounds?
If you are from the United Kingdom, you call him this instead of Santa Claus.
Who is Father Christmas?
He was known as "The Man in Black," and a revolutionary figure in country and rock music.
Who is Johnny Cash?
Out of a mountain make a molehill.
What is "Make a mountain out of a molehill."?
This phrase means to delegate or outsource work, like a child to daycare.
What is "Farming out"?
It would take about this many monarch butterflies to weigh just 1 ounce.
What is about 100?
A traditional British roast dinner wouldn't be complete without Yorkshire puddings filled with homemade gravy. They closely resemble what Americans know as these holey buns.
What is popovers?
This English explorer was key to Jamestown's survival.
Who is John Smith?
Lollipop licks a lazy lion.
What is "Lazy lion licks a lollipop"?
On average, it takes about this many years to grow a Christmas tree.
What is seven?
It would take approximately this many dollar bills laid lengthwise and end to end to circle the world.
What is about 250 million? Exactly 256,964,529
Originating in the mid-1600s, this day was traditionally a day off for servants wherein they would receive a gift from their master. The servants would then return home to gift it to their families.
What is Boxing Day?
This legendary composer was behind the scores for Star Wars, Jaws, and Indiana Jones.
Who is John Williams?
Paradise, and they put up a paved parking lot.
What is "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"?
To produce just one pound of honey, a hive of bees must visit roughly this many flowers.
What is two million?
In the 1300s, King Edward II of England standardized the inch as the length of three of these placed end-to-end.
What is a barleycorn?
In the UK, it's tradition to take down your tree and decorations this many days after Christmas — known as _______ Night — to avoid bad luck in the new year.
What is twelve or Twelfth?
A Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms in 1614. He also popularized the use of the decimal point.
Who is John Napier?
Fruit farming began sometime between 6000 and 3000 B.C. These were one of the first cultivated fruit crops.
What is figs?
Despite the high-tech image of giant corporate fields, this percent of U.S. farms are still family-operated.
What is 95%?
Defined in 1793, the meter was originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator through this European city.
What is Paris?
Christmas crackers are often pulled at the start of the meal, and the paper hats found inside are worn throughout the meal. In addition, are a joke, a small prize and this which makes a loud pop when the cracker is pulled.
What is a banger?