FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
If a Spaniard asks you, "¿Que hora es?" he wants to know this
What time is it?
According to poet Ernest Thayer, “… there is no joy in Mudville” because this guy “… has struck out.”
Mighty Casey
Herodotus estimated it took 100,000 men 20 years to complete this structure of Giza
The Great Pyramid
It's the popular name for a German submarine
U-Boat
Dandruff is made up of dead cells of this
The Skin
This word popular with magicians is Italian for "quick" or "nimble"
Presto
He penned the famous opening line, “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary …”
Edgar Allan Poe (“The Raven”)
The 1929 stock market crash is blamed for starting this economic slump that lasted over a decade
The Great Depression
This British Field Marshal accepted the surrender of all German forces in northern Europe
Bernard "Monty" Montgomery
The pons is part of this organ's stem
The Brain
Square dancers use this anglicized form of the French for "back to back"
Do-si-do
When Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau read this poet’s beloved poem “Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” at his father’s memorial, he changed the last line to “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. He has kept his promises and earned his sleep.”
Robert Frost
Tiny Tim's 1968 version of this song wasn't quite as big as Jerry Lee Lewis'
"Great Balls of Fire"
Col. Paul Tibbets named this plane after his mother
The Enola Gay
The ducts between the gall bladder & the liver are called these
The Bile Ducts (or the Hepatic Ducts or Cystic Ducts)
It's Yiddish for a light snack
A Nosh
“Women …” in the T. S. Eliot poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “… come and go, talking of … ” this Italian master.
Michelangelo
They form the boundary between North Carolina & Tennessee
The Great Smokey Mountains
His cartoons & sketches of the war won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1945
Bill Mauldin
This part of the large intestine is especially subject to diverticulitis
The colon
The ancient battle cry "Erin go bragh" translates to this
Ireland Forever!
This 19th-century American poet described the new sport of baseball in these glowing terms: “I see great things in baseball. It's our game – the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.”
Walt Whitman
it became the name for LBJ's domestic programs and Americans were told they could move upward to it
The Great Society
She was Germany's equivalent of Tokyo Rose
Axis Sally
1 of the 2 pairs of bones that make up the pectoral girdle
The clavicle (collar bone or shoulder bone)