Just Desserts
Familiar Phrases
Double Talk
The Eighth
Here Be Monstors
100
This fruit dessert is knows as Betty for short.
What is Brown Betty?
100
The word roger, meaning a rouge, may have led to this term for a pirate flag.
What is Jolly Roger?
100
It skirts the issues if the issue happens to be a ballerina.
What is a tutu?
100
In music, it’s also called a quaver.
What is an eighth note?
100
The monstrous Nazgul fight against the elves & the hobbits in this film series.
What is The Lord of the Rings?
200
The short-, medium-, and long-grain type of this may be used to make pudding.
What is rice?
200
A person who moves quickly doesn’t les this grow under his feet.
What is grass?
200
Something forbidden or unacceptable is one of these.
What is a no-no?
200
In 1948 Citation became the eighth to win this, and the last for 25 years.
What is the Triple Crown?
200
In 1998 after terrorizing New York, this movie monster is finally brought down on the Brooklyn Bridge?
What is Godzilla?
300
This pie with a sheer fabric in its name contains beaten egg whites and/or gelatin.
What is Chiffon pie?
300
The term “dressed to” these may be a corruption of “dressed to then eyne” meaning “to the eyes”.
What is dressed to the nines?
300
In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, it was “everywhere, nor any drop to drink”.
What is "water, water"?
300
This eighth book of the Old Testament is named for a Moabite woman.
What is Ruth?
300
Robert Englund played this monster for the first time in 1984.
Who is Freddy Kreuger?
400
In names of desserts, this woman’s name may follow chocolate or precede russe.
What is Charlotte?
400
Pride in a group endeavors is called this, French for “spirit of the body”.
What is Espirit de Corps?
400
The name of Goku's wife in this cult classic show.
Who is Chi-Chi?
400
Louis IX of France died during the eighth of these campaigns.
What is the Crusades?
400
In "Monsters, Inc." he provided the voice for Mike, a one-eyed green monster.
Who is Billy Crystal?
500
Black Forest Cake is made with kirsch, a liquor made from this fruit.
What is Cherries?
500
19th c. poet William Ross Wallace wrote that “the hand that” does this “is the hand that rules the world”.
What is the hand that rocks the cradle?
500
From Chinese Pidgin English, it means very quickly
What is Chop-Chop?
500
The Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive bail & fines & these 2 kinds of punishment.
What is cruel and unusual?
500
In 1941 Lon Chaney, Jr. as Larry Talbot turned into this title monster.
What is the Wolf Man?
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