Fake Clues
A type of false advertising is known as this fishing term "& switch"
What is bait?
To make an aioli sauce, start with crushed cloves of this
What is garlic?
The first two Guitar Hero games featured mostly covers as a "stylistic choice." To keep songs as realistic as possible, studio bands recorded songs with the same instruments and sound settings as the original bands. Developers even went as far to seek out on Craigslist the same type of fan Ozzy Osbourne used to record the opening line of this 1973 song about an estranged superhero
What is Iron Man?
Utah's state rock: it's mined and burned to produce heat & electricity
What is coal?
Citing fire risks, in 2016 the FAA banned this company's Galaxy Note 7 phones from all U.S. flights
Who is Samsung?
Britannica cites the Piltdown man & the Feejee mermaid in its articles on this type of 4-letter scam
What is a hoax?
Sauce "aurore" gets its pinkish-red color from a puree of these
What are tomatoes?
GH3 was the first in the franchise to feature "battles" where you take on rock icons, one of which is against Slash from this band. Once you beat him, you play as him and perform "Welcome to the Jungle"
Who are Guns n' Roses?
The luminescent effect that some minerals show is named this for the mineral fluorite
What is fluorescence?
Since the early 2000s, many states have banned mercury-in-glass these, once a staple of the family medicine cabinet
What are thermometers?
This adjective that means, like, totally fake describes Bill & Ted's journey in a 1991 film title
What is bogus?
One story says the French came up with this sauce to imitate a buttery one brought with a visiting Dutch king
What is hollandaise sauce?
Thanks to GH3, this band's "Through the Fire and Flames" went from 2,000 digital sales a week to over 35,000
Who are DragonForce?
The Carrara quarries in Tuscany are prized for this rock used by Michelangelo for his Pieta sculpture
What is marble?
In 2013, this racy E.L. James trilogy was pulled from library shelves in Florida only to return due to public demand
What is "Fifty Shades of Grey?"
This, in which an email address has been faked, is a tactic used in phishing & spam
What is spoofing?
Tabasco sauce has been made on this Louisiana salt island since the 1860s
What is Avery Island?
For GH2, Buckethead recorded the first studio version of this song of theirs, which didn't even have a name at the time! Buckethead gave the song its name as an homage to a basketball legend
What is Jordan?
Mount Rushmore is carved into a cliff made of this coarse rock
What is granite?
In 1969, New Jersey police seize 30,000 copies of this couple's "Two Virgins" album, which shows them nude on the cover
Who are John Lennon and Yoko Ono?
German for replacement gives us this word for a poor substitute
What is "ersatz?"
Named after an Italian city, it's a rich meat sauce also called Ragu, or a spaghetti dish covered in it
What is Bolognese?
This rock band made more money from their GH® game than any single album they ever released. With all that money, they could put a lot of Toys in the Attic... maybe even take a Permanent Vacation
Who is Aerosmith?
The upper layer of the Earth's crust primarily consists of these 2 metal elements: #13 and #14
What are aluminum and silicon?
On Aug. 2, 1921, 8 members of this team were acquitted of taking money to lose the World Series; on Aug. 3 they were banned from baseball
Who are the Chicago White Sox?