A quick-cooking egg noodle usually served in a broth with bits of vegetables and meat such as char siu or tonkatsu.
Japan 🍜
Ramen
"By the skin of your teeth"
To barely pass/achieve something
An apparatus consisting of a small, shallow oval or round bowl on a long handle, used for eating, stirring, and serving food.
Spoon 🥄
Rubber bands made of silicone rubber formed into shapes including animals, objects, numbers, and letters. They can be worn as bracelets.
Silly Bandz
Finish the phrase: "Hide your kids....
Hide your wife, and hide your husband."
(Bed Intruder)
A thin, straight, cylindrical pasta that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
Italy 🤌
Spaghetti
A person who is similar to a parent/mentor in some way
A hair care product, typically in the form of a viscous liquid, that is used for cleaning hair.
Shampoo 🫧
An electronic toy displaying a digital image of a creature that has to be looked after and responded to by the “owner” as if it were a pet.
Tamagotchi
An elevated linear park built out of a former New York City Railroad spur, located in Manhattan’s west side, is the ______ Line
The High Line
A sweet-and-sour treat of skewered candied fruit, traditionally hawthorn berries, encased in crystallized sugar.
China 🍡
Tanghulu
Emit smoke from seven orifices
To be extremely angry, the orifices are eyes, ears, nostrils and mouth.
China
The quality of being strange, unsettling, or frightening in a way that suggests the supernatural
Spooky 👻
[20 seconds]
Name 3 cartoon shows from the late 90s/early 2000s.
Examples: Rugrats, Ben 10, Pokemon, Kim Possible, Cyberchase, Clifford, Arthur, Tom & Jerry, Powerpuff Girls, Magic School Bus, etc.
Finish the phrase: "If you see these dogs in your front yard...
"Just know upstairs I'm going hard, BING BONG"
A variety of edible snails, usually eaten with a sauce made of melted butter and garlic
France 🐌
Escargot
Live like a maggot in bacon.
To be well-off and to live luxuriously.
Germany
A rapidly rotating mass of water in a river or sea into which objects may be drawn, typically caused by the meeting of conflicting currents.
Whirlpool 🌀
[30 secs]
Name (be as specific as possible) at least 3 online games a child would have played growing up in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Examples: Wizard 101, Maple Story, Fantage, Club Penguin, Neopets, Guitar Hero, Sims, Webkinz, Poptropica, Gaiaonline, etc.
This classic Broadway musical, adapted for film in 1961 and again in 2021, features warring New York City gangs known as the Jets and the Sharks
West Side Story
A dish of saffron-flavored rice cooked with meats, seafood, and vegetables (typically served in a shallow pan)
Spain🥘
Paella
Hang noodles on someone's ears.
To fool or BS someone.
Russia
A stupid or silly person: fool, simpleton
Nincompoop 🤪
The shorthand term for "the year 2000." It was commonly used to refer to a widespread computer programming shortcut that was expected to cause extensive havoc as the year changed from 1999 to 2000. Nowadays is more commonly used to relate to characteristics of the late 1990s and early 2000s
Y2K
Forming in St. Louis in 1925, this precision dance company has performed in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall since 1932
The Rockettes