Telling a Bedtime Story
A huntsman cuts into a wolf's stomach to let this girl & her grandma escape, but the wolf lives!
OK, until the girl kills it using stones
Little Red Riding Hood
It got its independence from Portugal in 1822 & abolished slavery in 1888
Brazil
A part of profits paid to shareholders, the scrip type is basically a promissory note
A Dividend
AMC Theatres claims to sell 52 million bags of this snack food every year
popcorn
A woman in Canada used an existing R to place "quizzers" on 2 triple word scores to help score 365 points at once in this game
Scrabble
Let's thumb through this tale... Title girl swims well, gets human legs... Wait, she kinda dies at the end?!
The Little Mermaid
The strait of Gibraltar separates the mainlands of these 2 countries by about 8 miles
Spain & Moracco
For a sales team, the number of contracts signed per quarter might be one of these indicators, KPI for short
Key Performance Indicator
If you love Dum Dums & Chupa Chups, you're a real sucker for this treat
a lollipop
For me, it's left hand, green, right foot, blue & left hamstring, pulled playing this Hasbro game
Twister
A Seussian home invasion, now that's what he'll do! / He'll mistreat a fish! Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo!
The Cat in the Hat
In 1960, this South Asian island country elected the world’s first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sri Lanka
In the longevity type of this offering from an insurance company, the income doesn't start until you hit a specified age
Annuity
The United Nations estimated that the world's this reached 8 billion on Nov. 15, 2022
population
Sweden's Mojang Studios is best known for this video game where you can build volcanoes or underground cities
Minecraft
...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G'night!
Hansel & Gretel
More than 80% of the 104 million people in this Asian country of thousands of islands identify as Catholic
The Philippines
The VIX, short for this, is a predictor of how fast stock market prices change
Volatility Index
In 1953, 10-year-old Gayla Peevey sang about wanting this large animal for Christmas
a hippopotamus
In 2021 a Wisconsin teen pulled 32 of these blocks & placed them back atop a tower of them in one minute without toppling it
Jenga