Finish the Phrase
Turn over a new-
What is leaf?
In 1937 Ken Digneau won $100 for naming this food product. It is generally believed the name comes from the words “spiced ham”, but this has never been confirmed by Hormel Foods who make the product.
What is SPAM?
This color appears on more national flags than any other color.
What is red?
This is where the 2028 Summer Olympics will be held.
What is Los Angeles? (USA)
Experiences with a commanding officer in World War II helped Richard Adams form the character of Hazel the rabbit in this1972 novel.
What is Watership Down?
This was the name of the theater where Abraham Lincoln was shot
What is Ford's Theatre?
This actor played Vito Corleone in the 1972 film The Godfather.
Who is Marlon Brandon?
This is how many bones are in the average human skeleton.
What is 206?
A fly in the-
What is ointment?
The simple Italian salad known as a Caprese salad typically includes tomatoes, basil, and this variety of cheese.
What is mozzerella?
This is the longest highway in the US.
What is US Route 20?
This is the color of the goalposts in football.
What is yellow?
Virginia Woolf imagined a hypothetical sister of William Shakespeare named Judith in this early feminist essay, written in 1929.
What is A Room of One's Own?
George Washington famously crossed this river prior to the Battle of Trenton.
What is the Delaware River?
This actor starred in two of the biggest movies of the 70s Grease and Saturday Night Fever.
Who is John Travolta?
This is where the first city-wide celebration of Halloween was.
What is Anoka, Minnesota in 1921?
She shed crocodile-
What is tears?
This common leafy green is native to Persia and is often associated with a specific cartoon character who made his maritime debut in 1929.
What is spinach?
This is the longest-running American sitcom.
What is The Simpsons?
This foul occurs in basketball where a player moves without dribbling the ball.
What is traveling?
This author wrote "I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it" In the 1996 movie adaptation of the novel, the line was uttered by actor-director Danny Devito.
Who is Roald Dahl?
The book/movie this line is from is Matilda
This US constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is the villain in the 1978 film Superman.
Who is Lex Luthor?
This is when Halloween was first celebrated in the U.S.
What is the 1840s?
Irish immigrants fleeing potato famine brought the tradition with them to the U.S.
Measure twice, cut-
What is once?
This is the cheerful word that McDonald's uses to describe its meal meant for kids.
What is a Happy Meal?
This poet wrote "She Walks in Beauty."
Who is Lord Byron?
This is the only country to play in every World Cup.
What is Brazil?
Although he published over 60 books under a different name, he published 13 books under the name Theo LeSieg and one book under the name Rosetta Stone.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This is the director of the 1975 hit film Jaws.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
This person first sang the song "Monster Mash."
Who is Bobby Prickett?
Jump on the-
What is bandwagon?
A favorite of Star Trek's Captain Picard, this tea blend is named after the British Prime Minister from 1830 to 1834.
What is Earl Grey?
This is what you call the full moon that occurs during the month of March.
What is "the worm moon?"
Bela Karolyi is known for coaching this sport.
What is women's gymnastics?
The impolite, unpleasant Katherina is referred to metaphorically by the name of a small mammal in the name of this Shakespeare play.
What is The Taming of the Shrew?
This British prime minister preceded Winston Churchill's first term.
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
This actress portrayed Princess Leia in the first Star Wars film.
Who is Carrie Fisher?
This was the original name for candy corn?
What is chicken feed?
According to History.com, the Goelitz Candy Company (now Jelly Belly Candy Company) popularized the classic tricolor Halloween treat when it began marketing the kernels under that name in 1898.
When the cat's away-
What is the mice will play?
Typically only known by his title and last name, this famous cereal mascot technically has Horatio Magellan as his first and middle names.
What is Cap'n Crunch?
This is the tallest building in the world.
What is The Burj Khalifa in Dubai?
This sport uses a net, a racket, and a shuttlecock.
What is badminton?
This writer's works were printed over 100 million times by 2000, leading to the unusual honor of having a new dinosaur species after him.
Who is Michael Crichton?
This Roman emperor accidentally set fire to the Library of Alexandria.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This is Harry Callahan's profession in the film Dirty Harry.
What is a police inspector?
This famous magician actually died (!) on Halloween.
Who is Harry Houdini?
Nothing ventured-
What is nothing gained?
Horseradish was the first commercially packaged and sold foodstuff by this Pittsburgh-based company.
What is Heinz?
This actor is known for voicing both Miss Piggy and Yoda.
Who is Frank Oz?
In this sport, players are not allowed to play left-handed.
What is polo?
Featuring Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning rendition of "Wind Beneath My Wings," the 1988 tear-jerking film "Beaches" is based on this author’s namesake novel released in 1985.
Who is Iris Rainer Dart?
This US president delivered a series of radio addresses known as “fireside chats."
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This person wrote the 1976 sports movie Rocky.
Who is Sylvester Stallone?
She was the first First Lady to decorate the White House to celebrate Halloween.
Who is Mamie Eisenhower in 1958?
Don't just sit on your-
What is hands?
“Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce; Special orders don't upset us.” So goes the 1973 jingle used by this fast food chain that to this day still encourages you to “have it your way."
What is Burger King?
This US president spoke English as a second language.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
This NFC football team features a fleur-de-lis as its logo.
What is the New Orleans Saints?
This is the name of the novel by Thomas Keneally that the Oscar winning movie “Schindler’s List” is based on.
What is Schindler's Ark?
This person wrote the poem inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Who is Emma Lazarus?
"You talkin' to me?" is a quote from this 1976 film.
What is Taxi Driver?
This brings the three Sanderson sisters back from the dead in the film Hocus Pocus.
What is The Black Flame Candle.
Made from the fat of a hanged man, has the magical powers to bring them back to Salem, Massachusetts.
Side note: Courtney has watched the film at least 6 times this fall/Halloween season.
Time is-
What is money?
This shrimp dish sounds like a drink you'd order at the bar, but really just refers to the way the prawns are draped over a glass of sauce.
What is cocktail?
Many insects produce this chemical as a natural antifreeze.
What is glycerol?
Teams compete for America's Cup in this sport.
What is sailing?
Milkman,” the third novel by this novelist from Northern Ireland also wrote “No Bones,” and “Little Constructions” and won the Man Booker Prize in 2018.
Who is Anna Burns?
He was the first tsar of Russia?
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
He directed the controversial 1979 film Apocalypse Now.
Who is Francis Ford Coppola?
This candy was handed out to soldiers during the Korean War.
What are Tootsie Rolls?
Launched way back in 1907, Tootsie Rolls were accidentally air-dropped to American troops in battle in the Korean War. The troops went on to praise the candies for keeping them nourished and even plugging bullet holes in vehicles and equipment, which would seal as the candies froze in the frigid temperatures.
Absence makes the heart-
What is grow fonder?
Every summer, thousands of people come to Rockland for the annual crustacean celebration of this Maine’s prized seafood exports.
What is lobster?
In a game of poker, this is what a "flush" consists of.
What is five cards of the same suit?
Tennis was introduced as an Olympic sport in this year.
What is 1896?
Dominican author Jean Rhys' 1966 novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" is a spin on this 1847 novel, this time told through the eyes of a character known as Antoinette or Bertha.
What is Jane Eyre?
This historical event is the phrase “Remember, remember the fifth of November” associated with.
What is the Gunpowder Plot of 1605?
This 1979 film is based on the life of union activist Crystal Lee Sutton.
What is Norma Rae?
This country holds the record for the largest pumpkin ever.
What is Italy?
Grown in 2021, the pumpkin weighed in at a whopping 1,226 kilograms (just shy of 2,702 pounds) and measured 11 feet 8 inches in diameter.