Have You Hugged a Musician Today?
In the Music Man, 76 of this musical instrument lead the big parade. Its name is italian for "large trumpet."
What is a trombone?
This 1,063-foot-tall attraction was built for the Exposition Universelle, the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris. At the time, it was the tallest structure in the world.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
Starting out easy, this word (in 2 spellings) can mean either the past tense of EAT or the number before nine.
What is ATE/EIGHT?
One of his most enduring fairy tales, this tells the story of a bird who thinks he kinda funny looking, only to grow into a beautiful swan.
What is the Ugly Duckling?
Remove "T" from a piece of dining room furniture & you get this word meaning competent.
What is ABLE?
This woodwind instrument, mostly associated with Scotland, has been around since at least 1000 BCE. It consists of an airtight reservoir (often in a tartan print) and a drone to provide the harmony tones.
This famous bridge in San Francisco opened in time for the 1939 World’s Fair. Officially, its paint color is International Orange.
What is Golden Gate Bridge?
A small group of rock musicians or what a lot of books are lately, much to the chagrin of many teachers and librarians.
What is BAND/BANNED?
In another of his stories, a too-long unmarried prince's mother tests the delicate princessliness (yeah, I think I made that word up) of his son's future bride by placing one of these under several mattresses to see if she's still able to sleep.
What is a pea?
Remove "T" from a hiking path & you get this horizontal bar
What is RAIL?
A standard piano has 52 white keys, which means it has this many black keys to provide the sharps and flats.
What is 36?
total of 88 keys
Seattle’s most famous structure, it was built for the 1962 World’s Fair. When it was built, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River and featured the country’s second revolving restaurant. It has 25 lightning rods on the roof.
What is the Space Needle?
A teeny tiny water-surrounded piece of land or the lace holes in your shoes.
What is ISLET/EYELET?
When visiting Copenhagen, you can see a statue depicting the main character of this story, a girl who leaves her garden in the ocean and bargains her soul with a local sea witch. Slightly the basis for the Disney movie of the same name.
What is the Little Mermaid?
Remove "T" from this skinny stick to get a word for hairpiece.
What is WIG?
A string quartet consists of a first violin, second violin, viola and cello. Oddly, this largest and lowest pitched instrument of the modern strings family is not there.
This popular amusement park ride was made for the Chicago 1893 World's Fair, as a kind of response to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. In fact, Gustave Eiffel was one of the inventors. The first cars were meant to hold about 60 people, current ones will usually hold no more than four.
A grain-based food you might eat in your breakfast nook. Or the kind of murder criminal who has un-alived at least 3 people.
What is CEREAL/SERIAL?
In this story, a young woman named Karen falls in love with the titular clothing items. She is cursed to dance in them and eventually dies to escape the curse.
What is The Red Shoes?
Detach "T" from an expensive edible fungus & you get this ornamental frill on a garment.
What is RUFFLE?
While on the campaign trail for the 1992 presidential race, this candidate made a stop to woo first time voters by playing the saxophone in the Arsenio Hall Show house band.
The biggest hit of the 1964 World's Fair in NYC was perhaps its least technologically advanced. The Belgian exhibit included a mock European village, and the new-to-America snack sold there. It's become a local diner breakfast staple, to cover this "pancake with abs" in fruit, syrup and whipped cream.
What are Belgian waffles?
Ground up wheat you would use to bake cookies. Or blooming plants like a rose or lily.
In another short and sad fairy tale, a little orphan girl goes out on New Year's Eve, trying to sell these small fire-starters. When she can't sell them, she lights them to keep herself warm. She dreams of food and shelter and then is visited by her departed grandmother who welcomes her to heaven.
Get rid of the "T" in the regular rises & falls of the oceans & you get this day in a Roman month. Julius Caesar was warned to be wary of the ones in March.
What is IDES?