Keys to the Kingdom
You have to call this person if you lose the key to your home.
Answer: What is a locksmith?
There are some types of keys locksmiths cannot reproduce, including restricted keys, which are covered by U.S. patent laws.
This herb used in Mediterranean cooking is also a woman’s name.
Answer: What is rosemary? Its Latin name rosmarinus means “dew of the sea.”
Naturalist Sir Hans Sloane first referred to what fruit as the alligator pear?
Answer: Avocado. Sloane first published the word avocado in his 1969 catalog of Jamaican plants. At the time, he was referring to the tree, not the fruit, but the name stuck.
This is the most popular ice cream flavor in the world.
Answer: What is vanilla? However, some countries claim other flavors as their favorite. For example, Australians prefer licorice-flavored ice cream, while Americans proclaim chocolate is the best.
Dorothy’s home state
Answer: What is Kansas? Dorothy represents Americans at their best, and she comes from an area that was devastated at the time.
This is the southernmost city in the Florida Keys.
Answer: What is Key West? It’s also the southernmost city in the United States.
This herb is the foundation for pesto.
Answer: What is basil? Basic ingredients in traditional pesto include basil, olive oil, pine nuts, and parmesan cheese.
Of the following animals, which has a tail that can grasp things: tiger, opossum, or raccoon?
Answer: Opossum (sometimes called “possums” in the United States). Despite popular belief, opossums do not sleep hanging by their tails. Juvenile opossums will dangle from their tails for short periods; however, in general, opossums use their tails to help steady themselves when climbing a tree or grasping and carrying twigs and leaves.
They are the three basic ingredients of ice cream sundaes.
Answer: What are ice cream, sauce, and whipped cream? The fourth, optional ingredient is a maraschino cherry on top of the whipped cream.
Dorothy’s aunt’s name
Answer: What is Auntie Em? Auntie Em’s husband is Dorothy’s Uncle Henry
Mayors sometimes honor distinguished visitors with this key.
Answer: What is the key to the city?
The key is a symbolic gesture. In 1702, the first key to a city was given in New York City to Viscount Edward Cornbury, the governor of New York and New Jersey.
This mild, thin version of green onions often tops sour cream on baked potatoes.
Answer: What are chives?
What Asian actor is known for mixing comedy with his martial arts skills?
Answer: Jackie Chan. Chan was sent to a Peking Opera School, where he excelled in acrobatics and martial arts. He was first successful in the Hong Kong film industry, but his international success occurred when he co-starred in the 1998 Hollywood film Rush Hour with Chris Tucker.
During the summer of 1790, this U.S. president spent $200 on ice cream, which is about $5,000 in today’s dollars.
Answer: Who is George Washington?
The Wicked Witch of the West tries to remove these from Dorothy
Answer: What are slippers? The Wicked Witch portrays the Good Witch’s alter ego.
This key fits every door in a hotel or other building.
Answer: What is master key? All the locks in a building using a master key are coded to the master.
These generic herbs or their extracts are often used in candy, tea, lemonade, and toothpaste. They are also used as dessert garnishes.
Answer: What is mint? Common mints found in the kitchen are peppermint and spearmint. Fresh mint is mostly used in cooking, but dried mint is used in making tea.
The typical human body has two lungs. Which of the two lungs is smaller: the left, the right, or neither?
Answer: The left lung is smaller. The right lung has three lobes, while the left lung has two, thus providing room for the heart.
This is another name for Italian ice cream.
Answer: What is gelato? Gelato is creamier and denser ice cream. It uses more milk, less butterfat, and less air than ice cream.
She is the Good Witch that helps Dorothy.
Answer: Who is Glinda? She represents the mother archetype.
Every night, the Ceremony of Keys takes place in this London structure that houses the Crown Jewels.
Answer: What is the Tower of London? The morning and evening Ceremonies of the Keys unlock and lock, respectively, the gates to the fortress.
This herb is commonly associated with Greek cooking. Its name means “joy of the mountain” in ancient Greek.
Answer: What is oregano? It’s also used liberally in Mexican, Turkish, and Italian dishes.
What battery-operated board game involves a player removing the particular ailments of a patient, known as Cavity Sam, whose nose lights up and buzzes when the player is not careful enough?
Answer: Operation. The game was invented in 1964 by an industrial design student at the University of Illinois, John Spinello. Milton Bradley began production in 1965, and Hasbro is the current manufacturer. Operation tests your eye-hand coordination and fine-motor skills.
Ice cream originated in this country.
Answer: What is China? It was invented in the seventh century.
Dorothy sets out to find the Wizard of Oz, who is also referred to as this man.
Answer: What is the man behind the curtain? MGM originally had W.C. Fields in mind for the part.