You've caught a pass inside your foe's 10-yard line & have a new set of downs, so this is your new down status
Lima,
Cara Cara,
Navel
What are oranges?
Of Mozart's several middle names, Theophilus got Latinized to Amadeus, both meaning "love of" or "loved by" him
Who is God?
On April 1, 1979 David Kirke used an elastic rope & plunged from a bridge in Bristol, England, inventing this extreme sport
What is bungee jumping?
It can mean to have a plan boomerang badly on you, or an explosion in a car's exhaust pipe
What is backfire?
This alliterative edible duo is shorthand for the basic method of supporting yourself financially
What is bread & butter?
Ribston Pippin,
Golden Delicious, Empire
What are apples?
Long before the Sondheim show, Mozart composed his lively serenade called this
What is A Little Night Music?
These marshmallow chick candies took 27 hours to make individually by hand in 1953; now 509 are hatched every 8 seconds
What are Peeps?
A brocade is a fine-lace effect in the sky & a Saturn shell produces a ring around an inside ball of stars in this display
What are fireworks?
This beastly phrase often describes the interplay of detective & suspect
What is cat & mouse?
Rainier,
Montmorency, Maraschino
What are cherries?
Mozart created the role of the Queen of the Night in this opera for his sister-in-law Josepha Hofer
What is The Magic Flute?
Mei Xiang, Tian Tian & their cub flew from Dulles to China on a flight nicknamed this, like an American Chinese restaurant chain
What is Panda Express?
In 1970 it cost $35 mil. to build this Pittsburgh stadium & in 2001, $5.1 mil. to implode the structure in 19 seconds
What is the Three Rivers Stadium?
This term for people who influence events could describe a Protestant sect that's changing addresses
What are movers & shakers?
Adriatic,
Calimyrna,
Black Mission
What are figs?
In Vienna, Mozart struck up a friendship with this composer whom like others, he affectionately called "Papa"
Who is Haydn?
During a yacht trip, a captain told Ringo Starr about the creatures beneath the waves, inspiring Ringo to write this Beatles song
What is "Octopus's Garden"?
Named for a sound, it's the "sheet" doing its loud thing in the percussion section
What is a thunder sheet?
This idiom meaning a noisy outburst redundantly has 2 words meaning "shout", though one sounds like a synonym for color
What is hue & cry?
Moon Drop,
Muscat,
Catawba
What are grapes?
Ironically, Mozart was working on one of these masses for the dead during his final illness & died with it unfinished
What is a requiem?
Inspired by Viking history, Klaus Teuber created this board game that debuted in 1995
What is Settlers of Catan?
On July 1, 1946 a 23-kiloton atomic bomb exploded over unmanned aircraft carriers & battleships at this atoll
What is Bikini Atoll?