Brilliant Answers
Diamonds are made entirely of this element
What is carbon?
This utensil is placed to the left of the plate in a place setting
What is the fork?
The study of animals
What is Zoology?
Teenagers in the 1950s often wore leather jackets, slicked-back hair, and rode motorcycles like these "rebellious" kids
What are greasers?
This word for a four-legged domestic animal comes from Old English "hund"
What is "dog"?
This term refers to tiny imperfections or flaws inside a diamond
What are inclusions?
This Italian term refers to pasta that is cooked "to the tooth"
What is al dente?
The study of rocks and earth
What is Geology?
This American brand of soda became part of the teen culture in the 1950s
What is Coca-Cola?
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This word for the beginning of the day comes from the Old English "morgen"
What is "morning"?
This diamond cut, developed in the early 1900s, is designed to maximize brilliance
What is the round brilliant cut?
This term means food is cooked quickly at high heat in a pan
What is sauteed?
The study of plants
What is Botany?
This dance craze, made famous by Chubby Checker, involved the hips but without moving feet
What is the Twist?
This word for "king of the jungle" comes from Latin "leo"
What is "lion"?
On the Mohs scale, which measures the relative hardness of minerals/gemstones, diamonds rank at this number between 1-10
What is 10?
This French term on a menu means "according to the menu" or "one dish at a time"
What is "a la carte"?
The study of ancient civilizations
What is Archeology?
This 1950s musical trend, blending country and rhythm and blues, was popularized by Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins
What is rockabilly?
This 9-letter word for an insect may have come about because people believed this bug ate uncovered dairy products
What is butterfly?
The famous Hope Diamond gets its blue color from trace amounts of this element
What is boron?
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The location of the oldest restaurant in the U.S. is located in this East Coast state
What is Boston?
The study of words and their meanings
What is etymology?
This popular 1950s toy involved plastic building blocks that could be snapped together to create different shapes
What is Lego? (introduced internationally in 1958)
The name of this reference book has the same roots as 'treasure'--& don't give us a synonym for it
What is a thesaurus?