Common Sayings
This phrase comes from shipping. Originally, a country receiving goods would send smaller ships to break up the frozen water in preparation for the larger incoming trade ships.
What is 'break the ice'?
Kanye West interrupted this artists acceptance speech by bursting onto the stage, taking the microphone and saying "Imma let you finish... but beyonce had one of the best videos of all time" at the 2009 VMAs.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This dipping sauce popularized in Utah is made by combining ketchup and mayonnaise.
What is Fry Sauce?
On October 19, 2025, thieves dressed in maintenance uniforms broke into and robbed this famous museum.
What is the Louvre?
In which year did we first land on the moon?
What is 1969?
This expression comes from hunting. Hunting dogs would sometimes lose the scent of their prey and follow the wrong trail to the wrong place.
What is 'barking up the wrong tree'?
This failed 2017 music festival promised a luxurious experience in the Bahamas to those who would have attended.
What is Fyre Festival?
This Thai soup is both spicy and sour.
What is Tom Yum soup?
This famous television homemaker was arrested for insider trading
Which planet was originally called "George's Star", after King George III?
What is Uranus?
This phrase comes from war times. When two tribes reached a peace agreement, they would physically bury their weapons as an act of friendship.
What is 'bury the hatchet'?
Kim Kardashian took and failed this test, despite the assurance of many psychics.
What is the Bar?
At the height of the French Revolution and before her beheading, Marie Antoinette tastelessly suggested the impoverished French citizens help themselves to this food.
What is cake?
In 1962 three men successfully escaped from this seemingly innescapable prison nicknamed "the Rock"
In this state, the "heart of Dixie" was home to the first capital of the Confederacy.
What is Alabama?
This phrase comes from pipe organs. When musicians remove all of the plugs blocking the pipes, the instrument can sound at its fullest capacity.
What is 'pull out all the stops'?
This 2019 cinematic flop featured artists like Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson parading around as CGI felines.
What is Cats?
Called a Balut by the locals, this dish features the semi-gestated foetus of this bird.
What is a duck?
Finish this phrase coined by Johnnie Cochran, O.J Simpsons lawyer, during the trial against him for murdering his wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.
"If the glove don't fit, ________"
What is 'you must acquit'?
The first United States volunteer cavalry, organized by Theodore Roosevelt for the Spanish-American War.
Who were the Rough Riders?
This saying comes from horse racing. People used it to describe when a jockey was so far ahead he could let his hands relax at his sides instead of gripping the reins tightly.
What is 'hands down'?
The 2013 Carnival Triumph lost power in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving the 4,000 passengers and crew without air conditioning and unable to flush their toilets. What was the trending hashtag from this fiasco?
What is #poopcruise?
'Michelin Stars' were invented to boost sales of these.
What are tires?
This is the nickname given to neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch after he was arrested for medical malpractice, elder abuse, and aggrivated assault.
What is Dr. Death?
This group, with members such as (President) John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, functioned as the de facto national government of the colonies during the Revolutionary War.