Winter Idioms
Retail Therapy
Wild West
Vocabulary
Restaurant Logos
100
When something starts out small, but keeps growing in intensity.
What is the "snowball effect"?
100
What retail store uses a bull's-eye as their logo?
What is Target?
100
A famous symbol of the Old West, this mail delivery system only operated for 18 months.
What was the Pony Express?
100
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning. Example: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
What is alliteration?
100
This logo is a maroon and white chili pepper.
What is Chipotle?
200
Meeting a new person usually starts out a bit slow and awkward.
What is "Breaking the Ice?
200
This chain store is still in business now after over 200 years and holds the record as the oldest chain store.
What is Brooks Brothers?
200
On July 21, 1865 this fast-draw duel took place in Springfield, Missouri over gambling debts. Name the infamous participant.
Who was Wild Bill Hickok?
200
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is a similie.
200
This logo is a coffee cup with pink and green.
What is Dunkin Donuts?
300
A heavy and thick covering of winter's white precipitation.
What is a "blanket" of snow?
300
Before Walmart existed, this was the largest purveyor of goods for over 40 years.
What is the A&P?
300
Sam Bass was a Texas cowboy who stole from the rich and gave to the poor until captured by these lawmen.
What are the Texas Rangers?
300
What type of figurative language are the following:
Jumbo Shrimp
Icy Hot
Pretty Ugly
What are oxymorons?
300
Young girl with red hair in their logo.
What is Wendy's?
400
Another way of saying that something will never happen.
What is "When hell freezes over"?
400
Name the sister store of Macy's.
What is Bloomingdales?
400
This notorious Wild West outlaw was born on the East Side of New York and at the age of 15 began a life of crime out west.
Who was Billy the Kid?
400
From what language does "tsunami" originate?
What is Japanese?
400
The A & W logo has 2 prominent colors
What is orange and brown?
500
To ignore someone and not ask them to join you in an activity.
What is "To Leave Someone out in the cold"?
500
In the 1930's this store was the chief rival of Macy's.
What is Gimbels?
500
In 1855 Jefferson Davis allocated $30,00 for the army to import these animals to use to transport supplies but the plan was disrupted due to the beginning of the Civil War.
What are camels?
500
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
What is hyperbole.
500
Name this restaurant chain by their logo.
Buffalo Wild Wings