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This instrument was initially named for its ability to play both quietly and loudly.
What is a piano?
Bolognese, marinara, and creole are daughter sauces to this French mother sauce.
What is tomato?
This geometric trope often causes competition and jealousy.
What is a love triangle?
While Japanese rice cakes historically had bean filling, recent centuries have turned them into an ice cream treat.
What is mochi?
While this desert covers 31% of Africa's land area, almost the entire African population lives below it.
What is the Sahara Desert?
A single photographer that follows celebrities.
What is a paparazzo?
Espagnole, or brown sauce, uses this classic combination of sautéed celery, carrots, and onion as a base.
What is a mirepoix?
Hans Christian Andersen wrote this fairy tale, which we now know as a trope for someone with late-blossoming beauty.
What is an ugly duckling?
What is a semifreddo?
This desert contains Death Valley, site of the hottest recorded air temperature on Earth at 134 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is the Mojave Desert?
The middle portion of Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Dante ascends a mountain after surviving the depths of Hell.
What is Purgatorio?
While hollandaise is thickened with an emulsion, the other four French mother sauces are thickened with this butter and flour reduction.
What is a roux?
Don't like to dance? Perhaps you'll come to appreciate the perks of hugging the edge of the ballroom like this shy character trope.
What is a wallflower?
This crystalline sweet treat is a signature dessert of Sicily.
What is granita?
The name for this desert comes from the Mongolian word for "waterless place."
What is the Gobi Desert?
Both Chile and Peru claim to be the origin of this grape spirit.
What is pisco?
This sauce of butter, flour, and stock comes from the French word for "velvety."
What is velouté?
"Trapped in an elevator" and "stranded together" are examples of this trope of involuntary closeness.
What is forced proximity?
This Mexican take on a popsicle is made from fresh fruit and cream.
What is a paleta?
This desert, which includes parts of the United States and seven other countries, is the second largest in the world.
What is the Arctic Desert?
This thin, unleavened dough is most commonly found in baklava.
What is phyllo?
This milky mother sauce is often used to elevate classic mac and cheese.
What is béchamel?
What are star-crossed lovers?
This dessert celebrating the 49th state in the Union is a dome of meringue, cake, and ice cream cooked in the oven.
What is Baked Alaska?
Lawrence of Arabia, Prometheus, The Martian, Aladdin, Dune - this Jordanian site is a favorite for blockbuster films.
What is the Wadi Rum?