Conversions
A stick of butter is this number of ounces.
What is four?
A carton with four sticks is one pound.
When you’re having a bad hair day, you might say, “My hair is as flat as [this].”
What is a pancake? You might also say, “What happened to my cake? It’s flat as a pancake!”
These are the colors of the three Olympic medals.
What are gold, silver, and bronze?
When your children crossed their eyes, you might have told them not to do that because this would happen.
What is their eyes would get stuck?
If you have told your children this, you weren’t alone. It’s one of the top myths about eyes, and luckily it is just that—a myth.
Always place these two on the dinner table— salt and this.
What is pepper?
When a chef on TV says to “season” something, they mean to give it a shake of salt and pepper. Notice that they season from “on high.” This is to distribute the salt, pepper, and other seasonings evenly.
In the United States, we use miles; in Europe and other parts of the world, they use this to measure distance.
What is a kilometer? One kilometer equals .62 miles, and one mile equals 1.6 kilometers.
The end of The Jeffersons theme song says, “We finally got a piece of [this].”
What is the pie? The tune is “Movin’ on Up.
This city is home to the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
What is the Emerald City?
The man behind the curtain is the Wizard.
Our parents told us that sitting in this relation to the television can strain your eyes.
What is sitting too close?
They were right; this can cause a host of uncomfortable symptoms including blurriness and headaches centered in the eyes. Using your computer or device for too long and reading in low light have the same effect.
One classic American lunch is soup and this.
What is a sandwich?
A grilled cheese sandwich goes great with soup served hot. Chicken salad and pimento salad sandwiches pair well with cold summer soups.
The United States uses yards for three feet; the rough equivalent of the yard in the metric system is this.
What is the meter?
One meter is 3.2 feet.
Israel is referred to as the land of milk and this.
What is honey?
This ocean, the world’s fourth largest, surrounds Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean)?
This gender has the most color blindness.
What is male?
The 300 million color-blind people around the world are missing certain color-detecting cones in their eyes.
Love and marriage go together like this pair, according to the Sinatra tune.
What is a horse and carriage?
In 1955, “Love and Marriage” was a hit for Frank Sinatra, and later it was used for the theme song of the sitcom Married… with Children.
The United States uses Fahrenheit as the unit of measure for temperature, and much of the world uses this unit of measure.
What is Celsius?
Under the Celsius system, 0ºC represents the freezing point, and the boiling point is 100ºC.
If you treat someone to an extravagant dinner and drinks, you are doing this rhyming activity for them.
What is wine and dine?
The phrase is often used when the host wants something from the guest. Wining and dining is standard operating procedure in the major capitals of the world, especially in Washington, D.C.
The rainbow you see after it rains contains this number of colors, according to Isaac Newton.
What is seven?
From top to bottom, the colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Some newer lists omit indigo. In the event of a rare double rainbow, the second rainbow above the primary rainbow has the colors in reverse order
It’s the most prevalent eye color.
What is brown?
More than 70 percent of the world’s people have brown eyes.
This combo is a very slow typing method.
What is hunt and peck?
This is typically done looking at the keyboard while hunting and pecking with the two index fingers. Most people who type a lot learn how to “touch type.” They memorize the keyboard so they can type while looking at the screen. It’s not so much memorization as it is muscle memory that allows them to type rapidly
Liquids become gases through one of two conversion processes: condensation and this.
What is evaporation?
An example of condensation is when your bathroom mirror fogs after you take a shower. An example of evaporation is when you boil water and some of that water evaporates.
This American president is credited with saying he would “put a chicken in every pot.”
Who is President Herbert Hoover?
Hippocrates is the father of this discipline.
What is medicine?
His works established principles of ethical medical practice and natural treatments.
Corneas can be transplanted from this marine animal onto human eyes.
What is a shark?
Though not a common practice, shark corneas have been used experimentally for transplants due to their similarities with human corneas.
This is the other half of U.S. News.
What is & World Report?
You must look very closely to find the second part of its name. In the 1960s, it was more prominent, but it still received second billing. The current trend is to shorten brand names, with some even shortening to acronyms, such as SNL for Saturday Night Live and KFC for Kentucky Fried Chicken.