“Ears” to You
($100) This Disney character has a hat with his round ears on it.
Answer: Who is Mickey Mouse? Roy Williams, a Disney employee who appeared in four Mickey Mouse seasons, created the hat in the 1950s.
($100) This 34-letter tune is from Mary Poppins.
Answer: What is “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”? Created by songwriting team Richard and Robert Sherman, the meanings of the roots of the word are as follows: super means “above,” cali means “beauty,” fragilistic means “delicate,” expiali means “to atone,” and docious means “educable.” Put it together and you get a loose definition of “atoning for educability through delicate beauty.”
($100) When you’re having a bad hair day, you might say, “My hair is as flat as [this].”
Answer: What is a pancake? You might also say, “What happened to my cake? It’s flat as a pancake!”
. ($100) Always place these two on the dinner table—salt and this.
Answer: 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.
($100) These are the colors of the three Olympic medals.
Answer: What are gold, silver, and bronze? The medals are partially made of gold, silver, and copper, respectively.
. ($200) This land mammal has the largest ears.
Answer: What is an elephant? The elephant has only a few sweat glands, located in its feet, so the huge ears help cool the animal.
($200) This tune from The Sound of Music, which is set in summertime, has become a classic Christmas song.
Answer: What is “My Favorite Things”? As a marketing tool for the movie, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s music publishers talked Jack Jones into adding sleigh bells to the tune and including it on his Christmas album.
($200) The end of The Jeffersons theme song says, “We finally got a piece of [this].”
Answer: What is the pie? The tune is “Movin’ on Up.”
($200) One classic lunch is soup and this.
Answer: 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.
($200) This city is home to the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
Answer: What is the Emerald City? The man behind the curtain is the Wizard.
($400) You’d better be careful when talking about a secret because these have ears.
Answer: What are the walls? That is especially true with today’s technology. Anyone can be a spy—even you.
($400) This hit, recorded by B. J. Thomas, is part of the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid score.
Answer: What is “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”? The song is also featured in other films, including Forrest Gump.
($400) Israel is referred to as the land of milk and this.
Answer: What is honey? This comes from Exodus 3:8 in the Bible. In referring to the Israelites in the King James translation, it says, “…and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”
($400) Love and marriage go together like this pair, according to the Sinatra tune.
Answer: 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.
($800) The rainbow you see after it rains contains this number of colors, according to Isaac Newton.
Answer: 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.
($600) Not a medical doctor (M.D.), this doctor deals with hearing.
Answer: What is an audiologist? Many hold a doctor of audiology (AuD) or PhD, and they can help with loss of hearing and balance issues.
($600) You probably associate Andy Williams with this standard tune, but Holly Golightly introduced it first in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Answer: What is “Moon River”? Audrey Hepburn wasn’t a singer, and she barely whispers the lyrics while playing the guitar on her fire escape. Paramount wanted to can the tune, but Hepburn told them, “Over my dead body.”
($600) According to legend, this ruler once scoffed, “Let them eat cake,” but scholars have found no evidence that she said this.
Answer: Who is Marie-Antoinette? Upon hearing of her hungry subjects, the queen of France was rumored to have said the equivalent of “Let them eat bread,” which morphed in the grapevine to become “Let them eat cake.” However, there is no credible evidence to support that she said either sentence.
($600) This singing duo includes Sonny and this woman, his then-wife.
Answer: Who is Cher? Sonny Bono and Cher had two TV variety shows. The first and longest-running was The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.
($200) This North American country’s flag depicts an eagle snacking on a snake.
Answer: What is Mexico? The flag is divided into three stripes: From left to right, the stripes are green, white, and red. The golden eagle perched on a cactus in the center of the white stripe depicts a scene from an Aztec legend.
($800) This Dutch artist cut off part of his ear.
Answer: Who is Van Gogh? No one knows why he did this on a cold night before Christmas Eve.
($800) “Monkey See, Monkey Do” is featured in this film, starring Connie Francis and Harve Presnell.
Answer: What is When the Boys Meet the Girls? The film features tunes by popular performers of the day, including Connie Francis, Louis Armstrong, and Herman’s Hermits.
($800) If you treat someone to an extravagant dinner and drinks, you are doing this rhyming activity for them.
Answer: 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.
This was Roy Rogers partner on and off the screen.
Dale Evans
($200) If someone is tickling the ivories, they are playing this instrument.
Answer: What is piano? The piano is one of the most popular instruments today, and one of its predecessors is the harpsichord.