Homophones
A stream, & a floorboard noise.
What is Creek/Creak
Completed in 1869, this waterway has also been known by its nickname "Highway to India."
What is Suez Canal
Moses received this list on Mt. Sinai.
What is Ten Commandments
In 1917 Scottish immigrant Bertie Charles Forbes began publishing a journal & gave it this name.
What is Forbes
According to legend, this holiday cookie with a "manly" shape was created by Queen Elizabeth I.
What is Gingerbread Man
A royalty's tenure, & a downpour.
What is Reign/Rain
The roof of this Australian building has been variously described as sails, clouds, clam shells, & a huddle of nuns in a high wind.
What is Sydney Opera House
In "the six hundred and first year", second month, 27th day, the earth was dried & this vessel's occupants could leave it.
What is Noah's Ark
"Entertainment Tonight" otherwise known as "ET" debuted in 1981, making this Steven Spielberg-directed film it the first it could cover.
What is ET
This is the more common name for the Aurora Borealis.
What is Northern Lights
A vaulting staff, & a survey of voters.
What is Pole/Poll
This US government building has the world's biggest switchboard with about 1 million calls per day on 34,500 lines.
What is Pentagon
This book of the Bible includes the passage "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth."
What is Genesis
The American Heritage Dictionary defines this profession as "one who digs graves."
What is Grave Digger
In 1964 Dorothy Hodgkin became the third woman to win a Nobel in chemistry & the first that didn't have this last name.
What is Curie
Arouse interest, & the highest level.
What is Pique/Peak
These places are the highest & lowest points in Asia.
What is Mt. Everest & Dead Sea
The First Book of Samuel recounts the encounter between these 2, a big Philistine & smaller Israelite, in the valley of Elah.
Who is David & Goliath
In June 1997 this Chicago department store marshalled its forces for a "Field Days Sale."
What is Marshall Fields
This Charleton Heston movie won 11 Oscars in 1960, still tied for the most for a single movie.
What is Ben-Hur
Multiple lengths of a track in a race, & a slip-up in judgment.
What is Laps/Lapse
It was built originally on the Whitehall site of a medieval palace used to house visiting Scottish kings.
What is Scotland Yard
This Phoenician city was home to Hiram, who helped Solomon build the first temple by supplying workers & material.
What is Tyre
Kevin McCallister gets lost in New York separated from his family in the sequel to Home Alone with this four word subtitle.
What is Lost in New York
There are 168 hours in this timespan.
What is 1 week