Time For Some Hard Questions
Phrase Origins
Get in the Game
Over Board
The Shape of Things
The Wild Wild West
Tri-Bonds
100
Are You Hungry Tonight? is a cookbook dedicated to this late American music icon's favorite recipes.
Elvis Presley
100
In Norse mythology, cats symbolized rain and dogs represented howling wind. A combination of the two gives us this phrase for really heavy rain.
It's Raining Cats and Dogs
100
Queen
Rook
Pawn
Chess
100
The part of a car that holds the instruments and displays for the driver.
The Dash Board
100
This is the shape of the inner part of a field where baseball is played.
A Diamond
100
In the mid 1800's, as many as 175,000 people had rushed to California in search of this.
Gold
100
Line
200
A landmark in medicine since 1858, this human anatomy textbook gave its name to a medical drama television series now in its 21st season.
Grey's Anatomy
200
Stemming from the custom of looking at a horse's teeth to determine its age and potential worth, this phrase means to not critically scrutinize a gift.
Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
200
Reverse
Draw 2
Wild
Uno
200
A common term for food and lodging.
(The word BOARD will be in the answer)
Room and Board
200
An edible rolled or molded wafer for holding ice cream is called this shape.
A Cone
200
An iconic symbol of the Old West, this early mail delivery system only operated for 18 months.
The Pony Express
200
Foot
300
Conspiracy theories say "the girl in the polka-dot dress" hypnotized the shooter behind the late-60's assassination of this famous political figure who was expected to be the next president of the U.S.
Robert F. Kennedy
300
In an old English card game, a jackknife, or ‘buck’, was handed from player to player to indicate whose turn it was, giving us this phrase, which means to shift responsibility to someone else.
Pass the Buck
300
Free Parking
Community Chest
Marvin Gardens
Monopoly
300
A room in which the upper levels of management meet.
(The word BOARD will be in the answer)
Board Room
300
A popular dinner roll made of a sheet of dough that is rolled up and shaped into a curve.
A Crescent
300
Tombstone, Arizona, was the site of this famous gunfight that pitted U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp and his friend Doc Holliday against the Clanton-McLaury gang.
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
300
Dog
400
Rock Hudson & Susan Saint James played a crime-solving couple on this series from 1971 to '77.
McMillan & Wife
400
The ancient Greek process of voting by placing colored beans into a vase gave rise to this phrase, meaning to reveal a secret.
Spill the Beans
400
Contract
Bid
Dummy
Bridge
400
A game in which players use sticks to push weighted discs down a narrow court to a marked scoring area.
(The word BOARD will be in the answer)
Shuffle Board
400
An instrument in the percussion family that is held suspended by a nylon loop and struck with a metal beater.
A Triangle
400
The now-iconic cowboy hat was first introduced by this company in 1865, and they're still making them today.
Stetson
400
House
500
Stretching 1,080 miles from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean, the Mackenzie River is the longest river in this country, and the second longest in North America after the mighty Mississippi.
Canada
500
In ancient India it was tradition to throw balls of butter at statues of gods to seek favor, which gives us this phrase, meaning to soften one's feelings towards you through flattery.
Buttering Up
500
Full House
Small Straight
Chance
Yahtzee
500
When something is done in a legitimate, honest, and open way it's called this.
(The word BOARD will be in the answer)
Above Board
500
A highway interchange consisting of a two-level interchange in which all turns are handled by slip roads.
A Cloverleaf
500
In 1856, the U.S. Army imported 66 of these temperamental animals from the Middle East to the Texas heat as a possible replacement for horses.
Camels
500
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