Road Songs
John Denver wanted these roads to "take me home".
What are country roads?
Because of a shortage of horsehide, they're now mostly covered with cowhide.
What are baseballs?
This holiday is coming when "the geese are getting fat".
What is Christmas?
Minor planets smaller than our moon, those with names include Ceres, Juno & Eros.
What are asteroids?
A marsupial tribunal.
What is a kangaroo court?
It precedes "and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more".
What is “Hit the road Jack”?
Reason the sport is called basketball.
What is because the first basketball was thrown in a (peach) basket?
Win or lose, geese often fly in this "lettered" formation.
What is a “V” formation?
Lowest possible theoretical temperature, it's the bottom of the Kelvin scale.
What is absolute zero?
A flip in the crypt.
What is to spin in one's grave (turn over in your grave)?
In question posed by The Beatles, "Why don't we do" this "in the road?".
What is it?
3 of the 10 events in an Olympic decathlon.
What is (3 of) 100 meters, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 meters, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw & 1500 meters?
East German soldiers would start this movement from an extremely erect position.
What is a goose step?
Reversing directions at regular intervals, in the U.S., it's 60 hertz, batteries not included.
What is alternating current?
Twixt Beelzebub & the indigo marine abyss.
What is between the devil and the deep blue sea?
If I take this, "I'll be in Scotland before ye".
What is the low road?
Believing that yellow balls would be easier for spectators on TV to follow, tennis balls were originally this color.
What is white?
Sacred geese were kept on this city's Capitoline Hill.
What is Rome?
Occupation common to Harlow Shapley, Sir John Herschel, & Edwin Hubble.
What are astronomers?
No fins, no feathers.
What is neither fish nor fowl?
1853 version of this begins "Up & down the city road, in & out the eagle".
What is “Pop Goes the Weasel”?
Almost 10 years since his retirement, he still holds the record for most decorated Olympian.
Who is Michael Phelps?
A physical reaction on your body when alarmed, or a series by R.L. Stine.
What are goosebumps?
Retrograde & traumatic are two types; David Webb had it in "The Bourne Identity".
What ia amnesia?
Cogitable comestibles.
What is food for thought?