Scotland
The Scottish island of Harris is famous for having given us this type of fabric.
What is tweed?
Literally Italian for "sailor style", it's a style of spaghetti sauce without meat.
What is marinara?
Muzak.
What is background music?
It can leave a champagne bottle at 42 miles per hour.
What is a cork?
The Apgar score measures an infant's condition in the first minute after this.
What is birth?
Shakespeare notwithstanding, he was actually a wise king, & his 17-year reign a time of prosperity.
Who is Macbeth?
"Esquire" says to open this brew 15 minutes before cooking with it to avoid too many bubbles.
What is beer?
Though he rode in the rear of a limousine, Muhammad Ali didn’t take this to anyone.
What is a back seat?
Book most commonly produced by a lexicographer.
What is a dictionary?
Of the suffixes, -emia, -ology, or -ectomy, the one that means "surgical removal of".
What is -ectomy?
Probably most famous Scottish phrase, it means "old long since" or "long ago".
What is auld lang syne?
From French "to jump", it's cooking food in a little fat while shaking or tossing the ingredients.
What is sauté?
You do this to swim & stare at the stars at the same time.
What is the backstroke?
While a minstrel is an entertainer, a mistral is this.
What is a (type of) wind?
Where you are if you're in the CCU.
What is the coronary care unit?
Scottish highlander who gave us the story of a high-flying boy who won't grow up.
Who is James Barrie?
To give it a round shape, Boston brown bread is traditionally baked in this.
What is a can?
Daniel Boone, for example.
What is a backwoodsman?
War in this century in which the most U.S. Medals of Honor were issued.
What is the 20th century, World War II?
Mitosis & meiosis are processes in which these divide.
What are cells?
While Scottish valleys are called glens, specific Scottish mountain peaks are called this.
What are bens?
James Beard's basic recipe for this is 1 cup of rice, 4 tbsps. butter, 1 sliced onion, & 2 cups of broth.
What is rice pilaf?
Construction workers really dig this machine.
What is a backhoe?
In the Browning poem, he "got rid of the rats that fought the dogs & killed the cats".
What is the Pied Piper (of Hamlin)?
With luck, you've never flunked this doctor's test for syphilis.
Who is Wassermann?