Misnomers
This common accompaniment to sandwiches, burgers, and fried fish does not come from France.
What are french fries?
He is Arthur Conan Doyle's crack sleuth.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
The Potato Famine took place in this country?
What is Ireland?
This is the last car of a train.
What is caboose?
This coastal Mexican resort city is known for its professional cliff divers.
What is Acapulco?
Columbus misnamed these indigenous people because he thought he had landed elsewhere.
Who are Indians? He thought he had reached the East Indies, thus the misnomer, Indians.
He is Agatha Christie's Belgian detective.
Who is Hercule Poirot?
The T-bone steak is comprised of these two cuts of steak.
What is filet (or tenderloin) and New York strip (or top loin)?
This person who is in charge of the train is also known as the yard foreman.
Who is the conductor?
It is the second-largest city in the United States.
What is Los Angeles? New York ranks first and Chicago is third.
This domesticated rodent bears no relation to a hog.
What is guinea pig?
He is Rex Stout's stout New York sleuth.
Who is Nero Wolfe?
This potato sounds like an appendage.
What is fingerling?
It is the modern term for very fast trains.
What is high-speed rail or HSR? The fastest train in the world is the Shanghai Maglev, which clocks in at 267 mph.
The Rainbow Bridge connects these New York and Ontario cities that share the same name.
What is Niagara Falls?
This humorous misnomer is not a bone.
What is the funny bone? The pain you feel in your elbow is the ulnar nerve.
Erle Stanley Gardner created this lawyer-sleuth who always manages to pull off last-minute court dramas.
Who is Perry Mason?
The porterhouse steak is just a larger version of this steak.
What is T-bone?
This railroad tycoon, nicknamed Commodore, started his empire with a ferry service between New York City and Staten Island.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This city Major League Baseball team plays in SunTrust Park. The city is also the corporate headquarters for SunTrust bank.
What is Atlanta?
Panama hats come from this country.
What is Ecuador?
Contemporary author Sue Grafton's sleuth appears in A Is for Alibi, B Is for Burglar, and others.
Who is Kinsey Millhone?
This type of potato was invented by a chef in response to a customer complaint that his potatoes were too thick and soggy.
What are potato chips? The chef wanted to teach the customer a lesson, so he sliced the potatoes as thinly as possible, fried them, and heavily salted them. The customer loved them, and the chef created a hit snack that has endured.
This is the term for a secondary rail that is not part of the primary line.
What is branch line?
In 1976, this Canadian city hosted the Summer Olympics.
What is Montreal?