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Famous Iowans
Delicious Before and After
Sounds Like
The Oughts
100

Wishing luck to an actor via fractured bones. 

Break a leg

100

Dam, this is the only Iowa-born president. 

Herbert Hoover

100

Hollandaise-laden breakfast entrée known for a popular British mystery crime show.

Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch

100

A temporary stop & the soft part under a dog's feet

pause/paws

100

This television program premiered on May 31st, 2000. It has outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted many other shows since then.  

Survivor 

200

Revealing secret information by knocking over pinto, lima, and jelly.

Spill the beans

200

Gotham’s Caped Crusader shares a last name with the alter ego of this Iowan actor

John Wayne

200

"Vernal" tubular Chinese appetizer that is also a casual bit of conoodling in the barn.

 Spring roll in the hay

200

To kill & a winter vehicle

Slay/sleigh

200

NASA made this announcement in 2006, which came as a surprise to Sleepy, Sneezy, and Doc. 

Pluto became a "Dwarf Planet"

300

Bruce from Matilda might disagree with this phrase, meaning something is very easy to accomplish.

Piece of cake

300

This Cedar Rapids native was born in the same decade his and his wife's breakout TV show was named after.

Ashton Kutcher

300

George's favorite frozen treat eaten in a fraction of a moment.  

Banana split second

300

The act of using your teeth & a fundamental unit of digital information

Bite/Byte

300

Crépuscule and Dusk are alternative titles for this late-2000s media frenzy

Twilight

400

The price of an extremely expensive skeleton. 

It cost an arm and a leg

400

Name the artist of this painting

*show painting to contestants*

Grant Wood

400

A lamb and mashed potato casserole that's a fanciful dream not likely to come true.  

Sheperd's pie in the sky

400

A hidden collection of money & the currency you might store there. 

Cache/cash

400

This website was an internet juggernaut from 2003–2008, but today it likely wouldn’t even make the ‘Top 8.’”

MySpace

500

If a thieving Loki wanted to take credit for Thor's work. 

Steal his thunder

500

Jack Nicholson’s axe-wielding exclamation in The Shining was inspired by this Iowan.

Johnny Carson

500

This French stuffed-food dish is also a famously silent performance trio.

chicken cordon blue man group

500

Financial gain & The Biblical Amos or Jeremiah, for example.

Profit/prophet

500

Overestimating consumers' loyalty to QWERTY, this business went belly up soon after 2007.

Blackberry

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