Wishing luck to an actor via fractured bones.
Break a leg
Dam, this is the only Iowa-born president.
Herbert Hoover
Hollandaise-laden breakfast entrée known for a popular British mystery crime show.
Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch
A temporary stop & the soft part under a dog's feet
pause/paws
This television program premiered on May 31st, 2000. It has outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted many other shows since then.
Survivor
Revealing secret information by knocking over pinto, lima, and jelly.
Spill the beans
Gotham’s Caped Crusader shares a last name with the alter ego of this Iowan actor
John Wayne
"Vernal" tubular Chinese appetizer that is also a casual bit of conoodling in the barn.
Spring roll in the hay
To kill & a winter vehicle
Slay/sleigh
NASA made this announcement in 2006, which came as a surprise to Sleepy, Sneezy, and Doc.
Pluto became a "Dwarf Planet"
Bruce from Matilda might disagree with this phrase, meaning something is very easy to accomplish.
Piece of cake
This Cedar Rapids native was born in the same decade his and his wife's breakout TV show was named after.
Ashton Kutcher
George's favorite frozen treat eaten in a fraction of a moment.
Banana split second
The act of using your teeth & a fundamental unit of digital information
Bite/Byte
Crépuscule and Dusk are alternative titles for this late-2000s media frenzy
Twilight
The price of an extremely expensive skeleton.
It cost an arm and a leg
Name the artist of this painting
*show painting to contestants*
Grant Wood
A lamb and mashed potato casserole that's a fanciful dream not likely to come true.
Sheperd's pie in the sky
A hidden collection of money & the currency you might store there.
Cache/cash
This website was an internet juggernaut from 2003–2008, but today it likely wouldn’t even make the ‘Top 8.’”
MySpace
If a thieving Loki wanted to take credit for Thor's work.
Steal his thunder
Jack Nicholson’s axe-wielding exclamation in The Shining was inspired by this Iowan.
Johnny Carson
This French stuffed-food dish is also a famously silent performance trio.
chicken cordon blue man group
Financial gain & The Biblical Amos or Jeremiah, for example.
Profit/prophet
Overestimating consumers' loyalty to QWERTY, this business went belly up soon after 2007.
Blackberry