To Coin a Phrase
"Mad as a hatter" describes the crazed side effects of hat makers using this to turn fur into felt.
What are chemicals (mercuric nitrate)?
The tough outer armor that shields certain animals and allows them to move.
What is an exoskeleton?
This metropolis served as the first capital of the U.S. under the Constitution.
What is New York City?
The fictional city where Aladdin takes place.
What is Agrabah?
The name for getting three strikes in a row in bowling.
What is a turkey?
Under old Scottish law, poachers couldn't be charged unless they were caught with wet blood on their hands, giving birth to this phrase.
What is "caught red-handed'?
Phycology is the study of the oceans’ seaweed ecosystems and this plant-like organism.
What is algae?
He was the second president and the first to live in the White House.
Who is John Adams?
This is the part of the castle that Belle is forbidden from entering in Beauty and the Beast.
What is the West Wing?
The sport commonly played with a shuttlecock.
What is badminton?
This phrase originates in the 1800s, when you would give a guest a leftover shoulder of mutton to tell them they were were no longer welcome.
What is "give the cold shoulder"?
There are 206 of these in the human body.
What are bones?
These two battles in April 1775 mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The school where "We're All in this Together" of High School Musical.
What is East High?
Together with the javelin, this is one of the only sports ever played on the moon.
What is golf?
On the frontier, dogs were trained to chase raccoons into trees and bark until their owners' arrived. But clever racoons were just jump to another tree, giving life to this phrase.
What is "barking up the wrong tree"?
The number of chromosomes in the average human being.
What is 46?
This decisive victory in 1777 convinced France to support the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Big Hero 6 takes place in a fictional city whose name is a hybrid of these two real Pacific cities.
What are San Francisco and Tokyo?
Thailand has made a professional sport out of this windy day activity.
What is kite flying?
This phrase for deliberately ignoring a minor infraction comes from Admiral Horatio Nelson who reportedly blamed his bad eye for not seeing the command signal to retreat.
What is "turning a blind eye"?
This branch of study examines how species in ecosystems are interconnected.
What is ecology?
This 1783 Treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War and recognized U.S. independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This magical land is the home of all famous Disney villains and their children in the Descendants and its sequels.
What is the Isle of the Lost?
The Scottish game of shinty, played with a ball and sticks is similar to this North American team sport.
What is field hockey?