Bodies of Water
This historic, 363-mile man-made waterway was constructed in upstate New York. It connects the Hudson River at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo. Opened in 1825, it served as the first navigable water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. It triggered massive economic growth, lowered shipping costs by 90%, and established New York City as America’s premier seaport
What is the Erie Canal?
This common, and potentially serious condition, is characterized by having lower-than-normal hemoglobin and iron counts in the blood. It is usually treatable with a combination of iron supplements and a diet rich in iron.
What is anemia?
Cosmologists, physicists, chemists, and many other scientists agree with this catchy yet accurate and ironic statement. "Everyone in the universe is mostly _________."
The multimillion-dollar lawsuit over spilled McDonald's __________ —officially known as Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants (1994)—is one of the most famous and widely misunderstood product liability cases in American history. While the public narrative often paints it as a frivolous lawsuit over a simple spill, the actual trial revealed that 79-year-old Stella Liebeck suffered catastrophic, life-threatening burns from this beverage that was served at an unreasonably dangerous temperature.
What is coffee?
This adjective, while describing a person who cannot hear, and commonly politically incorrect is referred to as a person who is __________ .
What is dumb?
This body of water is a landlocked, hypersaline lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. Resting at roughly 440 meters (1,443 feet) below sea level, its shores represent the lowest elevation of land on Earth. It is renowned for its extreme salinity, mineral-rich mud, and exceptional buoyancy, which allows swimmers to float effortlessly. Wading in it can also clean wounds and dermal infections!
What is the Dead Sea?
Specialized oncologists and hematologists form a team used to treat this specific type of cancer. There are numerous varieties of it.
What is leukemia?
Very much like the universe itself, the atom, composed of a protons, neutrons, and electrons, is mostly just nothing more than ________ __________.
What is empty space?
A ridiculous Supreme Court Ruling (1893) ruled unanimously that a ________ is legally a vegetable, despite acknowledging that it is botanically a fruit. Legally-speaking, this ruling has not been overturned.
What is a tomato?
It's not homophonic with "some", but it interchanges with a word that swaps only one letter and refers to wear you reside.
What is a home?
A 630-square-mile tidal estuary located in southeastern Louisiana. Positioned directly north of New Orleans, it is the largest inland body of water in Louisiana and the second-largest inland body of saltwater in the United States. Though locally called a lake, it is technically a shallow, brackish lagoon connected to the Gulf of Mexico via The Rigolets strait.
What is Lake Pontchartrain?
___________, also scientifically known as thrombocytes, are small, colorless, disk-shaped cell fragments in our blood that are essential for blood clotting. They are essential in wound healing and can be donated by healthy individuals.
What are platelets?
Your primary care doctor is likely to ask you this routine question. "How much soda/sugary beverages do you consume on a daily basis?" Should you answer a lot, they will mostly respond that these beverages are nothing more than empty __________.
What are calories?
Several states, including New Jersey, Maryland, and Colorado, still maintain statewide ______ laws prohibit car dealerships from opening on Sundays to give workers a mandated day off. Bergen County, NJ, in particular, still does not allow the sale of non-perishable items on Sundays.
What are blue (laws)?
One of the most commonly mispronounced condiments, it is both popular in the U.S. and U.K.
What is Worcestershire Sauce?
An _____________ is a dynamic coastal body of water where freshwater from rivers and streams meets and mixes with saltwater from the ocean, creating a biologically rich habitat of brackish water.
What is an estuary?
This liquid, pale-yellow component of whole blood holds the blood cells in suspension. It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume, while the remaining 45% consists of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. It is roughly 92% water and acts as the primary transport medium for moving nutrients, hormones, proteins, and waste products throughout the human body. You can also donate this blood product!
What is plasma?
A vacuum cleaner works by creating a low-_________ area inside the machine, which forces the higher-________ outside air (and dirt) to rush into it. It relies on the basic scientific principle that air always moves from a high- __________ environment to a low-__________ environment.
What is pressure?
Apparently, it is still technically illegal to drive a black car on Sundays in this Rocky Mountain Capital. This edict however is hardly if never enforced.
Where is Denver, Colorado?
Northeastern New Jerseyans and NYC residents pronounce this item in a manner that most U.S. residents would question. It is an item that everyone in which everyone stores their clothes.
What is a drawer?
This body of water, hardly considered one today, has been nearly depleted due to the Soviet Union's diversion of its fluids in order to irrigate distant regions in the country.
What is the Aral Sea?
Organ __________ is a medical process where a recipient’s immune system recognizes a transplanted organ as foreign tissue and attempts to destroy it. This action is synonymous with the term for "getting dumped" in the dating world.
What is rejection?
"All pigs with wings speak Klingon," while a completely nonsensical statement, from a logician's standpoint is said to be ____________ true. [*HINT*: adverb of this category's theme!]
What is vacuously?
Geographically, this country SHOULD have five distinct time zones, and yet, due to a complex history and myriad of political decisions, it only has one.
Where is China?
Although northeasterners correctly pronounce Montana correctly, most do not pronounce these two states correctly as the locals do. These three Western states are ______________ , _____________ , and ___________.