CONVERSIONS
A stick of butter is this number of ounces.
What is four?
A carton with four sticks is one pound.
When you’re having a bad hair day, you might say, “My hair is as flat as [this].”
What is a pancake?
These are the colors of the three Olympic medals.
What are gold, silver, and bronze?
The medals are partially made of gold, silver, and copper, respectively.
Home of the Alamo
What is San Antonio?
Always place these two on the dinner table—salt and this.
What is pepper?
When your children crossed their eyes, you might have told them not to do that because this would happen.
What is their eyes would get stuck?
If you have told your children this, you weren’t alone. It’s one of the top myths about eyes, and luckily it is just that—a myth.
In the United States, we use miles; in Europe and other parts of the world, they use this to measure distance.
What is a kilometer?
One kilometer equals .62 miles, and one mile equals 1.6 kilometers.
The end of The Jeffersons theme song says, “We finally got a piece of [this].”
What is the pie?
The tune is “Movin’ on Up.”
This city is home to the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
What is the Emerald City?
Missouri’s major city on the Mississippi River
What is St. Louis? Take a trip to the Gateway Arch for a great view of the river.
One classic American lunch is soup and this.
What is a sandwich?
Our parents told us that sitting in this relation to the television can strain your eyes.
What is sitting too close?
They were right; this can cause a host of uncomfortable symptoms including blurriness and headaches centered in the eyes. Using your computer or device for too long and reading in low light have the same effect.
The United States uses yards for three feet; the rough equivalent of the yard in the metric system is this.
What is the meter?
One meter is 3.2 feet.
Israel is referred to as the land of milk and this.
What is honey?
This comes from Exodus 3:8 in the Bible. In referring to the Israelites in the King James translation, it says, “…and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Hippocrates is the father of this discipline.
What is medicine?
His works established principles of ethical medical practice and natural treatments.
U.S. city across the border from Tijuana, Mexico
What is San Diego?
The Marine Corps receive their basic training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, next to the San Diego Airport.
Love and marriage go together like this pair, according to the Sinatra tune.
What is a horse and carriage? In 1955, “Love and Marriage” was a hit for Frank Sinatra, and later it was used for the theme song of the sitcom Married… with Children.
This gender has the most color blindness.
What is male?
The 300 million color-blind people around the world are missing certain color-detecting cones in their eyes.
The United States uses Fahrenheit as the unit of measure for temperature, and much of the world uses this unit of measure.
What is Celsius?
According to legend, this ruler once scoffed, “Let them eat cake,” but scholars have found no evidence that she said this.
Who is Marie-Antoinette?
Upon hearing of her hungry subjects, the queen of France was rumored to have said the equivalent of “Let them eat bread,” which morphed in the grapevine to become “Let them eat cake.” However, there is no credible evidence to support that she said either sentence.
This ocean, the world’s fourth largest, surrounds Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean)?
Technically, the Southern Ocean separates Antarctica from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans as well as the seas surrounding it.
Largest city in Brazil
What is São Paulo?
It’s a city and a state but not a city-state. The city is the industrial capital of the country.
This singing duo includes Sonny and this woman, his then-wife.
Who is Cher?
It’s the most prevalent eye color.
What is brown?
More than 70 percent of the world’s people have brown eyes. Melanin determines not only skin color but also eye color. The higher the melanin, the more likely the eyes are to be brown. Green eyes, which only around two percent of the population have, are the least common of typical eye color.
This is the old name for the unit of measure used for temperature in Europe.
What is centigrade?
That term has since been replaced with a more accurate unit of measure, also the answer to another clue in this category.
If you treat someone to an extravagant dinner and drinks, you are doing this rhyming activity for them.
What is wine and dine?
The rainbow you see after it rains contains this number of colors, according to Isaac Newton.
What is seven?
From top to bottom, the colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
Formerly known as Leningrad
What is St. Petersburg, Russia?
Before it was Leningrad, it was St. Petersburg, so it was changed back to its original name. Before Moscow became the capital of Russia, St. Petersburg held the distinction.
This combo is a very slow typing method.
What is hunt and peck?
Corneas can be transplanted from this marine animal onto human eyes.
What is a shark?
Though not a common practice, shark corneas have been used experimentally for transplants due to their similarities with human corneas.
Liquids become gases through one of two conversion processes: condensation and this.
What is evaporation?
This American president is credited with saying he would “put a chicken in every pot.”
Who is President Herbert Hoover?
The standard English-language keyboard is named this, after the first six letters in the top row.
What is QWERTY?
Despite attempts to push new formats, the QWERTY keyboard has been the gold standard for more than 150 years.
Capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador
What is St. John’s?
It’s the oldest and easternmost city in North America and was first visited by explorer John Cabot.
This is the other half of U.S. News.
What is & World Report?
You must look very closely to find the second part of its name. In the 1960s, it was more prominent, but it still received second billing. The current trend is to shorten brand names, with some even shortening to acronyms, such as SNL for Saturday Night Live and KFC for Kentucky Fried Chicken.
This land animal has the largest eyes.
What is ostrich?
Its eyes are approximately two inches in size, double that of human eyes. The giant squid has the largest eyes of a sea animal, about the size of a dinner plate.