Two-Letter Words
Indefinite article preceding words that begin with vowels.
:What is an?
If a word begins with a consonant that sounds like a vowel, it takes an instead of a. For example, you would say, “An hour.”
Caesar salad begins with this lettuce.
What is romaine?
The traditional Caesar dressing recipe calls for an egg yolk, but people who don’t want to eat raw eggs omit it.
This sport is similar to baseball but uses a larger ball and an underhanded pitch.
What is softball?
The field for both is diamond shaped, but the space between bases differs. A high school baseball diamond has 90 feet between bases, and a softball diamond has 60 feet between bases.
This animal does not belong to the group: Horse, Donkey, Zebra, or Giraffe?
Giraffe.
What Italian word describes a group of photographers who take pictures of celebrities and sell them to magazines and newspapers?
Paparazzi.
-Common phrase: either…
:What is or?
The phrase either/or is used when you must make a choice between two possibilities.
Steakhouse salad, with blue cheese dressing, blue cheese crumbles, and bacon, begins with a wedge of this lettuce.
What is iceberg?
These runners focus on endurance over the long haul.
What are marathon runners?
Runners use cross-training to build strength and endurance.
This shape does not belong to the group: trapezoid, triangle, square, or ellipse?
Ellipse.
The ellipse is the only shape in the group that does not have straight lines.
Finish the saying “An apple a day keeps the what away”
A doctor.
First-person, plural pronoun.
What is we?
Every good salad starts by washing lettuce and drying it in this kitchen gadget
What is a spinner?
An alternate method to quickly remove water from fresh lettuce is to place the lettuce in a clean dishtowel, bring all four corners together and twist, and then swing the towel.
This type of rafting involves going through rapids.
What is white-water rafting?
The 1972 film Deliverance features a scene of canoeing through rapids. You can also navigate white water in inner tubes.
This country does not belong to the group because it doesn’t belong to the European Union: Greece, Spain, Austria, Switzerland.
Switzerland.
A ring of light appearing to encircle a person’s face?
Halo.
Archaic literary or ecclesiastical language for you.
What is ye?
This backyard-grown lettuce comes in green and red varieties
What is leaf?
Leaf lettuce tolerates all types of soil, so it can be planted just about anywhere.
You’ll find the Seven Hills in this European city.
What is Rome?
The ancient city of Rome was built on and around the Seven Hills.
This body part does not belong to the group: shoulder, arm, neck, or leg?
leg.
All other body parts are located above the waist.
The Scientific term for bad breath.
Halitosis.
Another way to say exist.
What is be?
It’s another name for Boston lettuce.
What is butter or bibb?
Boston and bibb are varieties of butter lettuce.
Tourists can learn to surf in Waikiki, but to watch the big-wave riders, they need to go to this shore on Oahu.
What is North Shore?
This U.S. bill doesn’t belong to the group: 1,5,100,500.
what is the $500 bill?
The $500 bill has not been printed since 1945 nor issued since 1969.
Who was known as the “The Mick” in baseball?
Mickey Mantle.