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This expression means a person takes after one of their parents.
What is a chip off the old block?
Baltic Avenue, Park Place, St. James Place, Atlantic Avenue, and Boardwalk are all street names in this city.
What is Atlantic City?
If you have ever played classic Monopoly, you are familiar with the names of some Atlantic City streets.
This red fruit sauce is a staple at Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners.
What is cranberry sauce?
This elongated car is used by wedding parties, in funeral processions, and to and from the office by moguls of industry.
What is a limousine?
Initially, they were used to transport freight. The name comes from the Limousin region in France.
A leap year has this many days.
What is 366?
This festive plant with red leaves is one of the most popular decorations in December.
What is a poinsettia?
Fun Fact: Poinsettias became popular in the U.S. thanks to Joel Poinsett, the first U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
You do this when you complete an item on your to-do list.
What is cross it off (or tick it off)?
Juan Valdez’s coffee hails from Colombia, whose capital city is this.
What is Bogotá?
The fictional character Juan Valdez was created in 1959 as the spokesman for the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia.
This warm holiday drink is made with milk, sugar, and eggs — and is often topped with nutmeg.
What is eggnog?
In the film Murder on the Orient Express, the train ride starts in this city.
What is Istanbul?
The original luxury train route went from Istanbul to Paris and took five days
This bell rings inside the giant grandfather-style clock that is one of the dominating features of the London skyline.
What is Big Ben?
The clock’s proper name is the Great Clock of the Elizabeth Tower.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, known by this name.
Who is Pope Francis?
He lived in a two-room apartment rather than the lavish papal suite. No pope had done this in more than a century.
Ready-made clothes are also called this.
What is off the rack?
Men’s custom suits are available in three categories: standard, premium, and luxury. In 2024, the minimum prices for men’s custom suits were $699 for standard, $1,200 for premium, and $1,400 for luxury.
This capital city of a Pacific Rim country has the largest population in the world.
What is Tokyo?
Its population exceeds 37 million. Delhi, India, is in the No. 2 spot, with more than 34 million. There is no North American city in the top 20.
Gingerbread houses are usually decorated with these small, colorful candies that stick to the frosting like glue.
What are gumdrops?
One tourist adventure in Venice is to ride one of these through the canals.
What is gondola?
All 280 components of modern Venetian gondolas are still handcrafted.
This refers to a calendar that businesses or governments use when their calendars do not start on January 1.
What is a fiscal year?
For example, the U.S. government’s calendar year runs from October 1 through September 30 of the following year.
Ratified on December 15, 1791, this important part of the U.S. Constitution protects freedoms like speech and religion.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Fun Fact: It originally had 12 proposed amendments — only 10 were adopted.
Take this to exit the interstate highway system.
What is an off-ramp?
Before the interstate was inaugurated, it could take more than two months to travel by car from coast to coast.
One of the world’s most expensive places to live, this lavish European city is located on the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Monaco?
Fun fact: Monaco is both a city and a state, known as a city-state.
This creamy dish made with green vegetables and crispy fried onions on top has been a holiday favorite since the 1950s.
What is green bean casserole?
Jules Verne wrote a book about traveling for five weeks in one of these unlikely modes of transportation, customarily used for recreation and sightseeing.
What is a balloon?
The book is Five Weeks in a Balloon, a notable departure from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
When someone at a speech or presentation holds up their arm and taps their watch so the speaker can see it, it means this.
What is your time is up (or similar)?
This famous symbol in Times Square has dropped every New Year’s Eve since 1907, except for a brief pause during World War II.
What is the Times Square Ball?
The original Times Square ball in 1907 was made of iron and wood and weighed 700 pounds — today’s version is covered in more than 2,600 Waterford crystals.
Pharmaceuticals prescribed for purposes other than those officially approved are referred to as this.
What is off-label?
This European city is infamous for its red-light district.
What is Amsterdam?
De Wallen, Amsterdam’s oldest neighborhood, is the best-known modern red-light district.
This baked holiday bread is filled with candied fruit and nuts and is a staple in many German households.
What is fruitcake?
Get comfortable—we’re going for a ride on this, the longest highway in the world.
What is Pan-American Highway?
It runs 19,000 miles (30,578 km) from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to the tip of Argentina. It traverses 14 countries from the United States south through Central and South America.
This is the official name of the prevalent calendar in use today, particularly in the West.
What is the Gregorian calendar?
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the calendar because the Julian calendar made it difficult to calculate when Easter should fall.
On December 16, 1773, American colonists protested British taxation by dumping tea into Boston Harbor in an event now known as this.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
To take the blush off this flower is to find something mundane that was once exciting.
What is rose?
The alternate expression is to take the bloom off the rose.
Africa’s oldest subway is found in this city.
What is Cairo?
It was opened in 1987 and spans 66 miles (106 km), with 80 stations.
This traditional Jewish fried food, eaten during Hanukkah, is made from grated potatoes and onions.
What are latkes?
Cruise control was designed by an engineer who had this disability.
What is blindness?
Ralph Teeter invented cruise control in 1945. He got the idea when he noticed that his driver’s speed varied depending on whether he was talking.
This ultra-precise device is so accurate that it can measure Earth’s rotation slowing down by milliseconds.
What is an atomic clock?
The atomic clock uses the vibrations of cesium or rubidium atoms to measure time.
On December 4, 1872, this American ghost ship was discovered near the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean by the captain of the Dei Gratia, a small British brig.
What is the Mary Celeste?
The ship was found in working order, with its full complement of cargo, but no one was found aboard it. The cause of the disappearance of the captain, his family, and the crew of eight has never been determined.