This and That
This word refers to both a color and a citrus fruit.
Answer: What is orange? Similar fruits include tangerine and tangelo.
) In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy travels on this with her three friends and her dog to find the man behind the curtain.
Answer: What is the Yellow Brick Road? The Oxford English Dictionary defines the phrase yellow brick road as denoting a course of action or series of events that leads to a particular outcome or goal.
This is found around a bathtub, a collar, or a finger.
Answer: What is ring? Wisk detergent used to have a “ring around the collar” commercial.
This is the name of the TV game show where families must answer how the audience filled out a survey.
Answer: What is Family Feud? It is a spin-off from Match Game
This 1980s slang was short for favorite.
What is fave? It was used in teen magazines and caught on with teen girls.
This is used in sewing and to draw blood.
Answer: What is a needle? The first sewing needles were made from bone
Her love walks out on her in this movie, but she remains hopeful, saying, “I’ll go home and I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day!”
What is Gone with the Wind? Vivien Leigh plays Scarlett, and this is the last line of the film.
) Land is measured in this unit.
Answer: What is acre? In some other parts of the world, it is measured in hectares. One hectare equals 2.47 acres.
Survey says this is the top item to go with peanut butter.
Answer: What is jelly? Other answers are chocolate, bananas, Oreos, oats, and celery—in that order.
This one-word Spielberg film title stars Roy Schneider and Richard Dreyfuss. It’s a story about shark attacks on Amity Island.
What is Jaws? Decades after the film was released, Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, went into a restaurant and noticed an Alex Kintner sandwich on the menu. She mentioned that she played his mother in Jaws. The restaurant’s owner ran out to see her, and the owner was Jeffrey Voorhees, who played her son Alex in the film.
This is a unit in the alphabet and something you write and mail to someone.
Answer: What is a letter? Since email has become the main way to correspond, it’s a real treat to receive a letter from someone. Fun fact: In 1959, the USPS sent 3,000 pieces of mail from Virginia to Florida via a cruise missile. It took 22 minutes.
Julia Roberts uses her smarts, looks, sass, and determination to foil major polluters in this movie.
nswer: What is Erin Brockovich? The film is based on the true story of Erin Brockovich’s class-action suit against Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
This is where the engine connects to an airplane.
Answer: What is wing (or tail)? Some aircraft, such as the Boeing 727, the Douglas DC-10, and the Lockheed 1011, have an additional engine that connects to the tail.
Survey says this is the top answer for famous rivalries between brands.
Answer: What is Coke vs. Pepsi? It garnered 38 percent of the vote. The No. 2 answer is McDonald’s vs. Burger King.
This top British modeling sensation of the late 1960s was known for her especially slender frame.
Answer: Who is Twiggy? She has since worked on TV and film as well as on stage.
This is a loud dog vocalization and the outer part of a tree trunk.
Answer: What is bark? A dog can also whimper. It’s common for a dog to bark and whimper, but when it whimpers, it could mean distress.
Ben Stiller plays Greg Focker, who meets his future in-laws. Robert De Niro plays his fiancée’s father, a retired CIA operative, and sets Greg up with traps and tests engineered for failure.
Answer: What is Meet the Parents? In the movie, De Niro’s character has an office full of technological equipment, including a lie detector and other CIA toys.
This is shared by B.B., Billie Jean, and Larry the former CNN talk-show host.
Answer: What is King? B.B. was a blues guitarist, Billie Jean changed the course of tennis for women players, and Larry King hosted Larry King Live from 1985 to 2010.
He was the host of Family Feud from 1976–1985. He made the phrase “survey says” a household phrase.
Answer: Who is Richard Dawson? Dawson was well-known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan’s Heroes as well as being a regular panelist on Match Game.
Michael Jackson’s hit song from this album by the same name was inspired by Jackson’s interest in the horror genre.
Answer: What is Thriller? The spoken parts and ominous, deep laughs you hear come from Vincent Price.
This is a type of currency and the opposite of soft.
Answer: What is hard? Hard currency is considered stable and is backed by the government.
Rivals John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) are long-time neighbors. When Ariel Truax (Ann-Margret) moves into the neighborhood, they try to outdo each other to vie for her affection in this movie.
Answer: What is Grumpy Old Men? In an outtake of Walter Matthau in the bathtub, he improvises, “If I’d known there was going to be a nude scene, I would’ve asked for an extra million.” Everyone found it so funny that they included it in the theatrical trailer.
Short nickname used by North Americans for a person from the United Kingdom.
Answer: What is Brit? The Brit is also a music award, so Brits do not typically call each other Brits.
Survey says this is the top food you would buy at a carnival or fair.
Answer: What is cotton candy? It won by only one point, and corn dog was the runner-up
“Who ya gonna call?” is the tagline of this film starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramos, Ernie Hudson, and Sigourney Weaver.
Answer: What is Ghostbusters? Three university professors lose their jobs for performing unethical paranormal experiments on their students, so they set up business ridding New York City of ghosts and other paranormal phenomena