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, NJ? If you have ever played classic Monopoly, you are familiar with the names of some Atlantic City streets.
He left his band of five family members in 1979 and struck out on his own with two consecutive hit albums, Off the Wall and Thriller, right out of the gate
Michael Jackson
This elongated car is used by wedding parties, in funeral processions, and to and from the office by moguls of industry.
Limousine
The popular saying “a month of Sundays” is flawed because you can have a maximum of only this number of Sundays in a month.
What is five? Months have only four or five of each day, depending on what day of the week the first of the month falls.
You do this when you complete an item on your to-do list.
What is cross it off (or tick it off)?
This capital city of a Pacific Rim country has the largest population in the world.
Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.
Even before she performed the final concert with the Supremes in 1970, she was recording her first solo album.
Diana Ross
Get comfortable—we’re going for a ride on this, the longest highway in the world.
The longest highway in the world is the Pan-American Highway, a massive network of roads that connects nearly all of the countries of the Americas. Though its exact length varies depending on the routes included, it is estimated to stretch approximately 19,000 miles (30,600 km).
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.
Ready-made clothes are also called this.
What is off the rack?
One of the world’s most expensive places to live, this lavish European city is located on the Mediterranean Sea.
Monaco, specifically its glamorous district of Monte Carlo
This popular duo, consisting of Paul and Art, who each went on to successful solo careers.
Who are Simon and Garfunkel?
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.
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
Pharmaceuticals prescribed for purposes other than those officially approved are referred to as this.
What is off-label?
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. The federation paid $1.5 million for product placement in the film Bruce Almighty, and the Juan Valdez character also made an appearance in the movie, too.
In 1971, this Beatle started a band known as Wings.
Who is Paul McCartney? His wife Linda played the keyboard. The band disbanded in 1981. Its most popular album is Band on the Run, which features two Top 10 singles, including the title song.
In the film Murder on the Orient Express, the train ride starts in this city
What is Istanbul, Turkey?
What is your time is up (or similar)? If there is no watch, it still means the same thing. Organizers use two signals—one to indicate time is short, and one to indicate time is up.
This is the official name of the prevalent calendar in use today, particularly in the West.
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 performer was a member of the New Christy Minstrels and the First Edition before he left to pursue a solo career.
Kenny Rogers
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 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.