Food & Drink
Time Idioms
"P" in World Geography
March, March
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1959
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($100) These are made up of graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate.

Answer: What are s’mores? The Girl Scouts first published the recipe in 1927.

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. ($100) Sometimes things happen in the [missing word] of an eye.

 Answer: What is blink? Time passes so quickly that when we look back on our teen years, we feel it passed in the blink of an eye.

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($100) This country shares the Iberian Peninsula with Spain. 

 Answer: What is Portugal? Portugal means “beautiful port.”

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($100) March comes in like this animal.  

 Answer: What is lion? It goes out like a lamb. The saying symbolizes that March comes in with the roar of winter and leaves with the gentleness of a lamb

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($100) This generation was born in 1959.  

Answer: Who are the baby boomers? They were born from 1946–1964, and the generation got its name from the birth-rate spike after World War II.

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($200) This label is found on foods produced according to Jewish dietary law.  

Answer: What is kosher? Basic rules include no foods with a combination of meat and milk, no shellfish, and processed meat according to strict standards

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($200) A stitch in time saves this number.  

Answer: What is nine? If you fix something when you first find a problem, you can keep it from turning into a bigger problem

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($200) A canal runs through this Central American country.

Answer: What is Panama? The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, cutting 8,000 nautical miles off the trip that used to navigate around the tip of South America.

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($200) Born March 2, 1917, he played Lucy’s husband Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy.  

Answer: Who is Desi Arnaz? Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were married during the show’s run

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($200) The United States gained these two states.  

Answer: What are Alaska and Hawaii? Both were former territories. Alaska became a state in January 1959, and Hawaii followed in August

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. ($400) This is Italy’s extraordinarily strong coffee.  

 Answer: What is espresso? Its name does not refer to a specific bean. It refers to forcing water at high pressure through the fine grinds

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($400) There’s no time like the [missing word].  

Answer: What is present? “There’s no time like the present” is another way to say, “Why procrastinate?”

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($400) Machu Picchu is located high in the Andes Mountains in this South American country.

Answer: What is Peru? The best-known ruins in Peru are Machu Picchu, the site of ancient Incan ruins.

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($400) On March 11, 1997, Queen Elizabeth II knighted this Beatles member.  

Answer: Who is Paul McCartney? Ringo Starr has also been knighted.

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($400) Boeing inaugurated this aircraft.  

Answer: What is the 707? It was the first successful jet aircraft that lasted more than a few years

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. ($600) This cocktail is made with coconut cream, rum, and pineapple.  

Answer: What is a piña colada? It was invented at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in Puerto Rico and is the island’s national drink

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($600) When you face a deadline, you could say you’re up against this.  

Answer: What is the clock? You can use the expression to mean time is running out to do something.

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($600) Imelda Marcos had a fabulous shoe collection in this country.  

Answer: What are the Philippines? She was the wife of former president Ferdinand Marcos

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($600) Name one of the two March signs of the zodiac.  

Answer: What is Pisces or Aries? People born in the first part of the month are born under the sign of Pisces; those born toward the end of the month are born under the sign of Aries

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($600) Hugh Hefner launched this magazine.  

Answer: What is Playboy? Over the years, the magazine became an enterprise with Playboy Clubs, the Playboy Mansion, and more. In 2018, the family sold the last of their Playboy holdings.

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($800) This is Georgia’s official state vegetable.  

($800) This is Georgia’s official state vegetable. Answer: What is the Vidalia sweet onion? The yellow onion has a high sugar content due to the soil’s meager amount of sulfur; it was declared the official state vegetable in 1990.

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($800) This lunar-inspired saying indicates a rare occurrence.

Answer: What is once in a blue moon? A blue moon is the second full moon of a calendar month. This phenomenon happens only once every 32 months

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($800) Pope John Paul II contributed to this country’s fight for the fall of communism.

Answer: What is Poland? He dedicated most of his life as a priest to freeing his homeland.

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($800) March Madness refers to this sport.  

Answer: What is college basketball? The college NCAA basketball teams begin their playoff season in March.

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($800) In this TV sitcom, Jay North portrays a boy whose curiosity and other normal behaviors always seem to lead to trouble.  

Answer: What is Dennis the Menace? The sitcom is an adaptation of a comic strip featuring Dennis.