AKA
(ALSO KNOWN AS)
(ALSO KNOWN AS)
Table Tennis
Ping Pong
Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947 when took first base with this team.
Brooklyn Dodgers
This dumpling with the rhyming name is often found in soup.
Wonton
The first ________ of the ________ was Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg in 1789. The most recent is Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker of the House
From the Greek word for “dissection,” this branch of science is concerned with the structure of the human body and all its parts.
Anatomy
Rubella
German Measles
Who are the only two African Americans to have served on the US Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas (recently also Ketanji Brown Jackson)
Combine apple sauce and apricot jam and you’ll have this Chinese condiment.
Duck sauce
“I’m ________ of the ________,” crowed director James Cameron, when he won an Academy Award for directing Titanic.
King of the World
This condition occurs when your blood has a lower than normal amount of red blood cells or hemoglobin.
Anemia
Gnu
Wildebeest
She was a key “conductor” on the Underground Railroad … and she might replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
Harriet Tubman
This “carb” is the mein in Chow Mein and Lo Mein.
Noodles
In addition to hearing misdemeanor cases and small claims court proceedings, the ________ of the ________ also performs civil marriages.
Justice of the Peace
This term for a person or animal that lacks pigmentation comes from the Latin word for “white.”
Albino
Hydrophobia
He was born Malcolm Little in 1925, but he took on this name when he joined the nation of Islam.
Malcom X. The X signifies his unknown African ancestral surname.
This crunchy ingredient in stir fry is not a nut, but a marsh vegetable.
Water chestnut
To accept something as true even when you’re uncertain, is to give the ________ of the ________ .
Benefit of the Doubt
Commonly called the Northern Lights, this natural phenomenon of streams of reddish or greenish lights in the sky is caused by the interaction of charged particles from the sun with atoms in the upper atmosphere.
Aurora Borealis. (The Southern Lights are officially called Aurora Australis.)
Caribou
Reindeer
The 19th of this month is celebrated as the date in 1865 when slaves in Texas finally learned of their freedom, two and a half-years after all slaves had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
June. The holiday, called Juneteenth, now celebrates the end of slavery throughout the United States.
This Chinese province is known for its hot and spicy food.
Szechuan
When it comes to freshman who apply for college, Harvard always picks the ________ of the ________ .
Cream of the Crop
This hormone is secreted by the adrenal glands, especially in conditions of stress. It increases your heart rate and breathing and prepares your muscles for exertion.
Adrenaline