1980s
In the 1980s, frustrated with limited City Council representation, this NYC borough attempted to secede from NYC and become an independent city
What is Staten Island?
This is the URL for the best baking business, owned by the best baker, Cheryl
What is "Cherylscakery.com"
In the phrase, "the man on the platform", the word "on" is this part of speech
What is a Preposition?
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” are notable works by this American writer
Who is Mark Twain?
This famous holiday treat has English roots and typically contains cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and molasses
What is gingerbread?
Debuting in London's West End in 1986 and on Broadway in 1988, this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features the songs "All I Ask of You" and "The Music of the Night"
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
On this year, Cheryl and John took their kids to Canada and even spent a day at the Ausable Chasm
What is 2018?
Words like "bang" or "boom" are formed from their association to the sound they make, which is an example of this term.
What is Onomatopoeia?
This is the name of the python in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book
What is Kaa?
An "alligator pear" is more commonly known as this
What is an avocado?
This 1985 video game begins with a planned departure from Independence, Missouri
What is The Oregon Trail?
John gifted this crafting machine to Cheryl on Christmas of 2022
What is the Cricut Maker?
This commonly misused phrase, “I could care less” would be corrected by adding this word
What is "not"?
On this year, Of Mice and Men was published
What is 1937?
Tiramisu contains this type of cheese
What is Mascarpone?
In 1983, Francis Ford Coppola directed this movie that was adapted from a book by S.E. Hinton and featured stars such as Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, and Tom Cruise
What is The Outsiders?
Sarah and Cheryl went to hear music by this royal band in a concert earlier in March.
This yummy idiom means to have or enjoy the good parts of something without having or dealing with the bad parts
What is "Have your cake and eat it too"?
In the children’s book “The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle”, Tiggy-Winkle is this animal
What is a hedgehog?
Anpan, a sweet bread usually filled with bean paste, comes from this country
What is Japan?
This alliterative 'M' name is given to a brand of tiny vehicles and matching play-sets first made by Galoob in the mid-1980s
What is Micro Machines?
John and Cheryl visited this landmark, housing the oldest standing theater in the world while vacationing in Greece
What is The Acropolis?
The expression to "put one’s face on" has this meaning
In the first line of the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Dalloway is going to purchase this fragrant item
What are flowers?
The word biscotti is derived from the Latin words 'bis coctus', and describes the way the pastry is made. In English it means this
What is "twice-baked"