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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?
Even before she performed the final concert with the Supremes in 1970, she was recording her first solo album.
Who is Diana Ross?
This elongated car is used by wedding parties, in funeral processions, and to and from the office by moguls of industry.
What is a 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?
Born December 1, 1935, this actor-director was once married to Mia Farrow and is often quoted as saying, “Eighty percent of life is showing up.”
Who is Woody Allen?
This remarkable event took place on the battlefield in Belgium during World War I on December 24, 1914.
What is the Christmas Truce? The soldiers, not the officers, enacted the truce. After that, holiday truces were mostly forbidden.
You do this when you complete an item on your to-do list.
What is cross it off (or tick it off)?
Juan Valdez’s coffee hails from Colombia, whose capital city is this.
What is Bogotá?
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.
Who is Michael Jackson?
In the film Murder on the Orient Express, the train ride starts in this city.
What is Istanbul?
This bell rings inside the giant grandfather-style clock that is one of the dominating features of the London skyline.
What is Big Ben?
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, known by this name.
Who is Pope Francis?
Ready-made clothes are also called this.
What is off the rack?
This capital city of a Pacific Rim country has the largest population in the world.
What is Tokyo?
In 1971, this Beatle started a band known as Wings.
Who is Paul McCartney?
One tourist adventure in Venice is to ride one of these through the canals.
What is gondola?
This refers to a calendar that businesses or governments use when their calendars do not start on January 1.
What is a fiscal year?
Born December 1, 1913, she will always be remembered for her role as Peter Pan, for which she won a Tony Award.
Who is Mary Martin?
Take this to exit the interstate highway system.
What is an off-ramp?
One of the world’s most expensive places to live, this lavish European city is located on the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Monaco? Fun fact: Monaco is both a city and a state, known as a city-state.
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?
When someone at a speech or presentation holds up their arm and taps their watch so the speaker can see it, it means this.
What is your time is up (or similar)?
Born December 25, 1949, this actress plays the title role in the 1976 film Carrie.
Who is Sissy Spacek?
Pharmaceuticals prescribed for purposes other than those officially approved are referred to as this.
What is off-label?
This European city is infamous for its red-light district.
What is Amsterdam?
This performer was a member of the New Christy Minstrels and the First Edition before he left to pursue a solo career.
Who is Kenny Rogers?
Get comfortable—we’re going for a ride on this, the longest highway in the world.
What is Pan-American Highway?
This is the official name of the prevalent calendar in use today, particularly in the West.
What is the Gregorian calendar?
On Christmas Night 1776, George Washington crossed this river with his bedraggled army to make a surprise attack on the Hessians.
What is the Delaware River?
To take the blush off this flower is to find something mundane that was once exciting.
What is rose?
Africa’s oldest subway is found in this city.
What is Cairo?
A member of many bands, including Genesis before launching his successful solo career, his tune “In the Air Tonight” is among his many contributions to the world of music.
Who is Phil Collins?
Cruise control was designed by an engineer who had this disability.
What is blindness?
This ultra-precise device is so accurate that it can measure Earth’s rotation slowing down by milliseconds.
What is an atomic clock?
On December 4, 1872, this American ghost ship was discovered near the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean by the captain of the Dei Gratia, a small British brig.
What is the Mary Celeste?