Origin of Idiom
This phrase for making peace comes from a Native American practice of symbolically interring a weapon
What is Burying the Hatchet?
Oasis somehow managed to be "slowly walking down the hall" but at the same time "faster than" this projectile
What is a Cannonball?
Traditional sentence-finishing faux pas:
IRON PIE POTS
What is a Preposition?
The pineal gland in the brain secretes this "sleep hormone" into the fluid around the brain & spinal cord
What is Melatonin?
The clock didn't run out for this Ke$ha hit, the first Billboard No. 1 of the 2010s, until it had topped the chart for 9 weeks
What is Tik Tok?
THE OSCARS:
The first 2 actors to refuse their Oscar trophies were in films with scripts that this man co-wrote
Who is Francis Ford Coppola?
It was once a place of execution outside London, but gained its current use as an unclaimed area where WWI troops dreaded being sent
What is No Man's Land?
"My style is wild, so book me / Not long is how long that this rhyme took me", rapped Ghostface Killah as part of this ensemble
What is Wu-Tang Clan?
What a subject & its verb should be in:
ENTER GAME
What is Agreement?
Beavers, wolves & ochre sea stars are examples of this ecological niche named for an important element in an arch
What is a Keystone Species?
This movie comedy premised on a malfunction at a ski resort includes the name of a device that could apply to the entire category
What is Hot Tub Time Machine?
WORLD ORGANIZATIONS:
Passing on in 2025, Aliza Magen, who helped track down terrorists in the 1972 Munich attack, became this agency's top-ranking woman
What is Mossad?
Mr. Snagsby in his "Bleak House" was the first to say "not to put too fine a point upon it"--in other words, to be blunt
What is Dickens?
The Beatles: "I'm sorry that I doubted you, I was so unfair / You were in a car crash and you lost" this--does that happen?
What is Your Hair?
Another word for dependent, as in clause:
INSURED BOAT
What is Subordinate?
It does take a rocket scientist to calculate this minimum speed required to break free from a planet's gravity
What is Escape Velocity?
Known to sing a bit themselves, the cast of this hit TV show presented a trophy at the MTV Video Music Awards
What is Glee?
BESTSELLING AUTHORS:
At age 26 in April 1917, she passed the assistant's exam for London's Society of Apothecaries
Who is Agatha Christie?
When John Dennis saw a play that used a sound effect he created without permission, he complained they had done this
What is Stolen his Thunder?
The Police: "Giant steps are what you take" doing this; "I hope my legs don't break"--wait, isn't gravity lower up there?
What is Walking on the Moon?
When an adverb boldly goes in the middle:
I VISIT PINE FLINT
What is a Split Infinitive?
The day honoring this unit of measure in chemistry is celebrated on October 23, since Avogadro's number is 6.02 times 10 to the 23rd power
What is The Mole?
This rap single by Far East Movement, the first No. 1 hit by an Asian-American group, has a title that refers to a private jet
What is Like a G6?
WORDS FROM WWII:
As they lived below the surface of daily life, Jews who hid in Berlin in WWII were called human these, a German-derived word
What are U-Boats?
One proposed origin of this phrase is not from academic achievement but the ability of a train to climb a slope
What is To Make the Grade?
Warren Zevon: "She was a credit to her gender / She put me through some changes, Lord, sort of like a Waring" this
What is Blender?
Tense denoting something completed before something else:
PET CARP FEST
What is Past Perfect?
Chemists know that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of this, the solid sediment that falls out of solution
What is Precipitate (precipitation)?
HBO debuted this drama series set in & named for one of New Orleans' oldest neighborhoods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
What is Treme?
PUBLIC FIGURES:
Foreshadowing his 1978 death, he said, "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door"
Who is Harvey Milk?