TELLING A BEDTIME STORY
A huntsman cuts into a wolf's stomach to let this girl & her grandma escape, but the wolf lives!
OK, until the girl kills it using stones
Little Red Riding Hood
A woman in Canada used an existing R to place "quizzers" on 2 triple word scores to help score 365 points at once in this game
Scrabble
AMC Theatres claims to sell 52 million bags of this snack food every year
popcorn
It got its independence from Portugal in 1822 & abolished slavery in 1888
Brazil
The difference between total assets & liabilities is this "worth"
net worth
Let's thumb through this tale... Title girl swims well, gets human legs... Wait, she kinda dies at the end?!
The Little Mermaid
For me, it's left hand, green, right foot, blue & left hamstring, pulled playing this Hasbro game
Twister
If you love Dum Dums & Chupa Chups, you're a real sucker for this treat
a lollipop
The strait of Gibraltar separates the mainlands of these 2 countries by about 8 miles
Spain & Morocco
A part of profits paid to shareholders, the scrip type is basically a promissory note
A Seussian home invasion, now that's what he'll do! / He'll mistreat a fish! Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo!
The Cat in the Hat
Sweden's Mojang Studios is best known for this video game where you can build volcanoes or underground cities
Minecraft
The United Nations estimated that the world's this reached 8 billion on Nov. 15, 2022
population
In 1960, South Asian island country elected the world’s first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike
For a sales team, the number of contracts signed per quarter might be one of these indicators, KPI for short
Key Performance Indicator
...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G'night!
Hansel & Gretel
In 2021 a Wisconsin teen pulled 32 of these blocks & placed them back atop a tower of them in one minute without toppling it
Jenga
In 1953, 10-year-old Gayla Peevey sang about wanting this large animal for Christmas
a hippopotamus
More than 80% of the 104 million people in this Asian country of thousands of islands identify as Catholic
The Philippines
In the longevity type of this offering from an insurance company, the income doesn't start until you hit a specified age
Annuity
Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing... sounds more like Stephen King
Old Mother Hubbard
Cricket, 501 & Around the World are games involving tossing these, perhaps in a bar
darts
In 2013, cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio assumed this lofty title
Pope
The king of this country gets the official title "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques"
Saudi Arabia
The VIX, short for this, is a predictor of how fast stock market prices change
Volatility Index