U.S. City Nicknames
The Windy City
What is Chicago?
Lox is a fillet of the brined version of this fish
What is Salmon?
The year of Japan's attack on Pear Harbor
What is 1941?
In British English, these are called "round brackets"
What are parentheses?
Lime Juice, Tequila, and Cointreau or Triple Sec
What is a Margarita?
What is Las Vegas?
This species of seal gets its catlike name from the spotted pattern along its back
What is a Leopard Seal?
The year the Treaty of Versailles is signed
What is 1919?
Can be used instead of a full stop (or period) to separate two closely-connected sentences
What is a semicolon?
Gin, Campari, Vermouth
What is a Negroni
Beantown
What is Boston?
“Morse” is an archaic term for this large marine mammal characterized by prominent tusks and whiskers
What is a Walrus?
The year of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
What is 1986?
These can show where letters are missing in contracted words
What are Apostrophes?
Prosecco, Aperol, Club Soda
What is a Aperol Spritz?
The Big Easy
What is New Orleans?
This critter with an equine-esque name can move its dorsal fin back and forth as quickly as 35 times per second in order to propel through water
What is a Seahorse?
The year Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled Banner
What is 1814?
A three-dot mark
What is a ellipsis?
Pisco, Lime Juice, Simple Syrup, Egg White, Angostura Bitters
What is a Pisco Sour?
The City of Roses
What is Portland?
This shrimp species is sometimes called the "thumb-splitter" because of the incredibly powerful strike of its club-like claws
What is a Mantis Shrimp?
The year the Suez Canal in Egypt opens
What is 1868?
Punctuation marks that set off incidental or optional information or thoughts from the rest of the sentence
What are Braces?
Gin, Lime Juice, Simple Syrup
What is a Gimlet?