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In Canada, Europe, and other parts of the world, they use this to measure distance.
What is a kilometer? One kilometer equals .62 miles, and one mile equals 1.6 kilometers.
When you’re having a bad hair day, you might say, “My hair is as flat as [this].”
What is a pancake? You might also say, “What happened to my cake? It’s flat as a pancake!”
What is the first letter of every identification code for Canadian airports?
What is Y?
These are the colours of the three Olympic medals.
What are gold, silver, and bronze? The medals are partially made of gold, silver, and copper, respectively.
Always place these two on the dinner table— salt and this.
What is pepper? When a chef on TV says to “season” something, they mean to give it a shake of salt and pepper. Notice that they season from “on high.” This is to distribute the salt, pepper, and other seasonings evenly.
2.2 pounds (lb) is equal to how many Kilograms?
What is 1 Kilogram?
The end of The Jeffersons theme song says, “We finally got a piece of [this].”
What is the pie? The tune is “Movin’ on Up.”
Name one of the two colours of the planes used by the Snowbirds?
What are White and Red?
This city is home to the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
What is the Emerald City? The man behind the curtain is the Wizard.
One classic lunch is soup and this.
What is a sandwich? A grilled cheese sandwich goes great with soup served hot. Chicken salad and pimento salad sandwiches pair well with cold summer soups.
A stick of butter is this number of ounces.
What is four? A carton with four sticks is one pound.
If you treat someone to an extravagant dinner and drinks, you are doing this rhyming activity for them.
What is wine and dine? The phrase is often used when the host wants something from the guest. Wining and dining is standard operating procedure in the major capitals of the world, especially in Washington, D.C.
This lake in Canada is the world's largest freshwater lake.
What is Lake Superior?
Hippocrates is the father of this discipline.
What is medicine? His works established principles of ethical medical practice and natural treatments.
Love and marriage go together like this pair, according to the Sinatra tune.
What is a horse and carriage? In 1955, “Love and Marriage” was a hit for Frank Sinatra, and later it was used for the theme song of the sitcom Married… with Children.
The rough equivalent of the yard in the metric system is this.
What is the meter? One meter is 3.2 feet.
According to legend, this ruler once scoffed, “Let them eat cake,” but scholars have found no evidence that she said this.
Who is Marie-Antoinette? Upon hearing of her hungry subjects, the queen of France was rumored to have said the equivalent of “Let them eat bread,” which morphed in the grapevine to become “Let them eat cake.” However, there is no credible evidence to support that she said either sentence.
The "Continental Divide" separates which two provinces?
What are British Columbia and Alberta?
In the event of a rare double rainbow, the second rainbow above the primary rainbow has the colours in reverse order.
A) True
B) False
What is A) True
In Sesame Street there were two brothers - Bert and this character.
Who is Ernie?
Liquids become gases through one of two conversion processes: condensation and this.
What is evaporation? An example of condensation is when your bathroom mirror fogs after you take a shower. An example of evaporation is when you boil water and some of that water evaporates.
Israel is referred to as the land of milk and this.
What is honey? This comes from Exodus 3:8 in the Bible. In referring to the Israelites in the King James translation, it says, “…and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”
The Downy, Hairy, and Pileated are all species of what bird?
What is the Woodpecker?
This ocean is the world's fourth largest ocean.
What is the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean)? Technically, the Southern Ocean separates Antarctica from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans as well as the seas surrounding it.
In Star Wars this is C3PO's robot best friend.
Who is R2D2?