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The first version of *this* was sold with the name "Blibber-Blubber".
What is gum?
One in every eight people in the United States has been employed by *this* popular food chain.
What is McDonald's?
The story goes that this phrase originated from 18th-century paintings, as famous people like George Washington would have their portraits done without certain limbs showing. Having limbs showing is said to have cost more.
What is "costs an arm and a leg"?
This category of animal is responsible for the most human deaths, and vice versa.
What are farm animals?
The word origami the Japanese art of folding paper comes from words meaning this.
What is paper folding?
This plant, as depicted in old western movies, has been given the name "farmer's gum."
What is hay or straw?
Cows outnumber humans 3 to 1 in this state.
What is Montana?
In the 1800s, this phrase was originally used as marketing slang for many goods such as eggs or apples. They were advertised to cost *this phrase*.
What is "a dime a dozen"?
The most likely cause of death for a dog in America
What is cancer?
In October 2003 police in Monroe Township Penn. looked for a cat burglar who stole these from a local shelter.
What are cats?
20-30% of the world's population takes part in *this* anxious habit.
What is biting your nails?
The most sold candy in America.
What are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?
In medieval markets, people used to sell piglets tied in bags for farmers to carry home. A shady dealer might swap the piglet in the sack with a less expensive animal, such as a cat. So, when you do *this*, you were exposing the con to everyone.
What is "let the cat out of the bag"?
The last word to Ben Franklin's famous quote: "Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and ______.”
What are taxes?
The magazine that sponsors a geographic-based bee for kids each year.
What is National Geographic?
The average American eats about 4 pounds of *this* yellow, salty snack per year.
What are potato chips?
The most viewed YouTube video as of June 2021 with 8.7 billion views. P.S., kids LOVE it.
What is the Baby Shark?
To avoid getting seasick when the waves got rough, sailors would bunker down in their cabins to let the storms pass. This gave way to *this* saying.
What is "under the weather"?
The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and consequential tsunami killed approximately 230,000 and displaced nearly 2 million people in South Asian and East African countries, clocking in at this number on the Richter scale.
The third largest city in Kansas.
What is Kansas City?
Chicle, used to make chewing gum, was originally imported from Mexico as a rubber substitute and was tapped from a tropical evergreen tree named Manilkara chicle in the same way that *this* stretchy, plastic-like material is.
What is latex?
The world's largest consumer of fireworks, and the second largest consumer of explosives.
What is the Walt Disney Company?
This idiom originates from the scripture Matthew 7:15.
What is a "wolf in sheep's clothing"?
Al Capone was released after serving 7 years and 6 months in prison...afterwards living the rest of his life on Palm Island with his wife and immediate family, until he died of *this* on January 25th, 1947.
What is a stroke/pneumonia?
The scientific name of this Andean animal is Lama glama.
What is a llama?