EDIBLE IDIOMS
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BICYCLES ON THE BIG SCREEN
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It's something of little importance or value, like, say, legumes in a heap
What is a hill of beans?
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In 1986 a Georgia Kroger store pioneered this service for shoppers who are in a hurry &/or don't feel like chatting
What is self-checkout?
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Nidologists know male wrens build an array of these abodes to impress females who come into their territory
What is nests?
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Bicycles take flight thanks to the magical powers of a mysterious alien in this Spielberg flick
What is E.T.?
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A chunk of Western Canada is part of this region, covering roughly one-third of the United States
What is the Great Plains?
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Used in everything from daiquiris to gin fizzes, simple syrup is commonly made using equal parts water & this
What is sugar?
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In a 1785 poem William Cowper referred to this as "the very spice of life"; spoken like a man who's never tried sriracha
What is variety?
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The record losing streak for this index lasted 2 weeks in 1941--rough ride for investors in the American Smelting & Refining Co.
What is the Dow Jones?
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Study of isolated species, called this "biogeography", can look at a peak or a national park, not just a place surrounded by water
What is an island?
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"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" plays as Paul Newman hams it up on a bike in this film that co-starred Robert Redford
What is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
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The North China Plain is also called the this color Plain, like the name of the river that helped to build it up
What is yellow?
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As its head tapers to a thin edge, an ax is considered one of these 5-letter simple machines
What is a wedge?
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At the dinner table, it can be a tempting item, perhaps twice baked--or a subject best avoided
What is a hot potato?
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This chain named for a different creature popularized popcorn shrimp in America starting in 1974
What is Red Lobster?
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Daily Double
"By Means of" this 2-word process was fit enough to survive as a subtitle for Darwin's "Origin of Species"
What is natural selection?
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A bit of movie magic allowed this green guy to take a bike ride in 1979 & 1981 films
Who is Kermit the Frog?
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The Denakil Plain is a region found in these 2 "E" countries of the Horn of Africa
What are Ethiopia & Eritrea?
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Blake Lively turned up in 2025 to once again torment Anna Kendrick in the sequel to this dark comedy
What is A Simple Favor?
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TV's "MythBusters" once tested whether "taking" this is "as easy" as the idiom suggests--conclusion: nope
What is taking candy from a baby?
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Longtime music manager Irving Azoff was CEO of this concert behemoth when it merged with Live Nation in 2010
What is Ticketmaster?
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AlphaFold, a Google-developed AI system, has predicted the complex structures of 200 million of these substances
What is protein?
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In a 2025 HBO Max doc, Paul Reubens said people riding bicycles around the WB lot inspired the stolen-bike plot of this movie
What is Pee-wee's Big Adventure?
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The massive European Plain stretches from the Urals all the way west to this other range on the Spanish-French border
What are the Pyrenees?
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Believed to be an alteration of an English word, it's a simplified variety of language created when 2 cultures come in contact
What is a pidgin?
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This 3-word term once referred to a vessel for boiling the catch at river picnics; today, "fine" or not, it means a hot mess
What is kettle of fish?
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In 2024 this company known for creating cool spaces had to vacate its own 300,000-square-foot HQ in Midtown Manhattan
What is WeWork?
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Knowing mitos is Greek for "thread" helps you name this cell structure loaded with the energy-carrying molecule ATP
What is the mitochondria?
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In "Better Off Dead" a psychotic paperboy pedals after this actor in pursuit of the $2 he's owed
Who is John Cusack?
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The Plain of Sharon runs some 50 miles along the Mediterranean coast of this country
What is Israel?
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Aaron Copland gave this 19th century Shaker tune new prominence when he featured it in "Appalachian Spring"
What is "Simple Gifts"?