Animal Idiom Brainteasers
If an authority figure is not around, mischief will ensue:
W.T.C.A.T.M.W.P.
When the cats away, the mice will play
32 green houses,
12 red hotels,
lots of play money
Monopoly
"Top Gun" director Tony Scott was almost fired for spending a full day filming bare-chested fighter pilots playing this sport
volleyball
Getting their name from coloring on their abdomens, these stinging wasps can be upsetting if you bother their nests
Yellow Jackets
It's the weight of the Liberty Bell...
if it lost 80 pounds
a ton
Sometimes folks get set in their ways & it's difficult to change their habits:
Y.C.T.A.O.D.N.T.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks
Lots of red pegs,
even more white pegs,
10 plastic vessels,
including 2 aircraft carriers
Battleship
"Let's Hear It for the Boy" plays & toes start tapping when Ren teaches Willard how to dance in this film that turned 40 in 2024
This frothy citrus drink, a favorite at shopping malls, was bought by Dairy Queen in 1987
Orange Julius
In a nursery rhyme, it's what the fourth little piggy had
none
People with similar interests tend to gravitate toward each other:
B.O.A.F.F.T.
birds of a feather flock together
4 racks,
100 tiles
(98 tiles have letters, 2 are blank)
Scrabble
In a "Rocky IV" montage, the song "Hearts on Fire" propels Rocky across an icy landscape as he trains to fight this Russian slugger
Ivan Drago
On a wing & a prayer, this Canadian baseball team won World Series titles in both 1992 & 1993
the Blue Jays
In "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", the economics teacher says "Bueller?" 4 times and this 6-letter word 14 times
"Anyone?"
You're running around in a frenzied, distracted manner:
L.A.C.W.I.H.C.O.
Like a chicken with it's head cut off
Color-coded plastic armies,
42 territory cards,
5 dice
Risk
In "The Karate Kid", Daniel-San kicks a& chops his way through the All Valley tourney while this empowerment ballad plays
"You're the Best"
This travel guide helped African Americans find places that would cater to them in the segregation era
the Green Book
A warrior who didn't try hard in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains might be told by Attila, "You call yourself" this?
hun
Trying to solve a problem, you accidentally made it even more complicated:
O.A.C.O.W.
opened a can of worms
19 terrain hexes,
60 roads,
1 robber
Carving up the slopes with a French foreign exchange student helps John Cusack get his groove back in this wacky dark comedy
Better Off Dead
Cynthia Erivo won acclaim playing Celie in both the London & Broadway adaptations of this novel
The Color Purple
Metaphysical poet who wrote, "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies"
Donne