Food Facts
The red stalks of this vegetable are popularly used in sauces & in strawberry pie
rhubarb
According to NASA records, the crew of Apollo 11 planted this item on the Moon after it was purchased at Sears for $5.50
The American Flag
They made a trail of pebbles & got home OK, but when they switched to bread crumbs, they got lost
Hansel and Gretel
At concerts, the French call out "bis", not this French word meaning "again"
encore
One red species of this simple plant exists at a record depth of 884 feet in the ocean
algae
The French call this part of the chicken, "pilon", for its resemblance to a pestle
a drumstick
Because NASA's gotta be sciencey, EVA, or extravehicular activity, is its preferred term over this 9-letter word
spacewalk
So angry after his name is guessed, he tears himself in two
The sign which lowers a note a semitone
a flat
Puffballs, yeast & rots belong to this group of plants that lack chlorophyll
fungi
The name of this thick Creole soup comes from an African word for okra
gumbo
Using a treadmill, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams ran the 2007 Boston Marathon aboard the ISS, which stands for this
International Space Station
A grey spider keeps Wilbur from ending up as Bacon in this E.B. White story
Charlotte's Web
When a dot is placed above a note, you play it this way, the opposite of "legato"
staccato
When harmful substances enter the body these proteins neutralize or destroy
antibodies
From the French for "with scrapings", it's the brown crust of butter & bread crumbs, or grated cheese
au gratin
When it landed on Mars in 2021, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter was carrying a piece of Flyer I, the plane this duo flew in 1903
The Wright Brothers
In this 1930 book with the refrain "I think I can", the protagonist is female & the unhelpful other locomotives are guys
The Little Engine that Could
A Mexican folk music ensemble that usually includes 2 violins, a guitar, a harp & large guitar
mariachi group
The principles of mutation were discovered by Thomas Hunt Morgan working with drosophila, this tiny insect
the fruit fly
This sweet red syrup made from pomegranates is used to add color & flavor to a cocktail
grenadine
CBS' news anchor on July 20, 1969, he was the first non-astronaut given a Moon rock by NASA
Walter Cronkite
As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks
Lewis Carroll
These Cuban gourd instruments can be made of Bakelite filled w/lead shot for a stronger sound
maracas
The name of this class of vertebrates literally means "having 2 lives"
the amphibia