It's Lawful
What is the U.S. Constitution?
For many seniors, this is their sole source of income.
What is Social Security?
In some cases, the benefit is taxed; however, recipients do not pay FICA (Social Security and Medicare) taxes on their Social Security benefits.
A thunderstorm may also produce this frozen precipitation, even during summer months.
What is hail?
A hailstone can be deadly. The largest confirmed hailstone fell in Vivian, South Dakota, in 2010, measuring approximately eight inches (20.3 cm) in diameter.
This is the round toy with a hole in the middle that children spin up and down on a string.
What is a yo-yo?
The number of ounces in a standard pound.
What is 16?
The maximum number of years a U.S. President is legally allowed to serve in office.
What are eight years (or two terms)?
This term applies to animals that eat mostly other animals (meat).
What is carnivore?
Carnivores are predators, and their bodies are designed to aid them in hunting. This applies to insects and arachnids as well as reptiles, birds, and fish.
To smother a fire, you must remove this gas from it.
What is oxygen?
Fires need a fuel source, oxygen, and heat. Never attempt to put out an electrical fire with water. The easiest and quickest way to put out a small fire, such as a kitchen fire, is with a fire blanket. If you use one, you do not have to clean up the mess created by halogen fire extinguishers. It’s best to review the instructions before you need to use the blanket.
This is the term for half the diameter.
What is the radius?
The radius is the distance from the midpoint of the circle to any point on the outside of the circle.
The number of colonies that signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
What are 13?
Twelve "peers" of the defendant, plus alternates, typically make up this deliberative body in a trial.
What is a jury?
Both criminal and civil trials use juries, a practice that derives from English common law.
Overnight flights are often called this ophthalmologic nickname.
What is red eye?
They’re also called all-nighters. Most flights from the East Coast to Europe are red-eye flights. Many transcontinental flights originating on the West Coast are also red eyes.
A severe storm occurring inland is often accompanied by this wind event.
What is a tornado?
The costliest tornadoes have shifted away in recent years from the traditional area known as Tornado Alley (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas) and toward the Southeast.
This is the number of degrees in a full circle.
What is 360 (degrees)?
The number of hours in a full week.
What is 168?
This famous 1966 Supreme Court ruling requires police to inform suspects of their rights before questioning.
What is the Miranda Rule (or Miranda Rights)?
The fictional detective famous for solving crimes using logic and living at 221B Baker Street.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
The scientific name for the force that keeps our feet on the ground and causes dropped objects to fall.
What is gravity?
The measurement around the widest part of a ball or the outside boundary of a circle is called this.
What is the circumference?
In school, we learned that pi multiplied by the diameter equals the circumference.
The specific number of years a U.S. Senator's term lasts before they are up for re-election.
What are 6 years?
This term refers to the crime of lying while under oath in a court of law.
What is perjury?
The American Lung Association was founded to fight this disease.
What is tuberculosis?
It was founded in 1904 as the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, and it issued the first Christmas Seal in 1907. Its focus today is on lung health and diseases as well as ending tobacco use.
The specific term for the thin, fragile layer of gas in the upper atmosphere that protects Earth from the sun's harsh UV rays.
What is the ozone layer?
The perpetual cycle of birth, life, and death is known as this. (Hint: The term is also a song in the Lion King).
What is circle of life?
It refers to the interconnectivity of life and its progression from birth to death.
The year the United States first landed men on the Moon.
What is 1969?