WHAT'S THAT IN YOUR EAR?
The website for these hyphenated cottony ear swabbers has a page full of life hacks
Q-tips
The Douglas DC-8
Airplane or Jet
The first event annually in horse racing's Triple Crown
The Kentucky Derby
Mom says in the election, Pennsylvania will be this pivotal kind of state; I want to go there & have Daddy push me--whee!
Swing State
This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List
Great for nap time, a foam type from Flents is called "Quiet Please"
an earplug
Via Tony Hawk's claim to fame
A skateboard
James Naismith threw the ball up for the first-ever game-opening one of these
Jump Ball
To us kids, this is a pet that meows; why do Mom & Dad say to put money in it so they can collect for charity?
Kitty
A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton
Fight Club
The binaural type of this used by doctors to listen to your innards has 2 earpieces
Stethoscope
"On" one of these "built for 2", as in a song
A bicycle
The first flag waved at a NASCAR race is one of this color
Green
This is what Dad calls his favorite baseball team--huh? They're named for the cubicles where we put our stuff in preschool?
Cubbies
She stars as literary forger Lee Israel in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?", based on the memoir of the same name
Melissa McCarthy
Styles of these helpers include BTE, behind the ear, & CIC, completely in the canal
hearing aids
On a Ducati Monster 821
A motorcycle
The first octopus thrown on the ice at a home game of this NHL team came form fishmongers Pete & Jerry Cusimano in 1952
The Detroit Redwings
Dad said a guy he owes big-time is calling in these--but I need them to color my horsey picture!
My Markers
This film with Ray Liotta & Joe Pesci was based on the book "Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family"
Goodfellas
Of the 3 bones in the ear, the one that sounds like it's best suited for horse riding
Stirrup
Fulton's Clermont
A steamboat
The first event of tennis' yearly Grand Slam (it used to be the last)
The Australia Open
Mom & Dad want me to let my sister use my toys; so how is this word bad when Grandma tells us too much personal stuff?
Oversharing
Emma Stone played aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this '60s-set film based on the novel of the same name DD
The Help