word origins
This everyday greeting comes from an Old English phrase meaning “good health.”
Hello
This Cartoon Network show featured a group of girls with superpowers, created in Professor Utonium’s lab.
Powerpuff Girls
Name the 1997 film starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and takes place on a doomed ship.
Titanic
This woman fly fly over the sea and then it as was sad because she didn’t come back bro
Amelia Earhart
This Japanese delicacy consists of thinly sliced raw fish, sometimes served with a small amount of soy sauce or citrus, but without rice.
Sashimi
This 9-letter word for an insect may have come about because people believed this bug ate uncovered dairy products
Butterfly
This viral 2000s website let you adopt virtual animals, redecorate rooms, and play arcade games to earn KinzCash.
Webkinz
This actor played Tony Stark / Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Robert Downey Jr.
This nerd… sat around… watched apples fall… and figured out how stuff moves… probably wrote some books too.
Issac Newton
What temperature is cooked chicken
165-185
This worldly name comes from an Italian explorer in the 1500’s called Amerigo Vespucci
America
This Nickelodeon game show had kids running through huge obstacle courses like “The Temple” while avoiding temple guards.
Legends of the hidden temple
This 2019 foreign-language film from South Korea won Best Picture at the Oscars — the first non-English language film ever to do so.
Parasite
Jack Daniels whisky was created in this US state
Tennessee
This Italian cured meat is made from pork belly and often used on pizza or in pasta dishes.
Pancetta
This term for the outer covering on an ear of corn is also the term from Middle Dutch for “little house”
Husk
A staple classroom handout, this book-fair company’s flyers let kids order books, posters, and those weird fancy pencils.
Scholastic
The haunting theme of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was composed by this legendary Italian maestro
The late Ennio Morricone
This is like the oldest brewery bro like super old…in the US
Yuengling
This rare edible fungus grows underground and is often shaved over dishes to add an intense, earthy flavor.
truffle
The name of this musical form is from the Italian word for “sounded”
Sonata
This spinning top game had kids screaming on cafeteria floors yelling “LET IT RIP!”
Beyblades
This 1999 film directed by David Fincher stars Brad Pitt and Edward Norton and is based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk.
Fight club
This war started because some Archduke got assassinated—and suddenly everyone was fighting everyone. It was basically the group chat from hell.
WW1
This Spanish dish… rice, saffron, seafood… cooked in a big pan… often eaten communally… what is it?”
Paella