Some Hard Words
The task is this, meaning extraordinarily difficult? must be a job for a mythical Greek hero!
What is Herculean?
An overnight plane flight
What is a redeye?
The chess piece that there are the most of.
What are the pawns?
Elias Howe, but not Isaac Singer, for this invention.
What is the sewing machine?
A young bovine
What is a calf?
Stoves & stomachs are made of this 2-word alloy formed in a mold.
What is Cast Iron?
One of the 2 James Bond films that fit the category.
What is Golden Eye or For Your Eyes Only?
The 2 chess pieces of which each side has only one.
What is the king & queen?
This Canadian man isolated and purified insulin so those with diabetes can live.
Who is Frederick Banting?
You've got to hand it to this tropical tree
What is a palm?
This synonym for indifferent is a homonym of a word for hardened skin.
What is Callous?
A dilapidated old building
What is an eyesore?
The piece that shares its name with a job in the Catholic church.
What is the bishop?
The invention of the lightbulb allowed people to be able to stay up any time of day, and changing the way we sleep forever.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The 4 equal parts of a relay race
What is legs?
It is thoroughly heated via immersion (putting a person/object into water), or the type of fiction mastered by James M. Cain.
What is hard-boiled?
This facial wear made Israel's Moshe Dayan instantly recognizable worldwide.
What is an eye patch?
The one that shares its name with a crow relative.
What is the rook?
This person invented the first electric telephone, and when they passed away in 1922, all telephone service in the United States and Canada was stopped for one minute to honor them.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
To face & endure something unpleasant, even nauseating
What is stomach?
Old French for "diamond", it can mean a diamond or other object of unyielding firmness.
What is adamant?
The last name of author Stephenie or the first name of gangster Lansky.
What is Meyer?
The only piece in the back row that can start a game.
What is a knight?
This man created the first modern board games known to man and the company that has since created all the others.
Who is Milton Bradley?
Nerve or impertinence; in a 1904 novel Lord Elmsdale says, "That chap's got some."
What is cheek?