DC Superheroes
Batman found his start in this long-running comic book title that is the origin for the "DC" in DC Comics.
What is Detective Comics?
Mephibosheth was the grandson of Saul and son of this friend of David.
Who is Jonathan?
In the 15th century, pale was in and one way that the perfect skin tone could be accomplished was with the help of these gross little parasites.
What are leeches?
The Spanish word sobremesa refers to the time spent talking after dinner and literally means "upon" this.
What is "the table"?
The time teller found on classroom walls rhymes with this substance used on the blackboards found in the same room.
What is chalk?
Many of the names of Superman's friends and enemies, such as Lois Lane, Lana Lang, and Lex Luther, use this literary device.
What is alliteration?
The name Mahershalalhashbaz, one of the names God commanded Isaiah to name his sons, holds this record within the Bible.
What is longest word?
In Ancient Egypt, kohl was makeup used by queens and applied to what part of the body?
What are eyes?
Gigil is a Filipino word that means literally to grind your teeth, but it is used to describe when you want to crush something, either because you are angry with it or because it has this trait.
What is cuteness?
What oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen are rhymes with this flipping timer.
What is an hourglass?
In his Silver Age origin, an impurity in Green Lantern's power battery made this color his weakness.
What is yellow?
Bildad, whose name means "confusing love" showed his friend some confusing love when he went to comfort this man in the book of the same name.
Who is Job?
What is irritation?
Qti maz is an Armenian phrase that is used to describe people who are too picky, but literally it means this kind of hair.
What is nose hair?
This solar time keeper almost rhymes with a certain large reptile.
What is a sundial?
This teenaged hero is the one missing from the following "classic" Teen Titan's roster: Robin, Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, _________.
Nabal, the man who refused to give David food when he was in hiding, has an apt (but unfortunate) name which means this type of person the writer of Proverbs was very familiar with.
What is "fool"?
Many sparkly cosmetics use this animal product derived from certain slippery swimmers to give your eyeshadow that certain shimmer.
What are fish scales?
The Italian word abbiocco means something similar to this pseudo-medical slang for what you might find yourself in after Thanksgiving dinner.
What is a food coma?
Big Ben is both a clock and something that rhymes with this term for certain jacks in a game of Euchre.
Who is Hermes?
Buz, Abraham's nephew, had a (non-alcoholic) older brother with a rhyming name which you might expect to describe slime.
Who is Uz?
In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was not uncommon for women to use eye drops made from belladonna poison to do what to their eyes to be more attractive (prolonged use could lead to permanent blindness).
What is dilate the pupils?
Iktsuarpok is a word from this language used rarely in some northern regions that refers to the feeling of anticipation and impatience when you are waiting for someone to arrive.
What is Inuit?
This phrase, which means of good quality, comes from a game where the goal was raised higher and higher one notch at a time and rhymes with a way that runners might be timed in a race.
What is top-notch?