33 Toy sold with cake mix packets : EASY-BAKE OVEN 32 Floors : KOSĪ kayo is a knockout (KO). The name “springerle” can be translated from German as either “little jumping horse” or “little knight”. They are particularly popular during the Christmas season. Springerle biscuits are usually rectangular, quite thick and hard, and often flavored with anise. It is a cookie with an elaborate, embossed design that is pressed into the dough using a mold, after which the dough is allowed to dry before baking. The springerle biscuit originated in Germany. He grew up mainly in India, and arrived in England at the age of 17 after his family fled from the Zanzibar Revolution. Mercury’s real name was Farrokh Bulsara, and he was born to Parsi parents in Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) in East Africa. Mercury wrote many of Queen’s hits, including “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Somebody to Love”, “Don’t Stop Me Now” and “We Are the Champions”. 25 Nearly four octaves, for Freddie Mercury : RANGEįreddie Mercury was a British singer-songwriter who was lead singer for the rock group Queen. The “sister” term “everywoman” was coined in the early 20th century by George Bernard Shaw in his play “Man and Superman”. The use of the term “everyman”, in such a context, dates way back to the early 16th century and English morality play “The Summoning of Everyman”. The typical or ordinary man might be referred to as “everyman”. 22 Relatable female character : EVERYWOMAN The eating of bánh chung is an important part of the Tet holiday in Vietnam. Tet usually falls on the same day as Chinese New Year.īánh chung is a steamed cake mainly made from glutinous rice, mung bean and pork. The full name for the New Year holiday in Vietnam is “Tet Nguyen Dan” meaning “Feast of the First Morning”, with the reference being to the arrival of the season of spring. 21 Holiday when one might eat bánh chung : TET Centuries later, Astronaut David Scott performed Galileo’s proposed experiment when he dropped a hammer and feather on the moon during the Apollo 15 mission and we all saw the objects hit the moon surface, at exactly the same time. There is a story that he dropped two balls of different masses from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate this, but this probably never happened. In the world of physics, Galileo postulated that objects of different masses would fall at the same rate provided they did so in a vacuum (so there was no air resistance). Galileo Galilei may be the most famous son of the city of Pisa in Italy and was considered by many to have been the father of modern science. The University of Oxford (1096) is the oldest in the English-speaking world. The oldest existing university in the world is the University of Bologna (1088). 18 Galileo’s birthplace : PISAĮven though the University of Pisa was founded way back in 1343, it is only the 19th continuously operating university in the world, and only the 10th in Italy. In the latter tale, Snow-White and Rose-Red are sisters who get into trouble with a dwarf, but are rescued by a bear who turns into a prince. There is also a second, very different Grimms’ Fairy Tale called “Snow-White and Rose-Red”, not to be confused with its more famous cousin. “Snow White” is a traditional German fairy tale that was published in 1812 in the collection of the Brothers Grimm. The umlaut over the letter A in “Lärabar” is a marketing thing … 15 “Snow White” antagonist : EVIL QUEEN The bars had been introduced in 2003 by Lara Merriken from Denver. Lärabar is a brand of energy bars that was acquired by General Mills in 2008. 12 Energy snacks whose flavors include Carrot Cake and Cherry Pie : LARABARS That said, there’s an urban myth that the promotional version of “swag” is an acronym standing for “stuff we all get”. “Swag” is also the name given to the promotional freebies available at some events. “Swag” is “loot, stolen property”, and a term that started out as criminal slang in England in the 1830s. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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