![]() ![]() The middle ear contains three small bones called the ossicles, the three smallest bones in the human body. The middle ear is the portion of the ear immediately behind the eardrum. Ugh … 58…Site of the hammer, anvil and stirrup … and a hint to the hidden word in the answers to starred clues.MIDDLE EAR Icee and Slurpee are brand names of those slushy drinks. “En route” is a French term that means “on the way”. Zagreb has been around a long, long time, and dates back to the diocese of Zagreb that was founded at the end of 11th century. Zagreb is the capital city of the European Republic of Croatia. She started out life as Laura Jeanne Witherspoon. Reese is not actually actress Witherspoon’s given name. It’s all very confusing … 42…Actress Witherspoon.REESE The more correct name for the beast is “wapiti”, which means “white rump” in Shawnee. Early European settlers were familiar with the smaller red deer back in their homelands, so when they saw the “huge” wapiti they assumed it was a moose, and incorrectly gave it the European name for a moose, namely “elk”. The elk (also known as the wapiti) is the one of the largest species of deer in the world, with only the moose being bigger. Our kids probably have one somewhere … 40…Moose kin.ELK The abbreviation Super NES (or SNES) stands for Super Nintendo Entertainment System. 33…Fever and chills.AGUEĪn ague is a fever, one usually associated with malaria. The first letters of the colors (with black being ”key”) give the more common name for four-color printing, namely CMYK. The black ink is also known as the “key”. Personally, I cannot stand either show … 31…Color in four-color printing.MAGENTA 45…Color in four-color printing.CYANįour-color printing uses four different color inks: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Famously, one of the show’s creators is Seth MacFarlane, who also created “Family Guy”. “American Dad!” is an adult-oriented animated sitcom. The CIA was chartered by the National Security Act of 1947. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed during WWII. Sounds like “a San Francisco treat” to me … 20…Covert fed. It was a big hit, so her brother-in-law created a commercial version by blending dry chicken soup mix with rice and macaroni. The wife of one of the sons created a pilaf dish for the family diner they owned. The company was run by an Italian immigrant and his four sons. Rice-a-Roni was introduced in 1958 by the Golden Grain Macaroni Company of San Francisco. 17…*”The San Francisco Treat”.RICE-A-RONI The name Nehru was lifted from Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister of India from 1947 to 1964. It was originally created in the 1940s in India, and then marketed as the Nehru jacket in the west in the sixties. Given Malaya’s troubled history, the natives probably had good reason for that frenzy … 16…Kind of jacket named for a Hindu leader.NEHRUĪ Nehru jacket is very like a regular suit jacket, except that the collar buttons at the neck. The word “amok” was also used as a noun to describe Malay natives who were “frenzied”. The phrase “to run amok” (sometimes “to run amuck”) has been around since the 1670s and is derived from the Malay word for “attacking furiously”, “amuk”. I vote for Cooper, but I can’t see him taking the job … 15…Run _: go haywire.AMOK The list of names mentioned to replace Trebek includes Brian Williams, Dan Patrick, Matt Lauer and Anderson Cooper. The word is that Alex Trebek will step down as host of the game show “Jeopardy” in 2016, when his current contract expires. Female goats are called “does” or “nannies”, and young goats are referred to as “kids”. Males goats are called “bucks” or “billies”, although castrated males are known as “wethers”. Batman is sometimes referred to as the Caped Crusader, Robin as the Boy Wonder, and the pair as the Dynamic Duo. Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies Acrossīatman and Robin are unique among their superhero compatriots in that they have no special powers, just a whole load of cool gadgets. ![]()
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