You need to answer a given question containing a blank (_). Your answer must be one of the two objects mentioned in the question, for example "trophy" and "suitcase". Your answer must not contain a word that is not present in the question. Please don't use articles (e.g., the, a) before the answer.

The car engine outperformed the bus engine simply because the _ was inefficient during the test run.
bus

He brought her a plate of beer sausages on buns, but she said "Where's the beef?" because the _ were too small.
sausages

He wanted to buy a dart board but settled on a board game instead because the _ was expensive.

dart board