TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: He offered to make her the cake and the pizza, but the _ burned in the oven when he tried making it.

SOLUTION: pizza

PROBLEM: They were going to use some different numerals instead of regular numbers, since the _ were strange.

SOLUTION: numerals

PROBLEM: The chunky yarn that Niles used to crochet the sweater was brown and caught in his needle a lot, because the _ wasn't smooth enough.

SOLUTION:
needle