Summer Firsts
This is the First Official Day of Summer Each Year.
What is June 20th?
This Weather Event Happens More Often in the Summer, Because of the Warm, Humid Air.
What are Thunderstorms?
The Tall Piles of Sand and Grass Along a Shore are Called This.
What are Sand Dunes?
Each Fourth of July, Americans Eat this Many Hot Dogs.
What is 155 Million?
This Summer Toy was Originally Invented to be a Pie Plate.
What is the Frisbee?
This Beach Sport was Recognized as an Official Sport for the First Time in 1986.
What is Beach Volleyball?
In this Year, the First Beach Ball was Invented.
What is 1938?
This is the longest continuous beach in America.
What is Long Beach, WA? (28 miles long!)
This is When Labor Day is Celebrated Each Year.
What is the First Monday in September?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Longest BBQ Lasted for this Many Hours.
What is 80 hours.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This is the Year that Ice Pops Were Invented by an 11 Year Old Boy.
What is 1905? (11-year-old Frank Epperson mixed water and sweetened soda powder, dunked a wooden stirrer in, and left the mixture out in the cold overnight. He called the result an “Epsicle.”)
This is the Oldest Beach in America.
What is Revere Beach in Revere, MA? (In 1896, it became America’s first public beach.)
This Holiday Unofficially Marks the End of the Summer Season.
What is Labor day?
This Country Houses the Largest Water Park in the World.
What is Germany? (Tropical Islands Resort is located 30 miles south of Berlin and can host up to 6,000 visitors at a time! It’s also open year-round.)
The First Swimming School Opened in the United States in this year.
What is 1827? (In Boston, MA)
The Term SPF Is Seen On All Sunscreen Bottles. This is What SPF Stands For.
What is Sun Protection Factor?
This Country has the Most Coastline in the World.
What is Canada?
This Was the First State to Declare the Fourth of July as an Official Holiday.
What is Massachusetts?
This European City Hosted The 2004 Summer Olympics?
What is Athens?
In Ancient Times, Pagans First Celebrated the Midsummer with this Popular Summer Tradition.
What are Bonfires?
This Tower Actually Grows in Height in the Heat of the Summer.
What is the Eiffel Tower? (On colder days, the tower is around 6 inches shorter.)
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Tallest Sand Castle Ever Built was this Tall.
What is 54 Feet and 9 Inches? (Built in Duisburg, Germany in September 2017)
This is Where Americans Hold a Hot Dog Eating Contest Each Year on the Fourth of July.
Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City
This Summer Blockbuster Film was the First to be Promoted to the Audience by Expensive Television Advertising?
What is Jaws?