Greats
The five great waterways shared by the United States and Canada are collectively known as this.
What are the Great Lakes?
Sailors wear this type of pants, which were all the rage with civilians in the 1960s.
What are bell-bottoms? The Navy has been wearing them since 1817, which was more than a century before they hit the civilian market.
This card game is played by one person.
What is solitaire?
It transfers juices from the bottom of the pan to the meat or poultry in the pan.
What is a (turkey) baster?
Canadian Wayne Gretzky, also known as the Great One, played this major league sport.
What is hockey?
This devastating event took place from 1929 to 1939.
What is the Great Depression?
The captain is also known as this.
What is a skipper? The Dutch word for ship is schip, and the word for skipper is schipper.
In this childhood game, players ask if opponents have any of specific cards, such as sixes, jacks, etc.
What is (Go) Fish?
Use one of these to remove the water after you’ve boiled pasta.
What is a strainer (or colander)?
This term for the front sail on a boat shares its name with a city in Italy.
What is genoa?
It is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic novel about the Jazz Age in America.
What is The Great Gatsby?
Sailors eat their meals here.
What is the mess (or mess deck)? Meals are prepared in the galley. In the late 19th century, Navy officers and enlisted men ate separately. Officers paid for their food and ate better quality food than enlisted sailors.
In this childhood game, the loser is holding a single queen.
What is Old Maid?
Instead of mincing garlic with a knife, use this.
What is a garlic press?
If you bid a grand slam in this game, you need to take all 13 tricks.
What is bridge?
This war is also known as the Great War.
What is World War I?
This is a name, other than sailor, for someone who works aboard a ship.
What is mariner?
In this card game, eights are wild cards.
What is Crazy Eights?
This gadget makes easy work of pulling pork.
What are meat claws?
This is the latest version of an electric pressure cooker.
What is an instant pot? You can cook a frozen chicken breast in around 20 minutes in an instant pot.
It is the largest living shark.
What is the great white shark? They can reach from 15 feet to more than 20 feet, and they can weigh 2.5 tons or more.
You can’t knock before entering someone’s boat, so you do this.
What is ask permission to come aboard?
This Las Vegas card game is played with two players—each player at the table plays against the dealer.
What is blackjack?
This new countertop electrical appliance allows you to cook crispy food such as French fries with a minimum of oil.
What is an air fryer?
Some common sense from this man includes this quote: “That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”
Who is Thomas Paine?