U.S. Summer Holidays
This U.S. holiday is celebrated on July 4th with fireworks.
What is Independence Day?
This is a popular bat-and-ball sport played in American summers.
What is baseball?
July 20, 1969 — This event marked the first time humans landed on the Moon.
What is the Apollo 11 Moon landing?
This cold dessert is very popular in summer.
What is ice cream?
This is a shaved ice dessert with syrup popular in Adana.
What is bici bici?
This U.S. holiday in September marks the end of summer and honors workers.
What is Labor Day?
This is a summer activity where people travel by car to different places.
What are road trips?
This speech, delivered in Washington, D.C. in 1963, became one of the most famous moments of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the “I Have a Dream” speech?
This drink is made from lemons and is popular in summer stands.
What is lemonade?
This spring-to-summer transition festival in Türkiye is traditionally associated with writing wishes and leaving them near nature, especially trees or water.
What is Hıdrellez?
This U.S. holiday in May honors people who served in the military.
What is Memorial Day?
This is a summer outdoor meal where food is cooked on a grill.
What is a barbecue (BBQ)?
This 1964 law changed public life in the United States by banning segregation in public spaces.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This grilled food is a staple at American summer cookouts and is often served in a bun.
What is a hot dog?
This UNESCO-listed oil wrestling festival is held annually in Edirne.
What is Kırkpınar oil wrestling?
This U.S. holiday celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
This is a summer program where children stay in nature and do activities together.
What is summer camp?
This event in 1974 involved the resignation of a U.S. president during a major political scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This is a summer meal where seafood is served and shared in large groups.
What is a seafood boil?
This coastal town in southwestern Türkiye is famous for its blue lagoon and paragliding.
What is Ölüdeniz?
Which U.S. president signed a law making Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021?
Who is Joe Biden?
This is a traditional American summer activity where people watch movies from their cars in an open-air cinema.
What is a drive-in movie (theater)?
This military operation in 1944 became the largest amphibious invasion in history during World War II.
What is D-Day?
This frozen dessert is made by blending fruit and ice and is often sold in carts during hot American summers.
What is a snow cone (or shaved ice)?
This Turkish athlete won the country’s first Olympic gold medal in 1988.
Who is Naim Süleymanoğlu?