Summer Sports
The FIFA World Cup is the most watched single-sporting event globally, engaging billions of viewers every four years. Inaugurated in 1930, it has crowned eight different champions, with this country leading the all-time list with five titles
Brazil
This 2004 summer smash hit by Daddy Yankee, sure "sets the party on fire"!
Gasolina
With our without ice cream?
Apple Pie.
What was the original capital of the U.S.?
Extra 50 points if you can name what year Washington DC became the US capital.
New York City
1790-Washington DC become the US capital
WHAT AM I?
Due to thermal expansion, this iron structure expands and can grow up to 15 centimeters (nearly 6 inches) taller in the heat of summer.
The Eiffel Tower
Lana Del Rey- Summertime Sadness
(2 part) What year did women finally get the right to vote?
Becoming what amendment?
1920- 19th amendment
When the sun remains visible for 24 hours straight without setting, it is called the ___
50 extra points: Name 2 locations that experience this
midnight sun or polar day
parts of Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Alaska, and Russia
Name 2 of the cities hosting the 2026 Fifa World Cup
This laid-back, reggae-infused rock song by the band Sublime, starts off with the lyrics-
"Summertime ___ ___ ____ ____."
"Doin' Time"-
"Summertime and the livin's easy."
WHAT AM I?
At the edge of a parking lot kingdom,
beneath humming wires and sodium stars,
there waits a rolling cathedral of steel and light.
Its windows glow against the dark
like lanterns carried by travelers
who never stopped moving.
People arrive in quiet migrations—
workers with dust on their boots,
students with midnight in their eyes,
lovers sharing hunger they pretend is conversation.
Inside, hands move with practiced certainty.
Knives strike boards like distant percussion.
Flames rise and vanish.
Metal hisses.
The air grows heavy with spices, smoke, and memory.
Orders are called into the night
and names drift through the crowd
like temporary destinies.
A small offering is assembled:
a warm circle of grain,
something kissed by fire,
something bright with lime,
something green and alive enough to remind you
the earth still grows things.
It arrives wrapped in paper,
humble as a folded note.
Yet for a few dollars and a few minutes,
it becomes the center of the universe.
Around the truck, engines idle.
Laughter rises.
Music escapes from open windows.
The night, which seemed so large before,
contracts into a pool of light and warmth.
Then the meal is finished.
The paper is empty.
The crowd thins.
Cars disappear into darkness.
But the truck remains,
glowing patiently at the roadside,
a wandering hearth on four wheels,
feeding strangers beneath the stars
and turning ordinary parking lots
into places people remember.
A TACO TRUCK.
Who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner”?
Francis Scott Key
Taking it back 20 years to this HOT 2006 summer smash hit by Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean -
HIPS DON’T LIE
WHAT AM I?
The central cylinder must be subjected to flame, steam, boiling water, or sheets of hot metal until its surface tightens and glistens. Sometimes it blisters. Sometimes it chars.
A Hot Dog
On January 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation more than two and a half years prior to this event___
JUNTEENTH. On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order No. 3. This historic announcement informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free.
FINISH THESE LYRICS-
"Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come
___ _ __ __ _
_ __ _ ___ '_ __ __ __, _
"Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come
Watching the ships roll in
And then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah
WHAT AM I?
It begins with a pale, brittle pair of honeycombed tablets—sun-baked sediment from some forgotten grain civilization—held apart like the covers of an ancient book. Between them is placed a square of tempered midnight: a mineral that behaves like stone in the cool air but yields into velvet when exposed to enough warmth. Yet the true heart of the artifact is neither grain nor cacao.
At its center rests a white cylinder, seemingly innocent, born of alchemy rather than agriculture. When brought near fire, it undergoes a transformation that feels less like cooking and more like initiation. Its skin bronzes, then darkens, then blisters into a fragile shell of caramelized glass. Beneath that shell, the interior abandons all structural loyalty, becoming a molten cloud trapped inside a paper-thin crust.
The assembly must occur during a narrow window of thermodynamic opportunity.
Too soon, and the dark square remains stubborn and mute. Too late, and the cloud collapses into sugary ruin. But at the proper moment, the heated core is imprisoned between the grain tablets alongside the black mineral. Pressure is applied. The cloud spreads. The mineral softens. The tablets crack in protest.
What emerges is neither solid nor liquid, neither ancient nor modern, neither engineered nor entirely natural. It is a temporary treaty between combustion and comfort.
A S'more.
What explorer is America named after?
Amerigo Vespucci