Musical Moods
"Greensleeves" shares a melody with this Christmas Carol.
What is "What Child Is This"?
One of the world's favorite flavors of ice cream, its source is a bean pod.
What is Vanilla?
Perform a random act of this.
What is kindness?
Traditionally, the Broadway curtain rose at 8:p.m., unless you were seeing one of these afternoon performances.
What is a matinee?
(The word originally comes from the Latin matins, meaning "morning prayers." Today, Broadway matinees start between 1:p.m. and 3:p.m.)
The United States and Canada celebrate this on the third Sunday in June.
What is Father's Day?
This is another term for church songs.
What are Hymns?
Mama Mia! This is the word for ice cream in Italian.
What is gelato?
(Gelato's fat content is lower than ice cream's because it contains less cream and more milk.)
Write down your innermost thoughts in one of these.
What is a diary or journal?
In the afternoon, avoid a beverage containing this so you can get a good night's sleep.
What is caffeine?
This day, usually June 20th or 21st, marks the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere.
What is the summer solstice?
A patriotic tune on both sides of the Atlantic, the English version is "God Save the King/Queen," and its American counterpart is this.
What is "My Country 'Tis of Thee"?
This military genius and king of Macedonia enjoyed a primitive form of ice cream flavored with honey and nectar.
Who is Alexander the Great?
(On his orders, soldiers would go into the mountains and gather ice and snow to make the delicious treat.)
What is sleep?
This one's for the bookworms - clear your head by spending 15 minutes in the afternoon doing this activity.
Just as sweet by any other name, June's birth flower is called this.
What is the rose?
This is the term for performers singing without instrumentation.
What is a cappella?
(Cappella means "Chapel" or "choir"; a cappella means "in a church or in a choir." Gregorian chants are performed without instrumentation.)
This fruit flavor makes up one-third of Neapolitan ice cream.
What is strawberry?
A deep one of these can whisk away that "fight or flight" feeling.
What is breath?
On a bicycle built for two, you are riding in this manner.
What is tandem?
The tune "June is Bustin' Out All Over" comes from this Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical.
What is Carousel?
Imagine coming out of the eye doctor's office, prescription for new glasses in hand, and hearing this apropos tune by Johnny Nash as background music.
What is "I Can See Clearly Now"?
The inventor of Good Humor Bars also invented these.
What are ice cream trucks?
(Mr. Harry Burt of Youngstown, Ohio introduced both inventions to the world in the 1920s)
This is the quickest - and toothiest - way to release dopamine into the body.
What is a smile?
Late afternoon is the time for this formal British tradition served at a table with guests seated at high-backed chairs.
What is high tea?
On June 24th, 1997, the U.S. Air Force released a report on the strange activities of July 1947, thought by many to be an alien spacecraft crash in this city in New Mexico.
What is Roswell?