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This bird is famous for having a cartoon-worthy 'laugh'.
What is the pileated woodpecker?
This toy was inadvertently created when a scientist knocked over a coil that was part of a system he was creating to keep ship equipment steady at sea.
What is the Slinky?
This Dickens novel was the first Victorian novel with a child protagonist.
What is Oliver Twist?
Following the 1929 stock market crash, many banks were unable to repay their depositors and closed, sparking the establishment of this.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
Irving Berlin wrote the song that doubles as the title of this charming 1950's musical.
What is "White Christmas"
This bird, formally known as haliaeetus leucocephalus can frequently be seen flying along the Genesee.
What is a Bald Eagle?
This treat originated from a soda left out in the cold by 11-year old Frank Epperson.
What is the Popsicle?
Dickens is buried in this famous London landmark.
What is Westminster Abbey?
FDR won the presidential election in 1932 against this sitting president.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Singin' in the Rain, starring these two actors, was one of the few that were made directly into a film instead of starting on Broadway.
Who are Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds?
These three types of finches can be found in New York State.
What are the house finch, the American goldfinch and the purple finch?
Albert Hofmann was working in his lab with a derivative of the fungus ergot when he started experiencing strange mental and physical sensations, leading to the discovery of this substance.
What is LSD?
This Dickens novel, his first, inspired a "society" amongst the sisters in Little Women.
What is The Pickwick Papers?
This gangster opened a soup kitchen to serve the needy in Chicago.
Who is Al Capone?
This character sings, "A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now" as she is dying in the streets of Paris.
Who is Eponine?
This bird's song can sound like, "Oh Sweet-Canada-Canada" or "Old-Sam-Peabody-Peabody".
What is the White-Throated Sparrow?
This low-friction material was created when researchers opened a tank of expected gas only to find a white solid instead.
What is Teflon?
These are the two cities referred to in Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities".
What are London and Paris?
About 15 million Americans were jobless and almost half the United States' banks had failed by this year.
What is 1933?
Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel falls in love with a sailor who she also sings this song about.
What is Mister Snow.
What is dimorphic?
This scientist noticed a mold on an old petri dish which was breaking down bacteria around it. Growing the mold himself, he discovered that it contained the antibiotic penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
These two contemporaries of Dickens, and countrymen with each other, referred to him as "that great Christian writer."
Who are Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy?
Who is John Steinbeck?
This movie-musical starring Lena Horne who sings the title song is considered one of the best Hollywood musicals with an African-American cast, notable for being made during an era where this was a cultural aberration.
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