The Modern Kitchen
This accidental discovery is found in most kitchens and is often used to reheat or defrost meals and pop popcorn.
Answer: What is microwave? The accidental discovery was made by a Raytheon employee who found the candy bar in his pocket had melted when he was working near an active radar set.
The tune “Memory” comes from this long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Answer: What is Cats? Theaters in New York and London were filled with Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals during the 1980s. Cats is based on the poems in T.S. Eliot’s book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Some animals store food in the fall in preparation for this winter inactivity. Some animals store food in the fall in preparation for this winter inactivity.
Answer: What is hibernation? Some animals that hibernate include bears, squirrels, bumblebees, and skunks.
This is the nickname for this decade.
Answer: What is Roaring Twenties? This era was a time of sweeping social and political changes
We love these beneficial ladies in their red and black polka-dotted attire.
Answer: What are ladybugs? A beneficial insect is something you want in the garden. It preys on destructive insects such as aphids, mealybugs, whiteflies, and many more
if you like your morning coffee to have peak flavor, you probably have one of these small appliances to prepare your coffee beans.
Answer: What is coffee grinder? When you grind your own coffee, you control the size of the grind
This 1950s-era musical—about a bad boy and a goody two shoes who are teens in love—was made into a movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Answer: What is Grease? “Grease” and “Summer Nights” are two of the cuts from the soundtrack album.
although it’s summertime on this continent in the southern hemisphere, average temperatures reach around –50 degrees.
Answer: What is Antarctica? The highest temperature was recorded on February 6, 2020, at 18.3 degrees Celsius or 64.9 degrees Fahrenheit
This is the year of the stock market crash.
Answer: What is 1929? It was the original Black Tuesday, well before the one in 1987
You know fall has arrived when you no longer hear the chirping of these insects at night.
Answer: What are crickets? When the end of summer approaches, they start to chirp during the day because it’s too cold for them to be out at night. You can estimate the temperature by counting the chirps in 15 seconds and adding 37 to that number.
This small appliance sucks air out of food packages to keep foods fresh longer.
Answer: What is vacuum sealer? The expense of the vacuum sealer used to be over $100 but has fallen to less than $50. The expense now lies in the specialty plastic bags they require
The tune “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” comes from this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about Juan Peron’s wife, first lady of Argentina.
Answer: What is Evita? Eva Peron was an actress before marrying Juan Peron, and she was loved by the poor.
A snowflake has this number of sides.
answer: What is six? We were all taught that no two snowflakes are alike, but at least one scientist has claimed she found two identical snowflakes.
Two events in 1918 are attributed to giving us the freewheeling decade of the 1920s. Name one of them.
Answer: What is the end of World War I or the (Spanish flu) pandemic? The end of the previous, tumultuous decade is believed to be the cause of throwing all caution to the wind during the 1920s.
Another name for lightning bug.
Answer: What is firefly? The firefly belongs to the beetle family
These appliances make authentic Italian coffee drinks.
Answer: What are espresso machines? You can make espresso or cappuccino, which is espresso with steamed milk. Most machines have a milk steamer attached to them
“I Don’t Know How to Love Him” comes from one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s earliest musicals, a rock opera about Christ.
Answer: What is Jesus Christ Superstar? It is his second biblical musical. His first one is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Areas above this imaginary line near the North Pole experience darkness for days on end during the winter.
Answer: What is Arctic Circle? Days with no sunlight are known as the Polar Night
This was the outcome of the temperance movement, which reached its peak in 1919, but it did little to dampen spirits (pun intended) in the 1920s.
Answer: What is prohibition? The 18th amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages. In 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment officially overturned it.
If you’re a serious gardener, you have probably experienced destruction from this iridescent beetle with the name of a Pacific Rim country.
Answer: What is Japanese beetle? They travel in packs, and they can destroy an entire garden in the blink of an eye.
Use this appliance for quick and easy fried foods without the frying.
Answer: What is air fryer? It’s not just for fried foods; it makes perfect bacon, vegetables, and sweet potato fries. The reason everything comes out perfectly done is because all sides of the food are cooking at the same time.
This Bob Fosse Broadway musical about the Jazz Era is set in the Windy City.
Answer: What is Chicago? “All That Jazz” is one of the recordings from the soundtrack
This is what we call trees that shed their leaves in preparation for winter.
Answer: What is deciduous? Evergreen trees keep their leaves or needles during the winter. The wind helps deciduous trees shed their leaves, but they also have cells that act like scissors to lop off their leaves
During Prohibition, when people wanted to indulge in the free flow of alcohol, they flocked to saloons and nightclubs that went by this nickname.
Answer: What is speakeasy? The name speakeasy comes from the fact that people had to whisper a code word to gain admission. They operated like clubs.
Your DNA determines whether this common summertime nuisance will bite you.
Answer: What is mosquito? Scientists conducted an experiment with identical and fraternal twins. Mosquitoes reacted the same way toward identical twins but did not always act the same way toward fraternal twins because fraternal twins do not share the exact same DNA.