Saturday Mornings
The pajama-wearing, sugary-cereal eating ritual of watching cartoons.
What is watching Saturday Morning Cartoons?
The universal, legally-binding playground phrase used to claim the front seat of a car.
What is calling "Shotgun"?
These colorful plastic bricks caused immense physical pain if walked on barefoot in the dark.
What are Legos?
Fifty-five years after Thurgood Marshall's appointment, she became the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
This giant sea creature is the largest mammal in the world.
What is a blue whale/whale?
This square-shaped pastry with frosting and sprinkles was a breakfast luxury for children.
What is a Pop-Tart?
This recess game girls & boys played required a rubber ball, four drawn squares on the concrete, and it often caused lots of arguments.
What is Four Square/Four Squares?
This was used to walk the dog and cat and to rock the baby
What is a Yo-Yo?
Founded in 1909 by an interracial group that included W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells, this civil rights organization still exists today.
What is the NAACP?
Caterpillars turn into these colorful flying insects.
What are butterflies?
This animated show featuring pre-historic family life had a catchy theme song
The ultimate schoolyard challenge given to anyone bragging they could do something defiant.
What is double dare?
This board game could make you rich or poor, and it caused the most family arguments
What is Monopoly?
This federal holiday, although not recognized by many states and businesses, commemorates when enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom, almost two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted.
What is Juneteenth (June 19, 1865)?
This bouncy toy cowboy is Woody's best pal in Toy Story.
Who is Buzz Lightyear?
(Accept Woody if referring to the main toy lead!)
Before streaming, we had to manually do this to a VHS tape before returning it to the rental store.
What is rewind the tape/rewind it?
The neighborhood-wide signal that meant playtime was over and you had to run home.
What are the streetlights turning on?
This toy was a substitute for a belt and a pretend sword
What is a Hot Wheels track/orange race track?
She became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, and then he won it in 2009 for strengthening international diplomacy and cooperation.
Who are Toni Morrison and Barack Obama?
This famous rabbit is known for munching carrots and saying, "Eh, what's up, doc?"
Who is Bugs Bunny?
Sue May likely did these things, collectively called ___, just about every Saturday
What are chores?
Before "Gentle Parenting," this was a common form of correction in Black families
What are whoopings/spankings?
These colorful plastic bricks went from simple stacks to current-day automation
What are Legos?
He hosted the popular Jeopardy trivia show for 37 seasons, only second to Pat Sajak, who hosted Wheel of Fortune for 43 seasons
Who is Alex Trebek?
The total number of states that make up the United States
What is 50?