Kitchen Substitutes
You've run out of kitchen cleanser, and your stainless pot needs scrubbing. What do we use as a natural baking ingredient?
Baking soda.
Make paste with water and spread it on the pot. Let it sit for a while or overnight and then scrub.
Swim with these mammals in Hawaii.
Dolphins
Dolphins are the friendliest and most social animal, and they enjoy contact with humans.
This squash is associated with Halloween
Pumpkin
What game is played with rectangular tiles that have a line dividing them into two squares, each containing a number of dots?
Dominos
True Or False
There are 206 bones in an adult human body and 300 bones in an infants body
True
Some bones in the infant’s skull have not yet fused together and so the infant has more bones than a fully formed adult.
Make buttermilk by adding a little of this ingredient to milk.
Vinegar or lemon juice
Add one tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice to a measuring cup and top off to one cup with milk. Let it sit for a few minutes, and you have buttermilk.
People used to go on road trips from Chicago to Los Angeles on this "Main street of America."
Route 66
Its called "The Mother Road". Route 66 was formally decommissioned on June 27,1985.
This squash can be used as a healthy substitute for pasta
Spaghetti Squash
What popular card game involves betting, bluffing, and determining the best hand from a combination of players’ cards and shared community cards?
Poker
Which is the rarest type of blood in humans?
AB negative.
Less than one percent of the population has this blood type.
Combine these two ingredients to make a substitute for brown sugar.
White sugar and molasses.
This is the most popular and famous wine - tasting area in California.
Napa Valley
To see the vineyards from the air , take a ride in a hot-air balloon.
This squash takes its name from a tree nut
Acorn Squash
In what game do players act out a word or phrase without speaking, while others try to guess what it is?
Charades
Charades originated in France during the 16th century and has been a staple game around the holidays ever since. The modern version of charades was popularized by the game show Give Us a Clue, which aired from 1979 to 1992.
Which is the strongest muscle in the human body: the tounge, the jaw or the triceps'?
Jaw
This can be used as a sour cream substitute.
Greek yogurt
This is the capital city of Canada.
Ottawa
Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857. It was determined to be a location that could be defended if attacked, and it was on the border between Quebec and Ontario-the two provinces making up the country at the time.
This squash takes its name from a diary product
Butternut Squash
What popular game involves players marking off numbers on a card as they are randomly called out, with the goal of reaching a specific pattern or filling the entire card for a win?
Bingo
What is the human body's biggest organ?
Skin
If you ran out of vegetable oil for baking, add this.
Apple Sause or fruit puree.
For this substitute, add half the amount of oil the recipe call for.
What is the national animal which is associated with dams?
Beaver
For many years they were hunted for their fur, but today the beaver is protected much like the American bald eagle.
This squash has the same name as an early-to-mid spring yellow flower
The buttercup squash
What is the name of the ancient game of strategy played on a checkered board with 64 squares and 32 pieces?
Chess
Chess. Chess is commonly known as the “royal game” due to its close association with intellectual ability and strategic acuity.
True or False?
Inside the womb unborn babies have their lungs full of water
True.
They don’t start breathing until after they’re born, and so they don’t need air in their lungs. Once they are born they cough out the water and start breathing like you or me. For a little while after they're born, their body remembers how to survive underwater, and they can’t drown!