This ’n’ That
This is the defining ingredient in vinaigrette.
Answer: What is vinegar? While it’s the defining ingredient, oil is the predominant ingredient. The base of any vinaigrette is oil and vinegar. The ratio of ingredients for a classic vinaigrette is three parts oil to one part vinegar.
Frankie Valli’s band had five No. 1 hits, including “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Sherry.”
Answer: What is the Four Seasons? They are the only band to have three consecutive No. 1 hits. The third one is “Walk Like a Man.” They all hit No. 1 in a six-month period.
The Ernest Hemingway Museum, the Truman Little White House, the Shipwreck Treasure Museum, and a host of art galleries are on this far southern U.S. island.
Answer: What is Key West? There’s more to Key West than sun, fun, and exquisite seafood.
This stimulant is found in coffee.
Answer: What is caffeine? An eight-ounce cup of coffee contains around 90 milligrams of caffeine. Healthy adults should consume no more than 400 milligrams of caffeine per day
A mountain chicken is actually this type of animal.
Answer: What is a frog? They’re found in Dominica and Montserrat, two small islands in the Caribbean Sea.
This part of speech often ends in -ly.
Answer: What is an adverb? Typically, adverbs modify verbs. Often, you can turn an adjective into an adverb by appending -ly to the adjective. For example, annual is the adjective, and annually is the adverb. In use, annual report means “reported annually.”
This performer recorded the No. 1 hit “Jailhouse Rock.”
Answer: Who is Elvis Presley? The 1957 tune also topped the charts in the U.K. and became the first single to debut on the British charts at the No. 1 position.
This European country, with its famed food, wines, and champagne, is the most visited in the world.
Answer: What is France? You can book one-day or multi-day tours that visit wine country and/or focus on French cuisine.
This process takes brewed coffee, freezes it, and extracts the water, leaving behind coffee concentrate granules.
Answer: What is freeze-drying? Many people believe that freeze-dried coffee tastes better than instant coffee, even though both are prepared by the consumer in the same way
Gabriel García Márquez’s most popular work, Cien Años de Soledad, was translated into English in 1970, giving it this title.
Answer: What is One Hundred Years of Solitude? The book was an instant success and is considered the catalyst for the Latin American literary boom.
This is the world’s largest elevator company.
Answer: What is Otis? In 1889, the U.S. company built a curved elevator shaft to transport people to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Otis was chosen as the contractor because no French company would attempt the feat.
This U.K. band’s first U.K. No. 1 hit is “It’s All Over Now.”
Answer: What is the Rolling Stones? The band has reached the top of the charts eight times. In late 2024, Mick Jagger announced his retirement from performing, though he plans to remain involved in music.
Tourists can find the Christ the Redeemer statue in this city.
Answer: What is Rio de Janeiro? The statue is struck by lightning several times a year during the rainy season. That was considered when it was placed on top of a hill, and cables were strategically placed to conduct and divert the electricity in the event of a strike.
This Italian coffee is made of espresso and steamed milk and topped with milk foam.
Answer: What is cappuccino? Italians don’t drink cappuccino after 11 a.m., but tourists ignore this rule if they even know about it. Tourists are typically served whenever they order it.
Introduced in 1964, this was the first widely used electric word processor, consisting of one or two magnetic tape-recording units and an IBM Selectric typewriter built into its own desk.
Answer: What is the IBM MT/ST? MT/ST stands for “Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typewriter.” Data was saved to tape cartridges, and the processor’s mail merge function enabled quick production of form letters.
Made of zinc oxide and ferric oxide, this lotion helps stop the itching and pain of a poison ivy rash.
Answer: What is calamine? It’s also used topically for almost any insect bite or rash, and it helps dry oozing bites and rashes.
In 1960, this orchestra’s version of “A Summer Place” topped the charts.
Answer: What is Percy Faith Orchestra? The first few bars of Andy Williams’ version are the opening melody in the first season of the Netflix hit series Maestro in Blue. It’s set against the backdrop of the Ionian Sea on the island of Paxos.
This desert is around the size of the contiguous United States.
Answer: What is the Sahara? The desert spans North Africa and takes up 10 percent of the continent. The desert is home to around four million people.
This 1773 act by England’s King George III led to the rise of coffee consumption in America.
Answer: What is the Tea Act? The Tea Act of 1773 led to the Boston Tea Party and to America’s favorite hot morning beverage after the colonists dumped 90,000 pounds of tea in Boston Harbor.
The papacy had its seat in this country before it returned to Rome.
Answer: What is France? It was in Avignon, France, from 1309 to 1377 before Pope Gregory XI moved it back to Rome. It was known as the Avignon Papacy, during which seven popes served.
In 1829, this famous American poet, whose poetry has been characterized as containing themes of “death, madness, and the macabre,” married his first cousin, Virginia Clemm.
Answer: Who is Edgar Allan Poe? Clemm was a child bride, marrying Poe at the age of 13.
“I Can Dream, Can’t I” was a No. 1 hit by these siblings.
Answer: Who are the Andrews Sisters? It reached the top of the charts in 1950.
The Penguin Post Office is located here.
Answer: What is Antarctica? It’s the most visited site by tourists on guided tours of Antarctica. The post office is located on an island just off a peninsula, and tourists and those working in Antarctica can send mail from there.
This distinctive Hawaiian coffee is named for the district in which it’s grown on the Big Island.
Answer: What is Kona? Visitors can tour the region’s coffee farms.
In 1962, the government of this island nation was suspended from and excluded from participation in the Organization of American States.
Answer: What is Cuba? The only nation that voted against the suspension was Cuba. The suspension was lifted in 2009.