EAT YOUR VEGGIES
Chives may be considered an herb, but they’re a member of this vegetable family.
Onion
He is more than “relatively” famous for the equation e=mc2 .
Albert Einstein
South Georgia Island is a dependency of this group that lies off the Argentine coast
The Falkland Islands
This high-kicking dance came into vogue in the music halls of 1830’s Paris. (The Rockettes have only been doing it since 1925. )
Can-can
Born in the Russian Empire in 1888, he became an American citizen in 1918. His music, including “God Bless America,” "White Christmas,” and “There's No Business Like Show Business,” forms a large part of the Great American Songbook.
Irving Berlin
Many parts of a plant are eaten: seeds (peas); leaves (lettuce); roots (carrots) and flowers – such as this vegetable famously hated by President George H.W. Bush.
Broccoli
He is best remembered for his theories of the unconscious mind and the interpretation of dreams.
Sigmund Freud
George Town is the capital of these Caribbean British isles whose name comes from a word for a type of crocodile
The Cayman Islands
This popular tree nut, which looks similar to a walnut, is native to the American south and Mexican north.
Pecan
He’s the Massachusetts-born composer of West Side Story.
Leonard Bernstein
This is the vegetable used in hominy grits.
Corn
Presper Eckert and John Mauchly built ENIAC in the 1940s. It was the first truly modern version of this technological marvel.
The computer
A daily ferry will take you across the narrows from the USA's St. Thomas Island to Tortola in this group
The British Virgin Islands
A person who submits a formal request for an employer to consider him/her for a job.
Applicant
Born in Pennsylvania in 1826, he is known as “The Father of American Music.” His most memorable tunes include “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” and “Beautiful Dreamer.”
Stephen Foster
Any dish with the word Florentine in its name is sure to contain this leafy green ingredient.
Spinach
Still controversial today, his book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859.
Charles Darwin
Darwin found abundant rats on this Atlantic island named for the day Jesus was taken into heaven
Ascension
This large marine bird, the symbol of Louisiana, often flies low over the water and scoops up fish in its large bill.
Pelican
This Brooklyn-born composer of Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and Porgy and Bess (including the song “Summertime”) died of a brain tumor at the age of 38.
George Gershwin
This vegetable, which is known as aubergine in France and England, is the main ingredient in French ratatouille, Greek moussaka, and Middle Eastern baba ganoush.
Eggplant
Dutch scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to see bacteria, which he called “animacules,” through this instrument he developed.
The microscope
Tourist attractions on this island due east of Charleston include Devil's Hole, a natural aquarium in a cave
Bermuda
A substance that affects a person’s brain function and behavior; alcohol is a perfect example.
Intoxicant
This composer of some of America’s most iconic songs, including “Over There,” “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” and “You're a Grand Old Flag,” was actually born in Providence, RI in 1838 on the 3rd of July – not the 4th.
George M. Cohan