Mellow Yellow
Truth Meets the Big Screen
Summer Trivia
Summer Recreation and Leisure
It Happened One August
100
This is what you get when you whip cream until it becomes a solid fat.
What is Butter
100
This 1962 film depicts Helen Keller’s teacher Annie Sullivan, who persisted until she finally broke through to her blind, deaf, and mute pupil.
What is The Miracle Worker
100
These are the summer months in the southern hemisphere.
What are December, January, and February?
100
We associate this geometrical shape with baseball.
What is a diamond
100
) On August 3, 1492, this Italian explorer set sail upon the ocean blue in command of three ships—the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Niña.
Who is Christopher Columbus
200
Some ice cream sundaes include this long curved fruit.
What is a Banana
200
This 1965 film is set in Austria on the eve of World War II and follows Maria (Julie Andrews) as she leaves the convent to become governess to the seven children of Naval Captain Georg Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer).
What is The Sound of Music
200
The longest day of summer is either the summer equinox or the summer solstice.
What is summer solstice?
200
u can play this game on the grass with wooden mallets and balls.
What is Croquet
200
On August 5, 1981, Ronald Reagan fired this striking group of federal air workers, which brought chaos to the entire air traffic system.
Who are the air traffic controllers?
300
This huge bright yellow flower can be made into an oil and bears nutritious seeds for birds and humans.
What is a Sunflower
300
This 1970 film stars Dean Martin, Burt Lancaster, George Kennedy, and Jacqueline Bisset—all working to bring a Trans Global Airlines 707 with a bomb on board back to Lincoln Airport in the midst of one of the worst snowstorms of the season
What is Airport
300
This group of international sporting events occurs every four years during the summer.
What are the Summer Olympic Games?
300
You can play this sport in the backyard on grass with a racquet, a birdie (also called a shuttlecock), and a net.
What is Badminton
300
On August 12, 1961, construction began on the wall that would divide Germany into East Germany and West Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall
400
This type of raincoat originally came in yellow vinyl.
What is a Slicker
400
This 1972 film stars Diana Ross as jazz legend Billie Holiday, along with Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor
What is Lady Sing the Blues
400
This bad-weather season that affects mostly the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States begins on June 1.
What is Hurricane Season
400
This wet summer activity is often measured in laps.
What is swimming
400
On August 10, 1847, President James K. Polk signed an act into law that created this complex of 19 museums and galleries in Washington, D.C.
What is the Smithsonian Institute
500
These yellow and black social wasps usually build their nests underground.
What are Yellowjackets
500
This 1991 film was directed by Oliver Stone and stars Kevin Costner as New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. It follows Garrison’s dogged investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
What is JFK
500
The Toronto Blue Jays is the only Canadian team affiliated with this sports organization.
What is Major League Baseball
500
This racquet sport is filled with “love.”
What is Tennis
500
On August 1, 1914, this war broke out in Europe
What is World War I
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