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100

This incredibly popular sweet flavoring comes from the fruit pod of a specific type of orchid. 

Vanilla

100

Families used to save these tiny, colorful stamps from the grocery store and paste the grocery sand paste them into booklets to exchange for household appliances. 

Green stamps (S&H green stamps) 

100

Before modern video games, children spent hours outdoors on the sidewalk jumping over grid lines chalked onto the pavement in this classic game. 

Hopscotch 

100

This 1920s slang exceptionally excellent or high-quality refers to this insects jointed leg. 

Bees knees 

100

Which world-famous Arizona landmark and national park is known for its immense size, red rock layers, and the Colorado River winding right through the bottom of it?

The Grand Canyon

200

This city is famous for introducing the legendary Palmer House brownie at the 1893 Worlds fair.

Chicago 

200

This ready-to-bake brand, famous for its blue tube and a giggling white mascot introduced its crescent rolls in the 1960s. 

Pillsbury 

200

On warm summer nights before air conditioning was widespread. Families would sit together on this front part of the house to catch a cool evening breeze. 

Porch 

200

This old-fashioned phrase means to put on your best appearance w or put your most favorable effort forward. 

Best foot forward 

200

Which historic city located in the state's panhandle serves as the capital of Florida, passing over more famous southern hotspots like Miami or Orlando?






Tallahassee

300

This powerful chemical element was actually detected and named in the sun before it was ever discovered on Earth. 

Helium 

300

This popular brand of shelf-stable powdered milk, packaged in a familiar box, became a household staple for stretching the family milk budget 

Carnation (Sanalac) 

300

This classic playground staple requires two children to sit on the opposite ends of a long wooden/metal plank that balances and moves up and down in a central pivot. 

Teeter-Totter (seesaw) 

300

If a plan or project goes completely awry and fails miserable, people often say it went down in…

Flames 

300

What is the capital city of New York state—which often surprises people because it isn't New York City.

Albany

400

This iconic American singer of the 1920s and 30s was universally celebrated as the “Empress of the Blues” 

Bessie Smith 

400

Invented in 1937 to feed troops, this gelatinous canned pork product became a global kitchen staple and a breakfast regular. 

Spam 

400

This classic metal toy car brand, known for its extreme durability and yellow dump trucks, first started manufacturing structural steel toys in 1947. 

Tonka 

400

This traditional, seafaring two-word phrase means an entire room or house is perfectly neat and orderly. 

Shipshape

400

Which famous historic route, established in 1926 and stretching from Chicago to Santa Monica, is affectionately known as the "Mother Road"?

Route 66

500

This famous fashion designer gave the adult girls scout leader uniforms a major, stylish Kelly-green makeover in the 1980s. 

Bill Blass 

500

This specific brand of concentrated liquid laundry detergent, known for its bold yellow bottle and a measuring cap, first hit grocery shelves in 1975. 

Wisk  

500

Long before digital streaming or cable neighborhoods eagerly awaited the arrival of this large, heavy book in the mail once a year to flip through toys and clothing. 

Sears catalog (wish book) 

500

If someone tells you to stop talking completely and hold your tongue, they say might tell you to “tell it too…” 

Marine 

500

What is the name of the oldest national park east of the Mississippi River, located on a rugged island off the coast of Maine and famous for Cadillac Mountain?

Acadia National Park

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