WORLD FACTS
An ice sheet covers more than 80% of this largest island in the world.
What is Greenland?
This burrowing rodent; the pocket type is native to North America
What is a Gopher?
For Memorial Day, the 3rd U.S. infantry regiment places flags in front of more than 200,000 headstones in this cemetery
What is Arlington National Cemetery?
I can smell it in the oven--be it white, wheat or sourdough, November 17 is homemade this
What is bread?
I'm taking 5 on this alliterative playground piece that sounds like you should be climbing it in the Congo
What is a jungle gym?
It's a very short name for the longest river in Italy.
What is the Po?
This Dutch cheese that's named for a port near Rotterdam
What is Gouda?
The WWI poem "In Flanders Field" inspired the use of this flower as a symbol for remembering fallen soldiers
What is the poppy?
December 15 is the day to celebrate the ratification of this part of the constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
In the NBA these recesses can be regular or 20-second
What is a time-out
The only active volcano on the European mainland, it had its first recorded eruption in 79 A.D.
What is Mt.Vesuvius?
This small sac that stores about 1 1/2 ounces of bile at a time
What is the gallbladder?
This traditional song of Memorial Day was originally a call to extinguish lights
What is Taps?
Mid-June brings world this day; give me 3 balls, 3 rings or better yet 3 flaming torches & I'll show you!
What is juggling?
Run, don't walk to this up & down recess plaything also called a seesaw
What is a teeter-totter?
Europe's oldest, the university of this "meaty" Italian city was founded in 1088
What is Bologna ?
This genre of novel satirized by Jane Austin in "Northanger Abbey"
What is gothic?
On the holiday, the Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma hosts a festival for these vehicles, the food trucks of the Old West
What are chuck wagons?
In Tennessee, Confederate Memorial Day is observed on June 3, the birthday of this Confederate president
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Many plays have this delay built into the middle so people can stretch their legs
What is an intermission?
The Black Sea is the northern border of the Asian part of Turkey, this region.
Where is Asia Minor?
This plural-sounding medical specialty that deals specifically with the elderly
What is geriatrics?
To honor the 100th anniversary of the battle here, LBJ gave a Memorial Day speech in 1963
Where is Gettysburg (Virginia)?
Officially approved by Congress in 2009, National Pi Day is celebrated on this date
What is March 14th?
This 7-letter word for a day off from school or work originally referred to a religious observance
What is a holiday?