Long Beach Lore
Since 1975, this Long Beach street race has earned the nickname the "Monaco of America."
What is The Long Beach Grand Prix?
A teenager nicknamed "Baby" falls in love with a dance instructor in this classic 1987 film.
What is Dirty Dancing?
This element is mixed with iron to create steel.
What is carbon?
This is the volume of a standard bottle of wine.
What is 750 mL?
This is the color of a giraffe's tongue.
What is purple? (will also accept bluish black or black)
This is one of the largest aquariums in the United States and houses over 12,000 animals.
What is the Aquarium of the Pacific?
This is the term for a baby goat.
What is a kid?
This is the term for a stud that doesn't run all the way from bottom to top of a wall.
What is a cripple stud?
This country produces the most wine each year.
This is the only sport ever played on the moon.
What is golf?
This neighborhood features man-made canals inspired by Venice, Italy, where visitors can take authentic gondola rides.
What is Naples Island?
Newborns are born with about 300 of these, but adults only have 206.
What is bones?
Built between 1931 and 1936, using 3,250,000 cubic yards of concrete, this was one of the single largest construction undertakings in American history.
What is the Hoover Dam?
France is the only country that can legally produce this famous sparkling wine.
These are the names of the man and woman mentioned in Bon Jovi's "Livin on a Prayer".
Who are Tommy and Gina?
This is the retired 1936 Art Deco ocean liner that has been permanently docked in the Long Beach harbor since 1967.
What is the RMS Queen Mary?
A newborn's eyes are almost always blue/grayish-blue, regardless of their true final color, because this pigment hasn't fully developed yet.
What is melanin?
This is the term for the wedge stone at the top of an arch.
What is the keystone?
This is the term for a dry wine that contains very little residual sugar.
What is brut?
Including all of its overseas departments and territories spanning the globe, this country officially holds the most time zones.
What is France?
This Long Beach hilltop neighborhood got its modern name from Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, who spotted Native Americans using it for a very specific communication method.
What is Signal Hill?
This is the medical term for the soft spots on a newborn baby's head where the skull bones haven't yet fused.
What are fontanelles?
On a set of electrical plans, a triangle typically represents this item.
What is a telephone? (also accepting "data" or "internet")
This is the term for the smell of a wine.
What is bouquet?
This is the proper typographical term for the small dot placed over a lowercase letter "i" or "j".
What is tittle?