Potter-Pourri
This is the Hogwarts house that Julia is sorted into.
What is Hufflepuff?
Nicknamed "The Rock," this former maximum-security federal prison in the middle of the bay once housed inmates like Al Capone.
What is Alcatraz?
This sparkling wine can only be called by its famous name if it's produced in a specific region of France.
What is Champagne?
This essential baby item comes in both disposable and cloth varieties.
What is a diaper?
This is the name for a carved pumpkin with a light inside, a tradition brought to America by Irish immigrants who originally carved turnips.
What is a Jack-o'-lantern?
These are the three magical objects that, when united, are said to make one the "Master of Death".
What are the Elder wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility?
This San Jose mansion is famous for its architectural oddities like staircases leading to ceilings, built to confuse ghosts.
What is the Winchester Mystery House?
This is the most widely planted red wine grape variety in the world, famous for its full-bodied wines from regions like Bordeaux and Napa Valley.
What is Cabernet Sauvignon?
A major developmental milestone for a 1-year-old is understanding this concept, which is why a game of peek-a-boo suddenly becomes so fascinating.
What is object permanence?
In the 1993 cult classic Hocus Pocus, Winifred, Mary, and Sarah make up this iconic trio of witchy siblings.
Who are the Sanderson sisters?
This home to a Basilisk, is located beneath the school in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
What is the Chamber of Secrets?
This is the popular, personified name given to San Francisco's famous fog, which boasts its own popular social media accounts.
Who is Karl the Fog?
This popular, light-bodied red wine from Tuscany, Italy is a classic pairing for pasta and was traditionally sold in a straw-covered bottle called a fiasco.
What is Chianti?
This two-word term describes the common toddler behavior of playing alongside another child, but not directly interacting or sharing with them.
What is parallel play?
This iconic Halloween candy was originally marketed under the name "Chicken Feed" when it was invented in the 1880s.
What is candy corn?
This goblin helped Harry, Ron, and Hermione break into Gringotts in the 7th book.
DAILY DOUBLE!
Who is Griphook?
This annual week-long event, now held in another state, was founded on San Francisco's Baker Beach and has deep cultural roots in the Bay Area's art and tech scenes.
What is Burning Man?
This is the French term for the unique environmental factors, including soil, climate, and topography, that give a wine its distinctive character.
What is terroir?
This term describes the phenomenon where a toddler's spoken words suddenly expands at a rapid rate, sometimes going from 50 words to over 200 in just a few months.
What is vocabulary spurt?
Halloween's origins are traced back to this ancient Celtic festival that marked the end of the harvest and a time when the boundary between worlds was thin.
What is Samhain?
Used by Hermione to help Harry on the Hogwarts Express, this mending charm repairs broken objects, like eyeglasses.
What is Oculus Reparo?
During the Gold Rush, hundreds of these were abandoned and later buried, with parts of the modern-day Financial District and Embarcadero built on top of them.
What are ships? (or sailing ships/Gold Rush ships)
This devastating louse, which feeds on the roots of grapevines, wiped out most of Europe's vineyards in the late 19th century, forcing vintners to graft their vines onto American rootstock.
What is phylloxera?
Until about 10 months old, a baby's brain can distinguish between all of these basic units of sound from every language in the world, an ability they lose as their brain specializes.
DAILY DOUBLE
What are phonemes?
The practice of "trick-or-treating" is believed to have evolved from the medieval British tradition where children would go door-to-door offering prayers for the dead in exchange for these small, spiced cakes.
What are soul cakes?