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When February has 29 days, the year is known as this.
Answer: What is a leap year?
The length of a year is 365.25 days, so every four years, we have a year with an extra day.
Dolly, the first successfully cloned mammal from an adult cell, was this type of animal.
Answer: What is a sheep?
This famous farm animal was born in July 1996 in Scotland.
Created in 1984, this video game challenges players to arrange geometric shapes as they drop into a playing field.
Answer: What is Tetris?
The popular video game was created by a Soviet mathematician to test a new computer.
In a delicious ad campaign, this restaurant chain sang, “I want my baby back ribs.” Answer: What is Chili’s? The commercial first aired in 1989, though the tune we know and love today was refined in the early ’90s.
Answer: What is Chili’s?
The commercial first aired in 1989, though the tune we know and love today was refined in the early ’90s.
Among many iconic roles, he has appeared as R. P. McMurphy in 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Answer: Who is Jack Nicholson?
Nicholson has listed the role as one of his personal favorites, along with the title role in 1992’s Hoffa.
Shrove Tuesday falls this number of days before Easter.
Answer: What is 40?
It’s also known as Fat Tuesday. Lent starts on Valentine’s Day this year, so it might not be the ideal year to give up chocolate for Lent. Traditionally, Shrove Tuesday was the last day to indulge in luxury foods before Easter.
He was freed from prison in February 1990, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, and elected president of his country in 1994.
Answer: Who is Nelson Mandela?
He became South Africa’s first Black president at the age of 77 and helped create many new jobs.
This video game brand began selling the arcade game Donkey Kong in 1981; other products include the NES system and the Game Boy.
Answer: What is Nintendo?
Though now associated with tech and video games, the company was founded in 1889 to produce playing cards.
Since 1989, this store chain proclaimed itself “the place with the helpful hardware man.”
Answer: What is Ace?
In recent years, the brand changed the wording to “helpful hardware folks” to be more inclusive.
He plays the titular character Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files, appearing on the show from 1974–1980.
Answer: Who is James Garner?
His other notable roles include Hendley in 1963’s The Great Escape and the senior Noah in 2004’s The Notebook.
This monarch came to the throne on February 6, 1952.
Answer: Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
Her coronation was held June 2, 1953.
This 1990–1991 conflict began when Iraq invaded nearby Kuwait over oil reserves.
Answer: What is the (Persian) Gulf War?
This war is considered the first major international crisis since the Cold War.
Created in 1980, this video game favorite features a hungry yellow character evading four colorful ghosts.
Answer: What is Pac-Man?
Pac-Man’s creator, Toru Iwatani, wanted to create a nonviolent video game, so he designed the characters as cute rather than scary.
Running for more than two decades through the 1970s and ’80s, this detergent brand’s jingle promised not to leave a “ring around the collar.”
Answer: What is Wisk?
Theirs was the first liquid laundry detergent to hit the shelves.
Roles he brings to life include Jack Crabb in Little Big Man, Carl Bernstein in All the President’s Men, and Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer.
Answer: Who is Dustin Hoffman?
He holds a record for the greatest age span portrayed by a movie actor for playing Jack Crabb from ages 17 to 121.
You might encounter these bushes with delicate, rose-style blooms in February.
Answer: What are camellias?
They come in the same colors as roses, and many shade-tolerant varieties are available. Camellias can also be grown as houseplants.
A 1993 treaty officially created this entity, a partnership between 27 European member states.
Answer: What is the European Union (or EU)?
The four freedoms established in the EU are the free movement of people, goods, services, and money.
A popular series of football video games first produced in the 1980s bears the name of this football coach and broadcaster.
Answer: Who is John Madden?
The former Raiders coach was approached about an endorsement and helped the creators make an authentic football game.
They’ve wanted to “teach the world to sing” since 1971.
Answer: Who is Coca-Cola?
The commercial jingle was so popular that the song became a hit in its own right.
He plays Bill McKay in 1972’s The Candidate, Jeremiah Johnson in the eponymous 1972 movie, and Bob Woodward in 1976’s All the President’s Men.
Answer: Who is Robert Redford?
Redford’s contributions to film also include founding the Sundance Film Festival.
This ancient festival falls on February 2 and used to be considered the midpoint of winter.
Answer: What is Candlemas Day?
In a bygone era, Christmas lasted 40 days, ending on February 2. People brought candles to church to receive a blessing on Candlemas Day.
On December 9, 1990, Lech Walesa was elected president of this nation, its first direct presidential election.
Answer: What is Poland?
He was president until 1995 and implemented free-market reforms.
This is the decade believed to have produced the first video game.
Answer: What is the 1950s?
It was a very simple tennis game invented by physicist William Higinbotham. In many ways, it was like the 1970s video game Pong.
This chewing gum brand assured consumers that “The taste is gonna move you!”
Answer: What is Juicy Fruit?
First aired in 1986, the commercial featured carefree skiing teens
Playing Sam Jones, this actor appears both on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D.
Answer: Who is Ken Berry?
When Ken served in the army special services, his sergeant was none other than Leonard Nimoy!