DREAMING OF SUMMER
Hayley Mills plays the double leading roles of kids who meet at camp in this film; their first meeting exposes a visceral hatred for each other.
What is The Parent Trap?
Pounds, ounces, tablespoons, and teaspoons are part of the category of weights and this.
What are measures? Weights and measures are units that quantify volume, length, weight, etc
Vertical lines run this way.
What is up and down, or from top to bottom?
What is easy to lift but hard to throw?
What is a feather?
This antebellum South Carolina city boasts cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages, and Fort Sumter.
What is Charleston? Nighttime ghost tours draw many tourists to the city.
This term refers to a menu with separately priced items.
What is à la carte?
This is the most popular color of rose given on Valentine’s Day.
What is red? Roses account for 83 percent of all flowers sold on Valentine’s Day, and 63 percent of those roses are red
This percentage of the population is left-handed.
What is 10 percent? While that number might sound low, only one percent of the population is ambidextrous.
When leaving school for summer vacation, students in love are reminded by this 1966 hit single by the Happenings that they will see each other again in September
What is “See You in September”? The Tempos originally recorded the song.
We were taught about this graphical representation of food and the number of servings of each group we should have in a day.
What is the food pyramid? MyPlate has since replaced the food pyramid.
This visual line separates the ocean from the sky.
What is horizon?
What has a face but no mouth?
What is a clock?
This former maximum security prison sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay on a gigantic rock.
What is Alcatraz?
This term means to beat an ingredient, such as cream, to incorporate air into it.
What is whip?
This major bodily organ gets its own month in February.
What is the heart? The American Heart Association has designated February as American Heart Month.
On a cold, dreary Sunday in the dead of winter, a reminder of what lies ahead comes with watching this sport, played on lush fairways and greens and often set against the pounding waves of the ocean.
What is golf?
Use your glass measuring cup for measuring this type of ingredient
What is liquid?
White lines that run across the street at an intersection are known as this.
What is a crosswalk?
What has a foot but no legs?
What is a ruler?
This string of islands off the coast of North Carolina houses the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, with its distinctive, diagonal black-and-white stripes.
What are the Outer Banks? Orville and Wilbur Wright’s historic flight took off from the Outer Banks, and the majestic Wright Brothers Memorial is perched atop Kill Devil Hill.
Food Network celebrity Alton Brown calls this type of cooking in a gas oven “upside-down grilling.”
What is broiling? You won’t get a charcoal flavor, but you’ll get the equivalent of a gas-grilled meal.
Fat Tuesday is the culmination of this event.
What is Mardi Gras? Fat Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday in the Christian faith.
This 1955 classic film starring Katharine Hepburn and Italian actor Rossano Brazzi captures the romance of Venice, Italy.
What is Summertime?
Add this to a roux to make a béchamel sauce.
What is milk? Both are basic French sauces and made with flour and a fat, usually butter. They have been incorporated into American sauces and are the base of gravies, Alfredo, and cheese sauces.
This letter is made up of two diagonal lines that cross in the center.
What is X?
What can be heard but not touched?
What is sound?
If spelunking is high on your bucket list, there’s no better place to take a cave tour than the Mammoth Cave in this state.
What is Kentucky? Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world, with more than 400 miles of mapped passageways.
This is the term for chopping an ingredient into cubes larger than minced cubes.
What is dice? The cubes vary in size from 1/8 to 1/4 inch.
Chosen because it includes the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, February is when this annual observance is celebrated.
What is Black History Month? We started observing Black History Month in 1976. It is the outgrowth of Black History Week, established in 1926.
The refrain to this 1967 Johnny Rivers tune goes: All summer long, we spent dancin’ in the sand And the jukebox kept on playin’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
What is “Summer Rain”?
We learned this important concept regarding preparing food so all of it would be ready at the same time; it also applies to timing work, projects, and other tasks.
What is time management?
These equidistant lines never cross; for example, railroad tracks.
What are parallel lines? Above-ground electrical wires are another example of parallel lines
The more you take the more you leave behind.
What are footsteps?
This city is best place in the Northeast to see Gilded Age mansions.
Where is Newport, Rhode Island? The most famous mansion is the Vanderbilt Mansion. You can tour the mansions, but some are open only during the summer.
According to Good Housekeeping, to do this is “to cook food in a small amount of fat in a skillet over relatively high heat, stirring often or occasionally.”
What is sauté? When sautéing a protein, you turn it once or twice. However, when sautéing vegetables, the technique is similar to stir-frying.
If you are born on this numerical day in February, technically your birthday will happen only every four years.
What is February 29? Leap years occur every four years, and February gains an extra day.
This 1973 film, set at the end of the summer of 1962, stars Ron Howard and Richard Dreyfuss; it covers only one night as the two prepare to leave for college.
What is American Graffiti?
We were taught that when no fire extinguisher was available, we should put out grease fires with this common ingredient.
What is baking soda?
Some believe these imaginary straight lines connect sacred places, such as Stonehenge and the Giza Pyramids.
What are ley lines? Some believe ley lines are energetic and are associated with magnetic fields.
What is always in front of you but can't be seen?
What is the future?
This national park near Jackson, Wyoming, is named for the highest mountain peak within its borders
What is Grand Teton National Park? The highest peak of the Teton Range in Wyoming is Grand Teton. Experienced hikers in peak physical condition can navigate the steep inclines of the 7,000-foot climb to the top and back.
A tied bunch of fresh herbs used while cooking is called this.
What is bouquet garni? They are often used in soups and stews. By tying the stems together, you don’t have to waste time pulling them out individually before serving.
The people who ride the Mardi Gras floats are required by law to wear these.
What are masks? They are required to remain anonymous, a tradition that started hundreds of years ago. They can wear full face masks or masks that shield only the eyes.