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?
Vertical lines run this way.
What is up and down, or from top to bottom? The straight legs on the average dinner table are vertical lines.
This antebellum South Carolina city boasts cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages, and Fort Sumter.
What is Charleston?
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?
This percentage of the population is left-handed.
What is 10 percent?
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”?
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?
This visual line separates the ocean from the sky.
What is horizon?
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?
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?
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?
Food Network celebrity Alton Brown calls this type of cooking in a gas oven “upside-down grilling.”
What is broiling?
Fat Tuesday is the culmination of this event.
What is Mardi Gras?
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?
This letter is made up of two diagonal lines that cross in the center.
What is X?
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?
This is the term for chopping an ingredient into cubes larger than minced cubes.
What is dice?
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?
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?
This city is best place in the Northeast to see Gilded Age mansions.
Where is Newport, Rhode Island?
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?
If you are born on this numerical day in February, technically your birthday will happen only every four years.
What is February 29?
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?
This national park near Jackson, Wyoming, is named for the highest mountain peak within its borders.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
A tied bunch of fresh herbs used while cooking is called this.
What is bouquet garni?
The people who ride the Mardi Gras floats are required by law to wear these.
What are masks?