THE GREAT LAKES
How many Great Lakes are there?
What is 5?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
What is an Echo?
Popular throughout the decades, red rover is played by two teams chanting “Red rover, red rover, let [player’s name]” do this.
What is “come over”?
Which popular candy bar, introduced in 1932 and widely enjoyed in the 1950s, consists of nougat topped with caramel and covered in milk chocolate?
What is a Mars Bar?
These popular ’80s toys were glow-in-the-dark creatures.
What are Glo Worms?
What bubble gum brand, introduced in 1947 and popularized in the 1950s, is known for its comic strip wrappers?
What is Bazooka Bubble Gum?
He was the first U.S. president to appear on television, delivering a speech at the opening of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Which is the largest of the Great Lakes by surface area?
A. Superior
B. Erie
What is Lake Superior? It is the world’s largest freshwater lake by area and the coldest and deepest of the Great Lakes.
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
What is Silence?
This circular playground favorite was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong National Museum of Play in 1999, though its Hawaiian inspiration is much older.
What is a Hula-Hoop? The toy’s creators were inspired by bamboo hoops used in Australia and by the Hawaiian hula dance.
What candy, introduced in 1940, features a peppermint center covered in dark chocolate and is known for its minty flavor?
What is a York Peppermint Pattie?
Centipede was popular in the ’80s; it was this type of game.
What is a video game? Did you know you can still play this game for free on the AARP website?
In the 1960s, which gum brand became one of the first to introduce sugar-free gum in the United States?
What is Trident. Trident was marketed as beneficial for dental health because it helped increase saliva production, which can neutralize acid and prevent tooth decay.
Which of the following U.S. states does not border a Great Lake:
Ohio, Minnesota, or Wyoming?
What is Wyoming? The Great Lakes border eight states on the U.S. side.
What do you lose the moment you share it?
What is a Secret?
These colorful items, long used by the military, became part of gym glass curriculum in the 1980s and are a playground favorite for games
What are parachutes?
What out-of-this-world chocolate bar features a unique combination of milk chocolate and a smooth, creamy center?
What is a Milky Way?
These dolls were “grown” in a garden patch and came with a birth certificate.
What are the Cabbage Patch Kids?
Which gum, introduced in the 1950s, became known for its long-lasting flavor and was advertised as “double your pleasure, double your fun”?
What is Doublemint Gum?
The Jet Express is a ferry service in which of the Great Lakes?
Lake Erie. The company was founded in 1988 as the Put-in-Bay Boat Line Company.
What has 88 keys, but can't even open a single door?
What is a Piano?
During the 1960s and ’70s, this playground toy was popular among girls for games like double Dutch.
What is jump rope (skipping rope)? Because girls were often excluded from school sports, jump rope was a form of exercise they could enjoy.
Which candy bar, introduced in 1967, features a biscuit base topped with caramel and covered in milk chocolate and is known for its “Two for me, none for you” tagline?
What is a Twix Bar?
Popular in a cartoon and as action figures, Skeletor and He-Man were characters from this franchise.
What is Masters of the Universe?
What iconic gum brand introduced the first commercially available bubble gum tape in the 1988?
Hubba Bubba. Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape made it easy to tear off just the right amount for the bubble you wanted to make.
Approximately what percentage of the world’s fresh water is in the Great Lakes?
10%, 20%, or 30%
Twenty. Of the 24,000 cubic miles (100,000 cubic kilometers) of fresh water on Earth, the Great Lakes hold more than 5,400 (22,500).
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
What is Bookkeeper?
Versions of this traffic light–inspired game include statues, fairy footsteps, and grandmother’s footsteps.
What is red light, green light?
What iconic chocolate bar, introduced in the 1900 and famous for its simple milk-chocolate taste, is often referred to as “The Great American Chocolate Bar”?
What is a Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar? Milton Hershey ran a successful caramel company before experimenting with milk and chocolate, which shifted his focus.
With characters like Butterscotch and Cotton Candy, these toys were first released in 1983 and spawned several films and TV shows.
What are My Little Ponys?
Which chewing gum brand, introduced by Wrigley in 1893, is known for its distinct fruity flavor and was heavily marketed in the 1960s with the slogan “The taste is gonna move ya”?
Juicy Fruit. A pack of Juicy Fruit gum became the first product ever scanned using a Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode, at a Marsh Supermarket in Ohio in 1974.
Which Great Lake has a region similar to the Bermuda Triangle, with unexplained disappearances of ships and planes?
Lake Michigan. The area is dubbed the Michigan Triangle and is near a strange rock formation, which some believe creates the mysterious phenomenon.
If fish lived on land, where would they live?
What is Finland?
In 1975, Tennis magazine published an article about this “newest racquet sport,” which shares its name with a deli snack.
What is pickleball?
Which chocolate bar, originally introduced in the UK in 1935 and later launched in the United States in 1969, is known for its distinctive wafer layers and the slogan “Have a break, have a…”?
What is a Kit Kat Bar?
These stuffed monkey toys from Japan became popular in the United States when licensed by Mattel in 1985.
What are Monchhichi toys?
What candy-coated gum’s name is derived from a Spanish word for “sticky stuff”?
What is Chiclets? Chiclets, like other gum, were originally made from chicle, which translates to “sticky stuff” in English.