STATE FAIRS
This food-on-a-stick is a hot dog coated in batter and deep-fried.
Answer: What is a corn dog?
This 1982 film told the story of a gentle alien who just wanted to “phone home.”
Answer:
What is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?*
This is the closest planet to the Sun.
Answer: What is Mercury?
This infamous stock market crash in October 1929 is often seen as the trigger of the Great Depression.
Answer:
What is Black Tuesday?
A classic combo of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry all in one carton.
Answer: What is Neapolitan?
This event, popular at many state fairs, involves destruction and flipping cars for fun.
Answer: What is a demolition derby?
This 1993 dinosaur-filled blockbuster roared to life with the tagline “An Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making.”
Answer:
What is Jurassic Park?*
Molten rock beneath Earth’s surface.
Answer: What is magma?
This Social program, started in 1935, provides income for retired workers.
Answer: What is Social Security?
This flavor is named after a nut, is sweet and salty, and often used in sundaes.
Answer: What is butter pecan?
This nightly tradition at many fairs ends the day with lights and loud booms.
Answer: What are fireworks?
This 1975 thriller about a great white shark terrified audiences and invented the summer blockbuster.
Answer:
What is Jaws?*
This force keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun.
Answer: What is gravity?
The term for unemployed men who hopped trains in search of work.
Answer: What are hobos?
This Italian frozen dessert is denser than ice cream and comes in flavors like stracciatella and pistachio.
Answer: What is gelato?
These fluffy farm animals are often sheared in front of fair audiences.
Answer: What are sheep?
In 1993, Spielberg released this Holocaust drama that won 7 Oscars, including Best Picture.
Answer:
What is Schindler’s List?*
This is the term for all living and nonliving things in an area.
Answer: What is an ecosystem?
This classic novel by John Steinbeck tells the story of the Joad family escaping the Dust Bowl.
Answer: What is The Grapes of Wrath?
This flavor includes raw dough and chocolate chips, and feels like you're sneaking a bite before baking.
Answer: What is cookie dough?
This slow-moving, circular ride gives fairgoers a bird’s-eye view.
Answer: What is the Ferris wheel?
This Peter Pan-inspired 1991 movie starred Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, and Julia Roberts.
Answer:
What is Hook?*
The process of turning waste into reusable material.
Answer: What is recycling?
This classic 1939 film, featuring the Dust Bowl and a girl from Kansas, reflected Depression-era hardship.
Answer: What is The Wizard of Oz?
This carbonated soft drink has inspired ice cream flavors like "float" or "cola."
Answer: What is root beer?