Chillin’ & Grillin’
Weber is a well-known maker of this essential feature of a backyard barbecue.
What is a grill?
Another word for ancestry or pedigree, often applied to royalty.
What is bloodline?
This is the study of animals.
What is zoology? Biology is the study of all living organisms and includes plant and animal life.
Notre Dame, home of the Fighting Irish athletics, is located here.
What is South Bend, Indiana? Notre Dame’s women’s basketball team won the 2018 NCAA championship.
On August 2, 1776, fifty-six members of Congress signed this founding document, which is celebrated every Fourth of July.
What is the Declaration of Independence? Only John Hancock and the secretary of Congress signed the document on July 4.
The name of this flying creature describes slicing a slab of meat nearly in half and unfolding it flat.
What is butterfly? This is the best way to grill a thick cut of meat.
Your spouse’s mother, father, sibling, or other relative by marriage.
What is in-law?
This science focuses on the relationship between living organisms and the environment.
What is ecology? Ecology is not environmentalism; its focus is ecosystems.
It is where you can find the University of Alabama’s main campus, home of the Crimson Tide.
What is Tuscaloosa, Alabama? “Roll tide” is the school’s rallying cry. Joe Namath attended Alabama and dropped out to play in the NFL. He returned and graduated in 2007, 42 years later.
On August 5, 2001, this happened to the U.S. credit rating for the first time in history.
What is it was downgraded? The credit rating was downgraded from AAA to AA+.
Manual ice cream machines require adding this condiment to the ice before churning the ingredients.
What is salt? Salt helps the ice cream freeze before all the ice melts.
This church maintains the largest free genealogy resource in the world.
What is Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (or Mormon)? The purpose of its databases is to find family members who have not been baptized in the church. These family members can be baptized posthumously. Anyone can use the databases.
This is the study of earthquakes and other stresses within a planet.
What is seismology?
University of Nebraska, home of the Cornhuskers, is in this capital city.
What is Lincoln, Nebraska? More than 25 NFL players are former Cornhuskers.
On August 23, 1989, this Cincinnati Reds manager was expelled from baseball for gambling on the game.
Who is Pete Rose? He received a lifetime ban, and he is ineligible for appointment to the Hall of Fame.
This is the term for applying a seasoned liquid while grilling to keep the food soft and moist.
What is basting (or mopping)? A more recent term is mop.
This term applies to cousins of different generations.
What is once removed? For example, if you have a first cousin who has a child, the child is your first cousin, once removed. Second cousins share a great-grandparent, so they are the same generation.
If a scientist’s life’s work is the study of King Tut, this is their “ology.“
What is Egyptology? Egyptology covers a period from 4500 BC to 641 AD.
It is home to the Volunteers of the University of Tennessee.
What is Knoxville, Tennessee? Peyton Manning attended UT.
On August 12, 1990, Susan Hendrickson discovered the skeleton of this huge animal.
What is a dinosaur (or Tyrannosaurus rex)? It was the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered and was found to be 90 percent intact.
Salmon is often grilled on this type of wood plank to add flavor.
What is cedar? If you don’t have a smoker, cedar planks can infuse the salmon with a smoky flavor. Soak the plank in water for a few hours before use. You can grill salmon on many types of wood planks, but cedar is the most popular because it imparts the most intense flavor.
Couples without a marriage license but who might share joint bank accounts, file joint tax returns, use the same last name, and have lived together for a number of years might be married under this in some states.
What is common law?
This is the study of the causes and spread of diseases in a population.
What is epidemiology? Instead of studying disease in a single patient, the community is considered the patient.
Northwestern University, home of the Wildcats, is located near this large city.
What is Chicago (specifically Evanston)? Northwestern is a large research university.
On August 30, 1963, a “hotline” between the United States and this country went into operation.
What is Soviet Union (or USSR, but not Russia). The purpose of the hotline was to reduce the possibility of war between the two superpowers