We All Scream for Ice Cream
($100) Put your ice cream into one of these if you want to lick it
Answer: What is cone? There are many types of cones available today, including waffle cones, sugar cones, pretzel cones, and cake/wafer cones
($100) Dorothy’s home state
Answer: What is Kansas? Dorothy represents Americans at their best, and she comes from an area that was devastated at the time.
($100) This getaway city is home of the Alamo.
Answer: What is San Antonio, Texas? Another popular attraction there is the San Antonio River Walk.
($100) During a hurricane, an eerie calm occurs when you are in this part of the storm.
Answer: What is eye? You might even see sunlight during the eye.
($100) August 3 is a great day to eat this green-on-the-outside, red-on-the-inside melon, often served as dessert at backyard barbecues
Answer: What is watermelon? It’s National Watermelon Day
($100) This phrase is used to describe a person who is realistic and practical.
Answer: What is down-to-earth? Down-to-earth is often used to describe a person of wealth who appears unaffected by it.
($200) This is the most popular ice cream flavor in the world.
Answer: What is vanilla? However, some countries claim other flavors as their favorite. For example, Australians prefer licorice-flavored ice cream, while Americans proclaim chocolate is the best.
($200) Dorothy’s dog
Answer: What is Toto? Author L. Frank Baum did not specify Toto’s breed, but in the film adaptation with Judy Garland they cast a cairn terrier.
($200) A top California tourist attraction is the wine country in this valley.
Answer: What is Napa? It’s only 50 miles north of San Francisco, and many of the wineries offer tours and wine tastings.
($200) This shaking occurs before a tsunami.
Answer: What is earthquake? If the earthquake is far out to sea, you might not feel it on land. Tsunami waves can travel at 500 miles per hour.
($200) The kids either love or hate August as they head back to this place
Answer: What is school? August is recognized as Back to School Month.
($200) This word is a temporary end to hostilities in war
Answer: What is cease-fire? The term can also be a military order to the soldiers to hold their fire.
($400) They are the three basic ingredients of ice cream sundaes.
Answer: What are ice cream, sauce, and whipped cream? The fourth, optional ingredient is a maraschino cherry on top of the whipped cream.
($400) Dorothy’s aunt’s name
Answer: What is Auntie Em? Auntie Em’s husband is Dorothy’s Uncle Henry.
($400) This city is known as the Big Easy, aka NOLA.
Answer: What is New Orleans, Louisiana? Aside from taking in the French Quarter, visitors can enjoy a month of festivals in August, and the restaurants are superb year-round.
($400) If, during a storm, you hear from your safe space what sounds like the roar of an approaching train, assume one of these has touched down.
Answer: What is tornado? The sound has also been described as the roar of a grizzly bear
($400) Bozo is celebrated during this international week.
Answer: What is International Clown Week? It is observed August 1–7.
($400) When someone has had way too much to drink, we say they are “four sheets to” this.
Answer: What is the wind? The phrase is believed to come from nautical terminology in which the sheets being referred to are ropes that control the sail. If four of them are loose, or to the wind, the boat will be unsteady, like someone who is intoxicated
($600) During the summer of 1790, this U.S. president spent $200 on ice cream, which is about $5,000 in today’s dollars.
Answer: Who is George Washington?
($600) The Wicked Witch of the West tries to remove these from Dorothy.
Answer: What are slippers? The Wicked Witch portrays the Good Witch’s alter ego.
($600) During a weekend in this town known as Music City, you can catch a live performance of the Grand Ole Opry
Answer: What is Nashville, Tennessee? It’s also called the Athens of the South due to its large number of higher education institutions, including Vanderbilt University.
($600) This is the common or slang name for a tornado
Answer: What is twister? Tornadoes have been described as “pillars of twisting air” that can travel at around 200 miles per hour.
($600) August 22 is a great day to take this purring pet to the vet
Answer: What is cat? It’s National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day
($600) Moving this is doing everything possible to make something happen.
Answer: What is heaven and earth? When you make an extraordinary effort to make something happen, you are said to be moving heaven and earth.
($800) This is another name for Italian ice cream.
Answer: What is gelato? Gelato is creamier and denser ice cream. It uses more milk, less butterfat, and less air than ice cream.
($800) She is the Good Witch that helps Dorothy
Answer: Who is Glinda? She represents the mother archetype
($800) If you visit the Smoky Mountains, you can stay in this picturesque little town on the Tennessee side of the mountains.
Answer: What is Gatlinburg? If you don’t want to hike the nature trails, you can take the loop drive around Cades Cove and view the scenery from your car
($800) These large ice pellets can rattle you and your pets
Answer: What is hail? In early summer, warm temperatures cause instability, while the upper atmosphere is cold enough to produce hail. Hail can fall at close to 100 miles per hour.
($800) On August 22, we celebrate these difficult-to-say, alliterative sayings, such as “She sells seashells by the seashore.”
Answer: What is tongue twister? It’s International Tongue Twister Day
($800) On-the-job training can feel like this by fire.
Answer: What is baptism (or trial)? Baptism by fire means “to go through some ordeal without adequate preparation.” The phrase was taken from Matthew 3:11: “As they marched onto the battlefield, you could see all of the uniformed boys become men as they experienced baptism by fire.”
($1,000) Ice cream originated in this country.
Answer: What is China? It was invented in the seventh century.
($1,000) Dorothy sets out to find the Wizard of Oz, who is also referred to as this man
Answer: What is the man behind the curtain? MGM originally had W.C. Fields in mind for the part.
($1,000) These barrier Islands are off the coast of North Carolina.
Answer: What are the Outer Banks (or OBX)? Also known as OBX, you’ll find 100 miles of seashore, coastal villages, parks, and wildlife refuges—the perfect prescription for relaxation.
($1,000) This causes the calm before a storm.
Answer: What is (partial) vacuum? When warm surface air pulls cold air from the higher atmosphere, it creates a partial vacuum, which creates the calm before the storm.
($1,000) August 7 is the day we honor these mostly decommissioned structures along the seacoasts
Answer: What are lighthouses? It’s National Lighthouse Day. The first lighthouse was built in Egypt in the third century BC and was one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. The oldest lighthouse still in use was built in the second century BC in Spain.
($1,000) You’ll have more energy if you get a second one of these
Answer: What is wind? It’s a renewed energy, often associated with an endurance task. For example, marathon runners can get a second wind, or college students pulling all-nighters before exams can get a second wind.