Lotions and Potions
Add this bee product and lemon juice to tea as a common cough suppressant.
What is honey? You can also take a teaspoon of honey without adding it to tea.
Invented in 1962, this gadget provided a new way to play music and went on to replace the traditional vinyl records of the day.
What is the cassette tape? Cassette tapes became popular due to their portability and the fact that anyone could record audio on them.
After a slow start in the early 1960s, this female trio of Motown singers sat atop the Billboard charts for years. Diana Ross was among them.
Who are the Supremes? They were among the most popular performers during the 1960s. From 1967–1970, they were known as Diana Ross and the Supremes, and in 1970, Ross went solo.
Your first bicycle after a tricycle might have had these to aid you in maintaining your balance.
What are training wheels? Today, children as young as two can skip tricycles and training wheels and start riding on balance bikes. These bikes are smaller, with wide wheels, and the bikes are so close to the ground that riders can start by scooting with their feet.
Macaroni resembles this body part.
What is elbow? Kraft Dinner, which is mac and cheese, is Canada’s most popular grocery item.
This houseplant can calm minor burns. It is often used on sunburn.
What is aloe? Cut one of its leaves and split it open. Then apply the gel to the burn. Aloe has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.
In 1966, radar was used to measure the thickness of these “caps” near Greenland.
What are polar ice caps? The measurements were taken via aircraft, and the method proved effective to monitor the amount of polar ice remaining.
She is remembered as one of the best jazz vocalists of all time and as an actress who appeared with Duke Ellington in the film Symphony in Black.
Who is Billie Holiday? She began her performing career in Harlem when she was 18 years old.
This is a cycle with only one wheel.
What is a unicycle? There are around one million unicyclists in the United States.
This layered pasta dish is often made in a rectangular pan with large, flat pasta strips, tomato sauce, meat, and cheese.
What is lasagna? The wide, flat pasta is one of the oldest pasta types. Sometimes lasagna is topped with béchamel sauce as well.
This essential oil comes from a spring and summer flower and helps induce sleep.
What is lavender? It relieves anxiety and works as a sedative.
Invented in 1960, this technology produces a very narrow beam of light that is useful in many technologies and instruments.
What is laser? Laser stands for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.” Believe it or not, the first laser used a synthetic ruby!
This woman earned an iconic status in the civil rights movement after she refused to vacate a seat on a bus in favor of a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks? She was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
This is the term for a bicycle built for more than one person.
What is a tandem bike? The front rider is considered the captain and controls where the bike goes, and the rear rider is the stoker. Sometimes these bikes even have more than two seats.
This type of pasta can be described as small envelopes containing cheese, meat, or vegetables.
What is ravioli? Usually served in broth or with a sauce, they originated as a traditional food in Italian cuisine.
This pink lotion is used on insect bites and stings.
What is calamine? Other uses include applying it to chicken pox, shingles, and poisonous plant rashes.
In 1969, this scientific process to conceive a child was first achieved by medical researchers.
What is IVF (in-vitro fertilization)? In 1978, nearly a decade later, Louise Brown became the first baby born who had been conceived through IVF.
This lady was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart? The mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937 during her around-the-world flight attempt persists to the present day, and is especially alive and well on the Internet.
When riding on rough terrain, cyclists ride this type of bike.
What is a mountain bike? The road bike is built for speed on streets. The mountain bike is rugged and made for uneven, off-road terrain, including gravel, snow, dirt, and mud.
This sauce that is traditionally served with pasta is made from crushed basil leaves, garlic, olive oil, pine nuts and Parmesan cheese.
What is pesto? It originated in Genoa, the capital city of Liguria, Italy.
This flowering shrub native to eastern North America can be used as a facial astringent.
What is witch hazel? Astringents tighten facial skin.
In 1967, the first successful transplant of which vital organ was performed?
What is a heart transplant? The 1967 transplant was performed on a 53-year-old South African man and helped pioneer the field of cardiac medicine.
This woman was was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie? She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
In 1901, these pants were the proper attire for bicycle riding.
What are knickerbockers (or bloomers)? Men and women alike wore knickerbockers.
In Italy, this type of wheat is used to make commercially sold pasta.
What is durum or semolina? Durum wheat is hard wheat. Semolina is ground durum wheat.