BOOKS BY CHARACTERS
Characters in this 1960s novel include Scout Finch, Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra.
What is "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Harper Lee's most famous novel was turned into a film in 1962 starring Gregory Peck.
The first verse of this Beatles tune starts, "Little darling, its been a long, cold, lonely winter".
What is Here Comes the Sun? George Harrison wrote the song, which was on the Abbey Road album, after a visit with Eric Clapton.
What is marmalade? while we associate marmalade with our British friends, the name comes from marmelo, a Portuguese quince paste.
Who is Ginger Rogers? Two rumors persist and are false. No, they were not lovers, though they kissed once. And no, they did not hate each other.
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.
The main character in this silly children's book is Sam-I-Am.
What is Green Eggs and Ham? According to some analysts, this classic is Dr. Seuss' top-selling book
"Third rock from the sun" refers to this planet.
What is Earth? the planets, from closest to farthest from the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
The final episode of the original Star Trek aired during this decade.
What are the 1960s? It aired on NBC on June 3, 1969, as the final installment of a three-part series.
Batman and .......
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.
Randal Patrick McMurphy is the protagonist of this 1962 novel set in a psychiatric hospital.
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? The novel by Ken Kesey was adapted into a film in 1975 starring Jack Nicholson.
This classic by Ernest Hemmingway is set in Paris and Spain.
What is The Sun Also Rises? The novel helped establish Hemingway as a great writer of the 20th Century.
Add this ingredient to flour and water, and your bread dough multiplies by two.
What is Yeast? After you punch down the dough, it loses the extra bulk before you let it rise again. Letting it rise again allows it to reach the desired texture.
Laurel and......
Who is Hardy Their signature hats are bowler hats, and their signature tunes are "The Dance of the Cuckoos," "Ku-Ku," and "The Cuckoo Song."
This is a cycle with only one wheel.
what is a unicycle? There are around one million unicyclists in the United States.
This main character's name is in the title of Judy Blume's book Are You There, God? Its Me,__________
Who is Margaret? Blume's 1970 young adult novel has been praised for tackling real-world issues in a relatable way.
This is the land of the rising sun.
What is Japan? Nippon, which is what the Japanese call Japan, translates to "source of the sun"
The word Paprika comes from this language.
What is Hungarian? The spice originated in what is now Budapest, and it made its way to the West in the 1900s.
Abbot and ......
Who is Costello? Abbott dropped out of school in the fourth grade. He got a lucky break when Costello's straight man failed to appear. Abbott was an emergency replacement, and the duo was born.
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.
Characters in this Toni Morrison novel include the Breedlove family: Pecola, Cholly, and Pauline, as well as Claudia MacTeer.
This is the approximate amount of minutes it takes light to travel from the sun to Earth.
What is eight? The sun is approximately 93 million miles from Earth, and it takes just eight minutes and 20 seconds for light from the sun to reach us.
Parlez-vous francais? means this?
In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus and ......
Who is Penelope? Their names came to stand for faithfulness in marriage, as Penelope fought off suitors for 20 years while Odysseus was away fighting the Trojan War.
In 1963, Schwinn introduced a bicycle with this elongated seat.
What is a banana seat? The bicycle was the Schwinn Sting-Ray