Current Events
Yesterday, President Trump issued a 12-day ultimatum for this large country to enact a ceasefire in its war against Ukraine.
What is Russia?
This is the opposite of heat.
What is cold?
This show aired on NBC from 1984 to 1990 and heavily inspired the video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City." It shares part of its name with a major Floridian city.
What is Miami Vice?
This word starts with H.
Feeling or displaying a need for food.
What is hungry?
This colored, waxy writing utensil is named because of a combination of oil and chalk, and is primarily sold by Crayola.
What are crayons?
Two days ago, a derailment of the "Deutsche Bahn Regional Express" train occurred in this Western European country whose capital is Berlin.
What is Germany?
The Heat are an NBA team based in this southern Floridian city, the second-most populous in Florida after Jacksonville.
What is Miami?
This instructional TV show by Bob Ross aired on PBS from 1983-1994, and featured techniques for landscape oil painting being taught to viewers.
What is The Joy of Painting?
This word starts with H.
To interrupt someone, usually a public speaker, with derisive/aggressive comments or abuse.
What is heckle?
This toy, believed to be the second-oldest continuously used toy in history, is named after a Japanese word and features a string, axle and two disks.
What is a yo-yo?
Two days ago, the US and this economic/political entity agreed to a trade deal. This entity is comprised of 27 countries and is headquartered in Brussels. Its most recent "exit" was the United Kingdom, in 2016.
What is the European Union?
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This heat-related illness is considered the most severe, potentially life-threatening and requires immediate medical attention. It is characterized by an altered mental status and body temperature above 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is a heat stroke?
This sitcom aired on ABC from 1985-1992 and stars the Seaver family, who lives on Long Island, NY. One main character, a psychiatrist named Dr. Jason Seaver, was played by Alan Thicke.
What is Growing Pains?
This word starts with H.
To bring to an abrupt stop.
What is halt?
These plastic construction toys, which originated from Denmark, feature interlocking bricks that can be used to build large structures.
What are Legos?
Within the past week, a new war has erupted over a territorial dispute between Cambodia and this Southeast Asian country whose capital is Bangkok.
What is Thailand?
This national park that straddles the California-Nevada border is regarded as the hottest place in the US, with a temperature of 137 degrees Fahrenheit being recorded in 1917.
What is Death Valley National Park?
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This show, a three-letter acronym that involves extraterrestrial organisms, was aired on NBC from 1986-1990. It stars Max Wright, who played Willie Tanner, the father of a family that interacts with Gordon Shumway, an alien.
What is ALF (Alien Life Form)?
This word starts with H.
Suitable enough to live in.
What is habitable?
This fashion doll has the full name of Barbara Millicent and is built by a company named Mattel.
What is Barbie?
On July 23, India announced it would begin reissuing tourist visas for the first time since 2020 to citizens of this large communist country that borders Mongolia.
What is China?
In physics and chemistry, heat is the flow of energy between two substances due to a difference in temperature. Name the scientific unit that is NOT used to measure heat: Joules, Calories, Degrees.
What is Degrees (this is used for temperature)
This animated science-fiction TV series aired from 1997-1996, mostly on CBS, and features a bunch of turtles who are trained in martial arts and fight crime in New York City.
What is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
This word starts with H.
A regulatory substance that is produced in specialized cells and distributed throughout the bloodstream, with the intent of causing a long-lasting physiological change, such as growth in teenagers.
What is a hormone?
This toy exhibits elastic potential energy when stretched, and is a helical spring that measures at 87 feet in its elongated form.
What is a Slinky?