Potpourri
IHOP stands for this restaurant.
Answer: What is International House of Pancakes? Some say the first IHOP was intentionally located near a Big Boy restaurant to accommodate Big Boy’s overflow
He made the first phone call on March 10, 1876.
Answer: Who is Alexander Graham Bell? He said to his assistant in the next room, “Mr. Watson, come here.”
Green Acres takes place in this fictional town.
Answer: What is Hooterville? The state is undetermined. Hooterville was featured in two TV shows, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, and was mentioned in The Beverly Hillbillies as a town located near where the Clampetts lived before coming to California.
Fairy tale about pigs
Answer: What is “The Three Little Pigs”? The tale is a combination of stories that first appeared in print in the 1840 book The Nursery Rhymes of England.
Ships at sea use this system of dots and dashes to send messages.
Answer: What is Morse code? It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s and is still used today in aviation, amateur radio, and emergency signaling.
Ill-fitting shoes can cause this painful bump.
Answer: What is bunion? The most common bunion is a noticeable bump at the joint where the big toe connects to the foot.
The first skyscraper was built in this city.
Answer: What is Chicago? In 1884, the Home Insurance Building was erected. It stood 10 stories tall and was later expanded to 12 stories before being demolished in 1931.
Perry Mason is set in this city.
Answer: What is Los Angeles? The show is based on the Erle Stanley Gardner novels, and the scenes feature the city’s landmarks and iconic structures.
Extremely low chance of likelihood: when pigs do this
Answer: What is fly? If you were to say, “I’m going to win the Mega Millions lottery,” the reply might be, “Yeah, when pigs fly!”
Before radios, armies often used this loud brass instrument to send commands across battlefields.
Answer: What is a bugle? Different bugle calls signaled actions such as wake‑up, charge, retreat, or lights‑out.
This state has been described as the “Mitten State” because of its shape.
Answer: What is Michigan? The Lower Peninsula looks like a mitten. In 1901, Cyclopedia was the first to refer to Michigan as the “Mitten State.”
The first woman in space was from this country.
Answer: What is the U.S.S.R./Russia? The cosmonaut (as Russian-trained astronauts are called) was Valentina Tereshkova, and she blasted off on June 16, 1963. She spent three days in space and orbited Earth 48 times.
Days of Our Lives is set in this town.
Answer: What is Salem? It’s a Midwestern town, but there are conflicting reports on its state. In one episode, John looks at an itinerary that says Salem, Minnesota, but he could have been traveling to another city named Salem.
A pig’s nose
Answer: What is a snout? Pigs have an excellent sense of smell that helps them find food in the ground.
Ancient civilizations, including the Greeks and Chinese, used this method of sending messages by creating patterns of smoke.
Answer: What are smoke signals? They were often used to warn of danger or announce important events across long distances.
This four-word phrase accompanies the Vulcan salute in Star Trek.
Answer: What is “live long and prosper”? It’s used as a greeting or blessing. The most hardcore fans know that it originates from the Vulcan-language phrase dif-tor heh smusma.
These first two government-sponsored health insurance programs were signed into law on the same day as an amendment to the Social Security Act.
Answer: What are Medicare and Medicaid? They were signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson.
Gunsmoke is set in this town.
Answer: What is Dodge City? It’s a real town in Southwest Kansas, well known in the days of the Wild West.
One-word pig idiom that doubles as the word for pigpen and could be used to describe a hoarder’s environs
Answer: What is pigsty? It’s also used to mean “a dump” or “shambles.
This form of communication uses flags.
Answer: What is semaphore signaling? In 1794, an early system was devised in France by Claude Chappe. Before the telegraph, it was a common means of communication, typically from high towers. Messages could be read from long distances using telescopes.
During World War II, this was the three-letter precursor to the CIA.
Answer: What is OSS? It stands for Office of Strategic Services, the first U.S. independent intelligence agency. It lasted only three years before evolving into the CIA. There was a fierce rivalry between the FBI and the OSS, which ended when the FBI ousted the OSS from South America and claimed the continent under its jurisdiction.
They were reportedly the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Answer: Who are Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? They reached the summit on May 29, 1953.
The Munsters’ home is in this town.
Answer: What is Mockingbird Heights? They lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane. The house was built on the Universal backlot and used for other productions before The Munsters.
A wild pig
Answer: What is a boar? In the United States, it is estimated that boars cause around $2.5 billion in agricultural destruction annually.
In the Middle Ages, this system used trained birds to carry written messages over long distances.
Answer: What is pigeon post? Homing pigeons were used for military communication as late as World War I and could travel over 90 miles per hour.