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The number of seconds in a minute.
What is 60?
It’s also the number of minutes in an hour. Seconds and minutes are based on the decimal system, but 24 hours in a day comes from the old duodecimal system, which is based on the number 12.
Indefinite article preceding words that begin with vowels.
What is an?
If a word begins with a consonant that sounds like a vowel, it takes an instead of a. For example, you would say, “An hour.”
Caesar salad begins with this lettuce.
What is romaine?
The traditional Caesar dressing recipe calls for an egg yolk, but people who don’t want to eat raw eggs omit it.
This sport is similar to baseball but uses a larger ball and an underhanded pitch.
What is softball?
The field for both is diamond shaped, but the space between bases differs. A high school baseball diamond has 90 feet between bases, and a softball diamond has 60 feet between bases.
Born July 1, 1961, she is Prince Harry’s mother.
Who is Princess Diana?
Diana kept her title of Princess of Wales but lost the title of Her Royal Highness after divorcing Prince Charles. In interviews, Prince Harry often talks about his mother.
The time it takes for Earth to orbit the sun.
What is a year (or 365 days)?
Earth rotates every day but orbits the sun every 365.25 days.
Common phrase: either…
What is or?
The phrase either/or is used when you must make a choice between two possibilities.
Steakhouse salad, with blue cheese dressing, blue cheese crumbles, and bacon, begins with a wedge of this lettuce.
What is iceberg?
These runners focus on endurance over the long haul.
What are marathon runners?
Runners use cross-training to build strength and endurance.
Born July 16, 1911, she was Fred Astaire’s dance partner and leading lady in films.
Who is Ginger Rogers?
Her catchphrase, “Cigarette me, big boy,” is from her 1930 film debut in Young Man of Manhattan.
Thirty days hath these months.
What is September, April, June, and November?
It comes from a 16th-century nursery rhyme.
First-person, plural pronoun.
What is we?
Every good salad starts by washing lettuce and drying it in this kitchen gadget.
What is a spinner?
An alternate method to quickly remove water from fresh lettuce is to place the lettuce in a clean dishtowel, bring all four corners together and twist, and then swing the towel.
This type of rafting involves going through rapids.
What is white-water rafting?
The 1972 film Deliverance features a scene of canoeing through rapids. You can also navigate white water in inner tubes.
Born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940, he is one of two surviving Beatles.
Who is Ringo Starr?
He was very sick as a child with appendicitis, peritonitis, and tuberculosis. He will always be remembered as the drummer, but he sang the lead on “Yellow Submarine” and “With a Little Help from My Friends.”
The number of years in a millennium.
What is 1,000?
Archaic literary or ecclesiastical language for you.
What is ye?
It’s another name for Boston lettuce.
What is butter or bibb?
Boston and bibb are varieties of butter lettuce.
You’ll find the Seven Hills in this European city.
What is Rome?
The ancient city of Rome was built on and around the Seven Hills.
Born July 24, 1936, she wore a hairnet when she played Gladys Ormphby on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.
Who is Ruth Buzzi?
She attended Pasadena Playhouse for the Performing Arts along with Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman
The number of years in an eon.
What is one billion?
The term is more commonly used to define a very long, undefined time.
Another way to say exist.
What is be?
Salads that begin with baby lettuce, spring lettuce, and baby spinach are often served with extra virgin olive oil and this aged, syrupy Italian vinegar.
What is balsamic vinegar?
Dark balsamic vinegar is caramelized; white balsamic vinegar is not caramelized and is less sweet than the dark variety.
Tourists can learn to surf in Waikiki, but to watch the big-wave riders, they
need to go to this shore on Oahu.
What is North Shore?
Born July 26, 1856, this Irish playwright penned Pygmalion, which was later adapted to My Fair Lady.
Who is George Bernard Shaw?
Lerner and Loewe adapted Pygmalion into the musical My Fair Lady, which debuted on Broadway in 1956 and later became a film starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.