Musical Moods
This is another term for church songs.
What are hymns?
Hymns are religious songs sung during worship. The word hymn comes from the Greek word hymnos, meaning “a song of praise.”
One of the world’s favorite flavors of ice cream, its source is a bean pod.
What is vanilla?
Vanilla bean pods come from the vanilla orchid, a vine native to Mexico and Central and South America.
This American city is known for being windy in more ways than one.
What is Chicago? While Chicago gets its nickname for its political “wind,” Antarctica is one of the meteorologically windiest places in the world. Antarctic winds consistently exceed 100 miles per hour (160 kph) each winter.
The United States and Canada celebrate this on the third Sunday in June.
What is Father’s Day?
The holiday originated in the United States, and the first Father’s Day ever to be celebrated was June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington.
In 1994, scientists witnessed the Shoemaker-Levy 9, one of these celestial objects, impact Jupiter.
What is a comet?
This was the first time scientific technology allowed astronomers to predict a planetary impact.
A patriotic tune on both sides of the Atlantic, the English version is “God Save the King/Queen,” and its American counterpart is this.
What is “My Country ’Tis of Thee”?
It’s no accident that the songs share the same melody. American colonists deliberately chose the melody of “God Save the King/Queen,” the British national anthem, and added new lyrics as a way of trolling the Crown.
This is the word for ice cream in Italian.
What is gelato?
Gelato’s fat content is lower than ice cream’s because it contains less cream and more milk. It is softer with fewer ice crystals and is generally served at a higher temperature than ice cream.
While snowstorms blanket the United States and Europe, in the Middle East they have these storms, which also reduce visibility to next to nothing.
What are dust storms?
They’re also known as dust devils. They sound and feel like hailstorms, and they can ground airplanes.
This day, usually June 20 or 21, marks the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere
What is the summer solstice?
It is the longest day of the year.
This famous physicist advanced science throughout the 1970s, with theories about black holes and a new understanding of the big bang theory.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
Famous for his contributions to the big bang theory, Hawking also cameoed in the television series The Big Bang Theory.
This is the term for performers singing without instrumentation.
What is a cappella?
Cappella means “chapel” or “choir”; a cappella means “in a church or in a choir.” Gregorian chants are performed without instrumentation.
This fruit flavor makes up one-third of Neapolitan ice cream.
What is strawberry?
We can thank Italian immigrants from the 19th century for introducing the U.S. to this tri-flavored treat from Naples.
This first weather-measuring gadget is still in use today.
What is a rain gauge?
It dates to 500 BC, when the ancient Greeks used it.
On the tragic date of June 5, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot this public figure
Who is Robert Kennedy?
The senator was giving a speech at the Ambassador Hotel in California.
The pocket version of this number-crunching device became popular, and mass marketed during the 1970s.
What is a calculator?
The rise in pocket calculators helped pave the way for computers by advancing circuit development.
Often sung at funerals, this is the term for a mournful song of grief
What is dirge?
Dirges are traditionally somber, minor-key tunes. New Orleans breaks with traditional funeral events and holds jazz processions— one from the funeral to the burial and one leading away from the cemetery. The first procession plays more traditional dirges, and the final procession features upbeat music.
The inventor of Good Humor Bars also invented these.
What are ice cream trucks?
Harry Burt of Youngstown, Ohio, introduced both inventions to the world in the 1920s.
Move over, Florida; the sunniest place in the world is in this U.S. state.
What is Arizona?
It averages 11 hours of sunlight per day.
Just as sweet by any other name, June’s birth flower is called this.
What is the rose?
It symbolizes love. Louisa May Alcott wrote, “Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
In the 1980s, meteorologists began to use this weather technology, based on the 19th-century work by Christian Andreas Doppler.
What is Doppler radar?
The technology uses energy pulses and helps predict storm movement and weather patterns.
“Greensleeves” shares a melody with this Christmas carol.
What is “What Child Is This”?
Both songs evoke deep emotions. “Greensleeves” is an old folk song dating to the 16th century, most likely originating in England.
This is the two-word synonym for ice cream headaches.
What is brain freeze?
You can eat your ice cream slower to avoid these headaches, or you can try this scientifically proven method: Prepare your palate by drinking something warm before every few bites of ice cream
Before we had meteorologists, some people relied on this creature to tell the temperature.
What is a cricket?
Crickets chirp faster when it’s hot. Dolbear’s law is a formula that calculates the temperature based on the number of chirps per minute.
The tune “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over” comes from this Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical.
What is Carousel?
The musical opened on Broadway in 1945 and was made into a movie in 1956.
In 1997, Pathfinder landed here in an event sometimes called the “Big Bounce.”
What is Mars?
The Pathfinder probe set a precedent for other Mars rovers that would be launched in the early 2000s.