Fire and Ice
This is the temperature in Fahrenheit at which water turns to ice.
What is 32 degrees F?
The typical freezer is set at zero to five degrees, and it takes three to four hours to make standard ice cubes.
These little powerhouses of nutrients look like miniature cabbages.
What are brussels sprouts?
Around an ounce of these veggies provides five grams of protein and five grams of fiber. They can grow all winter in moderate climates.
Add this part of the egg to cornstarch to make a mask to tighten facial pores.
What is white?
Whisking one egg white with some cornstarch forms the paste people use for this cosmetic trick.
If the sun rises in the east in the northern hemisphere, it rises in this direction in the southern hemisphere.
What is east?
The sun rises in the east everywhere on Earth.
This addictive habit was once portrayed as being cool in ads, commercials, TV shows, and movies.
What is cigarette smoking?
Watch almost any movie from the 1950s and you’ll see characters smoking.
This determines the color of a flame.
What is temperature or materials being burned? Sodium burns yellow, calcium burns red, and potassium burns violet. Additionally, the flames with the hottest temperatures burn a white-blue color.
These red root vegetables are often found in smoothie mixes or cooked and added to salads.
What are beets?
Nineteenth-century women in England rinsed their hair in beet juice to give it a red sheen.
You can substitute this guacamole ingredient for butter in recipes.
What is avocado?
The avocado should be ripe and creamy. To speed up the ripening process, place it near an apple.
You won’t find polar bears at the South Pole, but you will find these adorable little creatures.
What are penguins?
There are seven species of penguin concentrated in Antarctica. One species will occasionally venture to the Galapagos archipelago near the equator to look for fish.
During this decade, women wore flapper dresses.
What are the 1920s?
It was the first time women’s dresses sported shorter hemlines, sometimes above the knee.
Dry ice is made of this element.
What is carbon dioxide, or CO2?
When it melts, it turns to gas, not liquid.
This vegetable is full of iron, and its tender leaves are often found in salads.
What is spinach?
During the Great Depression, spinach consumption rose 33 percent.
DIY toothpaste contains this white, powdery substance used in baking and as a cleaning agent.
What is baking soda?
You can flavor it with essential oils such as peppermint or clove and add liquid stevia for sweetness.
This is the country with the largest landmass located completely in the southern hemisphere.
What is Australia?
The country with the largest southern hemisphere population is South Africa. Brazil, while larger than Australia, is partially located in the northern hemisphere.
In the 1960s, Clairol introduced these to curl girls’ hair.
What are electric rollers?
Those with extra-long hair used orange juice or soda cans
This Nordic country is known as “the land of fire and ice.”
What is Iceland?
The fire part of the nickname comes from the more than 100 active volcanoes in Iceland.
This is a white carrot look-alike.
What is a parsnip?
They’re sweeter when harvested after the first frost.
This citrus fruit will make light work of cleaning a microwave by softening dried food and grease.
What is lemon?
Add lemon slices to a bowl of water and microwave on high until the water boils. Leave the lemon water in the microwave until the steam is gone. Then clean as you normally would.
The southern hemisphere has most of this navigable area, as opposed to the northern hemisphere, which has only 10 percent.
What is water?
Around 90 percent of the ocean and waterways are located south of the equator, and around 90 percent of the world’s landmass is in the northern hemisphere.
In the 1960s, Dippity-Do was used on this part of the body.
What is hair?
It was a setting gel, and a newer formulation is available today.
In an ice crystal, the water molecules are arranged in layers that are this shape.
What is hexagonal?
Glacier ice is made of ice crystals that are packed tightly together.
Hardy varieties of scallions, also known by this common name, can survive freezing weather.
What are green onions?
The entire plant is edible—the green sprouts as well as the bulbous root.
Freshen your breath after eating garlic by chewing on one of these two fresh herbs.
What is mint or parsley?
Green tea and cinnamon tea also work to remove the garlic smell.
When it’s the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, it’s this equinox in the southern hemisphere.
What is autumnal or fall?
The other name for the spring equinox is the vernal equinox.
Charles Yeager broke the sound barrier during this decade.
What are the 1940s?
In 1947, he broke Mach 1 at 40,000 feet.