Lotions & Potions
Add this bee product and lemon juice to tea as a common cough suppressant.
What is honey? You can also take a teaspoon of honey without adding it to tea.
Invented in 1962, this gadget provided a new way to play music and went on to replace the traditional vinyl records of the day.
What is the cassette tape? Cassette tapes became popular due to their portability and the fact that anyone could record audio on them.
After a slow start in the early 1960s, this female trio of Motown singers sat atop the Billboard charts for years. Diana Ross was among them.
Who are the Supremes? They were among the most popular performers during the 1960s. From 1967–1970, they were known as Diana Ross and the Supremes, and in 1970, Ross went solo.
Your first bicycle after a tricycle might have had these to aid you in maintaining your balance.
What are training wheels? Today, children as young as two can skip tricycles and training wheels and start riding on balance bikes. These bikes are smaller, with wide wheels, and the bikes are so close to the ground that riders can start by scooting with their feet.
Macaroni resembles this body part.
What is elbow? Kraft Dinner, which is mac and cheese, is Canada’s most popular grocery item.
This is the number of leaves on a typical shamrock.
What is three? The record number of leaves on a clover is 56.
This houseplant can calm minor burns. It is often used on sunburn.
What is aloe? Cut one of its leaves and split it open. Then apply the gel to the burn. Aloe has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.
In 1966, radar was used to measure the thickness of these “caps” near Greenland.
What are polar ice caps? The measurements were taken via aircraft, and the method proved effective to monitor the amount of polar ice remaining.
In 1981, she became the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor? Justice O’Connor served nearly 25 years and was known for her practical and pragmatic approach.
This is the term for a bicycle built for more than one person.
What is a tandem bike? The front rider is considered the captain and controls where the bike goes, and the rear rider is the stoker. Sometimes these bikes even have more than two seats.
This layered pasta dish is often made in a rectangular pan with large, flat pasta strips, tomato sauce, meat, and cheese.
What is lasagna? The wide, flat pasta is one of the oldest pasta types. Sometimes lasagna is topped with béchamel sauce as well.
A Rubik’s Cube has this number of sides.
What is six? The official world record for solving the Rubik’s Cube is 3.47 seconds.
This essential oil comes from a spring and summer flower and helps induce sleep.
What is lavender? It relieves anxiety and works as a sedative.
This is the surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant on a human.
Who is Christiaan Barnard? The 1967 transplant was performed on a 53-year-old South African man and helped pioneer the field of cardiac medicine.
This journalist wrote an exposé on Playboy bunnies in the ’60s. She was the youthful face of the Women’s Liberation Movement and a pioneer in the feminist movement.
Who is Gloria Steinem? Her exposé for Show magazine brought her recognition on the national stage. In 2017, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
This is a cycle with only one wheel.
What is a unicycle? There are around one million unicyclists in the United States.
Name one of America’s three favorite pasta types.
What is spaghetti, penne, or rotini? This is according to a 2013 Barilla World Pasta Day survey.
Although necessary for plant life, the element CO2, known by this name, has been attributed as the leading cause for climate change.
What is carbon dioxide? Most animals inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.
This over-the-counter steroidal cream helps with skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, and rashes.
What is hydrocortisone (or cortisone)? It can also be used on insect bites, stings, poison ivy, and poison oak.
Invented in 1960, this technology produces a very narrow beam of light that is useful in many technologies and instruments.
What is laser? Laser stands for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.” Believe it or not, the first laser used a synthetic ruby!
She was the first female prime minister of Israel.
Who is Golda Meir? She was the fourth prime minister of Israel. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, she immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before moving to Israel.
When riding on rough terrain, cyclists ride this type of bike.
What is a mountain bike? The road bike is built for speed on streets. The mountain bike is rugged and made for uneven, off-road terrain, including gravel, snow, dirt, and mud.
Pasta was first eaten in this country.
What is China? Legend states that Marco Polo introduced pasta to Italy in the 12th century; however, records show pasta was made in China in 500 BC.
This is the term for the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
What is pi? When written as a decimal, the number never ends.
This pink lotion is used on insect bites and stings.
What is calamine? Other uses include applying it to chicken pox, shingles, and poisonous plant rashes.
In 1969, this scientific process to conceive a child was first achieved by medical researchers.
What is IVF (in-vitro fertilization)? In 1978, nearly a decade later, Louise Brown became the first baby born who had been conceived through IVF.
She is remembered as one of the best jazz vocalists of all time and as an actress who appeared with Duke Ellington in the film Symphony in Black.
Who is Billie Holiday? She began her performing career in Harlem when she was 18 years old.
In 1963, Schwinn introduced a bicycle with this elongated seat.
What is a banana seat? The bicycle was the Schwinn Sting-Ray.
This founding father is said to have brought pasta to America.
Who is Thomas Jefferson? He brought it to America in 1798.
This is the only number that cannot be written in Roman numerals.
What is zero? Instead, the Latin word nulla is used for zero.
This flowering shrub native to eastern North America can be used as a facial astringent.
What is witch hazel? Astringents tighten facial skin.
Richard Feynman, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, and Julian Schwinger won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for their work in this field.
What is quantum electrodynamics (QED)? It was the first successful quantum field theory.
She is an East German-born figure skater who went on to become a two-time Olympic gold medalist after participating in the Olympic games in Sarajevo and Calgary.
Who is Katarina Witt (pronounced Vitt)? Through her entrepreneurial endeavors and broadcasting, she is still involved in the sports world. She is also a founding member of Laureus Sport for Good, an organization that supports children in crisis areas through sports.
In 1901, these pants were the proper attire for bicycle riding.
What are knickerbockers (or bloomers)? Men and women alike wore knickerbockers.
In Italy, this type of wheat is used to make commercially sold pasta.
What is durum or semolina? Durum wheat is hard wheat. Semolina is ground durum wheat.
H2O2 stands for this element.
What is hydrogen peroxide? It differs from water by only one molecule. It has one extra molecule of oxygen.