OAR Facts
This OAR Office runs AirNow.gov (with help from partners).
What is OAQPS (Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards)?
The region most known for leaf-peeping.
What is Region 1?
Someone giving unwanted advice.
Who is a backseat driver?
The group assigned to protect the president proceeds through this door meant for delivery people & other help.
What is Secret Service Entrance?
The city where there is a New Year's Eve ball drop.
What is New York City?
In this year, leaded gasoline was banned from vehicles in the US.
What is 1975?
The setting of Home Alone is found in this region.
What is Region 5? (Illinois)
An unwanted, extra, or unneccessary person or thing.
What/who is a third wheel (or fifth wheel)?
Cabinet department established in 2002 that becomes a bedding item carried by a kid for reassurance.
What is the Department of Homeland Security Blanket?
This reindeer is usually listed fifth.
Who is Comet?
Along with controlling air pollution and radiation exposure, the OAR is also concerned with this 86th element in the periodic table?
What is radon?
The region where the oldest documented turkey trot still takes place every year.
What is Region 2? (New York)
To make a critical decision or difficult choice.
What is being at a crossroads?
An American daisy with a dark center that was a leading U.S. suffragette.
Black-eyed Susan B. Anthony
This holiday means "first fruits" in Swahili.
What is Kwanzaa?
In this year, the second Clean Air Act was established.
What is 1977?
This region is where Elvis Presley recorded Blue Christmas in 1957.
What is Region 9? (California)
To blame or abandon a person for selfish reasons.
What is to throw someone under the bus?
Santa Claus' exclamation to the first president of Vietnam.
Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh
The South American country where panettone and rabanadas are typical Christmas desserts.
What is Brazil?
Besides NVFEL, OAR oversees this other EPA national lab.
What is the National Analytical Radiation Environmental Laboratory (NAREL)?
This region houses the state that grows the most corn.
What is Region 7? (Iowa)
To do something in the wrong order.
What is putting the cart before the horse?
Luxury auto from the Ford Motor Company that also served as Washington's fighting force.
What is the Lincoln Continental Army?
The common method of cooking many Hanukkah dishes.
What is frying?