Summer Facts
National Ice Cream Month is celebrated in this summer month.
What is July?
In the US, it is the best selling BBQ meat throughout the summer
What are Hot Dogs?
The year was the beach ball invented
What is 1938?
This is the year ice pops were invented.
What is 1905?
The inventor, Frank Epperson, was 11 years old. He mixed water and sweetened soda powder, dunked a wooden stirrer in, and left the mixture out in the cold overnight. He called the result an “Epsicle.”
A summertime smell is said to elicit happy memories in humans
What is the smell of freshly cut grass?
This summer fruit consists of over 90 percent water.
What is watermelon?
The 2 vegetables that experience higher sales in August than during all the other months of the year in the US.
What is corn and squash?
It is the location of the longest continuous beach in America (City, State)
What is Long Beach, WA?
It’s 28 miles long!
This ice cream is made with no milk in it.
What is Sorbet?
This is the traditional birthstone for August
What is Peridot?
It is the longest day of the year.
What is Summer Solstice?
The word “solstice” comes from the Latin “solstitium” or sun-stopping.
This is the most traditional way to make pink lemonade
What is adding a few drops of beet juice to regular lemonade?
This beach sport became official in 1986
What is Beach volleyball?
These were invented at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri by concessions vendors as a way for people to eat ice cream.
What are waffle cones?
Abe Doumar, a traveling salesman, encouraged an ice cream vendor to serve their ice cream on rolled waffles made by another nearby vendor when they ran out of paper dishes.
The name of the summer game ‘Frisbee’ is said to have originated from this type of company.
What is from a bakery?
The name of a bakery is the Frisbee Pie Bakery. The pie tin was used as a frisbee after you ate the pie.
This holiday in the United States is often regarded as ending of the summer season.
What is Labor Day?
The three fresh fruits outsell all other fruits during the summer in America
What is watermelon, tomatoes and peaches?
SPF (in sunscreen) stands for this
What is sun protection factor?
The number of gallons of whole milk to make one gallon of ice cream
What is 3 gallons?
This tower grows in the heat of summer
What is the Eiffel tower?
This popular location in Southern England is where 35,000 people gather to see the summer solstice.
What is Stonehenge?
Stonehenge is at least 5,000 old!
This summer fruit is actually a member of the rose family. Each one contains approximately 200 seeds.
What are strawberries?
This is the vitamin can you get from direct sunlight.
What is Vitamin D?
This ice cream headache happens because the nerve endings on the roof of your mouth are not used to being cold, and they send a message to your brain signaling a loss of body heat.
What is "Brain Freeze"?
This game was once featured at the Olympics.
What is Tug-of-war?
Tug-of-war was part of the Olympics from 1900 to 1920.