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You’ll trade your bagels for freshly baked giant croissants when you visit this country.
Answer: What is France? Visitors delight in the wide variety of French pastries: gougères, bite-sized pastry puffs filled with cheese, eclairs, and many more.
These sat on top of TVs to get reception from the stations.
Answer: What are antennas? They were also called rabbit ears, and reception could be spotty during storms.
A graham cracker or plain piecrust with a filling of cream cheese and sour cream are the basic ingredients for this dessert.
Answer: What is cheesecake? You won’t find many graham cracker crusts in New York City. The cheesecake there is much heavier than in other parts of the country.
Featuring upbeat music with relatable lyrics, this ’60s musical group is synonymous with surfing, sun, and summer fun.
Answer: Who are the Beach Boys? Their first album, Surfin’ Safari, cemented their association with surfing culture.
This 1964 tune, titled “Fly Me to [this place],” was released by Frank Sinatra and Count Basie.
Answer: What is the moon? In 1954, Felicia Sanders performed it in cabarets under the title “In Other Words.”
Pack your bags for Peru to visit this place, the ruins of the Inca Empire.
Answer: What is Machu Picchu? High in the Andes Mountains, it is believed that this agricultural civilization housed between 300 and 1,000 people 600 years ago.
Metal ice trays had these on top.
Answer: What is a lever? You pulled the lever to remove the ice from the tray.
Strawberries piled high with a generous dollop of whipped cream, served on this type of cake, make a favorite summer dessert.
Answer: What is shortcake? It’s a crumbly cake, more on the order of a scone or a biscuit.
To do this is to flip through TV channels with a remote.
Answer: What is to channel surf? Before the remote control, there were typically three or four channels. Viewers had to get up, go to the TV, and manually change channels, which inhibited the urge to surf.
This 1960 Paul Anka hit is about adolescent infatuation.
Answer: What is “Puppy Love”? “Puppy Love” begins, “And they call it puppy love; Oh, I guess they’ll never know.”
Stonehenge is located in this country.
Answer: What is England? This group of massive ancient stones, known as a megalith, is arranged in a circle. It likely served as a ceremonial, ritual, and astronomical site for the ancient people who constructed it.
To make a copy of a handwritten or typed document, you slipped this between the sheets of paper.
Answer: What is carbon paper? It was black and flimsy, and it transferred more carbon to your hands than it did to the copy.
This Italian dessert features a hard shell filled with ricotta cheese and flavorings.
Answer: What are cannoli? Fillings can range from chocolate chips to orange flavoring and anything in between.
This is the Beach Boys’ only album with surfer in the title.
Answer: What is Surfer Girl? It was not only an album but also the title of a song
Roy Orbison’s breakthrough came in 1960 with his hit about “only” these people.
Answer: What is “Only the Lonely”? “Only the Lonely” was Orbison’s first No. 1 hit
In Verona, Italy, visitors gather at a medieval house linked by legend to this Shakespearean heroine, leaving notes near the balcony and wall that now bear her name.
Answer: Who is Juliet? If you post a note to Juliet at Verona’s Casa di Giulietta, volunteers will reply to you in her name.
Cameras didn’t have built-in flash capability; instead, you had to buy these if you needed more than room light.
Answer: What are flash bulbs? They were single-use items. At that time, photography was not a thrifty hobby. Film and flash bulbs were consumables, and the most expensive part of the equation was developing the film. Today, it’s all provided with smartphones.
This classic layered Southern dessert is made with bananas, vanilla pudding, whipped cream, and vanilla wafers.
Answer: What is banana pudding? Some restaurants mix it all together except for the whipped cream, but you want to layer it if you’re serving it for company.
The first account of surfing took place in these islands.
Answer: What is Hawaii? It was reported in 1778 by Captain James Cook.
Dean Martin originally performed the 1954 tune that begins, “When marimba rhythms start to play, dance with me...”
Answer: What is “Sway”? The song has been featured in countless films since its release, including 2007’s No Reservations, and popular band Pink Martini performs it at most of their concerts.
In the ancient abandoned city of Petra in this country, you will find buildings carved exquisitely into rose-colored sandstone.
Answer: What is Jordan? The most breathtaking edifice is the Treasury (Al-Khazneh), and nearby is the massive Petra Amphitheater. Visiting the site requires hiking on steep terrain. For the fit, this is a site not to be missed.
Before the 1980s, these one-way radio devices were primarily used by doctors.
Answer: What are pagers? Monthly rental in the 1950s was around $120.
This is the Italian version of a snow cone.
Answer: What is Italian ice? Italian ice carts replace roasted chestnut carts on the streets of major cities and at outdoor events in the summer. The creation process is similar to making sorbet
This term describes a wave going over a surfer.
Answer: What is barreling? The surfer rides a wave until the wave forms a barrel over and around them. The surfer cannot move the board left or right, only forward. This is an advanced maneuver.
This 1967 hit by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles begins, “Now if there’s a smile on my face, it’s only there tryin’ to fool the public.”
Answer: What is “Tears of a Clown”? Another Robinson hit with the Miracles is “Ooo Baby Baby.”