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This U.S. state is made up entirely of islands and is home to Honolulu.
What is Hawaii?v
In 1903, Mary Anderson patented an invention designed to clear rain and snow from a car’s windshield.
What are windshield wipers?
Unlike a peach, this fuzzy brown fruit has bright green flesh filled with tiny black seeds.
What is a kiwi?
This 1960s sitcom followed a witch named Samantha who tried to live an ordinary suburban life with her mortal husband, Darrin.
What is Bewitched?
A word that means the opposite of another word, such as “hot” and “cold,” is called this.
What is an antonym?
These small books of paper tickets were once commonly given to grocery-store customers, who saved them up and traded them for household items.
What are trading stamps?
This European capital is divided by the Danube River into two historic areas that were once separate cities.
What is Budapest?
Josephine Cochrane developed this household machine after becoming frustrated when servants chipped her fine china while washing it.
What is the dishwasher?
This pastry, whose name means “crescent” in French, gets its flaky layers by repeatedly folding butter into dough.
What is a croissant?
On WKRP in Cincinnati, the characters worked at this type of business.
What is a radio station?
Rearranging the letters in a word to create another word or phrase is called this.
What is an anagram?
Introduced in Canada in the 1960s, this colourful paper money was nicknamed “Monopoly money” by some Canadians because of its different colours
What are Canadian banknotes/bills?
If you visit Dubrovnik, a famous walled city on the Adriatic Sea, you’re visiting this country.
What is Croatia?
In 1948, Swiss engineer George de Mestral noticed burrs sticking to his clothes and his dog’s fur, inspiring this fastening system.
What is Velcro?
Worcestershire sauce traditionally contains this small, salty fish as one of its ingredients.
What are anchovies?
Before becoming a TV star on The Waltons, this character famously narrated the series and ended many episodes with the family saying goodnight.
Who is John-Boy Walton?
“She sells seashells by the seashore” is an example of this tricky type of phrase.
What is a tongue twister?
Before photocopiers became commonplace, offices and schools used this machine, remembered for producing purple-blue copies with a distinctive smell.
What is a mimeograph? (Accept: spirit duplicator)
This African country is home to the ancient city of Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains.
What is Morocco?
In 1956, engineer Christopher Cockerell demonstrated an experimental vehicle that travelled over land and water on a cushion of air.
What is a hovercraft?
This Italian cheese gets its name from the Italian word for “sheep,” the animal whose milk is traditionally used to make it.
What is pecorino?
This 1980s detective series starred Tom Selleck as a private investigator living in Hawaii and driving a red Ferrari.v
What is Magnum, P.I.?
This punctuation mark can indicate possession or replace missing letters in a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
For much of the 20th century, department stores commonly had an employee operate this rather than allowing customers to control it themselves.
What is an elevator?
The island of Sicily is separated from mainland Italy by this narrow body of water.
What is the Strait of Messina?
In 1930, Ruth Wakefield accidentally created this now-famous treat after adding pieces of semi-sweet chocolate to cookie dough, expecting them to melt completely.
What is the chocolate chip cookie?
This small green vegetable is actually the unopened flower bud of a plant in the thistle family.
What is an artichoke?
Before Frasier had his own television series, the character Dr. Frasier Crane was a regular at this famous Boston bar.
What is Cheers?
A word such as “level” or “radar,” which reads the same forward and backward, is called this.
What is a palindrome?
Before modern credit cards, stores sometimes used a hand-operated machine that made a carbon-copy impression of a customer’s card. It was commonly nicknamed this.
What is a knuckle-buster?