Summer USA
This New England state is famous for its rocky coastline, lighthouses, lobster, and Acadia National Park.
What is Maine?
This herb, often paired with tomatoes and mozzarella, is a key ingredient in traditional pesto.
What is basil?
This 1975 Steven Spielberg film made audiences nervous about going into the water and featured a shark named Bruce only during production—not in the finished movie.
What is Jaws?
This European capital sits on the River Seine and is home to the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower.
What is Paris?
This instrument, unlike a thermometer, measures atmospheric pressure and can help predict changes in weather.
What is a barometer?
Opened in 1935, this New York City landmark was once the world's tallest building and remains one of Manhattan's most recognizable skyscrapers.
What is the Empire State Building?
This chilled Spanish soup traditionally combines tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, and bread.
What is gazpacho?
In the 1961 film Blue Hawaii, this famous singer played Chad Gates.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This Canadian province contains both Halifax and the historic town of Lunenburg
What is Nova Scotia?
The Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice occurs when this hemisphere is tilted most directly toward the Sun.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
This American president signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as the nation's third president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Although often associated with summer barbecues, this American side dish gets its name from a Dutch term meaning “cabbage salad.”
What is coleslaw?
This singer's 1966 recording “Summer Wind” became one of the signature songs associated with his career.
Who is Frank Sinatra?
This body of water separates the United Kingdom from the coast of northern France at its narrowest point.
What is the English Channel?
This ancient Greek city, buried by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, was rediscovered centuries later and has provided historians with remarkable evidence about daily Roman life.
What is Pompeii?
In 1969, this NASA mission carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on the first crewed journey to the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
This stone fruit shares its name with a U.S. state and is commonly associated with Georgia.
What is a peach?
This 1960s group recorded “California Dreamin'” and “Monday, Monday,” becoming one of the defining vocal groups of the era.
Who are The Mamas & the Papas?
This Italian city is built on more than 100 small islands connected by bridges and is famous for gondolas.
What is Venice?
On August 6, 1945, during the final year of World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on this Japanese city.
What is Hiroshima?
This American highway, established in 1926, originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica and became famous as the “Main Street of America.”
What is Route 66?
The word for this frozen dessert comes from the Italian term gelato, meaning “frozen,” but traditional versions generally contain less butterfat than American ice cream.
What is gelato?
This 1963 hit by The Beach Boys celebrated the carefree California lifestyle with a song about a fast car and a place where “everybody’s gone surfin’.”
What is “Surfin’ U.S.A.”?
This mountain range forms a natural boundary between much of France and Spain and includes the tiny country of Andorra.
What are the Pyrenees?
Which planet in our solar system has the longest day, taking about 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis?
Venus