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Pounds, ounces, tablespoons, and teaspoons are part of the category of weights and this.
What are measures?
Weights and measures are units that quantify volume, length, weight, etc.
Vertical lines run this way.
What is up and down, or from top to bottom?
This antebellum South Carolina city boasts cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages, and Fort Sumter.
What is Charleston?
Nighttime ghost tours draw many tourists to the city.
This term refers to a menu with separately priced items.
What is à la carte?
In the United States, you can order à la carte from most menus. Prix fixe, or all-inclusive meals, from appetizers to dessert, are often found in high-end restaurants.
This groundhog becomes famous each February 2 for predicting the weather.
What is Punxsutawney Phil?
This Olympic symbol is used to light the cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Games.
What is the torch?
In 1964, for the first time in Winter Olympics history, the torch was lit in Olympia, Greece, and was carried via relay to the Games’ location.
We were taught about this graphical representation of food and the number of servings of each group we should have in a day.
What is the food pyramid?
MyPlate has since replaced the food pyramid.
This visual line separates the ocean from the sky.
What is horizon?
The water doesn’t really meet the sky on the horizon; it’s an optical illusion. The beach is a great place to see the horizon unobscured.
This former maximum security prison sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay on a gigantic rock.
What is Alcatraz?
Tours are conducted daily, with ferry service from San Francisco. Alcatraz was first a military prison during the Civil War and operated as a federal prison from 1934 to 1963. Al Capone was its most famous prisoner. Whitey Bulger also served time there.
This term means to beat an ingredient, such as cream, to incorporate air into it.
What is whip?
You can whip cream with a mixer, or you can use a whisk to accomplish the same result with elbow grease and more time.
This major bodily organ gets its own month in February.
What is the heart?
The American Heart Association has designated February as American Heart Month, a time to raise awareness about heart disease, including prevention and treatment.
This specially built community houses athletes during the Olympic Games.
What is the Olympic Village?
Use your glass measuring cup for measuring this type of ingredient.
What is liquid?
Dry ingredients are measured in metal or plastic flat-top measuring cups.
White lines that run across the street at an intersection are known as this.
What is a crosswalk?
The lines indicate pedestrian walkways for crossing the street.
This string of islands off the coast of North Carolina houses the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, with its distinctive, diagonal black-and-white stripes.
What are the Outer Banks?
Orville and Wilbur Wright’s historic flight took off from the Outer Banks, and the majestic Wright Brothers Memorial is perched atop Kill Devil Hill.
Food Network celebrity Alton Brown calls this type of cooking in a gas oven “upside-down grilling.”
What is broiling?
You won’t get a charcoal flavor, but you’ll get the equivalent of a gas-grilled meal.
Fat Tuesday is the culmination of this event.
What is Mardi Gras?
Fat Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday in the Christian faith.
This organization, founded in 1894, oversees the modern Olympic Games.
What is the International Olympic Committee?
Add this to a roux to make a béchamel sauce.
What is milk?
Both are basic French sauces and made with flour and a fat, usually butter. They have been incorporated into American sauces and are the base of gravies, Alfredo, and cheese sauces.
This letter is made up of two diagonal lines that cross in the center.
What is X?
The alphabet comprises many letters that are formed solely of straight lines. Other letters are made of curved lines or a combination of straight and curved.
If spelunking is high on your bucket list, there’s no better place to take a cave tour than the Mammoth Cave in this state.
What is Kentucky?
Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world, with more than 400 miles of mapped passageways.
This is the term for chopping an ingredient into cubes larger than minced cubes.
What is dice?
The cubes vary in size from 1/8 to 1/4 inch.
Chosen because it includes the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, February is when this annual observance is celebrated.
What is Black History Month?
We started observing Black History Month in 1976. It is the outgrowth of Black History Week, established in 1926.
For the first time in Olympic history, the 1956 Games were broadcast over this medium.
What is live television?
An Italian network was the first to make this groundbreaking move.
In sewing lessons, we were taught to measure twice and do this once.
What is cut?
This imaginary line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This city is best place in the Northeast to see Gilded Age mansions.
Where is Newport, Rhode Island?
The most famous mansion is the Vanderbilt Mansion. You can tour the mansions, but some are open only during the summer.
According to Good Housekeeping, to do this is “to cook food in a small amount of fat in a skillet over relatively high heat, stirring often or occasionally.”
What is sauté?
When sautéing a protein, you turn it once or twice. However, when sautéing vegetables, the technique is similar to stir-frying.
If you are born on this numerical day in February, technically your birthday will happen only every four years.
What is February 29?
Leap years occur every four years, and February gains an extra day.
At the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, these two nations marched together and even fielded a unified women’s hockey team.
What are North Korea and South Korea?
The nations flew flags depicting a unified Korea during the Games.
We were taught that when no fire extinguisher was available, we should put out grease fires with this common ingredient.
What is baking soda?
Today, the best way to put out a grease fire is to use a fire blanket because it doesn’t create a mess.
According to some theories, these unseen lines follow Earth’s magnetic patterns and link famous sites such as Stonehenge and the Giza Pyramids.
What are ley lines?
This national park near Jackson, Wyoming, is named for the highest mountain peak within its borders.
What is Grand Teton National Park?
The highest peak of the Teton Range in Wyoming is Grand Teton. Experienced hikers in peak physical condition can navigate the steep inclines of the 7,000-foot climb to the top and back.
A tied bunch of fresh herbs used while cooking is called this.
What is bouquet garni?
They are often used in soups and stews. By tying the stems together, you don’t have to waste time pulling them out individually before serving.
The people who ride the Mardi Gras floats are required by law to wear these.
What are masks?
They are required to remain anonymous, a tradition that started hundreds of years ago. They can wear full face masks or masks that shield only the eyes.
This U.S. figure skater was at the center of a major 1994 Olympic scandal after her rival was attacked by her ex-husband.
Who is Tonya Harding?
Kerrigan recovered from her injury and won silver, while Harding was banned from the sport.