PRESERVING FOODS
They are sweet or sour and made from cucumbers.
What are pickles?
Everyone knew this ship was unsinkable -- until it sink on its maiden voyage.
What is the RMS Titanic?
This was a place where people could get a free meal during hard times.
What is a soup kitchen?
This is skiing on flat terrain and gentle slopes.
What is cross country skiing?
This is short for men’s formal evening wear starting with T
What is tux?
You have to call this person if you lose the key to your home.
What is a locksmith?
This brand of jars is most readily associated with home canning.
What is ball? The ball Brothers started making their jars for home canning in 1884.
The pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts on this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
The voyage was financed by business people in Holland in exchange for seven years worth of goods that would be shipped back to them.
This US president was in office during most of the Great Depression.
Who is president Franklin Delano Roosevelt or FDR?
The depression began while Herbert Hoover was in office.
If you come up too fast from this, you can get decompression illness, or what’s commonly called "the bends".
What is scuba diving?
It is not only painful to ascend too quickly, but it can be fatal to rapid of an ascent causes nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream, resulting in many deleterious effects.
There's an expression that calls someone "crazy like" one of these animals.
What is fox?
This is the southernmost city in the Florida Keys.
What is Key West?
This is the popular term for preserving foods in glass jars.
What is canning?
In 1941 the American battleship USS Arizona was sunk here.
Where is Pearl Harbor or Hawaii?
Some of the survivors' ashes have been buried in urns beneath the ship's gun turrets.
It is the infamous term for the droughts in the Midwest and southern Great Plains.
What is dust bowl?
The droughts began in 1930 and high winds whipped up the massive dust storms beginning in 1931 devastating farmers.
This can be done tandem or freefall.
What is skydiving or parachuting?
This is a vessel for carrying water, ending with a G
What is jug?
Mayors sometimes honor distinguished visitors with this key.
What is the key to the city?
If you have room, this is the easiest one-step method for preserving berries.
What is freezing them?
While Captain William Bligh slept aboard this ship in 1789. Some of his crew conducted a mutiny.
What is the HMS Bounty?
After an extended stay on Tahiti half the crew captured the rest of the crew and set them a drift on a small boat with meager supplies. When the boat finally reached Timor the crew was a little more than skin and bones. The British Royal Navy finally caught the mutineers.
Because of the crop failures during the great depression, farmers began to migrate to this place.
What is California?
It is estimated 400,000 migrant settled in California.
If you do this to an extreme, you’ll want a Sherpa or other guide to lead the way.
What is mountain climbing?
A Sherpa is a member of an ethnic group of Tibetan ancestry native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal and the Himalayas. One of the best known Sherpa is Tenzing Norgay. In 1953, he and Edmund Hillary became the first people known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
This is the opposite of sorrow or sadness beginning with a J
What is joy?
This key fits every door in a hotel or other building.
What is master key?
This ancient method of food preservation uses salt to draw moisture out of meat or fish.
What is salting?
Old Ironsides is the nickname for this American warship built in 1797.
What is the USS Constitution?
It is one of the world's oldest warships.
These people lived in shantytowns called Hoovervilles.
Who are homeless people?
The name comes from Herbert Hoover, president when the Great Depression started.
You’ll need to know these terms to actively participate in this type of boating: mast, jib, and boom.
What is sailing?
The jib is a small sail. The mainsail is the largest sail and is attached to the mast and boom.
This is the conscious mind that deals with reality beginning with an E
What is ego?
Freud said that the id, the ego, and the superego comprised the personality. The id represents the unconscious mind and the superego controls our moral standards.
Every night, the Ceremony of Keys takes place in this London structure that houses the Crown Jewels.
What is the Tower of London?
To preserve low-acid foods, you must use this type of canning.
What is pressure canning?
This German battleship, one of the most feared in WWII, was sunk by the British Navy in 1941.
What is the Bismarck?
On this date, the stock market crashed.
What is October 29, 1929?
If you’re up in the air attached to a parachute above you and a moving speedboat below you, you’re doing this.
What is parasailing?
When combined with Maria, it is Latin for "Hail Mary", a Roman Catholic prayer.
What is Ave?
You'll find the phrase open sesame in the Persian tale of "[this person] and the Forty Thieves"
Who is Ali Baba?
Open sesame opens the door, and Close sesame closes the door. Some say sesame should be pronounced as says me.