FUN FACTS
The enter key on PC computer keyboards replaced this key on the electric typewriter.
What is return?
When using a manual typewriter, you had to use a handle to return the carriage.
This is the study of the entire universe beyond earth – planets, stars, dark holes, and galaxies.
What is astronomy?
Spain is located on this Peninsula.
What is Iberian?
This boxing champion was born Cassius Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
When he was 12, someone stole his bike, and the police officer advised him to learn how to fight.
A short test.
What is quiz?
Apples dipped in this sweet, melted topping are a fall favorite.
What is caramel?
After dipping, you can sprinkle with nuts and other toppings.
This audio tape format, preceded the cassette format.
What is 8-track?
At sunset, the sky can appear to be this primary color.
What is red?
During sunrise and sunset, the sun‘s light must travel a longer distance, and the blue light rays scatter, allowing red, orange, and yellow colors to be seen more easily.
This is the capital of Spain.
What is Madrid?
It’s the second largest city in the European Union and the cultural capital of Spain.
This innovative auto manufacturer who invented mass production paid his employees around double the going rate.
Who is Henry Ford?
They were nervous and doing this in their boots.
What is quaking?
This orange king of winter squashes is used to make jack-o-lanterns.
What is pumpkin?
By the time October rolls around, you'll see everything pumpkin in the stores pumpkin beer, nuts, muffins, pumpkin spice latte, etc.
The national animal of Scotland is this mythical animal with the body of a horse.
What is unicorn?
This is the pseudoscience of how stars and planets influence our lives.
What is astrology?
Every July, the city of Pamplona holds what is dubbed “the World’s Largest Fiesta”, the Fiesta of San Fermin, also known as the running of these.
What are the bulls?
This two-time Prime Minister of Britain and statesman played a significant role in defeating the Nazis in World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
A prefix indicating "four."
What is quad?
These sprouts make their debut in fall.
What are brussels sprouts?
You might not know Volkswagen used to make this German pork product.
What is sausage?
The company started producing a German pork sausage called currywurst for its employees, but it became so popular that they sold it to the public. In 2021, Volkswagen decided to discontinue the sausages.
This is where astronauts from many nations live and conduct experiments during extended visits to space.
What is the International Space Station or ISS?
This is the only country in Western Europe that is larger than Spain.
What is France?
She won 39 grand slam, tennis titles and humiliated Bobby Riggs in the battle of the sexes, winning the match 6–4, 6–3, 6–3.
Who is Billie Jean King?
90 million people watch the battle of the sexes.
A small game bird.
What is quail?
This squash can be used in place of pasta by the same name.
What is spaghetti?
This is the reason a banana is curved.
What is to reach sunlight?
Bananas grow downward, but they curve upward to get more sun.
Name one of the two October full moons both of which begin with an H.
What is Hunter’s or harvest?
It’s called the harvest moon if it occurs at the beginning of the month and the hunter’s moon, if it occurs at the end of the month.
This classic was written by Spanish author Miguel Cervantes.
What is Don Quixote?
It is considered one of the first modern novels and the first one by Spaniard.
This American jazz singer is considered one of the best jazz vocalists of all time and wrote the autobiography Lady Sings the Blues.
Who is Billie Holiday?
In 1972, Lady Sings the Blues was made into a film starring Diana Ross as Holiday.
Quality over this.
What is quantity?
This is the generic name for a hot alcoholic beverage.
What is hot toddy?
Hot buttered rum is an example of a hot toddy.
This metal is the only one that is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
The sky is the brightest blue at one of these times during the day.
What is twilight or just before sunrise or just after sunset?
It’s called the “blue hour.”
This bustling Mediterranean port city in Catalonia is where a romance language called Catalan is spoken.
What is Barcelona?
Did you know Barcelona rejected plans for the Eiffel Tower, and Paris was the second choice for its location?
This husband-wife team discovered polonium and radium.
Who are the Curies?
When they discovered radium, they had no idea it would have medical applications.
A traitor or collaborator.
What is quisling?
This nut, often harvested in fall, is the star ingredient in pralines and Southern pies.
What is pecan?