Bridges
This is the famous bridge in San Francisco.
Answer: What is Golden Gate? The bridge replaced a ferry service.
This document is required for international travel.
Answer: What is passport? In addition, visas are required by many countries. A passport is a form of identification issued by your country, and a visa is an entry document issued by the country you visit.
Today sugar comes in sealed packages in restaurants, but in the 1950s, it came in this shape and form.
Answer: What is cube or square? It’s sanitary in today’s sealed packages but not in cubes left in a bowl on the table. The polio vaccine was also administered on a sugar cube.
His last words were “Et tu, Brute?”
Answer: Who is Julius Caesar? This was in response to Brutus’ betrayal of Caesar. Brutus was one of Caesar’s assassins.
Pigs are notorious for getting dirty when they roll in this.
Answer: What is mud? Pigs have no sweat glands, and mud is cooling.
You’ll find the Rialto Bridge over the Grand Canal in this Italian city.
Answer: What is Venice? It’s the most famous bridge over the Grand Canal.
This is the U.S. government security agency at airports.
Answer: What is TSA? It stands for Transportation Security Administration. Before 9/11, the airlines were responsible for security
This fruit was used before today’s laxatives.
Answer: What is prune? Prunes contain soluble and nonsoluble fiber.
She really said, “Let them eat brioche.”
Answer: Who is Marie Antoinette? It is usually repeated as “Let them eat cake.” Whatever wheat-based item she said for them to eat led to the French Revolution, and that’s the important fact
If the ball you roll ends up in the gutter, you are doing this.
Answer: What is bowling? If you knock down all the pins in the first roll, you score a strike. If you knock them all down in two rolls, you score a spare.
This bridge in Alaska, nicknamed the bridge to this place, was finally canceled.
Answer: What is nowhere? The Bridge to Nowhere was a $223 million project to link a small town to an airport. Alternate transportation systems are in place.
Nicknamed “the pond,” we cross this ocean to get to Europe from the East Coast of North America.
Answer: What is the Atlantic Ocean? West Coast nonstops take a different route across the North Pole. They are called polar flights.
Today water comes in plastic bottles; in the 1950s it came from here.
Answer: What is the tap? People were not as concerned about water purity in the 1950s
This British ocean liner was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915.
Answer: What is Lusitania? The sinking of the Lusitania was a crucial event leading up to World War I.
When businesses make bad mistakes, people often say these will roll.
Answer: What are heads? Heads will roll means that people will be disciplined or fired
This Overseas Highway, also known as U.S. Highway 1, traverses the islands in a southeastern state collectively known as this.
Answer: What are the (Florida) Keys? Forty-two bridges connect the Florida mainland to Key West.
When you take a cruise, you will get this document, which lists ports of call, arrival and departure times, etc.
Answer: What is itinerary? All cruise itineraries are subject to change due to weather
This was one of the two favorite pastas of the 1950s.
Answer: What is spaghetti or macaroni?
This “shot heard ’round the world” helped lead to World War I.
Answer: What is the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand (or any part of that answer)? The original “shot heard ’round the world” happened in 1775 in Boston when British troops set off for Concord.
A rolling stone gathers none of this.
Answer: What is moss? The saying is “a rolling stone gathers no moss,” and it means that people who keep moving and don’t settle down will have no attachments.
This bridge in England is part of the code phrase for the plan that comes into effect when Queen Elizabeth dies.
Answer: What is London Bridge? Operation London Bridge is a 10-day plan for the days following the queen’s death. It’s also referred to as “London Bridge is down.”
Unless you are traveling to Chad in Africa, you no longer need this vaccination, since it has been nearly eradicated across the globe.
Answer: What is smallpox? It was officially declared eradicated in 1979.
Outside of Hawaii, it was a real treat to eat this fruit fresh. We got it mostly in cans, either cubed or in slices.
Answer: What is pineapple? Canned pineapple was popular in desserts, in congealed salads, and as snacks. It was everywhere in the 1950s.
“Better dead than red” was a slogan from this era.
Answer: What is Cold War or Soviet era? It was said in opposition to the Communist Party
If a deceased person would be horrified by a survivor’s action, it is said the deceased would do this.
Answer: What is roll over in their grave?