HERBS & SPICES
HISTORIC AMERICANS
PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS
WEDDINGS
CLASS FIELD TRIP
100

In the 1600s mustard makers in this French city organized a guild to control the quality of their product

Dijon

100

In the 1840s he opened a photographic portrait studio on Fulton & Broadway in New York City

Mathew Brady

100

He was the first president to preside over 50 states

Eisenhower

100

When a Jewish groom does this, it's traditional for Uncle Mort to joke, "That's the last time he puts his foot down"

break the wine glass

100

You can see a projection of the night sky on the domed ceiling of this kind of place, like the Adler in Chicago

a planetarium

200

This spice is also known as black sugar & sweetroot

licorice

200

Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded this woman as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

Susan B. Anthony

200

It was no act; he was the first president to have been divorced

Reagan

200

In a big fat Ancient Greek wedding, the bride wore this item in red or yellow

a veil

200

A botanical garden has many kinds of flowers, like the American Beauty type of this

rose

300

Also known as Jamaica pepper, it sounds like a hodgepodge of other flavorings

allspice

300

A flag with a red cross on it flies over her Glen Echo, Maryland home, now a National Historic Site

Clara Barton

300

He was the first former Boy Scout to become president, as well as the first Catholic

John F. Kennedy

300

A German bride's right hand is not just for shaking hands in the receiving line but, unlike in the U.S., for receiving this

the wedding ring

300

A class field trip to an aviary means you're going to an enclosure where these are kept

birds

400

This red-hot, pungent powder made from various tropical chiles originated in French Guiana

Cayenne 

400

We tell you no "tails": 19th c. astronomer George Phillips Bond discovered 11 of these celestial bodies

comets

400

This U.S. president was the first president for whom all women were eligible to vote

Warren G. Harding

400

It's the 9-letter term for any member of the wedding party, such as a bridesmaid or best man

an attendant

400

A trip to a bakery could show you how this 5-letter fungus makes bread rise

yeast

500

Plants producing this spice in England came from a crocus bulb smuggled from the Holy Land in the 14th century

saffron

500

Civil War veteran Ira Dutton became Brother Joseph & helped Father Damien care for the lepers on this island

Molokai

500

This New Yorker was the first president born after America declared its independence

Martin Van Buren 

500

Stephanotis isn't an old boyfriend you invited, it's something found in a formal one of these

the bouquet

500

From the Greek for "see through", they're the natural history museum displays of animals in their habitats

dioramas