Hawai'i
The Americas
Backyard Games
Odd One Out
The Olympics
In the White House
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This is the name of the traditional Hawaiian dance characterized by fluid movements of the hands, hips, and feet.
What is the hula? The hula is a dance that is steeped in Hawaiian tradition. It is meant to symbolize culture and community and is used to tell stories, express emotions, and connect with the spirit world
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The 13 stripes on the U.S. flag represent these.
What is the original thirteen colonies?
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In this game players try to knock small, colored, glass balls out of a circle with a slightly larger glass ball?
What is Marbles? The slightly larger marble is called the shooter. The game teaches players a little about geometry and can improve fine-motor skills.
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Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Jim Morrison
George Harrison
Who is Jim Morrison? Jim Morrison isn’t a Beatle
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The modern Olympic games originated in this city.
What is Athens, Greece?
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The youngest-elected President is also an accomplished author, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
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This U.S. President was born in Hawai'i.
Who is Barack Obama? Obama served as the 44th president. Among his many accolades, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.
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Venezuela is named after this city.
What is Venice? The stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice, Italy, so he named the region Veneziola, or "Little Venice"
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In this game, two teams use their hands to hit a ball back and forth over a net.
What is Volleyball? The inventor of volleyball, William George Morgan, was friends with the man who invented basketball and wanted to create a game of his own. The original game of volleyball consisted of a soccer ball and a badminton net.
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Violet
Red
Blue
Yellow
What is violet? Violet isn’t a primary color.
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The five Olympic rings represent this.
What is the five inhabited continents of the world? They include Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceana.
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In addition to being President, he was also a licensed bartender. He co-owned a tavern in New Salem, Illinois during the time he lived there from 1831-1837.
Who is Abraham Lincoln? He co-owned and ran a tavern called Barry and Lincoln.
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This famous company, originally named the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, began growing and selling pineapples in the early 1900s.
What is Dole? In 1901, James Dole began growing pineapples on Oahu Island. When business began picking up, an engineer working for the company invented a machine that peeled, cut, and cored up to 100 pineapples per minute, leading to even more success.
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This is the official language of Brazil.
What is Portuguese? After Christopher Columbus "discovered" the New World, Spain and Portugal rushed to colonize the new lands. After a treaty that divided the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal, more than 207 million Brazilians speak Portuguese.
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This is the name of the game that uses two jump ropes turned in an eggbeater fashion while participants jump inside them.
What is Double Dutch? This sport dates to ancient Phoenician, Egyptian, and Chinese ropemakers.
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Fanta
Tango
Coca-Cola
Orangina
What is Coca-Cola? Coca-Cola isn't orange.
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The six colors associated with the Olympics – blue, yellow, black, green, red, and the white background – were chosen for this reason.
What is "because every nation's flag contains at least one of those colors"?
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This founding father had several pet mockingbirds during his time in office. He even had one that would often sit in on meetings.
Who is Thomas Jefferson? Jefferson is thought to be the first U.S. President who had a pet that lived in the White House.
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This canned pork and ham product made by Hormel Foods Corporation became wildly popular in Hawai'i during World War II.
What is SPAM? The canned meat became popular due to its low cost and extended shelf life in 1937 and made its way to Hawaii when Pearl Harbor became a critical U.S. naval base. Today, Hawaii consumes the most SPAM per capita of any state at seven million cans per year
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These islands off the coast of Ecuador are famously connected to Charles Darwin's theory of Evolution by natural selection.
What are the Galápagos Islands?
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This is the name of the game where the players must toss a bean bag at a raised wooden platform with a hole in it.
What is Cornhole? Cincinnati, Ohio, is the cornhole capital of the world. Cornhole has become so popular that there is even an American Cornhole Association. Their events have been featured on ESPN.
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France
Italy
Hungary
Copenhagen
What is Copenhagen? Copenhagen isn’t a country.
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Modern Olympic gold medals are now made of copper and silver. This year was the last year the gold medals were made of actual gold.
What is 1912?
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Before he became president, he was a California governor who began eating Jelly beans 1966 in a successful attempt to stop pipe smoking.
In 1981, Herman Goelitz received official government authorization to develop a Jelly Belly® jelly bean jar with the Presidential Seal on it. These Presidential jars of Jelly Belly® beans were given to heads of state, diplomats, and many other White House guests.
Who is Ronald Reagan? Herman Goelitz Candy Company eventually provided the Reagan White House with jelly beans for all eight years of Reagan's presidency.
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The cuisine that consists of raw fish diced and tossed in sauce as either an appetizer or a main course is called this.
What is Poke? Poke originated in Hawaii when fishermen would cut up whatever reef fish they caught and serve it raw, seasoned with sea salt and seaweed.
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The widest road in the world — Avenida 9 de Julio — in Buenos Aires is named for this.
What is Argentina's Independence Day? This date originates in commemoration of the signing of the Argentine Declaration of Independence, on Tuesday, July 9, 1816, in the house of Francisca Bazán de Laguna. In 1941, the building was declared a National heritage site.
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This is the name of the game that requires players to hit wooden balls with a mallet through hoops embedded in the grass.
What is Croquet? Although croquet has been played since the 1800s, it was not until after World War II that toy makers miniaturized the standard croquet set and marketed it as a backyard children’s game.
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The Mashed Potato
The Swoop
The Twist
The Funky Chicken
What is The Swoop? The Swoop isn’t a 60s dance craze.
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This actor an accomplished Olympic swimmer. He is best known for playing Tarzan from 1932-1948.
Who is Johnny Weissmuller? He portrayed Tarzan in 12 movies. He previously won five gold medals in swimming in the 1920s.
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He is the only president to have served as both President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is William H. Taft?
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Hawaii is one of only two states in America (California being the other) that grows this crop.
What is coffee? It was in 1820 that Brazilian coffee made its way to Hawaii, and due to its altitude, sunlight, rainfall, and land, the crop flourished.
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In 1995, Inter-American Development Bank christened a road in this country "The World's Most Dangerous Road."
What is Bolivia? North Yungas road is known as "Death Road" for all of the reasons you'd guess. Driving up or down this 43-mile switchback is extremely perilous due to fog, landslides, cascades, and cliffs that drop 2,000 feet at every turn.
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In this game, you attempt to roll a colored ball as close as possible to a smaller white ball on the other side of the court.
What is Bocce? The game of bocce dates back to ancient Rome. Today, professional bocce competitions are held worldwide.
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Cornflower
Rose
Dahlia
Peony
What is Cornflower? Cornflower is the only one with a blue shade. The others are pink!
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The official motto of the Olympics is “Citius, Altius, Fortius." “Citius, Altius, Fortius” means this in English.
What is "Faster, Higher, Stronger"?
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Known as one of the most scandalous events in American politics, the "Teapot Dome" involved the bribery of this presidential administration.
What is the Warren G. Harding Administration? From 1921-1923, Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding.