Ice Cream
This name for ice cream desserts made from vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream is derived from the city where they originated.
What is Neapolitan?
This Mexican border town is popular with San Diego locals and visitors.
What is Tijuana?
This common writing instrument used by children is covered in wood.
What is a pencil?
Meaning of et cetera, or etc.
What is and so on?
In Leo Tolstoy’s tragic masterpiece, which title character famously throws herself under a railway freight car?
Who is Anna Karenina?
Everywhere you look, you will find these sales in August.
What are back-to-school sales?
This is the most common street name in the United States.
What is Second?
During Prohibition, ice cream shops replaced these establishments.
What are saloons?
These inexpensive accommodations are popular with students and predate Airbnb.
What are hostels?
This large wooden boat in the Bible was built to withstand 40 days and nights of a rainstorm.
What is Noah's ark?
Shortened version of the word for a former student who graduated from a school, college, or university
What is alum?
What southern belle is known for her resilient declaration, "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again"?
Who is Scarlett O'Hara?
On August 6, 1762, this lunchtime favorite was created by an earl.
What is a sandwich?
The ice-cream cone was popularized during this century, but it was invented in 1896 by an Italian immigrant.
What is the 20th?
The world’s busiest airport is in this city.
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
This Swedish company that sells moderately priced home furnishings is one of the largest global consumers of wood.
What is IKEA?
Meaning of “Et tu, Brute?”
What is and you, Brutus?
Which witty, independent protagonist famously rejects Mr. Darcy at first in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
Who is Elizabeth Bennet?
If you visit Coney Island in August, take a break to eat one of these.
What is a hot dog?
This modern president declared National Ice Cream Day on the third Sunday in July.
Who is President Ronald Reagan?
You might be forbidden from entering this popular attraction in Beijing.
What is The Forbidden City?
Before modern paper was made from wood pulp, it was made from cotton, hemp, and this fabric.
What is linen?
Meaning of quid pro quo
What is this for that?
Which mysterious, beautiful resident of Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights haunts her former lover Heathcliff as a ghost in Emily Brontë's novel?
Who is Catherine Earnshaw?
On August 22, AD 565, the first alleged sighting of this monster took place in Scotland.
What is the Loch Ness Monster?
This is how ice cream was prepared to travel into space with the Apollo astronauts.
What is freeze-drying?
After a day of sightseeing and shopping in London, plan a late afternoon trip to the Ritz, the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, the Savoy, or other fine hotels for this traditional treat.
What is afternoon tea?
This light wood is commonly used in rafts and boats.
What is balsa?
Latin for “who benefits,” often used in a political context when something unpopular becomes a law or regulation
What is cui bono?
Which tragic heroine from Gustave Flaubert’s novel poisons herself with arsenic after drowning in overwhelming romantic and financial debt?
Who is Madame Bovary?
This flower is one of August’s two official birth flowers, along with the poppy.
What is the gladiola?
People in this Scandinavian country eat the most ice cream per capita.
What is Norway?
The Maasai Mara National Reserve is the top destination in this country.
What is Kenya?
This dwarf willow tree is the smallest in the world.
What is Arctic willow?
Meaning of non sequitur
What is it does not follow?
Who is the clever storyteller and queen who saves her own life over one thousand and one nights?
Who is Scheherazade?
In the Old English calendar, Weod Monath (WEE-ohd MOHN-ahth) was the name for August, and it translates into this.
What is weed month?