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”?
Louisa May Alcott’s Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy share this last name in Little Women.
What is March?
Everywhere you look, you will find these sales in August.
What are back-to-school sales? School now starts in August, not the day after Labor Day, as it did during the mid-20th century.
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 (or bars)?
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?
Laura Ingalls is a young tomboy who grows up on the American frontier in this TV series.
What is Little House on the Prairie?
On August 6, 1762, this lunchtime favorite was created by an earl.
What is the 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?”
Agatha Christie gave us this masterful amateur female detective.
Who is Miss (Jane) Marple?
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”?
She is Charlotte Brontë’s eponymous heroine, whose life is full of trials and tribulations.
Who is Jane Eyre?
On August 22, AD 565, the first alleged sighting of this monster took place in Scotland.
What is the Loch Ness monster? The monster’s nickname is Nessie. The first alleged photo was snapped in 1933.
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.
This dwarf willow tree is the smallest in the world.
Latin for “who benefits,” often used in a political context when something unpopular becomes a law or regulation
What is cui bono?
Victoria Winters was hired as the governess for the Collins family on this 1960s afternoon soap opera.
What is Dark Shadows?
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? In 2016, each person ate an average of 2.6 gallons (9.8 liters) of ice cream per year.
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” (or similar)?
In Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, this revolutionary woman knits a long list of names into a scarf.
Who is Madame (Thérèse) Defarge?
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”? August is the month when plants and weeds grow fastest.