Sightseeing in the USA
This antebellum South Carolina city boasts cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages, and Fort Sumter.
What is Charleston? Nighttime ghost tours draw many tourists to the city
This term refers to a menu with separately priced items.
What is à la carte?
This is the most popular color of rose given on Valentine’s Day.
What is red?
We moved from watching them in theaters and drive-ins to collecting them on VHS and DVD formats; now kids stream them on the internet.
What are movies?
Official record of your school grades or a written record of spoken words, such as from court proceedings.
What is a transcript?
This former maximum security prison sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay on a gigantic rock.
What is Alcatraz? Tours are conducted daily, with ferry service from San Francisco.
This term means to beat an ingredient, such as cream, to incorporate air into it.
What is whip?
This major bodily organ gets its own month in February.
What is the heart?
They used to stop by for a visit, but now we can also communicate with them on screens and social media.
What are friends/loved ones?
A coast-to-coast flight.
What is transcontinental?
This string of islands off the coast of North Carolina houses the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, with its distinctive, diagonal black-and-white stripes.
What are the Outer Banks?
Food Network celebrity Alton Brown calls this type of cooking in a gas oven “upside-down grilling.”
What is broiling?
Fat Tuesday is the culmination of this event.
What is Mardi Gras?
This electronic communication device was once used strictly for audio communication between two parties; today, it’s a multifunction device.
What is a phone?
To change.
What is transform?
If spelunking is high on your bucket list, there’s no better place to take a cave tour than the Mammoth Cave in this state.
What is Kentucky?
This is the term for chopping an ingredient into cubes larger than minced cubes.
What is dice?
Chosen because it includes the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, February is when this annual observance is celebrated.
What is Black History Month?
We were told one of these a day keeps the doctor away; now, it’s a top computer and smartphone brand.
What is Apple?
A violation or infringement of law, duty, principle, or command.
What is transgression?
This city is best place in the Northeast to see Gilded Age mansions.
Where is Newport, Rhode Island?
According to Good Housekeeping, to do this is “to cook food in a small amount of fat in a skillet over relatively high heat, stirring often or occasionally.”
What is sauté?
If you are born on this numerical day in February, technically your birthday will happen only every four years.
What is February 29?
Transactions used to be completed using cash and credit or debit cards; this popular cryptocurrency is emerging as an alternative payment option.
What is Bitcoin?
A medium that permits diffused light to come through without providing a clear view of the object behind it.
What is translucent?