Our Changing Lives & Language
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?
Vertical lines run this way.
What is up and down?
This antebellum South Carolina city boasts cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages, and Fort Sumter.
What is Charleston?
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?
This percentage of the population is left-handed.
What are 10 percent?
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 a transcontinental?
This visual line separates the ocean from the sky
What is horizon?
This former maximum security prison sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay on a gigantic rock
What is Alcatraz?
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?
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?
White lines that run across the street at an intersection are known as this
What is a crosswalk?
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.
Who is Mardi Gras?
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 a transgression?
This letter is made up of two diagonal lines that cross in the center
What is X?
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.
Who is Black History Month?
This was once a time to party, club hop, and flock to the hottest new restaurant, but today many use it as a time to unwind and relax from a harried week
What is a weekend?
A medium that permits diffused light to come through without providing a clear view of the object behind it
What is translucentt?
These equidistant lines never cross; for example, railroad tracks.
What are parallel lines?
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 a leap year?
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 person who consistently moves from place to place
What is a transient?
Some believe these imaginary straight lines connect sacred places, such as Stonehenge and the Giza Pyramids.
What are ley lines?
This national park near Jackson, Wyoming, is named for the highest mountain peak within its borders
What is Grand Teton National Park?
A tied bunch of fresh herbs used while cooking is called this.
What is bouquet garni?
The people who ride the Mardi Gras floats are required by law to wear these.
What are masks?