Valentine’s
Verbiage
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Recreation Therapy
Black History Pioneers
Presidential Pets
Winter Olympics
100
In the 1955 animated film “Lady and the Tramp,” this meal is shared between two dogs and concludes in a smooch
What is spaghetti and meatballs?
100
This recreation therapy intervention utilizes pools for treatment and rehabilitation
What is aquatic therapy?
100
Rosa Parks is best known for her refusal to move from her bus seat in this southern city
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
100
Cornwallis, a greyhound dog named after the General, belonged to this president
Who is George Washington?
100
This Winter Olympic sport is considered to be the favorite of 40% of Americans
What is figure skating?
200
Galentine’s Day is a tradition started by an episode from this NBC sitcom in 2010
What is “Parks and Recreation?”
200
First played in VA hospitals in 1946, this popular sport pinned veterans recovering from paralysis against their treating doctors
What is wheelchair basketball?
200
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball when he started at first base for this team in 1947
Who are the Brooklyn Dodgers?
200
Fido, a mixed-breed dog, was assassinated by a drunk with a knife after this president’s untimely death
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Going face-first is proper technique for this Winter Olympic sport
What is skeleton?
300
This famous playwright coined the term “star-crossed” lovers
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
This pivotal world event led to the creation of recreational therapy as a career, originally deemed “hospital recreation”
What is World War II?
300
During the Combahee Ferry Raid, this person became the first woman to lead an armed military assault against Confederate forces
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
This president’s cat, Socks, did not get along with the new Labrador retriever addition to the family.
Who is Bill Clinton?
300
The Nordic Combined blends these two Olympic events
What are cross-country skiing and ski jumping?
400
This Greek god, responsible for shooting an arrow to make anyone fall in love, is known as Cupid to the Romans
Who is Eros?
400
The VA has these four creative arts therapies available in certain areas
What are music therapy, art therapy, dance/movement therapy, and drama therapy?
400
This woman, an investigative journalist into lynchings of black Americans, was a founder of the NAACP
Who is Ida B Wells?
400
An Airdale Terrier named “Laddie Boy” belonging to this president was the first Whitehouse dog to receive newspaper coverage
Who is Warren G Harding?
400
This sport, being introduced in the 2026 Winter Olympics, involves athletes making three ascents in both skis and boots and is known by the nickname “skimo”
What is ski mountaineering?
500
The Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church, located in this country, is a popular place of pilgrimage for lovers to see relics of St. Valentine
Where is Ireland?
500
This event is the largest annual wheelchair sports rehabilitation competition among veterans
What are the National Veteran Wheelchair Games?
500
Mae Jamison was the first African American woman to achieve this mission
What is travel in space?
500
This president’s Springer Spaniel, Millie, won a Guinness World Record for “Best-selling book by a canine author”
Who is George H.W. Bush?
500
This city in France, bordering Switzerland and Italy, hosted the first Winter Olympic games in 1924
Where is Chamonix?