Memorial Day
What is considered the "unofficial flower" of Memorial Day?
What is the Poppy?
This friend group lived in New York City and hung out at a coffee shop called Central Perk.
What is Friends?
This French term means to cook vegetables quickly in a small amount of oil or butter over high heat.
What is sauté?
The Silk Road connected China to the Mediterranean, but it was primarily used to trade this luxury material that gave it its name.
What is silk?
Carrots were originally this color before Dutch farmers selectively bred the orange variety in the 17th century.
What is purple?
Memorial Day was originally called by this name, first used after the Civil War to honor fallen Union soldiers.
What is Decoration Day?
Taylor Swift's 2023 tour became the first concert tour in history to gross over this milestone amount.
What is $1 billion?
This Italian cheese, whose name means "re-cooked," is traditionally made from whey left over from other cheese production.
What is ricotta?
In 1439, Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized the spread of information across Europe by inventing this.
What is the printing press?
A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance," but a group of these black birds is officially called a "murder."
What is crows?
This small town in New York claims to be the birthplace of Memorial Day, having held an 1866 ceremony to decorate soldiers' graves — one of the earliest on record.
What is Waterloo, New York
Before becoming a megastar, Beyoncé was the lead singer of this 90s girl group.
What is Destiny's Child?
A traditional French mother sauce, it is made from butter and flour cooked together then whisked with milk.
What is béchamel?
This empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history, stretching from Asia to Eastern Europe in the 13th century.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This country banned chewing gum in 1992, and you can still be fined for spitting it out in public today.
What is Singapore?
This 1971 federal law officially moved Memorial Day from May 30th to the last Monday of May, creating a three-day weekend.
What is the Uniform Monday Holiday Act?
This 1999 film was so influential it coined the term "bullet time" for its slow-motion visual effect.
What is The Matrix?
This cooking technique involves sealing food in an airtight bag and submerging it in a precisely temperature-controlled water bath.
What is sous vide?
This ancient wonder, a towering statue at a Greek harbor entrance, is the origin of the word "colossal.
What is the Colossus of Rhodes?
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire — Oxford was founded around 1096, while the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan wasn't founded until this century.
What is the 1300s (1325)?
At 3:00 PM local time on Memorial Day, Americans are asked to observe this tradition — a precise 60-second pause — as established by a congressional resolution in 2000. What is its formal name?
What is the National Moment of Remembrance?
This movie holds the record for the most Academy Awards ever won, tied at 11 Oscars.
What is Titanic / Ben-Hur / Return of the King?
The Maillard reaction, responsible for the browning of meat and bread, is named after this nationality's chemist who described it in 1912.
What is French?
This 1815 battle marked Napoleon Bonaparte's final military defeat, ending his rule for good.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
In 2013, Canada officially made this mathematical symbol part of its currency, printing it on a commemorative coin — making it the first country to put an equation on legal tender.
What is the infinity symbol (∞)?