It Happened in the Summer
On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop was the first woman executed in Salem for this.
What is witchcraft?
This annual sporting event starts at the Verrazano Bridge on the first Sunday in November.
What is the New York City Marathon?
This Polish-born scientist is credited with producing the first successful mercury-in-glass thermometers which used his temperature scale.
Who is Fahrenheit?
The protective rings that line holes in a sheet or panel to prevent them from tearing
What are grommets?
It wasn’t until this dictator’s death in 1975 that Spain transitioned to a democracy.
Who is Francisco Franco?
August 79 C.E. saw this volcano erupt, burying Pompei in ash.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
You can enter this state by crossing the Goethals Bridge or the Bayonne Bridge.
What is New Jersey?
Visit the gift shop at the National Air and Space Museum to purchase this style of ice cream, originally developed for the Apollo space missions.
What is freeze-dried?
These metal or plastic tubes affixed around the ends of shoelaces
What are aglets?
A 1973 CIA-backed coup saw this man take power in Chile.
Who is Agosto Pinochet?
In July 1885, Louis Pasteur gave his vaccine for this disease to a boy who’d been biten by a dog.
What is rabies?
In 2022, workers for this online retailer’s Staten Island warehouse voted to unionize.
What is Amazon?
This is an adjective for a material that contains or relates to iron.
What is ferrous?
This concave indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle
What is a punt?
In 1971, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire under this man’s kleptocratic rule.
Who is Mabuto Sese Seko?
Both Mozambique and Cape Verde gained independence from this country in the summer of 1975.
What is Portugal?
Colin Jost and Pete Davidson are now the owners of this retired Staten Island Ferry, named for a president.
What is the John F. Kennedy?
This French physicist created a large pendulum in 1851 to give simple, direct evidence of the Earth’s rotation.
Who is Foucault?
Decorative “charms” like these are used to dress up Crocs
What are Jibbitz?
Haiti was led by this man, who was better known by his nickname, Papa Doc, until 1971.
Who is Francois Duvalier?
The Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing on August 14, 1900, crushing this sporty uprising.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
Protests erupted throughout New York City in 2014, after a Staten Island jury declined to indict a cop that put this man in a fatal chokehold.
Who is Eric Garner?
In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in this US city.
What is Flagstaff?
This foot measuring tool often found at shoe stores
What is the Brannock Device?
Albania was known as “Europe’s North Korea” under this man’s rule, which lasted until 1985.
Who is Enver Hoxha?