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This cucumber-based snack comes in dill, bread-and-butter, and kosher styles.
Answer: What are pickles?
This “swinging” pastime remained popular in the 1940s and 50s, with young people jitterbugging to big bands.
Answer: What is dancing?
This invention, first mass-produced in the 1920s, revolutionized diabetes treatment.
Answer: What is insulin?
This actor played the patriarch, Gomez Addams, on the original 1960s TV show.
Answer: Who is John Astin?
Known as the “King of Swing,” he led a popular big band in the 1930s and 1940s.
Answer: Who is Benny Goodman?
Kimchi, a staple of Korean cuisine, is most commonly made by pickling this vegetable.
Answer: What is cabbage?
Families often clipped and saved colorful bits of paper from envelopes in this popular hobby.
Answer: What is stamp collecting?
In 1954, Dr. Joseph Murray performed the first successful transplant of this organ between identical twins.
Answer: What is a kidney?
The Addams’ strange, hand-squeezing butler, a favorite with fans, had this simple name.
Answer: Who is Lurch?
A trumpet-playing bandleader, he popularized swing music with hits like In the Mood and Chattanooga Choo Choo.
Answer: Who is Glenn Miller?
This pickled fish, often served with cream sauce or onions, is popular in Scandinavian and Jewish cuisine.
Answer: What is herring?
The rise of postwar suburban homes brought with it this outdoor pastime, often involving roses or vegetable patches.
Answer: What is gardening?
Doctors now use this technology, abbreviated “VR,” to help patients with pain management and phobia treatment.
Answer: What is virtual reality?
Lurch, the Addams’ butler, had this signature catchphrase, often uttered when called by Gomez.
Answer: What is “You rang?”
This female singer, nicknamed the “First Lady of Song,” became famous for her smooth phrasing and hits like God Bless the Child.
Answer: Who is Billie Holiday?
In the U.S. South, these pig parts are sometimes found pickled in jars at convenience stores.
Answer: What are pickled pigs’ feet?
This “by the numbers” hobby of painting pre-drawn canvases became a craze in the early 1950s.
Answer: What is paint-by-number?
This medical field, sometimes called “regenerative medicine,” studies how to repair or replace damaged tissues with stem cells.
Answer: What is stem cell therapy (or regenerative medicine)?
This cousin, known for her wild, green hair and maniacal laughter, occasionally visited the family.
Answer: Who is Cousin Itt?
This crooner, with hits like White Christmas, became one of the best-selling artists of the 1940s.
Answer: Who is Bing Crosby?
In Jewish delis, this fermented garlic-dill cucumber pickle is often called a “new” or “full sour.”
Answer: What is a kosher dill pickle?
Young people in the 1950s often traded and flipped these small, brightly-colored circular toys in schoolyards.
Answer: What are marbles?
Researchers are exploring xenotransplantation, transplanting organs from this animal species, whose organs are most similar to humans.
Answer: What are pigs?
his mischievous, silent daughter of Gomez and Morticia loved causing chaos and sometimes used a slingshot.
Answer: Who is Wednesday Addams?
Dubbed “The King of the Blues,” he recorded influential songs in the 1940s, including Every Day I Have the Blues.
Answer: Who is B.B. King?