The Year Was 1942
A powerhouse singer born in 1942 who got lots of R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Who was Aretha Franklin?
The year the American Heritage Dictionary was 1st published.
What is 1969?
A crested, seed-eating North American bird that makes its nest in low shrubs and briars and Eliza is an expert on.
What is the Northern Cardinal?
The term used to describe a vegetable garden, often at home, planted to increase food production during a war.
What is a victory garden?
The official state seashell of NJ.
What is the knobbed whelk?
The president on June 19th 1942.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
A person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land. (Term used recently in Disney's Big City Greens episode "The Bad Influencer")
What is a squatter?
The pesticide that caused Bald Eagles to become endangered due to weakening their egg shells.
What is DDT?
The name of a female baby horse.
What is a foal?
This pageant was first held on the boardwalk in Atlantic City on September 19th, 1921.
What is the Miss America Pageant?
A spicy, soft cake with German origins which was one of the most popular desserts of the decade.
What is gingerbread?
Learned in Maggie's preschool as food for vultures. The decaying flesh of dead animals.
What is carrion?
A colorful-legged bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
What is the Blue-Footed Booby?
The maximum number of gallons used per flush on toilets manufactured after 1994.
What is 1.6 gallons?
The town in Sussex County NJ where the state's only volcano erupted around 440 millions years ago.
What is Beemerville?
Top song of 1942 sung by an older gentleman resembling Mrs. Faust's father. Ho Ho Ho
What is White Christmas?
The process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound it describes.
What is onamonapia?
A bird from the same family as roadrunners who Grandma observed crashing into her NYC apartment window.
What is a cuckoo?
What is black plastic?
The first ever organized baseball game was held in this New Jersey City at Elysian Fields in 1846.
What is Hoboken?
The name of the famous 4-day battle fought against Japan which began on June 4th 1942.
What is the battle of Midway?
A word beginning with the letter r which means the ability or inclination to laugh.
What is risibility?
A bird found commonly in New York City related to the extinct dodo bird.
What is a pigeon?
The name of the couch covering you can attempt to sew at home to refresh your furniture but always with mixed results.
What is a slip-cover?
Born 1 year before Naga in Newark, NJ, this man's music career has spanned 7 decades both as a duo and as a solo artist.
Who is Paul Simon?