Baking
This baked good has a super dense texture and often incorporates pears.
What is Pear Bread?
This real estate-themed board game, first introduced by Parker Brothers in 1935, involves players buying, selling, and trading properties in hopes of becoming the richest tycoon.
What is Monopoly?
Mimi, a notoriously organized gardener, often involves her children in collecting this fallen organic material to improve her garden's soil and keep weeds at bay.
What is Leaves?
This 1973 tennis match pitted Billie Jean King against Bobby Riggs, a controversial exhibition that sparked debate about gender equality in sports.
What is the Battle of the Sexes?
This Bronx-based garden features the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, and the Native Plant Garden.
What is the New York Botanical Garden?
This festive dessert, often seen at Christmas, features a log-like shape and is typically decorated with meringue mushrooms.
What is a Buche de Noel?
This pioneering aviator made history in 1935 by becoming the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
What is Amelia Earhart?
When Joan/Mimi grabs you by the arm and says "I want to show you something," you can expect this.
What is a Garden Tour?
This flamboyant tennis player with a signature mullet married actress Brooke Shields.
Who is Andre Agassi?
This French garden, with its vibrant colors and water features, inspired countless paintings by its creator.
What is Monet's Garden at Giverny?
This pie from France is typically made with eggs, cream, cheese, and bacon.
What is Quiche Lorraine?
This photography giant revolutionized home movie-making in the 1935 by introducing commercially available color reversal film for cameras.
What is Kodak?
This boot-shaped European country was Mimi's solo adventure destination to hone her pottery skills.
What is Italy?
This powerful Russian tennis player was known for her dominant two-handed backhand and five Grand Slam singles titles.
Who is Maria Sharapova?
This world-renowned botanical garden in England boasts the world's largest and most diverse living collection of plants, including the iconic Temperate House, a Victorian glasshouse.
This sweet treat, with an apricot glaze, gets its name from its creamy, tangy filling.
What is Cream Cheese Coffee Cake?
In 1935, President Roosevelt signed this landmark legislation, creating a system of old-age insurance and unemployment compensation that would eventually cost the U.S. government over a trillion dollars annually.
What is Social Security?
This essential piece of furniture supports the human body although Mimi considers them works of art.
What is a Chair?
This American tennis legend holds the Open Era record for most Grand Slam singles titles with 23 victories,
Who is Serena Williams?
This 250-acre garden, laid out by André Le Nôtre for Louis XIV, features ornamental lakes, classical statuary, and a canal where the Sun King once took gondola rides at his palace southwest of Paris.
What is the Garden of Versailles?
This decadent cake's name is a bit of a misnomer, as it actually honors an American chocolate maker, Samuel German, rather than the country of Germany.
What is German Sweet Chocolate Cake?
This stuttering swine made his debut in 1935, becoming one of the first major stars of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series.
Who is Porky Pig?
A book by Umberto Eco proved to be a formidable challenge for Mimi, requiring frequent consultations with this reference material.
What is a Dictionary?
This group of players, including Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert, and Bjorn Borg, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, played a crucial role in popularizing and making this tennis stroke more common and effective.
What is a Two-Handed Backhand?
This romantic Georgetown estate's gardens feature the Fountain Terrace, a Roman amphitheater, and Melisande's Allée, named for a haunting opera