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This big yellow flower, which tracks the sun, is in full bloom in September.
What is the sunflower?
The flower can decontaminate the soil by soaking up uranium, lead, and arsenic.
The chemical symbol O stands for this.
What is oxygen?
It’s the most abundant element in the human body.
Arthur Conan Doyle created this detective.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
He is so well known and multidimensional that, in 2008, a survey found that 58 percent of Britons thought he had been a real person.
This 1969 musical event, featuring performers including Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, became a defining symbol of the counterculture of the 1960s.
What is Woodstock?
The music festival was banned by its original venue due to the lack of toilets, but it was saved by a local farmer.
Heavens to this person.
Who is Betsy?
This is an early version of “oh my goodness,” or “OMG.”
These are the two best times of the day to walk your dog when it’s roasting hot outside.
What are early morning and later evening?
Dogs are susceptible to overheating, so you need to keep them inside during the hottest part of the day.
This Italian dish is made up of alternating layers of pasta, sauce, and cheese
What is lasagna?
The traditional Tuscan lasagna contains meat sauce.
This American author wrote The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Even at a cost of $2, the 1925 novel did not sell well. It flopped, selling only 20,000 copies in the first year before becoming one of the most popular novels in American literature.
This civil rights leader is known for his “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
One of the famous quotes from the speech is “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
This kind of head refers to a person who is not particularly bright.
What is air?
The term airhead was also used to refer to a silly person.
The lack of rain during summer and early September can bring about this condition.
What is drought?
It’s best to water plants deeply a few times a week rather than shallowly every day.
This is the largest land animal on Earth.
What is the elephant?
Elephants can recognize different ethnic groups of people, and they have incredible memories
This Jane Austen novel about social class and romance follows the tale of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
By the book’s second centennial, it had sold 20 million copies. The famous first line of the acclaimed book states, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
In the generation gap of the age, many 1960s children were part of this movement, a movement most parents neither understand nor liked.
What is hippie?
The movement was characterized by communal living, a focus on peace and love, and unconventional clothing and hairstyles.
See you later, [this animal].
What is alligator?
The corresponding reply is “After a while, crocodile.”
This is the best time of day to water plants when it’s stifling outside.
What is morning?
Watering at midday, at the peak of the heat, is a waste of water because it evaporates rapidly.
She is called the mother of the civil rights movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Parks was fined $10 plus $4 in court costs for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white person. Her case went to the Supreme Court, where the court found segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
Old Major and Benjamin are characters in this political fable by George Orwell.
What is Animal Farm?
The book is an allegory about authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
This groovy ride with a distinct boxy shape and spacious interior was a sign of the times.
What is a Volkswagen van (or bus)?
Its proper model name was Microbus.
You do not want this sandwich to connect with your face.
What is knuckle?
“I will give you a knuckle sandwich” was a common 1950s threat that meant giving someone a punch in the face.
If you count crickets’ chirps for this number of seconds and add 40, you will arrive at the temperature in Fahrenheit.
What is 15?
The higher the temperature, the more frequently crickets chirp. That’s the reason you can sit on the patio at night in the fall when the temperature has dropped significantly and hear the sound of silence.
It is the most spoken language in the world.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
It is the native language of 1.12 billion people. The second most spoken native language in the world is Hindi-Urdu, and the third most spoken language in the world is English.
This famous Russian novelist penned War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
He was a polyglot, fluent in four languages, and he could read in seven additional languages. He was also obsessed with self-improvement, which was inspired by Ben Franklin’s 13 virtues.
When this Grateful Dead musician died, Volkswagen ran an ad in his honor that featured a tear falling from a headlight of the brand’s iconic ’60s vehicle.
Who is Jerry Garcia?
He was originally a country music fan who grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry.
This five-letter word starting with S means “to leave now.”
What is scram?
It’s the early version of “getouttahere”