🍳 Kitchen & Cooking
In canning, this type of bath is required for preserving low-acid foods such as green beans and carrots.
What is a pressure canner (pressure canning)?
This conflict ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975.
What is the Vietnam War?
This film became the first full-length animated feature released by Disney in 1937.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
This household cleaner, introduced in 1928, became famous for its slogan "Makes White Clothes Whiter."
What is Clorox?
This political scandal began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and eventually forced a U.S. president to resign.
What is Watergate? (Richard Nixon)
Before nonstick cookware, many cooks seasoned this heavy cookware with oil to prevent food from sticking.
What is cast iron?
The stock market crash that helped begin the Great Depression occurred in this year.
What is 1929?
This radio drama caused panic in 1938 when some listeners believed aliens were invading Earth.
What is War of the Worlds?
This board game, originally called "The Landlord's Game," became wildly popular during the Great Depression.
What is Monopoly?
This disease first gained worldwide attention in the early 1980s and led to major advances in public health education.
What is AIDS (HIV/AIDS)?
During World War II, many families saved this cooking fat to be used in making explosives.
What is bacon grease (or cooking grease)?
The first successful powered airplane flight occurred in this North Carolina town.
What is Kitty Hawk?
This home entertainment store became a Friday night tradition for millions of Americans during the 1980s and 1990s.
What is Blockbuster Video?
This frozen dessert, introduced in 1989, featured ice cream mixed with candy on a cold stone.
What is a Blizzard from Dairy Queen?
The Exxon Valdez spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil into this U.S. state's waters in 1989.
What is Alaska?
This flour company introduced the first ready-made cake mix in the United States in the 1930s.
What is Duff's? (General Mills if discussing boxed cake mixes broadly.)
This program, created during the Great Depression, employed millions building roads, parks, and public buildings.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Families often gathered every Sunday evening to watch this long-running news magazine hosted by correspondents including Mike Wallace.
What is 60 Minutes?
Long before smartphones, Americans used these printed books to find businesses by category.
What are the Yellow Pages?
In 1979, militants seized the U.S. Embassy in this capital city, holding American diplomats hostage for 444 days.
What is Tehran, Iran? (Accept: What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?)
This baking ingredient reacts with acidic ingredients like buttermilk or vinegar to produce carbon dioxide and help baked goods rise.
What is baking soda?
This president died in office in April 1945, only weeks before Germany surrendered in World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This dance craze, popularized in the early 1990s, instructed dancers to "slide to the left" and "slide to the right."
What is the Cha Cha Slide?
During the gas shortages of the 1970s, some states allowed drivers to buy gasoline only on certain days based on this..
What was the last number (odd-or-even license plate rationing)?
This space shuttle broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff in 1986 while millions of schoolchildren watched live.
What is the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster?