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This was the worst economic downturn in U.S. history.
What is the Great Depression? It started in 1929 with the stock market crash and bank runs and lasted an entire decade. It was marked by 25 percent unemployment, soup kitchens, and shantytowns known as Hoovervilles.
This term of endearment is another name for father.
What is dad? We will also accept pop.
Oranges, lemons, and limes are this type of fruit.
What is citrus? Orange trees range in height from 16 to 50 feet tall.
These two common household pets aren’t colorblind, but they do see color in a reduced range compared to humans.
What are dogs and cats? Each has limited color perception because they have two types of color receptors (cones). Humans have three types of cones, so they see more colors.
Historically, this soda’s main ingredient was sassafras.
What is root beer? It gained popularity during Prohibition and remained a popular mid-century soda. Today’s commercial root beers are flavored with artificial sassafras flavoring or sassafras extract.
This timeless film stars Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly and George Peppard as Paul Varjak in a cat-and-mouse romance.
What is Breakfast at Tiffany’s? Hepburn earned $750,000 for the film, making her the highest-paid actress for a movie at the time.
The Betsy Ross flag has the stars assembled in this geometric shape.
What is a circle? It features 13 stars arranged in a circle in the corner of the flag where the 50 stars now reside.
Weather stations use this to detect weather patterns; one example is the Doppler.
What is radar? Weather radars send out radio waves that hit rain, snow, and ice and bounce back to the radar station.
The odd one out, this is the only letter that doesn’t appear in the name of a U.S. state.
What is Q? The letter X appears in Texas and New Mexico.
These highly intelligent garbage-digging bandits have human-like fingers.
What are raccoons? They are more closely related to bears than they are to cats.
We grew up on this snack, packaged in small boxes featuring circus characters.
What are animal crackers? Fun fact: In Nabisco’s Barnum’s Animal Crackers, the monkey is the only animal cracker that is wearing clothes.
Free-spirited Corie (Jane Fonda) and stuffed-shirt Paul (Robert Redford) are newlyweds in this 1967 film.
What is Barefoot in the Park? After a glorious honeymoon at the famed Plaza Hotel, they navigate the reality of New York City life in a tiny fifth-floor walk-up apartment with an array of eccentric neighbors.
This is the highest Federal Reserve Note (dollar) in circulation.
What is $100? The last $500 note was printed in 1945. The last $2 note was printed in 2017, and approximately 1.7 billion remain in circulation.
When you vote in government elections, you are exercising one of the rights of citizenship and fulfilling a part of this type of duty.
What is civic? Many people vote only for the top of the ticket in presidential elections. State and local elections matter, often even more than federal elections.
This is what lime slices tend to do in a drink.
What is sink? Limes are denser than lemons, so their slices sink, whereas lemons tend to float.
These household pets are likely to sleep away the day and creep around the house at night.
What are cats? All the places you deem off-limits are theirs to roam during the wee hours. Cats are not technically nocturnal; their most active hours are dawn and dusk. But if you have indoor cameras, you can catch their sneaky overnight activity.
She is known for her marvelous talent and as Liza Minelli’s mother.
Who is Judy Garland? Garland will forever be remembered for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, a blast from the past that is a perennial must-watch movie.
This romantic thriller starring Audrey Hepburn as Regina Lampert and Cary Grant as Peter Joshua is set in Paris and adds a who-dunnit aspect with an astounding twist ending.
What is Charade? The opening scene finds Regina vacationing in the French Alps, shortly before returning to the apartment in Paris she shares with her husband. Only, the apartment has been emptied of all its belongings—including her husband.
If you need a little breathing room, maybe this least populous state is the place for you.
What is Wyoming? Around 600,000 people call Wyoming home. Most states have cities with at least that many residents.
This French word meaning “she” is also the name of a lifestyle magazine.
What is elle? Elle is a pronoun that also can mean “her” and “it,” depending on the noun it is replacing.
Some say Chicago is called the Windy City because of its windy weather, but in the late 19th century it was so named because these types of people were full of hot air.
Who are politicians? A New York Sun journalist introduced the moniker in 1893.
This deadliest animal on Earth kills by carrying malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and other diseases.
What is the mosquito? Their lifespans range from one week to one month.
He recorded the 1966 hit “Strangers in the Night.”
Who is Frank Sinatra? When the song reached No. 1 on the charts, it knocked the Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” from its lofty position.
That Touch of [This] pairs Cary Grant as Philip Shayne with Doris Day as Cathy Timberlake.
What is Mink? The plot is the classic “young woman falls for a wealthy businessman” motif. It follows the predictable path of the man wanting an affair while the woman wants marriage.
Abe Lincoln was born in this state.
What is Kentucky? Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was also born in Kentucky.
You have this palindrome if you have more than one of these long, detailed, written or filmed accounts of heroic deeds.
What are sagas? The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and The Chronicles of Narnia are famous sagas.
It takes this number of days to complete a one-way trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
What is seven? The trip crosses eight time zones.
These mammals are skilled swimmers and hold hands when they sleep in the water.
What are sea otters? Sea otters sleep while holding hands so they don’t drift apart. The playful mammals eat about 30 percent of their weight each day.
This company popularized the disposable diaper on a mass scale, especially in the United States.
What is Pampers? One early brand of disposable diapers came from England in the 1930s. Called “Destroyable Babies Napkins,” they were used in hospitals but never marketed to the general public.
Doris Day and James Garner play Beverly and Dr. Gerald Boyer in this wacky rom-com about a married couple whose life is turned upside down when she becomes a spokesperson for a soap company.
What is The Thrill of It All? Chaos almost rips their marriage apart until an unlikely intervention occurs.
This city is the smallest to have an NFL franchise and is home to the league’s third-oldest team.
What is Green Bay? The state is Wisconsin, and the team is the Green Bay Packers.
You have this palindrome if you did this, which means “gave glory to or treated someone as a god.”
What is deified? Roman emperors like Julius Caesar and Augustus were deified as a political and social tool for unity.
McDonald’s once made broccoli that was flavored to taste like this.
What is bubble gum? It was an effort to get children to eat healthy foods, but the unintended consequence was that it confused the children. They probably wondered what was wrong with their mothers’ broccoli.
When in Texas, don’t shoot at this animal; its bony plates can send the bullet right back to you.
What is the armadillo? A Texas man was hospitalized after shooting an armadillo. The bullet ricocheted off the animal’s hard covering and hit him in the jaw.
Throughout the 1950s, Dinah Shore sang an advertisement on her show, encouraging viewers to “See the U.S.A. in” this.
What is “your Chevrolet”? Songwriters Leo Corday and Leon Carr wrote the jingle for General Motors.
Rock Hudson and Doris Day star as Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton in this 1961 film about two rival advertising executives.
What is Lover Come Back? It’s no secret that advertising can be a dirty business, but sometimes the dirty tricks backfire, and that’s the core hilarity of this rom-com.