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For many seniors, this is their sole source of income.
What is Social Security? In some cases, the benefit is taxed; however, recipients do not pay FICA (Social Security and Medicare) taxes on their Social Security benefits.
A thunderstorm may also produce this frozen precipitation, even during summer months.
What is hail? A hailstone can be deadly. The largest confirmed hailstone fell in Vivian, South Dakota, in 2010, measuring approximately eight inches (20.3 cm) in diameter.
Of knitting and crochet, it’s the one that predominantly uses needles.
What is knitting? Knitting requires two needles, while a hook is used for crocheting. Sometimes, crocheters use a knitting needle to perform specific tasks. Both can use yarn, but crochet is often made with thread, and the stitches are different.
If you place an egg in a glass of water and it sinks to the bottom, it is this.
What is fresh, or good? If the egg floats, it’s a sign that the egg is no longer fresh.
Baltic Avenue, Park Place, St. James Place, Atlantic Avenue, and Boardwalk are all street names in this city.
What is Atlantic City? If you have ever played classic Monopoly, you are familiar with the names of some Atlantic City streets.
This term applies to animals that eat mostly other animals (meat).
What is carnivore? Carnivores are predators, and their bodies are designed to aid them in hunting. This applies to insects and arachnids as well as reptiles, birds, and fish.
This planet is known as the third rock from the sun.
What is Earth? An easy way to remember the order of the planets’ positions in relation to the sun is to learn the sentence “My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Names”— Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Of the games played on a checkerboard, this is generally considered the easiest.
What is checkers? The typical game is played on a board with 64 squares, and the object of the game is to capture your opponent’s pieces. Each player starts with 12 pieces, and the player who loses all their pieces loses the game.
A hen lays approximately this number of eggs in a day.
What is one? A hen lays an egg every 24 to 26 hours. Within 30 minutes, a new egg begins to form.
Juan Valdez’s coffee hails from Colombia, whose capital city is this.
What is Bogotá? The fictional character Juan Valdez was created in 1959 as the spokesman for the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia. The federation paid $1.5 million for product placement in the film Bruce Almighty, and the Juan Valdez character also made an appearance in the movie, too.
Overnight flights are often called this ophthalmologic nickname.
What is red eye? They’re also called all-nighters. Most flights from the East Coast to Europe are red-eye flights. Many transcontinental flights originating on the West Coast are also red eyes.
To smother a fire, you must remove this gas from it.
What is oxygen? Fires need a fuel source, oxygen, and heat. Never attempt to put out an electrical fire with water. The easiest and quickest way to put out a small fire, such as a kitchen fire, is with a fire blanket. If you use one, you do not have to clean up the mess created by halogen fire extinguishers. It’s best to review the instructions before you need to use the blanket.
Before recreational drones were invented, children and their parents would head to the nearest park to fly these miniature flying machines.
What are model, remote-controlled, or radio-controlled airplanes? The basics of “flying” the two are similar. However, drones, also known as quadcopters, are easier to control, more stable, and sturdier. They take off and land vertically, limiting the chance of a crash landing.
The color of the eggshell is not an indication of nutritional value, but this can be.
What is the color of the yolk? Often but not always, the brighter and darker the yolk color (leaning more toward orange than yellow), the more nutrition the egg provides.
This capital city of a Pacific Rim country has the largest population in the world.
What is Tokyo? Its population exceeds 37 million. Delhi, India, is in the No. 2 spot, with more than 34 million. There is no North American city in the top 20.
The American Lung Association was founded to fight this disease.
What is tuberculosis? It was founded in 1904 as the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, and it issued the first Christmas Seal in 1907. Its focus today is on lung health and diseases as well as ending tobacco use.
A severe storm occurring inland is often accompanied by this wind event.
What is a tornado? The costliest tornadoes have shifted away in recent years from the traditional area known as Tornado Alley (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas) and toward the Southeast.
This two-person, alliterative, three-word children’s game begins with the letter T.
What is tic-tac-toe? One player’s pieces are X’s, and the other player’s pieces are O’s. The playing board is divided into nine squares in a three-by-three layout. The object of the game is to get three of your pieces in a row, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
This color egg is typically more expensive.
What is brown? Hens that lay brown eggs are usually larger than chickens that lay white eggs, so feeding a larger hen is more expensive.
One of the world’s most expensive places to live, this lavish European city is located on the Mediterranean Sea
What is Monaco? Fun fact: Monaco is both a city and a state, known as a city-state.
Campanology is the study of this
What are bells? It includes the history of church bell ringing, the construction of the bells, and ringing techniques. Church bells have been in use since the fifth century.
Cold and hot deserts share the lack of this.
What is humidity/moisture? The driest non-polar desert is the Atacama Desert, located in South America along the Pacific Ocean coastline. The continent of Antarctica is the largest desert
Hobby numismatists collect these.
What are coins? Numismatists are also called coin collectors, and they spend a lot of time searching for rare coins. In the professional world, numismatists also study the history of currency and its impact on culture, among other things.
This is how you tell whether an egg is raw or hard-boiled.
What is spinning the egg? If it wobbles, it’s raw. The liquid in the raw egg sloshes as you spin it, causing it to wobble. If the egg is steady as it spins, it’s hard-boiled.
This European city is infamous for its red-light district.
What is Amsterdam? De Wallen, Amsterdam’s oldest neighborhood, is the best-known modern red-light district.