Lotions and Potions
Progress in the 1960s
Influential Women
A Bicycle Built for You
Losta Pasta
Facts & Figures
100

Add this bee product and lemon juice to tea as a common cough suppressant.

Honey

100

Invented in 1962, this gadget provided a new way to play music and went on to replace the traditional vinyl records of the day.

Cassette Tape

100

After a slow start in the early 1960s, this female trio of Motown singers sat atop the Billboard charts for years. Diana Ross was among them.

The supremes

100

Your first bicycle after a tricycle might have had these to aid you in maintaining your balance.

Training Wheels

100

Macaroni resembles this body part.

Elbow or Knee

100

This is the number of leaves on a typical shamrock.

3

200

This houseplant can calm minor burns. It is often used on sunburn.

Aloe

200

In 1966, radar was used to measure the thickness of these “caps” near Greenland.

Polar Ice Caps

200

In 1981, she became the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sandra Day O’Connor

200

This is the term for a bicycle built for more than one person.

Tandem Bike

200

 This layered pasta dish is often made in a rectangular pan with large, flat pasta strips, tomato sauce, meat, and cheese.

Lasagna

200

A Rubik’s Cube has this number of sides.

6

400

This essential oil comes from a spring and summer flower and helps induce sleep.

Lavendar

400

This is the surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant on a human.

Christian Bernard

400

This journalist wrote an exposé on Playboy bunnies in the ’60s. She was the youthful face of the Women’s Liberation Movement and a pioneer in the feminist movement.

Gloria Steinem

400

This is a cycle with only one wheel.

Unicycle

400

Name one of America’s three favorite pasta types.

Spaghetti, penne, or rotini

400

Absorbed by plants and exhaled by animals, CO2 is also known by this name

Carbon Dioxide

600

This over-the-counter steroidal cream helps with skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, and rashes.

Hydrocortisone or cortisone

600

Invented in 1960, this technology produces a very narrow beam of light that is useful in many technologies and instruments.

Laser

600

She was the first female prime minister of Israel.

Golds Meir

600

When riding on rough terrain, cyclists ride this type of bike.

Mountain Bike

600

Pasta was first eaten in this country.

China

600

This is the term for the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter

What is pi?

800

This pink lotion is used on insect bites and stings.

Calamine

800

In 1969, this scientific process to conceive a child was first achieved by medical researchers.

IVF

800

She is remembered as one of the best jazz vocalists of all time and as an actress who appeared with Duke Ellington in the film Symphony in Black.

Billie Holiday

800

In 1963, Schwinn introduced a bicycle with this elongated seat.

Banana Seat

800

This founding father is said to have brought pasta to America.

Thomas Jefferson

800

This is the only number that cannot be written in Roman numerals.

0

1000

This flowering shrub native to eastern North America can be used as a facial astringent.

Witch hazel

1000

Richard Feynman, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, and Julian Schwinger won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for their work in this field.

Quantum Electrodynamics

1000

She is an East German-born figure skater who went on to become a two-time Olympic gold medalist after participating in the Olympic games in Sarajevo and Calgary.

Katarina Witt (Vitt)

1000

In 1901, these pants were the proper attire for bicycle riding.

Knickerbockers (bloomers)

1000

In Italy, this type of wheat is used to make commercially sold pasta.

What is durum or semolina?

1000

H2O2 stands for this molecule

Hydrogen peroxide