Schneider Family Lore
When the three brothers used to sneak making chocolate chip cookies as kids, they substituted this ingredient for baking soda.
What is regular soda?
This is the capital of California.
What is Sacramento?
This is the sound a duck makes.
What is quack?
Google's equivalent of Microsoft Outlook and a person who delivers your packages.
What is Gmail man?
On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, people eat apples dipped in this.
What is honey?
This is the landmark where Uncle Mike got lost during a sabbatical Grandpa Arthur took to Italy. Extra points if you can name the treat he was given to cheer him up afterwards.
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
Extra: Ice Cream
This is the year when a huge influx of people came to California as part of the gold rush. It is also the namesake of a Bay Area football team.
When is 1849?
This is what someone in the UK might call a line at a shop.
What is a queue?
A raunchy cartoon featuring Eric Cartman and an expensive Monopoly property.
What is South Park Place?
Some cities around the world are replacing new year fireworks with these, coordinated displays in the sky of flying robots.
What are drone shows?
Uncles Mike and Dan are this many years and days apart in age, the same as Ben and Joe.
What is 1 year and 11 days?
These two former governors of California were also movie stars.
Who are Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger?
This is the only legal two-letter Scrabble word that starts with a Q.
What is qi?
A Marvel superhero who has an assistant named Jarvis and the nickname for a DC superhero from the planet Krypton.
What is Iron Man of steel?
In Denmark, people will jump off this at midnight in order to "jump into the new year".
What is a chair or sofa?
Joe dropped Uncle Dan's water bottle into this animal's enclosure at the zoo, forcing him to jump in to retrieve it.
What is a lion?
Silent film actors like Charlie Chaplin shot many movies in this Fremont neighborhood, also nicknamed "America's First Hollywood".
What is Niles?
This is a polygon with four sides.
What is a quadrilateral?
A popular Costco foodcourt item and a torched ice cream dessert with a state in its name.
What is chicken baked alaska?
A new year tradition in Spain is to eat 12 of these for good luck.
What are grapes?
This actor was involved in a jeans design competition won by Uncle Ron as a kid.
Who is Henry Winkler?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and resulted in California becoming U.S. territory.
What is the Treaty of Gualalupe Hidalgo?
This is the only country whose name starts with a Q.
What is Qatar?
Half of the SNL Weekend Update hosts and a Cuban revolutionary.
What is Michael Che Geuvara?
The Chinese year of this animal will begin on February 17, 2026. We are currently in the year of the Snake.
What is a horse?