Valentine's Day
These flowers are most commonly given on Valentine’s Day.
What are roses?
People once rented these to watch movies at home, before dvd's.
What are VHS tapes?
The famous U.S. statue holds a torch and welcomes visitors to New York.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This tool is used to cut wood by hand.
What is a saw?
This plastic card lets you buy now and pay later.
What is a credit card?
Something a dog wags.
What is tail?
This greeting card is traditionally exchanged on this day.
What is a valentine?
These were commonly used to make phone calls before smartphones, cordless phones, and push button phones.
What is a rotary phone?
A colorful arc in the sky that appears after rain.
What is a rainbow?
This hand tool is used to drive nails into wood.
What is a hammer?
The amount charged for borrowing money.
What is interest?
A being from another world.
What is alien?
The small pastel-colored candies, with sayings like "Be Mine," " "Kiss Me," and "Cutie Pie"
What are Sweethearts Candy?
People went here to watch movies outdoors in summer, while parked in their cars.
What is a drive-in theater?
These ice formations hang from roofs in winter.
What are icicles?
A clogged sink is often cleared using this rubber tool.
What is a plunger?
Money you must pay to the government.
What are taxes?
Morally bad or wicked.
What is evil?
This symbolic figure of love comes from Roman mythology.
Who is Cupid?
People used these to keep food cold before electric refrigerators.
What is an icebox?
The Italian city famous for canals and gondolas.
What is Venice?
An instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal or vertical.
What is a level?
A record of money taken out of your bank account.
What is a withdrawal?
A piece of clothing worn to obscure the face.
What is veil?
This is often given in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.
What is assorted chocolates?
These portable magnetic devices were used to store computer data before USB drives and cloud storage.
What are floppy disks?
A three-dimensional solid object with all sides and edges equal and angles uniform.
What is a cube?
This material is used to fill small holes or cracks in walls.
What is spackling or joint compound?
Money given to help support someone or something, like a charity.
What is a donation?
A small container, often for medicine or samples.
What is vial?
This symbol is often pierced by an arrow in Valentine imagery.
What is a heart?
Kids once used these to record their favorite songs from the radio.
What is a cassette recorder?
The natural formation made by wind or water in sand or or other loose sediment, often shaped like a wave.
What is a dune?
This tool is used to hold pieces together while glue dries.
What is a clamp?
This type of interest is calculated on both the original principal and accumulated interest.
What is compound interest?
To create something new through ingenuity.
What is invent?
This saint was reportedly executed for secretly marrying couples to prevent men from going to war.
Who is Saint Valentine?
A hand-operated, analog calculating device used for multiplication, division, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry, primarily used by scientists and engineers before electronic calculators.
What is slide rule?
A series of concentric waves radiating outward after an object hits water.
What are ripples?
This tool tightens bolts with a ratcheting motion.
What is a socket wrench?
The gradual reduction in value of an asset for accounting or tax purposes.
What is depreciation?
Innocent due to lack of experience.
What is naive?
This U.S. city claims to send more Valentine’s cards than any other.
What is Loveland, Colorado?
This technology allowed typewritten letters to be sent over long distances before email and the fax machine.
What is a teletype machine?
A shadow or dark outline cast on a surface, often creating a recognizable shape.
What is a silhouette?
This device keeps water from overflowing in a toilet tank.
What is a float?
This term describes how quickly an asset can be converted into cash.
What is liquidity?
To involve something as a necessary part or consequence.
What is entail?
One month later, this holiday is celebrated in several countries as a follow-up to Valentine’s Day.
What is White Day?
Once common in offices, this machine duplicated documents by pressing ink through a stencil.
What is a mimeograph?
A mineral formation that hangs from the ceiling of caves.
What is a stalactite?
This safety device prevents shocks by cutting power when a fault is detected.
What is a GFCI outlet?
This ratio compares what you owe to what you earn and is often used by lenders.
What is the debt-to-income ratio?
A narrow body of water leading inland.
What is inlet?
An ancient, chaotic Roman fertility festival believed to influence Valentine’s Day traditions.
What is Lupercalia?
These were the foundational technology for 20th-century electronics, used to amplify, switch, and rectify electrical signals before being largely replaced by transistors
What are vacuum tubes?
Pouch-like, udder-shaped cloud structures that hang underneath the base of a cloud, usually a cumulonimbus anvil, signaling severe weather or strong convection.
What are mammatus clouds?
A hardware component designed to prevent nuts and bolts from loosening due to vibration, torque, or thermal expansion.
What is a lock washer.
This legal arrangement allows one party to manage money for another’s benefit.
What is a trust?
Stylish energy or confident enthusiasm.
What is elan?