Summer Films
Chevy Chase takes his family on a cross country trip to a closed amusement park in California.
What is National Lampoon's Summer Vacation?
A term that describes an overheated real estate market or something you might find in a bathtub.
What is a bubble?
Historians credit both James Pillans, a teacher in Edinburgh, Scotland, and West Point instructor George Baron for first using this popular teacher tool in the early 19th century. No one knows who was the first student assigned to clap the erasers clean.
What is a chalk board?
Researchers at the University of Hawaii once calculated that Earth's shorelines contain seven quintrllion five quadrillion grains of this stuff, not to mention the amount that ends up in your clothes dryer.
What is sand?
This country declared its independence on the day World War II ended and then spent almost a decade fighting France to secure it.
What is Viet Nam?
This movie features a visitor from another planet with a special interest in telephony. Members of its species had a brief cameo in the Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace.
What is E.T.?
These "wascally" creatures live in underground tunnels known as "warrens."
What is a rabbit?
Founded in 1635, the first public school in the U.S. was modeled after the Free Grammar School of Boston, England.
What is Boston Latin?
This movie's famous love scene between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Carr took place on Halona Beach Cove on Oahu.
What is From Here to Eternity?
Many observers claim the British Empire came to an end when it ceded control of this Asian outpost to China in 1997.
What is Hong Kong?
According to writer Carl Gottlieb, actor Roy Schneider ad libbed the movie's most famous line, "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
What is Jaws?
A popular companion for corned beef on St. Patrick's Day.
What is cabbage?
This standardized exam had its origins from an intelligence test given to army recruits in the 1920s.
What is the SAT?
All of the founders of this band were family relations, except for singer Al Jardine.
Who were The Beach Boys?
With the signing of the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty in 1836, this country became the first former Spanish colony to receive its independence.
What is Mexico?
In his review of this 1967 movie, Roger Ebert praised the acting and the directing, but disliked the songs sung by Simon and Garfunkel, calling them "limp" and "wordy."
What is The Graduate?
While you might easily confuse this word with a popular game involving floating apples, it is actually a cylinder or cone used for holding thread for sewing.
What is a bobbin?
This musician's ode to the end of the school year reached #7 on the Billboard 100 in 1972.
Who was Alice Cooper?
This state has the longest coastline in the U.S.
What is Alaska?
Leopold the First turned down an offer to become the king of Greece after it won its independence, choosing instead the throne of this country which broke away from the Netherlands in 1830.
What is Belgium?
Matthew McConaughey is featured in this "coming of age" movie in Austin, Texas which take place on the same day as Mom's 43rd birthday.
What is Dazed and Confused?
Purina claims it was the first company to introduce this form of food when it began selling "Dog Chow" in 1956.
What is kibble?
Although its 1868 Constitution provided for free public education, it took this southern state 50 years to make it compulsory, the last in the United States to do so.
What is Mississippi?
Neil Simon's Eugene Trilogy begins with a play named after a famous beach in Brooklyn.
What is Brighton Beach Memoirs?
Although this country officially became independent of U.S. control on July 4th, 1946, its official Independence Day takes place on June 12, when it declared its independence from Spain in 1898.
What are the Phillipines?