Cookout & comfort classics
You’re at a summer cookout filling up your plate. You get a hot dog, baked beans, and a slice of watermelon. What classic side dish made with elbow pasta and baked melted cheese is almost certainly missing from your plate?
Macaroni and Cheese
In a game of Double Dutch, if you have two jumpers in the middle, how many total people are minimum required to run the game properly?
4 people (2 turners + 2 jumpers)
If you eat a whole bag of Takis or Flamin' Hot Cheetos, what happens to your fingertips that gives away what you were eating?
They turn bright red / covered in red dust
In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Miles Morales spray-paints his suit to make it unique from Peter Parker's. What two main colors is Miles' suit?
Black and Red
During the "Cha Cha Slide," when the song calls out "Criss Cross!", what are your feet supposed to do?
Jump and cross your legs/feet over each other
If a family recipe calls for butter, sugar, sweet potatoes, nutmeg, and a pie crust, what famous dessert are you baking for the holidays?
Sweet Potato Pie
You walk into the corner store with $2.00. A bag of chips is $1.25 and a drink is $1.00. Without taking tax into account, how much more money do you need to buy both?
25 cents ($0.25)
What popular pouch drink has a foil circle on the front where you have to carefully poke the sharp end of a straw without pushing it all the way through the back?
Capri Sun
In The Lion King, Mufasa tells Simba that everything the light touches is their kingdom. What dark, shady place does he explicitly forbid Simba from ever visiting?
The Elephant Graveyard
In the famous song "Baby Shark," how many generations of the shark family are mentioned in the lyrics (starting from Baby Shark up to the grandparents)?
(Baby, Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, Grandpa)
At a cookout, there is one specific item in a large cooler that everyone knows never to open unless they are getting a drink, because doing it too often melts all the ice. What is it?
The cooler lid (or drink cooler)
If your mom says, "Money doesn't grow on trees," what is she actually telling you when you ask for a new pair of shoes?
You have to work hard for money / it isn't free or unlimited
You have a blue ice pop in a plastic sleeve. If it's frozen solid and you don't have scissors, what is the standard trick kids use to open the top plastic seal?
Bite it off with your teeth
What is the name of the fictional, technologically advanced African country hidden from the world in Marvel's Black Panther?
Wakanda
Finish these classic party line dance lyrics: "To the left, to the left, to the right, to the right, to the front, to the front, to the back, to the back, now..."
"...kick, now kick!" (or "slide")
Which famous fried chicken side dish is made from cabbage, mayonnaise, and carrots, and serves as the cold, crunchy contrast to warm chicken?
Coleslaw
What playground game requires one person to close their eyes and count by tens up to 100 while everyone else runs to find a spot before "Ready or not, here I come"?
Hide and Seek
Which famous cookie requires you to twist the top half off if you want to scrape the cream off with your teeth first?
Oreo
In SpongeBob SquarePants, Plankton is constantly trying to steal a secret written recipe. What specific sandwich is that recipe for?
The Krabby Patty
What song from Disney's Frozen has the famous line where Elsa sings about the cold never bothering her anyway?
"Let It Go"
You are making home-cooked soul food and need a green leaf vegetable that is slow-cooked in a big pot for hours with smoked meat and broth. Name either of the two most common types used.
Collard Greens or Mustard Greens (Turnip greens accepted)
If you hear someone say "Step on a crack, you'll break your mother's back," what city structure are you walking on?
The sidewalk
Name the sour-then-sweet candy whose commercials feature little chewy mascot figures getting into mischievous trouble before turning nice.
Sour Patch Kids
In Disney’s Encanto, Antonio receives a magical gift that allows him to talk to animals. What is the name of his older cousin who can shape-shift into other people?
Camilo
In the hit song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto, what family member sings about her wedding day being ruined by Bruno predicting rain?
Pepa (Aunt Pepa)