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Sample questions that go with the picture above and the associated sound on the CD or tape:
- How are the eggs in the photograph being prepared?
- Can you remember waking up as a child to the smell of eggs frying? What did the kitchen look like? What did you like to wear eating breakfast? What else did your mother serve for breakfast with eggs? What things have you done with eggs besides cooking them (Easter egg coloring, egg hunts, egg rolling, egg-throwing contest ... )?
- What were your favorite foods that your mother made for you as a child? What made the food so special? How did you feel waiting in anticipation for it to be served?
- When you ate dinner with your family, were there any special table manners you had to observe? What were they?
- What food were you best at preparing? Describe how you made this dish.
- What slang used the word "food" or types of food in the saying? ("Food for thought," "Don't upset the applecart," "Bring home the bacon," "You can't have your cake and eat it too," "They sold like hotcakes," "Life is a bowl of cherries."
- If you could choose any food in the world, and eat as much of it as you like without getting sick, what food would you choose that to be?
Trivia
The largest omelet ever made used 54,763 eggs with 531 pounds of cheese cooked in a 30-foot skillet. The omelet had an area of 706 square feet and was cooked by Michael McGowan and staff in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 25, 1986.
Sample questions that go with the picture above and the associated sound on the CD or tape:
- When you were growing up, did your family own a radio? Did the family have a particular show they all listened to together? What was it? What were other shows to which you regularly listened? (The Shadow, The Bickersons, Jack Benny's Lights Out...) Did your family like any shows you didn't? How did they make those radio shows sound real with sound effects like walking steps, door knocking, raindrops, ...?
- Where did you go to learn about important news before radio? Did you stand outside the town newspaper office and wait for the editors to hold up signs to the crowd? What was that like?
- What were the most memorable announcements you ever heard on the radio? (The crash of the Hindenburg, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" -- Roosevelt announcing the U.S. entry into WWII, The War of the Worlds -- Orson Welles, the day the Giants won the pennnant...) What announcement was the most frightening? What was the most exciting? What were you doing at that time?
- Do you remember any old radio commercials? ("Ivory soap, the soap that floats," "Experience is the best teacher," "Doctors recommend Camel," J.E.L.L.O. spells treat," "Swan the white floating soap that's pure as fine castille," ""That good Gulf gasoline"...)
- Who were your favorite radio personalities? Ed Wynn, Will Rogers, Jimmy Durante, Burns & Allen, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Bob & Ray, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Groucho Marx, Minnie Pearl, Rudy Vallee, Nat "King" Cole, Kate Smith, Major Edward Bowes, Abbott and Costello...)
- What were some of the famous radio feuds? (Jack Benny vs. Fred Allen, W.C. Fields vs. Charlie McCarthy, ...)
- Did you enjoy listening to sports broadcasts or quiz shows? Please name a few. (Name that Tune, Can You Top This, What's My Line...)
- Is the radio different now? What do you miss about "those good old radio days"? Do you listen to the radio now? What shows do you enjoy to listen?
- Which radio star or personality would you like to have been? Why?
- If you could be a radio announcer, what kind of show would you have? Would you be a singer, comedian, talk show host, political or sport commentator, weather or news reporter, etc.? If on the radio you could tell the world anything you wanted to say, what would that be?
Trivia
The world record for continuous talking is 360 hours set by S.E. Jeyaraman at Madras, India, from June 8 to 23, 1989. The women's record was set at a radio station in Buffalo, New York, starting on September 2, 1958, and continuing for 110 hours, 30 minutes, and 5 seconds, until September 7.
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