Founding History
Despite popular belief, the Declaration of Independence was signed on ______
What is the turkey?
The first nation to establish a bill of rights.
What is the U.S.A?
The official address of the White House.
What is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW?
America celebrated its Bicentennial in this year.
What is 1976
Fill in the blank: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and ________________________________, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
What is "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity"?
This president supposedly got stuck in the White House bathtub.
William Howard Taft
The United States has produced more Nobel Prize winners than every other country. Name the university that has produced the most American Nobel laureates.
What is Harvard University?
This statue stands atop the Capitol.
What is the Statue of Freedom?
This patriotic song debuted at the 1939 New York World's Fair before becoming an American classic.
What is "God Bless America"?
This state is known as the "First State" because it was first to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware?
The Senate's famous "Candy Desk" is traditionally stocked by senators from this state.
What is Pennsylvania?
This president famously kept a flock of sheep on the White House lawn to graze the grass and raise funds for the Red Cross during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This city served as the temporary capital while DC was under construction.
What is Philadelphia?
This president was the first to celebrate the 4th of July from the White House.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The nickname of the detailed notes James ______ took at the Constitutional Convention which are the primary reason historians know what happened behind its closed doors.
What is Madison's Minutes?
This founding father was thought to be a serial killer when 1,200 bone fragments from at least 15 bodies were found in his London house in 1998.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This internet phenomenon became possible largely because this state's broad public records laws make bizarre arrest reports easy for reporters to find.
Who is "Florida man"?
This state is designated as a "street" rather than an avenue here in D.C..
What is California?
Congress made Independence Day one of the nation's first four federal holidays in 1870. Name the other three.
What is Christmas Day, New Year's Day, or Thanksgiving?
This delegate delivered more than 170 speeches during the Constitutional Convention but rarely spoke publicly afterward because of his speech impediment.
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
In 1919, Boston was flooded with more than two million gallons of this substance and became known as one of the strangest disasters in American History.
What are molasses?
This American company has supplied the hot dogs served at every presidential inauguration since the Roosevelt administration.
What is Nathan's Famous?
This noctural flying animal became DC's official district animal after the successful lobbying by local Girl Scouts in 2020.
What is the Big Brown Bat?
The world record of fireworks may be beat this Fourth of July by the White House when they shoot of _____ fireworks.
What is 851,000?