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100

The war fought between the Northern and Southern states of the U.S. from 1861-1865

The Civil War

100

The number of strikes to strike out in baseball


3

100

A television cowboy show starring Clayton Moore as a masked hero fighting injustice in the Old West 

The Lone Ranger 

100

A monument standing in New York Harbor, gifted by France in 1884

The Statue of Liberty


100

This dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.

Fahrenheit 451


200

The U.S. president during World War II

Franklin D Roosevelt


200

This baseball player is known as "The Sultan of Swat"

Babe Ruth


200

This film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, features an intense shower scene that has inspired several other films


Psycho

 

200

The style of American art in the 1950s and 60s featuring bold colors and comic book imagery

Pop Art

200

The author of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

Mark Twain


300

This event on December 7, 1941 led the U.S. to enter World War II 

Pearl Harbor

300

The first African American player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier

Jackie Robinson


300

This iconic actress starred in the 1953 film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”


Marilyn Monroe


300

This American painter is famous for his paintings of Campbell's Soup Cans

Andy Warhol

300

This Harper Lee novel about racial injustice in the South won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 


To Kill a Mockingbird


400

The U.S. policy of providing aid to European countries after WWII

The Marshall Plan

400

This boxer is known as "The Greatest", and he refused military induction in 1967

Muhammad Ali


400

This TV show premiered in 1964, featuring a family living at 1313 Mockingbird Lane


The Munsters 

400

This American artist is famous for painting everyday scenes of diners, gas stations, and city streets in mid-century America

Edward Hopper

400

This 1920s novel ends with the quote: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"


The Great Gatsby


500

The 1962 standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union over nuclear missiles

The Cuban Missile Crisis

500

The team that won the first Super Bowl in 1967


Green Bay Packers 

500

This variety show host from early 1950s TV is known as "Mr. Television"

Milton Berle


500

This New York art movement of the late 1940s and 50s includes painters like Jackson Pollock who dripped paint onto canvas 


Abstract Expressionism

500

The poet that wrote "The Road Not Taken"


"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both"

Robert Frost

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