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The only U.S. prez elected more than two times (and a man honored with a monument near Jefferson in DC).
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
100
Green powerfood of the Pacific Northwest tribes that we sampled at the Museum of American Indian.
What is seaweed?
100
Old sage who encouraged Jefferson and chased ladies around Philly during the summer of 1776.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
An odd ally of the USA during WW2 (and our future rival during the Cold War).
Whos is the Soviet Union?
100
The Obama daughters.
Who are Sasha and Malia?
200
Youngest man ever to be elected prez.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
Friend of Jake's that we danced with at the Madamme Tousiaant's Wax Museum.
Who is Michael Jackson?
200
The name given to the opening passage of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
200
An attack here forced the U.S. to get into a war that President Roosevelt was trying very hard to avoid.
What is Pearl Harbor?
200
USA's top golfer and #1 native golfer were classmates at Stanford in northern Cal.
Who are Tiger Woods and Notah Begay?
300
Bush Sr., Clinton or Obama - the one who has NOT been prez in your lifetime.
Who is Papa Bush?
300
The best pizza in DC (and a great place to watch hoops).
What is Uno's?
300
Banning slavery, lowering the voting age to 18, limiting a prez to two terms and the Bill of Rights are all examples of this.
What are amendments to the Constitution?
300
Number of orginal Code Talkers.
What is 29?
300
Young sidekick of MLK who ran for prez in 1984 and cried tears of joy on Election night 2008 in Chicago.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
400
Lewis & Clark, the Declaration of Independence and the Presidency are all connected to this two-term, red-headed Virginian.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
Three U.S. presidents who have major monuments in Washington.
Who are Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson?
400
Madison's plan to allow each state two Senators and give them a number of Representatives based on their population.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
The final acts of WW2 in the Pacific were the dropping of atomic weapons on these two Japanese cities.
What are Hirsohima and Nagasaki?
400
Longest war in American history.
What is Afghanistan?
500
1980's two-term prez who helped to end the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
The building in which the Senate and the House of Representatives meet.
What is the Capitol?
500
The King of England during the American Revolution and the term given to his supporters in the American colonies.
Who is King George III and who are the Loyalists/Tories?
500
Before the US entered the war, this Euro country was hanging on for dear life against the Nazis, who by that time, had conquered most of the continent.
What is Great Britain?
500
Book that President Bush was reading to 1st graders in Florida when the September 11 attacks went down.
What is "My Pet Goat"?
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