OLYMPICS
Actor Johnny Weissmuller won 5 gold medals in what sport?
SWIMMING
During which inning is "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" traditionally sung?
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is traditionally sung during the seventh-inning stretch.
A STRUCTURE MADE USING BUCKETS AND WET SAND
SANDCASTLES
This is the national bird of the United States.
AMERICAN EAGLE
WHAT CELEBRITY MADE HEADLINES AROUND THE WORLD ON AUGUST 17TH, 1977
ELVIS PRESLEY DIED
THE SUMMER OLYMPICS WERE CANCELLED 3 TIMES, NAME ONE YEAR.
World wars led to the cancellation of the 1916, 1940, and 1944 Games.
Against what opposing team did Babe Ruth hit his first career home run?
While playing for the Boston Red Sox, Babe Ruth hit his first career home run against the New York Yankees on May 6, 1915.
THE BEACHES OF MILWAUKEE RUN ALONG WHAT LAKE
LAKE MICHIGAN
SHE DESIGNED THE FIRST FLAG
BETSY ROSS
World Series Champions
New York Yankees
WHAT COUNTRY BOYCOTTED THE 1980 OLYMPICS?
THE UNITED STATES
BEFORE THEY WERE NAMED FOR THEIR HOSIERY, THIS AMERICAN LEAGUE TEAM WAS KNOWN SIMPLY AS THE AMERICANS.
THE (BOSTON) RED SOX
In 1935 a race car went 277 MPH on this Florida beach; now there's an international speedway in town
DAYTONA
The only member of the Continental Congress to formally sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776.
John Hancock
* 8:37 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 13 with a lightning strike at Buchanan South, a substation on the Hudson River, tripping two circuit breakers in Buchanan, New York.
*A second lightning strike caused the loss of two 345 kV transmission lines
*At 8:55 p.m. EDT, there was another lightning strike at the Sprain Brook substation in Yonkers, which took out two additional critical transmission lines
New York City blackout of 1977 (JULY 13)
AN OLYMPIC GOLD METAL IS MADE UP OF MOSTLE WHAT METAL?
92.5% SILVER
LAST SOLID GOLD METAL WAS AWARDED IN 1912
Babe Ruth was the first to wear No. 3 for the Yankees; this man was their first No. 4
LOU GEHRIG
Don't put a beached whale or dolphin back in the water; keep it wet cool & shaded & don't cover this nostril
BLOWHOLE
On July 4, 1826 On the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the declaration...these two giants of the declaration both died.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
It was a summer when a serial killer stalked young, brown-haired women with a pistol The papers had dubbed him "The .44 Caliber Killer."
Son of Sam.
THIS FAMILIAR OBJECT FIRST APPEARED DURING THE 1920 OLYMPICS
Created in 1914 by Pierre de Coubertin, the Olympic flag was first flown during the 1920 Olympic Games.
In 2016 Cleveland's hopes died as this team won it all for the first time since the year Grover Cleveland died
THE (CHICAGO) CUBS
The red sand of Maui's Kaihalulu Beach is due to a high concentration of this metallic element
IRON
HOW MANY MEN SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?
56
JUNE 14TH
CHRIS GRADUATED