American History
his 1947 program provided massive U.S. economic aid to rebuild war-torn Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This body of water lies between Florida and Cuba.
What is the Straits of Florida (or the Gulf of Mexico region)?
This 1939 adventure classic, based on a children’s book, starred child actress Shirley Temple in an earlier decade… instead, name this: What 1939 film is often paired with “Gone with the Wind” as a landmark of Hollywood’s golden year, starring Judy Garland?
What is The Wizard of Oz?
This singer-songwriter released “You’ve Got a Friend,” also famously covered by James Taylor.
Who is Carole King?
This type of rock forms from cooled and hardened magma or lava
What is igneous rock?
This 1948-1949 event saw the U.S. and allies fly supplies into a blockaded city.
Who is The Berlin Airlift?
This Middle Eastern country is home to the ancient city of Jerusalem.
What is Israel?
This 1940 Disney animated film tells the story of a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.
What is Pinocchio?
This folk-rock singer wrote “Fire and Rain” in 1970.
Who is James Taylor?
This type of rock forms from compressed layers of sediment over time.
What is sedimentary rock?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This is the longest river in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
This 1942 animated Disney film tells the story of a young deer who loses his mother.
What is Bambi?
This band, known for harmony vocals, sang “Take It Easy” and “Hotel California.”
Who are The Eagles?
This scientist developed the polio vaccine using a live, weakened virus, taken orally rather than by injection.
Who is Albert Sabin?
This bus boycott in Alabama, sparked by Rosa Parks’s arrest, lasted over a year in 1955-1956.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This mountain in Tanzania is the tallest peak in Africa.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This 1950 Disney animated film retells a fairy tale about a mistreated girl and a glass slipper.
What is Cinderella?
This singer-songwriter had a 1971 hit with “American Pie,” a nine minute song that topped the charts.
Who is Don McLean?
This gas, essential to breathing, makes up about 21 percent of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
This 1957 event in Little Rock, Arkansas, involved nine Black students integrating a high school.
What is the Little Rock Nine (crisis)?
This narrow country in South America stretches along the western coast of the continent.
What is Chile?
This 1959 Disney animated film features a princess cursed to sleep for 100 years.
What is Sleeping Beauty?
This husband-and-wife folk duo sang “I Got You Babe” before pursuing solo careers.
Who is Sonny and Cher?
This organ in the human body produces insulin to regulate blood sugar.
What is the pancreas?