Pre-Presidential Careers
History of Sports
Geological History
Art History
100
Which President was a planter, surveyor, and army general before he was President?
George Washington
100
Where did the Olympic Games originate?
Ancient Greece
100
Are we currently living in the Quaternary Period or the Jurassic Period in geologic history?
Quaternary Period
100
What type of art are these examples of? They do not depict a specific subjects or people, but rather are just shapes, lines, and colors.
Abstract Art
200
Which President was a rancher, soldier, governor of New York, and Vice President under William McKinley?
Theodore Roosevelt
200
Abner Doubleday is credited with inventing what national pastime in 1839?
Baseball
200
When did dinosaurs become the dominant land animals: during the Cambrian Period or the Jurassic Period?
Jurassic Period
200
Who created these?
Leonardo da Vinci
300
What President was a farmer, soldier, haberdasher, judge, US senator, and Vice President before he took office?
Harry S Truman
300
Who invented lacrosse?
Native North Americans
300
What is the name of the supercontinent that broke up into our current 7 continents?
Pangea
300
What type of art is this?
Petroglyphs
400
Which President was an engineer and Secretary of Commerce under Warren G. Harding?
Herbert Hoover
400
Illegal production and transportation of alcohol during Prohibition led to what modern-day sport?
NASCAR / auto racing
400
About how old is the Earth: 4.6 million years, 4.6 billion years, or 4.6 trillion years?
4.6 billion years
400
Who painted these artworks?
Andy Warhol
500
Which President was a lawyer and governor of Arkansas before he was President?
Bill Clinton
500
Norwegian Olaf Rye flew 31 feet in 1808 to record the first ever instance of what winter sport?
Ski Jumping
500
In the geologic time scale, which is longer: an eon or an era?
Eon
500
What do we call the major artistic and cultural movement that began in Italy in the 1400s and ran through the 1700s? It signaled the end to the Middle Ages.
Renaissance