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100

Famous author of “Letter From Birmingham Jail”.

Who is MLK? 

100

The American Civil War started in this state.

What is South Carolina?

100

This president famously got stuck in a bathtub.

Who was William Howard Taft? 

100

U.S. President’s extramarital relationship with a White House intern.

What is the Clinton Lewinsky scandal?

100

Cover-up of a break-in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters.

What is Watergate?

200

The birth name of Martin Luther King Jr.

What is Michael King Jr.?


200

This was the leading cause of death for soldiers in the Civil War.

What is disease? 

200

This president held the shortest term in American history.

Who was William Henry Harrison? 

200

The Treasury Secretary accused of financial speculation, admits an extramarital affair.

Who was Alexander Hamilton? 

200

Scandal involving administration officials secretly selling weapons to Iran.

What is the Iran-Contra Affair?


300

Name of the group who organized the 1963 March on Washington.

What is the Big Six?


300

Who was President of the south during the Civil War? 

Who was Jefferson Davis? 
300

The shortest US president. 

Who was James Madison?

300

He was removed from his position after leaking information in a group chat. 

Who is Mike Waltz? 

300

Congressman imprisoned for bribery and racketeering, known for ending speeches with “beam me up”—a Star Trek reference.

Who is James Traficant?


400

The case that decided “separate but equal.”

What is Plessy v. Ferguson? 

400

She was the first woman to execute a US military operation.

Who was Harriet Tubman? 

400

The only president to never marry.

Who was James Buchanan? 

400

Drove his car into a lake, killing the passenger.

Who was Tim Kennedy?

400

The infamous route via which Indigenous Americans were removed from their homelands.

What is the Trail of Tears? 

500

Length of the Montgomery bus boycott following Rosa Parks’s arrest.

What is 381 days? 

500

The only female Medal of Honor recipient, earned during the Civil War.

Who is Mary Edwards Walker? 

500

The only president to receive a patent. 

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

500

This term refers to the firing of 11 federal prosecutors for not prosecuting Democrats.

What is Lawyergate? 

500

Group of five US senators implicated in a 1989 corruption scandal.

Who are the Keating Five? 

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