Give it the ole College Try
A 20th Century Decade
5 Letter Countries
What the Blank?
The Sandwich Generation
400

The first college in the United States

Harvard

400

The first humans to land on the moon

1960s

400

It stretches southward to Cape Horn along western South America

Chile

400
Literally it's a bank draft that is signed but with the amount left empty

Blank check

400

Hey youse guys! U.S. News raved about this sandwich from John's Roast Pork in Philadelphia

Cheesesteak

800

This college graduated the first law school class in the US, their inaugural valedictorian? Thomas Jefferson

William & Mary

800

Joe McCarthy is officially censured by the US Senate

1950s

800

Gaining independence in 1804 from France it was the second country in North America to free themselves from colonial rule

Haiti

800

Standard versions of this board game have 2 blank tiles that can be any letter but are worth zero points

Scrabble

800

This corned beef & Swiss sandwich bearing a man's name can be served cold or grilled

Reuben

1200

A court used at colleges to handle disciplinary hearings.

Integrity board

1200

World War II begins in Europe

1930s

1200

An associate country to Italy, but they aren't owned by them.

Malta

1200

This phrase meaning to be failed by your memory probably comes from a lottery where losing tickets had nothing written on them. It's also a colloquial term for forgetting something.

Draw a blank

1200

Down in Miami try this nationality named grilled sandwich with ham pork cheese & pickles

Cuban

1600

This Father of Texas has two colleges named after him

Stephen F Austin

1600

The Soviet Union is dissolved

1990s

1600

The only country with a non rectangular flag

Nepal

1600

A documentary about this game show hosted by Gene Rayburn & later Alec Baldwin is subtitled Behind the Blank

Match Game

1600

Arby's says it put this sandwich filling on the map

Roast Beef

2000

A sportswriter used the term ivy colleges in 1933 to describe 9 schools - the current 8 ivies and this school in upstate New York

The US Military Academy at West Point

2000

ENIAC, the worlds first general purpose digital computer is built

1940s

2000

In the 19th century this middle eastern county fell under the control of the Al Thani Dynasty, who rules there to this day as one of the biggest oil producers in the world

Qatar

2000

Author John Milton used this unrhymed pentameter in Paradise Lost

Blank Verse

2000

Sliced meat torpedo sandwich rolls (split) & cans of beef consomme are keys in a French this

Dip

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