Influential People
Anne Frank and her family hid in an attic in this city.
What is Amsterdam?
This protective accessory, designed for the US Air Force, became a huge fashion trend.
What are aviator sunglasses?
This well-known parody character played Adolf Hitler in the 1940 satire "The Great Dictator."
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
I'm taking a picture, say "____!"
What is cheese?
Tora! Tora! Tora! A fleet of these planes made up a majority of the assault on Pearl Harbor.
What is the Mitsubishi A6M Zero?
He was the US president at the start of the 1940s.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This was the first mass-produced antibiotic drug.
What is penicillin?
This 1940 Disney song, "When you Wish Upon a Star", is from this movie.
What is Pinocchio?
Mmmm I'm hungry for some "Liberty Steaks"!
What are burgers?
This notable fighter plane has a 1650-mile range, made possible by the external fuel tanks added to the wings. This is also my mom's favorite plane.
What is the North American P-51 Mustang?
This was Princess Elizabeth's profession in WWII.
What is a truck driver and mechanic?
This was invented by George de Mestral in 1940 after his dog came in from a walk covered in burs.
What is Velcro?
This 1946 movie starring James Stewart and Donna Reed has become a Christmas classic.
What is "It's a Wonderful Life"?
Let's go "cut a rug"!
What is dancing?
This was the first operational American night fighter, was the first WW2 plane to use radar, and is credited with the last aircraft kill of the war.
What is the Northrop P-61 Black Widow?
He broke the sound barrier for the first time in history in 1947 in a Bell X-1.
Who is Charles Yeager?
This invention revolutionized communication in the 1940s.
What is the transistor?
This iconic Disney character made his first big screen appearance in the 1947 movie "Rescue Dog."
Who is Pluto?
How much "lettuce" and "clams" have you got?
What is money?
Based on evidence from damaged aircraft, Abraham Wald developed this theory, which resulted in more armor being added to the aircraft engines instead of the wings and fuselage.
What is Survivorship Bias?
He became the leader of China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The Ferrantini Mark 1 was the first commercially available version of this now common item.
What is a computer?
This 1942 film has the line "Here's looking at you, kid."
What is Casablanca?
It's time for this category to "take a powder".
What is to leave?
These two letters were the designations for photo-reconnaissance and pursuit aircraft, respectively.
What is F and P?