American History Since 1865
The first woman to become US Secretary of State. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton.
Who is Madeleine Albright.
A group of presidential advisors, composed of the heads of the fourteen government departments, all of whom are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
What is the cabinet?
State in southeastern United States bordered by Arkansas to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the South. It was one of the Confederate states during the Civil War.
What is Louisiana?
A branch of mathematics marked chiefly by the use of symbols to represent numbers.
What is algebra?
Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his first Oscar after hiding inside the carcass of what animal in the film The Revenant?
What is a horse?
The space vehicle that carried three American astronauts to the moon and back in July 1969.
What is Apollo 11?
A meeting of members of a political party to nominate candidates, choose convention delegates, plan campaign tactics, determine party policy, or select leaders for the legislature.
What is a caucus?
Mountain range in northeastern New York state. A specific type of outdoor chair is named after this range.
What are the Adirondack Mountains?
An angle that measures less than 90 degrees and more than zero degrees.
What is an acute angle?
In 2018, Buffalo Bills cornerback Vontae Davis was playing in the team's 2nd game of the season when he decided to do what during halftime?
What is retire?
A leader of organized crime in Chicago in the late 1920s, involved in gambling, the illegal sale of alcohol, and prostitution. He was sent to prison for tax evasion in the 1930s.
Who was Al Capone?
The trying of a person twice in the same jurisdiction for the same crime, a practice prohibited by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
What is Double Jeopardy?
What is Annapolis, Maryland?
The mass of a given atom, measured on a scale in which the hydrogen atom has the weight of one.
What is atomic weight?
In 2009, Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards to praise who?
Who is Beyonce?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the day this event happened a date which will live in infamy.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Members of this group meet after citizens have cast their votes for president and cast votes for president and vice president; each state has the same number of members as it has senators and congressmen combined.
What is the Electoral College?
A street in Manhattan, New York City that passes through Times Square. It is sometimes called the "Great White Way" because of the bright lights.
What is Broadway?
In astronomy, an object so massive that nothing, not even light, can escape its gravitation.
What is a black hole?
Robert Downey Jr. drew his inspiration for his portrayal of Tony Stark in Iron Man from what real-life person?
Who is Elon Musk?
The encampments of the poor and homeless that sprang up during the Great Depression. They were named with ironic intent after the president who was in office at the time.
What were Hoovervilles?
A system of government in which power is divided between a national government and various regional governments.
What is federalism?
A passage through the mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that was used by settlers to move west.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
An expression in mathematics which does not have meaning and so which is not assigned an interpretation. For example, division by zero.
What is undefined?
What does PPAP stand for? (Hint: it was a catch, viral YouTube music video)
What is "Pen Pineapple Apple Pen?"