Presidents
The first President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
This state is the most thickly forested, with 89.8 percent of its land area classified as wooded by the U.S. Forest Service
What is Maine?
The name of the ship on which the Pilgrims traveled to North America in 1620
What is The Mayflower?
The state Mount Rushmore is located in
What is South Dakota?
In April, 1968, James Early Ray assassinated a man in Memphis, Tennessee
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The US president after Herbert Hoover
Who is Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)
This state is America's flattest, with a difference of only 345 feet between its highest and lowest points
What is Florida?
The name of the world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957
What is Sputnik?
The town where reports of a space ship landed on July 4th, 1947
What is Roswell?
This presidential couple was implicated in the Whitewater scandal
Who are the Clintons?
These two signers of the Declaration of Independence, not named George Washington, went on to serve as presidents of the United States
Who are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
The USA's highest concrete dam rests on this river
What is the Colorado River?
This event took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773
What is The Boston Tea Party?
This city is the headquarters of Chrysler and General Motors
What is Detroit?
This General's name has become synonymous with treason and betrayal
Who is Benedict Arnold?
This president has the record for the shortest time served in office, at 41 days after inauguration
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This is, famously, where Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett perished
What is The Alamo?
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from this country
What is France?
This city housed the first nuclear reactor built, by Enrico Fermi
What is Chicago?
The first African American to win the Nobel peace prize
Who is Ralph Bunche?
In 1963, this individual assassinated the assassin who assassinated JFK
Who is Jack Ruby?
The Black Hills lie between these two rivers
What is Belle Fourche and Cheyenne?
Marjorie Robb, who died in Boston in 1992 (age 103), Barbara Dainton, Millvina Dean, and Lillian Asplund, achieved notoriety for being among the last living survivors of this event
What is The sinking of the Titanic?
They say the arch in this city inspired the McDonald's logo
What is St. Louis?
This figure in American history, hero of the Mexican War, and losing candidate for president in 1852, is believed to have inspired the exclamation "Great Scott"
Who is General Winfield Scott?