Famous Firsts
Unusual History
State Flags
War & Conflict
The Streets of America
U.S. Presidents
21st Century America
Final Question
100
She was the first woman to hold federal executive office in the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
100
Boomshakalaka! "The Highest Court in the Land" is a literal basketball court in the upstairs gym of THIS building, dubbed "The Marble Palace."
What is the Supreme Court Building?
100
What is California?
100
More Civil War battles were fought in this state than any other state.
What is Virginia?
100
This raucous Big Easy street wasn't named for a liquor, but rather for the ruling French family of the time in 1721.
What is Bourbon Street?
100
A lot of pups have gotten to hang out in the White House, but this alleged vampire hunter was the first President to bring a cat!
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
The new millenium started off with a bang on January 10th, 2000 when THIS American web company purchased Time Warner Communications.
What is AOL?
200
On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a park protection act, making this the first US National Park.
What is Yellowstone?
200
One in ten Americans have been employed by this company at some point.
What is McDonald's?
200
What is Texas?
200
This was the name of a special group of Native American volunteers who created an unbreakable secret code in WWII.
What are Navajo Code Talkers?
200
Springsteen sang, "Oh-oh come take my hand / We're riding out tonight to case the promised land" in THIS stormy song off his iconic 1975 album "Born to Run."
What is Thunder Road?
200
The "S" in Harry S. Truman stood for this.
What is simply, S?
Truman's grandfathers chose the name as a compromise. It meant nothing.
200
At MacWorld in 2007, Steve Jobs introduced a new iPod, Phone, and Internet browsing device as three seperate ideas that were actually this everyday pocket-dwelling device.
What is the iPhone?
300
On Sept. 6, 1870 Louisa Swain became the USA's first recorded female voter, voting in this future state that would earn the official nickname "The Equality State".
What is Wyoming?
300
Crocodiles and alligators both belong to the reptile order Crocodilia, but the only place in the world where you will find them fraternizing is THIS U.S. State.
What is Florida?
300
What is Maryland?
300
This first submarine was used by the army during this war.
What is the Revolutionary War?
300
In Lewes in this state, "The First Town in the First State", don't miss the shops & fun of... Second Street.
What is Delaware?
300
"General" was the Secret Service code name given this US President, the first to receive one.
Who was Harry Truman?
300
This 2009 feature film became the highest-grossing film of all time with a worldwide gross of $2,847,246,203 and counting- a record it holds to this day.
What is Avatar?
400
First issued during the Civil War in 1862, this Secretary of Treasury had his face on the $1 bill before it was changed to George Washington.
Who was Salmon P. Chase?
400
In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of all records related to Project MKUltra, which tested the potential for mind control, by secretly dosing individuals with this drug without their knowledge.
What is LSD?
400
What is Colorado?
400
To avoid using the German sounding name ‘hamburger’ during World War II, Americans called them by this name.
What is Liberty Steak?
400
Sixth Street in this Texas city keeps things weird with places like Lazarus Brewing, started by a pastor who loves beer.
What is Austin?
400
This person from Kinderhood, New York was the first US President that was born an American Citizen.
Who was Martin Van Buren?
400
This storm became one of the largest Atlantic hurricanes on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 1,150 miles when it came ashore in New York and New Jersey in October, 2012.
What is Hurricane Sandy?
500
When trying to establish this institution, Navajo Tribal Chairman Raymond Nakai famously said: “We’re not asking for your permission but rather telling you what we are going to do.”
What is Navajo Community College aka Diné College, the first tribally-controlled college in the United States?
500
Often associated with bold, heroic music, this is the strike note of the Liberty Bell.
What is E Flat?
500
What is Hawaii?
500
Statistically, this is the deadliest job in the US.
What is President of the United States?
500
Beale Street in this city has historically served as a magnet for blues musicians.
What is Memphis?
500
"Sock it to me?!" Which US President was the million dollar answer to the first complete game of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Who was Nixon?
500
She became the first Asian champion of any nationality to take home the gold in the women's all-around gymnastics final at the 2020 Summer Games.
Who is Suni Lee?
500
Messrs. Gusenberg, Gusenberg, May, Weinshank, Clark, Heyer & Schwimmer famously died in Chicago on this day in 1929.
What is Valentine's Day (Saint Valentine's Day Massacre)