Famous Firsts
The first U.S. flag had 13 stars laid out in THIS shape to "stand as a new constellation in the heavens."
What is Circle?
Only Charles Thompson and THIS much more famous person signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. The rest of the delegates signed within the following weeks.
Who is John Hancock?
New Hampshire.
What is Maine?
Legend has it that Ben Franklin originally suggested THIS "respectable bird" as the national symbol. Thankfully they landed on the eagle instead.
What is a turkey?
One of the great unsolved mysteries of American history is the supposed disappearance of the settlers in THIS colony from an island off the coast of North Carolina in 1586.
What is Roanoke?
Alphabetically, our national parks run from Acadia in Maine to THIS one in Utah.
What is Zion?
Loosely based on the book of the same name, THIS biographical drama from 2016 follows Black female mathematicians who worked at NASA during the "Space Race."
What is Hidden Figures?
Throughout the 1800s, indentured sailors escaped Spanish ships in the Gulf of Mexico to establish the first Filipino American communities in what is now THIS bayou state.
What is Louisiana?
Oregon, Idaho.
What is Washington?
From the Halkomelem language, IT is the 9-letter name of the creature who is said to leave behind footprints in the Pacific Northwest.
What is Sasquatch?
Established around the same time as the Taj Mahal in 1636, THIS is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
What is Harvard University?
THIS national park has 5 entrances, hundreds of waterfalls & more than 300 active geysers.
What is Yellowstone?
THIS aptly titled film (based on its runtime alone) from 1962 chronicles the events of D-Day on a grand scale and stars actors like John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Richard Burton.
What is The Longest Day?
Built in 1885, The Home Insurance Building in THIS US City claims to be the world's first skyscraper at a breezy 10 stories tall.
What is Chicago?
The Liberty Bell is symbolically tapped THIS many times every Independence Day. Perhaps that's what caused that unlucky crack...
What is 13?
Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin.
What is Michigan?
THIS tallest U.S. President is actually in the Wrestling Hall of Fame due to his 299-1 career wrestling record.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Haudenosaunee and Iroquois people first played "The Creator's Game" nearly 1,000 years ago in what is now New York using wooden sticks with net baskets, and deer hide-wrapped balls. Today we call the game THIS.
What is lacrosse?
Ouch! The most prominent feature of THIS tropical wetlands National Park are the sprawling sawgrass prairies.
What is Everglades?
"There's no crying in baseball," but more than a few tears are shed in THIS Penny Marshall film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
What is A League of Their Own?
Susanna Madora Salter was the first woman elected to THIS local position in the United States when she won the support of an all-male voter base in Argonia, Kansas in 1887.
What is Mayor?
"The Star-Spangled Banner" became the US national anthem in THIS century.
What is 20th Century (1931)?
Conneticut, Massachusetts.
What is Rhode Island?
In April 1777 Sybil Ludington pulled a Paul Revere-style all-night ride to tell of a British attack on Danbury in THIS state.
What is Connecticut?
Settled by the Spanish in Florida in 1565 and named for the Bishop of Hippo, THIS became the first permanent European colony in what is now the contiguous United States.
What is Saint Augustine?
Located in Oregon, THIS deepest U.S. lake is in a national park of the same name.
What is Crater?
THIS historical drama from 1989 is about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army's earliest African-American regiments in the American Civil War.
What is Glory?
THIS U.S. state was the first to ratify the 15th amendment on March 1, 1869.
What is Nevada?
In 1852 THIS abolitionist gave perspective to the grave inequality and injustices enslaved African Americans still endured on the original Independence Day ending his speech by saying, “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine, You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
Who is Frederick Douglas?
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Lousiana.
What is Texas?
In 1925 thousands of Pullman porters created BSCP, short for THIS, the first labor union for Black Americans playing a pivotal role in labor and civil rights history in 20th Century America.
What is Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
The Bering Land Bridge is a postulated route of the first human migration 20,000 years ago from Asia to North America in what is roughly now THIS U.S. state.
What is Alaska?
You'll spot plenty of tusk-like stalactites & stalagmites at THIS site, a national park in Kentucky.
What is Mammoth Cave?
THIS historical drama from 2006, based on a play of the same name, tells the story behind the series of interviews a British journalist conducted with the 37th President of the United States.
What is Frost/Nixon?
AMERICAN EDUCATORS
At only 14 years old, Susie King Taylor became the first Black educator to teach openly in a school for formerly enslaved African Americans in THIS southern state.
AMERICAN EDUCATORS
What is Georgia?