Colorado high school where a deadly shooting in 1999 stirred a national movement against guns and gun violence.
What is Columbine High School?
100
Well-meaning president who was swamped by the 1980 Reagan landslide but later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
100
Controversial Supreme Court justice who narrowly won confirmation despite charges of sexual harassment.
Who is Clarence Thomas?
100
Iraqi dictator defeated by the United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf War.
Who WAS Saddam Hussein?
100
From Latin America politics: a small armed group, usually military officers, who seize power and rule as a collective dictatorship.
What is junta?
200
Shorthand phrase for compromise policy that emerged after Clinton’s failed attempt to end ban on gays and lesbians in the military.
What is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell?"
200
Political darling of Republican conservatives who won landslide election victories in 1980 and 1984.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
200
Prominent evangelical minister, leader of the Moral Majority.
Who is Jerry Falwell?
200
British Prime Minister of the 1980s whose support of free-market economics and tough anticommunism made her Ronald Reagan’s closest partner.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
200
Brilliant legal scholar appointed by Reagan as the first woman justice on the Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
300
Controversial free trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada that virtually eliminated trade barriers between the three nations.
What is NAFTA?
300
International trade organization that prompted strong protests from anti-global trade forces in the late 1990s.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
300
Fundamentalist group whose compound in Waco, Texas, was assaulted by federal agents in 1993.
Who were the Branch Dividians?
300
The sexual scandal involving a young White House intern that led to impeachment but not conviction of President Clinton.
What is the Lewinsky Affair?
300
Constitutional institution for choosing presidents that came under severe criticism after the 2000 popular vote winner failed to win the office.
What is the Electoral College?
400
Third party, led by environmentalist Ralph Nader, that took votes from Democratic presidential nominee Albert Gore in 2000 election.
What is the Green Party?
400
Texas billionaire who won nearly 20 percent of the popular vote as third-party candidate in 1992.
What is a Ross Perot?
400
The other site of direct attack by terrorists on September 11, 2001, besides the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
What is the Pentagon?
400
The international terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden.
What is Al-Qaeda?
400
Controversial law restricting civil liberties, passed in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
What is the US Patriot Act?
500
President Clinton’s loyal vice president who won the most popular votes but lost the election of 2000.
Who is Al Gore?
500
Victory in the 2000 presidential election was eventually awarded to George W. Bush when the Supreme Court ruled in Bush’s favor that Florida’s hand counting of ballots was this.
What is illegal?
500
Son of a former president whose narrow election as president in 2000 did not prevent him from pursuing a strong conservative agenda in office.
Who is George W. Bush? (I don't think even he knows who he is)
500
First presidential spouse to be given major policy responsibilities and to win election to the United States Senate.
Who is Hillary Clinton?
500
This is where Mr. Moore was staying the day the Oklahoma City Federal Building was bombed by Timothy McVeigh.
What is his step-brother's pimp apt/condo/house in downtown Dallas?