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The Boys in the Boat
100
What U.S. President was a member of a peanut-farming family from Georgia?
Jimmy Carter
100
What was the name of the first automobile that the average American family could own?
The Model T
100
What President was known as the Conservationist President?
Theodore Roosevelt
100
What War did the US and Russia "fight" from the end of WW2 till the 1990s?
The Cold War
100
What was the name of Joe Rantz's father?
Harry Rantz
200
Famous blind and mute woman, whose teacher taught her to read and speak.
Helen Keller
200
Who were the inventors of flight?
The Wright Brothers
200
What group of Americans were discriminated against and sent to internment camps during WW2?
Japanese-Americans.
200
The first American to orbit the Earth?
John Glenn
200
Who's quotations open almost each chapter of The Boys in the Boat?
George Pocock's
300
The island where immigrants into America had to stop at for processing?
Ellis Island
300
The inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
300
Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to create new programs to "jump start" the economy during the Great Depression was sometimes called Alphabet Soup.
The New Deal
300
What President's election slogan was "I like Ike"?
Dwight D Eisenhower.
300
What wood did Pocock use to build his famed racing shells?
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400
What famous structure, which was a gift from France, stands in New York Harbor?
The Statue of Liberty
400
Where did the Wright Brothers have their first flight?
Kitty Hawk NC
400
What were the 2 sides fighting each other in WW2 called?
Axis and Allies
400
This President is the only one to resign their Presidency.
Richard Nixon 
400
What was the original purpose of the building at the north shore of the Montlake Cut where the 1936 team headquartered?
A seaplane hangar
500
A famous black man, who was born a slave, and ended up as the first principle of the black school the Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T Washington.
500
What caused America to join the Great War (WW1)?
The Germans sunk the Lusitania, a passenger ship with American people on board.
500
What event caused America to join World War 2?
Attack on Pearl Harbor. 
500
The first female Supreme Court Justice.
Sandra Day O'Connor
500
In their sophomore year, Joe Rantz's crew changed their rowing chant from "M-I-B" to what?
L-G-B