US History 101
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Mercer?
4 Letters: Lake that sounds chilling
What is Erie?
Born in Alabama in 1880, the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
Who is Helen Keller?
80% of Greece is made up of this natural land formation
What are mountains?
What is Texas?
Georgia State in 2015 and Yale in 2016 sent this Texas powerhouse home early in March Madness
Who is Baylor?
4 Letters: Arrows to an archer
What is ammo?
Born 1955 in San Francisco, deconstructed electronics with his father in their garage, began career as a video game designer for Atari after meeting Wozniak
Who is Steve Jobs?
20% of Greece's GDP comes from this group, who make up more than double Greece's own population
What are tourists?
This late actor was the first African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
Who is Sydney Poitier?
Before it happened twice in 2012, a 15 seed had only emerged victorious three times, the most recent in 2001 when this midwestern 2 seed fell in a one point "disaster"
3 Letters: Destination abbreviation
What is ETA?
Born to a wealthy family in 1769 in Corsica, military leader and Emperor of France
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
X marks the spot for this third to last letter in the Greek alphabet
What is Chi?
This founder of the American Red Cross was a Civil War hospital nurse and previously a teacher
The first ever 14 seed to win- in 1986 when they took down Notre Dame- did it again as a 12 seed in 2016
Who is Arkansas-Little Rock?
10 Letters: Foam Flotation device
What is Pool Noodle?
Born 1867 in Warsaw, Poland; only woman to win the Nobel prize in two fields of science: Physics and Chemistry
Who is Marie Curie?
Greece's capital, according to Greek Mythology, was a naming rights battle between Athena and Poseidon- and the people chose the Goddess of wisdom and this
What is warfare?
The first two Atom bombs ever used- on Hiroshima and Nagasaki- had these paired nicknames
What are Little Boy and Fat Man?
We all know 16 seeds have exactly one win in the history of March Madness seeding- this is their amount of losses
What is 151?
8 Letters: Seasonal turning point
Military test pilot, selected by NASA, first American to orbit the Earth- and did it three times
Who is John Herschel Glenn?
Fun fact- Greece is not the country's official name- but instead this two word title used before the Byzantine period
What is Hellenic Republic?