"Famous Firsts"
This man was the first to sign the declaration of independence.
Who is John Hancock?
In this film, based off of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Heath Ledger plays William Thatcher, a peasant squire who poses as a knight earning prestige and valor, overcoming the evil prince, and saving the damsel.
What is A Knight’s Tale?
The first President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
This British boy band famously performed hits like "What Makes You Beautiful" and "Story of My Life."
Who is/are One Direction?
This number is equivalent to 3.14.
What is pi?
The Italian name for squid, whose meat is firm and chewy.
What is Calamari?
This man was the first actor to play War Machine (“Rhodey”) in the Iron Man series; he would be replaced by Don Chedle after a fallout with Robert Downey Jr. and a pay dispute.
Who is Terrance Howard?
These knights are encountered by King Arthur and his followers in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail and are only appeased through a gift of a shrubbery.
Who are the Knights Who Say “Ni!”?
The first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957
What is Sputnik?
This U.S. city is known as the birthplace of jazz, particularly with musicians like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
What is New Orleans?
The order of operations is also known by this abbreviation.
What is PEMDAS?
It hides pine cones the way other rodents hide nuts.
What is a Squirrel?
This was the first national park established in the United States in 1872.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
How much power is needed to operate the DeLorean time machine and get the flux capacitor to work in the Back to the Future Trilogy?
What is 1.21 gigawatts or “jigowatts”?
On February 1st, 1960 4 students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this North Carolina city in protest over segregation.
What is Greensboro?
Before becoming a solo artist, this "Royals" singer was a member of the group The Love Club.
Who is Lorde?
This man discovered the Pythagorean Theorem.
Who is Pythagoras?
In the hit TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob has a pet named Gary. Gary is this animal in the phylum Mollusca.
What is a Snail?
This was the first U.S. national monument.
What is Devils Tower?
These objects are used to contain a fragment of a dark wizard’s soul, and are created when a witch or wizard commits murder, splitting their soul and allowing them to use magic to seal it in an object.
What is a Horcrux?
This colonial inventor suggested Daylight Savings Time.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This composer from Austria wrote over 600 works, including "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" and "The Magic Flute."
Who is Wolfgang Mozart?
This symbol/sign is used to square root a number.
What is the radical symbol?
If this two-toed type of this mammal falls off its tree, thick skin protects it, but it will be mostly helpless until returned.
What is a Sloth?
This was the first city in the U.S. to have a public demonstration of outdoor electrical lighting
What is Cleveland, Ohio?
Aragon, the heir of Isildur in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series is of this race of men who settled in Arnor and Gondor, known for their longevity and wisdom.
Who are the Dúnedain?
History will tell you that in 1864 this man became a Lt. general and assumed command of all U.S armies.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
In 2009, this artist made history by winning 8 Grammy Awards in one night.
Who is Beyoncé?
This equation was the title of a 2008 Mariah Carey album.
What is E = mc2?
In the 1950s, Idaho relocated these amphibious rodents by dropping them out of airplanes using parachutes.
What are Beavers?