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The cryptic message carved into a tree after the colony of Roanoke disappeared in 1590.
What is CROATOAN?
A four year conflict between the Union and Southern seceding states over slavery.
What is the American Civil War?
The worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939.
What is the Great Depression?
This American hero was the first president of the United States, with a side gig as a farmer!
Who is George Washington?
This 2026 movie sparked a brand new story surrounding this popular superhero from Queens.
What is Spiderman: Brand New Day?
The first permanent British colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
A conflict which lasted from 1846-1848 resulting in the U.S. acquiring vast territories out west, triggered by the U.S. annexation of Texas.
What is the Mexican American War?
This 1925 tragic novel is about the observations of the obsessive pursuit of a fabulously wealthy bootlegger who tries to recapture his lost romance with Daisy Buchanan.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This British Prime Minister oversaw WW2, and woke up every day by drinking a mix of whisky and soda.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This 2025 show sparked a massive following surrounding a romance between two hockey players, loosely based on NHL players Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby.
What is Heated Rivalry?
From 1804-1806, this duo famously made the 862 day expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
The chemical herbicide which was used during the Vietnam War which resulted in long term environmental damage, genetic birth defects, and cancers in civilians and soldiers.
What is Agent Orange?
A series of Christian revivals that swept across Britain and its colonies in the 1730s and 40s that reshaped American Christianity by promoting personal conversion, emotional preaching, and new evangelical denominations.
What is the Great Awakening?
E = Mc^2! This famous German scientist discovered this equation, and many others with his general theory of relativity
Who is Albert Einstein?
What two teams played in Super Bowl LI (51) that resulted in a 34-28 comeback win from a 28-3 score in the third quarter.
What are the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons? (Patriots Win)
This crop became the economic foundation of the Virginia colony.
What is tobacco?
An armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers which demonstrated the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay’s Rebellion?
A king of Macedonia who is remembered to be one of history’s most successful military leaders– however he didn’t die in battle but from an illness.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This Roman politician turned the republic into a dictatorship, and has a Shakespeare play named after him.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This 1992 movie sparked the creation of the NHL team the Anaheim Ducks.
What is The Mighty Ducks?
In 1672, Spain began building a large masonry fort on the shore of this city in Florida.
What is St. Augustine?
A Civil War MYTH that reframed the Confederate war effort as noble and justified, downplaying or denying slavery’s central role in the war.
What is The Lost Cause?
The first emperor of Russia known for modernizing and expanding the army. (Hint– the capital of Russia sometimes shares his name).
Who is Peter the Great?
Regarded as the richest man in history, this Malian king famously went on a pilgrimage where he spent so much gold, local economies crashed
Who is Mansa Musa?
Regarded as the “Queen of Soul”, she was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who is Aretha Franklin?