American Political History
Name of the famous President that was assassinated while in a car in 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
John F. Kennedy
Name of the English king famous for having six wives
Bonus 100 points if you can name all the wives
Bonus another 100 points if you can name them in order and what happened to them
King Henry the 8th
Bonus: Catherine of Aragon (divorced), Anne Boleyn (beheaded), Jane Seymour (died), Anne of Cleves (divorced), Katherine Howard (beheaded), Catherine Parr (survived)
Named the "King of Rock and Roll"...famously died on the toilet.
Elvis Presley
The year World War 2 started.
1939
Name of the spaceship that was the first to put a man on the moon. (1969)
Bonus 100 points if you can name at least one astronaut on the spaceship
Apollo 11
Bonus: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong
First American president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
Grover Cleveland
French general that decided he wanted to try to take over the world...famous for being short.
Napoleon Bonaparte
First feature film to be shot entirely in technicolor (1939).
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Big Three.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin
You can get half points if you say Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon (Percy Jackson fans you are heard)
Former Buffalo Bills running back also famous for maybe killing his ex-wife. Had one of the most high-profile murder trials of all time. (1994)
Hint: "If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit"
OJ Simpson
The scandal referring to the illegal wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee by the administration of the sitting president at the time (1972-1974)
also name the president!
The Watergate Scandal
Richard Nixon
Catholic Church currently in the Vatican City famous for housing a series of paintings by Michelangelo.
Sistine Chapel
Genre(s) of music many people blamed for being the root cause of the Satanic Panic (1980s)
Artists of this genre include: AC/DC, Guns & Roses, KISS, and Metallica
Rock and/or Heavy Metal
Political figure assassinated that "began" World War 1 (1914)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
First African-American Major League baseball player for the Brooklyn (now Los Angeles) Dodgers. (1947)
Jackie Robinson
Name of the first Vice President to Thomas Jefferson.
Hint: also shot Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Macedonian king most famous for creating an empire stretching from Macedonia all the way through Egypt, Greece, and India.
Alexander the Great
Name of the New York-born artist famous for writing songs: "Piano Man", "Uptown Girl", and "We Didn't Start The Fire"
Billy Joel
Name of European country famous for always staying neutral.
Switzerland
Event in which many people were scared that computers were not going to be able to adapt to dates beyond December 31st, 1999 and end up causing a global internet collapse.
Y2K
Name of the famous FBI Director who led the bureau for over 50 years through WW2, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War.
Hint: The current FBI building is named after him
J. Edgar Hoover
Name of the person who assassinated Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler
Most commercially successful film director in history. One of the pioneers of the modern blockbuster.
Hint: Directed Jaws, E.T, Jurassic Park, and Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg
Famous war between the Athenians and Spartans of Greece (431-404 BC).
Bonus 200 points to name the side that won the war
The Peloponnesian War
Winner: Sparta
Explosion of a Ukranian nuclear power plant reactor. The area is still radioactive and inhabitable to this day. (1986)
Chernobyl