MODERN PRESIDENTS
AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT.
WHO IS BARACK OBAMA?
THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO LIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
WHO IS JOHN ADAMS?
THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT GOLD RUSH IN AMERICA OCCURED IN THIS STATE.
WHAT IS NORTH CAROLINA?
(CABARRUS COUNTY, NC 1799, IN WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS REED'S GOLD MINE)
LED THE FIRST LAND EXPEDITION TO THE PACIFIC COAST.
WHO ARE LEWIS AND CLARK?
COUNTRY THAT SENT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS TO EXPLORE THE NEW WORLD.
WHAT IS SPAIN?
(KING FERDINAND OF SPAIN)
CONFEDERATE STATES PRESIDENT.
WHO WAS JEFFERSON DAVIS?
THE FATHER OF NON-VIOLENT PROTEST.
WHO IS MAHATMA GANDHI?
(DR. KING ADMIRED AND EMULATED HIS ACTIONS ON THE STREETS OF AMERICA)
WORLD'S TALLEST MOUNTAIN.
WHAT IS MOUNT EVEREST?
(EVEREST IS 29,032' ABOVE SEA LEVEL OR 5.498 MILES)
OLDEST INDIVIDUAL TO EVER BE SWORN INTO U.S. PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE.
WHO IS JOE BIDEN?
THE 17TH PRESIDENT, CAME AFTER ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WHO IS ANDREW JOHNSON?
(BORN IN RALEIGH, NC, 1808)
THIS STATE HAS THE LONGEST COAST LINE IN THE CONTIGUOUS 48 STATES.
WHAT IS FLORIDA?
(IT HAS 1,350 MILES OF COAST)
THIS IS THE FIRST WAR AMERICA ENTERED INTO.
WHAT IS THE WAR OF 1812?
(JAMES MADISON DECLARED WAR AGAINST GREAT BRITIAN)
GENGHIS KHAN RULED THIS EMPIRE.
WHAT IS THE MONGOL EMPIRE?
(THE MONGOL EMPIRE IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST EVER EMPIRE)
COMMANDED THE UNION ARMY AT THE WARS END.
WHO IS ULYSSES S. GRANT?
BLACK BOY FROM CHICAGO WHO WAS MURDERED WHEN VISITING FAMILY IN THE SOUTH.
WHO IS EMMETT TILL?
COUNTRY WITH WORLD'S LARGEST POPULATION.
WHAT IS CHINA?
(CHINA'S POPULATION IS 1.43 BILLION PEOPLE OR 17.8% OF THE EARTH'S POPULATION)
THE ONLY PRESIDENT TO HAVE EVER BEEN IMPEACHED TWICE WHILE IN OFFICE.
WHO IS DONALD TRUMP?
NAME TWO OF THE FOUR PESIDENTS TO BE ASSASSINATED IN OFFICE.
WHO ARE JAMES GARFIELD 1861, ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1865, WILLIAM McKINLEY 1901, JOHN F. KENNEDY 1963?
NUMBER OF TIME ZONES IN THE UNITED STATES.
WHAT IS 9?
SOME 4,000 CHEROKEES DIED DURING THIS EVENT.
WHAT IS THE TRAIL OF TEARS?
THIS WAS THE WORLD'S LARGEST NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DISASTER IN 1986?
WHAT IS CHERNOBYL?
(A CITY IN THE THEN STATE OF UKRAIN, SOVIET UNION)
THIS AMENDMENT ABOLISHED SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES.
WHAT IS THE 13TH AMENDMENT?
CITY IN WHICH SIT-INS BEGAN TO PROTEST SEGREGATION.
WHAT IS GREENSBORO, NC?
THE CAPITAL OF CANADA?
WHAT IS OTTAWA?
HE WON THE PRESIDENCY IN 2001 THROUGH A 7-2 DESCISION IN AMERICA'S SUPREME COURT.
WHO IS GEORGE W. BUSH?
THE TWO PRESIDENTS THAT ALSO SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
WHO ARE THOMAS JEFFERSON AND JOHN ADAMS?
WHAT STATE HAS THE LONGITUDINALLY EASTERN MOST POINT IN THE UNITED STATES.
WHAT IS ALASKA?
(SEMISOPOCHNOI ISLAND, IN THE ALEUTIAN ISLAND CHAIN)
AMENDMENT THAT ENDED THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.
WHAT IS THE 18TH AMENDMENT?
(PASSED IN 1919)
MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTED IN 79AD AND DEVASTATED THIS CITY.
WHAT IS POMPEII?
(HERCULANEUM WAS ALSO DESTROYED)
THIS NURSE FOUNDED THE AMERICAN RED CROSS AFTER SERVING ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
WHO IS CLARA BARTON?
THE NAME GIVEN TO RIDERS WHO INTEGRATED BUSES AND RODE THROUGH THE SOUTH TO PROTEST SEGREGATION.
WHAT IS THE FREEDOM RIDERS?
NAME THE SMALLEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
WHAT IS VATICAN CITY?
(IT'S A COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE OF ROME, ITALY)
THIS CONTENDER FOR THE HIGHEST OFFICE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE IN OCTOBER 2007.
WHO IS AL GORE?
HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT BORN ON U.S. SOIL AND ENGLISH WAS HIS SECOND LANGUAGE.
WHO IS MARTIN VAN BUREN?
(BORN 1782, KINDERHOOK, NY)
THIS IS THE WORLD'S HOTTEST LOCATION BY TEMPERATURE?
WHAT IS DEATH VALLEY?
(134.10 ON JULY 10, 1913 AT FURNANCE CREEK DEATH VALLEY, CALLIFORNIA)
THE FIRST ESTABLISHED AMERICAN STATE.
WHAT IS DELAWARE?
THE YEAR THE BERLIN WALL CAME DOWN.
WHAT IS 1989?
(BUILT IN AUGUST 12-13, 1961, THIS WALL SEPERATED THE CITY OF BERLIN INTO EAST AND WEST SECTIONS)
THIS BATTLE WAS THE DEADLIEST SINGLE DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM?
(22,727 DIED; ALSO KNOWN AS THE BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG, IT WAS FOUGHT ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1862, IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND)
PRESIDENT WHO SIGNED THE VOTERS RIGHTS ACT OF 1965.
WHO IS LYNDON B. JOHNSON?
(BILL BECAME LAW ON AUGUST 6, 1965)
THE DRIEST DESERT ON EARTH.
WHAT IS THE CONTINENT OF ANTARCTICA?
(NEARLY THE ENTIRE CONTINENT IS A DESERT, ALMOST NO SNOW, OR RAIN FALLS ON THE DESERT. HOWEVER, IT NEVER MELTS WHEN IT DOES, ICE CAN BE AS MUCH AS 3 MILES THICK)