Presidents
The first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The D-Day landings were a part of this larger operation to invade German occupied Europe.
What is Operation Overlord?
Roughly this fraction of the European population was killed by the bubonic plaque.
What is one third?
The first written language.
What is Sumerian?
Before the Big House, Michigan played their home games at this stadium, next to where the Intramural Sports Building sits now.
What is Ferry Field?
This president gained both the highest executive and judicial positions during his lifetime.
The famous image of US marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi is from this 1945 battle.
What is the Battle of Iwo Jima?
The bubonic plaque initially arrived on the European continent through traders arriving in this modern day country.
What is Italy? (also accept Genoa)
The stone that helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, now the most visited object in the British Museum.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Michigan and Minnesota compete for this trophy every meeting; it’s also the name of a popular South U restaurant.
What is the Little Brown Jug?
These two presidents were elected to a second, non-consecutive term.
Who are Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump?
RAF airmen in prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft Three staged a failed 1944 escape attempt using this method.
What is Tunnel Digging?
Medieval populations believed that these actions could result in the passing of the plaque.
What is looking and touching?
AD stands for this.
What is Anno Domini (The year of our Lord)?
Michigan Stadium hosted its first ever night game in 2011, more than 80 years after construction. The Wolverines beat this rival in thrilling fashion in the closing seconds.
Who is Notre Dame?
Name one of the 19th century presidents that won the electoral college, but lost the popular vote.
John Quincy Adams (1824), Rutherford Hayes (1876), or Benjamin Harrison (1888).
This 1942 Japanese attack was the first of over 100 Japanese air raids on Australia during WW2.
What is The Bombing of Darwin?
Persecution of this religious group increased during the plaque years, as they were often blamed for the spread of the disease.
Who are the Jews?
He was the first Roman emperor.
Who is Augustus (Gaius Octavius)?
Led by Heisman winner Charles Woodson, Michigan won their 11th national title in this year, snapping a nearly 50 year drought.
What is 1997?
This president was never elected to executive office.
Who is Gerald R. Ford.
Polish special operations paratroopers trained in Britain to organize resistance movements went by this name.
What is The Silent Unseen?
An increase of this type of legislation occurred after the initial waves of plaque, due to increased social mobility.
What is Sumptuary Legislation?
This Ancient Greek is credited with the creation of “Historia” as a topic.
Who is Herodotus?
Michigan holds the all-time college football record for wins with more than a thousand since 1879. The one-thousandth win came against this Big Ten opponent in 2023.
Who is Maryland?