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This daily newspaper that created the Dow Jones Industrial Average is named after a certain street in New York City
What is the Wall Street Journal?
The decade that saw the JFK assassination, the moon landing, and the Civil Rights Act.
What are the 1960s?
First elected Speaker in 2007, this woman is the current Speaker of the House
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
Often credited with "cultural cross-pollination," this empire stretched from Poland in the west to Korea in the east at its peak under the leadership of a certain "Khan"
What is the Mongol Empire?
"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This weekly political magazine published Thomas Nast's comics attacking Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
What is Harper's Weekly?
The decade that saw the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the assassination of McKinley
What are the 1900s?
As Speaker, this man controversially negotiated a victory for John Quincy Adams in the Election of 1824 and was subsequently appointed Secretary of State, a move that was called a "Corrupt Bargain" by Andrew Jackson
Who is Henry Clay?
The person who discovered penicillin in 1928
Alexander Fleming
“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.”
This newspaper's headquarters were attacked during the 1863 draft riots, and in 1971 it was sued by the U.S. Department of Justice to prevent it from publishing the Pentagon Papers
What is the New York Times?
The decade that saw the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Gulf War
The author of the "Contract with America," this man ended four decades of Democratic control of the House of Reps when he was elected Speaker in 1995 and resigned his seat after it was revealed that he had an affair with a Congressional staffer 23 years younger than him
Who is Newt Gingrich?
What is Ethiopia?
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
Who is George W. Bush?
Legendary journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein worked for this D.C.-based newspaper in 1972 when they uncovered the Watergate scandal
What is the Washington Post?
The decade that saw the invention of the Gutenberg Press, the War of the Roses, and the fall of Constantinople
What are the 1450s?
This man who succeeded Nancy Pelosi as Speaker in 2011 called the No Child Left Behind Act the "proudest achievement" of his political career
Who is John Boehner?
This author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and "Sweat" was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
"There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it."
This newspaper owned by Joseph Pulitzer is often referenced as an example of "yellow journalism" along with the New York Journal
What is the (New York) World?
The decade that saw the Treaty of St. Petersburg, Treaty of Hamburg, Treaty of Paris, and the Treaty of Hubertusburg signed within a span of two years, following the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg in the previous decade
What are the 1760s?
This man was the subject of the first Time cover ever, and was regarded as a dictator of the House after simultaneously chairing the Rules Committee and wielding the speaker's gavel
Who is Joseph Cannon?
This figure fought at a battle which saw enemy Vice-Admiral Bruey killed and the Orient explode, the Battle of Aboukir Bay, although a more well-known battle this man took part in saw the capture of Pierre de Villeneuve and the destruction of twenty-two Franco-Spanish ships. This man was mortally wounded at that battle, and uttered the last words "Kismet, Hardy". For (whatever your wager was), name this Admiral who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Who is Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte?
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
Who is Dan Quayle?