Classics
This classic 1925 novel is the story of a new-money businessman in love with the wife of another man.
What is The Great Gatsby
Wendys (the fast food restaurant) tweeted this on National Woman's day in 2021
What is "Woman Belong in the kitchen"?
In 1493, on his second voyage to the Americas this Portuguese explorer introduced cattle to the new world.
Who was Christopher Columbus
This US President was elected in a landslide victory.
Who was Ronald Reagan?????
What is one million?
The opening scene to this classic 1968 movie by Stanley Kubrick depicts apes encountering a strange obelisk and then developing tools.
What is 2001: A Space Odessy
Charlotte Brontë, feminist author of Jane Eyre and other novels, had this many siblings.
How many is 6
This fire was allegedly started by Mrs. O'Leary's cow in 1871
What was the Great Chicago Fire
The future of this small territory was decided by a treaty between the UK and China.
What is Hong Kong
These federal grants, given to college students with exceptional financial need, are named after Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell.
What is a Pell Grant?
This classic 1954 novel follows a group of British boys as they descend into savagery while trying to survive on a deserted island.
What is Lord of the Flies
This early 20th-century author was famous for novels such as Ms. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.
Who was Virginia Woolf?
Byproducts of this military activity contaminated thousands of acres of pasture in the American West in the 1950s and 60s
What is Nuclear Testing
This game where various shapes are stacked in a 2-dimensional grid was released.
What was Tetris?
Originally built to promote agriculture and mechanical arts, universities such as Cornell, Penn State, Ohio State, and University of Nebraska were built on land provided to states in this federal act.
What was the The Morrill Act?
(Or Land Grant Act)
This actor and director is famous for his revolutionizing of silent films after the release of the classic 1921 film The Kid.
Who was Charlie Chaplin
Mary Ann Evans, who wrote Middlemarch and Adam Bede, used this pen name to avoid being dismissed.
Who was George Eliot?
After discovering ice cream in France, this US president is responsible for popularizing it in America
Who is Thomas Jefferson
This leader of India was assasinated by her Sikh bodyguards.
Who was Indira Gandhi?
This man is most famously associated with his role as Roger Thornhill in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest
Who is Cary Grant?
Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace follows several aristocratic families through the course of this French leader's 1812 invasions of Russia.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte
Wendys (the fast food restaurant) tweeted this on National Woman's day in 2021
What is "Woman Belong in the kitchen"?
A cow named Pauline Wayne was the last cow to graze on this famous American monument in 1913
Where is the White House lawn
This technology company released their first desktop computer in a superbowl ad depicting a dystopian, monochrome world where mindless drones are controlled by "Big Brother," symbolizing conformity and IBM's market dominance, until a vibrant female athlete bursts in, shattering the screen with a sledgehammer to unleash freedom and creativity
What was Apple?
After a scandal involving illegal profits from the transcontinental railroad, this man replaced Schuyler Colfax to become the second vice president under Ulysses S. Grant
Who was Henry Wilson?