Notable People
Name the scientist who overcame the racial barrier
Who was George Washington Carver?
Name the song that is rated the number one top-selling song of all time
What is White Christmas by Irving Berlin but performed by Bing Cosby with over 50 million copies sold
Name the unknown female spy who worked for George Washington during the Revolutionary War whose name is unknown to this day
Who was someone called Agent 355?
Name the US President allowed his six children to bring their pets to the White House which included a small bear, a lizard, guinea pigs, a snake, a hyena, a rabbit, and more
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
From 1944 to 1945, the Germans increased their troops surrounding the Ardennes Forest for this World War II Battle and major counteroffensive
What is Battle of the Bulge?
Name the journalist who went undercover in an insane asylum and exposed the reality of the lives of patients in an insane asylum in 1887.
Who was Nellie Bly?
Name the Avengers actor who had a short time being a pop star before being an actor
Who is Brie Larson who plays Captain Marvel?
Name the known nickname of an unknown man who hijacked a plane, took 200,000$, took a parachute and jumped from a plane and never seen or heard of again
Who was DB Cooper?
Boston-based battle of the American Revolutionary War is somewhat inaccurately named, since most of the fighting took place on Breed's Hill
What is the Batle of Bunker Hill?
Michael Joseph Blassie, who died in the Vietnam War, was identified through DNA testing in 1998 and was reinterred after having been buried in this specific location for the previous 26 years
What was the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
At the age of 16, this person rode with Paul Revere to alert the townspeople to the arrival of the British forces
Who was Sybil Ludington
This actor of Big Lebowski can't stand the Eagles band
Who was Jeff Bridges?
This calender is known to not be based on anything that could work.
What is the Mayan Calendar?
From 2000 to 2008, U.S. "golden" dollar coins were minted with an image of what Shoshone woman who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition
Who was Sacagawea
In 1846, future president Zachary Taylor won a battle in the Mexican-American War campaign at this battle site.
What is Palo Alto? meaning "the tall tree"
Name the most successful pirate war in history
Who was Ching Shih?
IN 1984 this music video beat "Thriller" for Video of the Year at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards
What is "You Might Think" by The Cars?
This person was found on a tv show on CBS in 2022 to have betrayed the Franks during World War 2
Who was Arnold ven den Bergh who was jewish but desperate to save his family from being deported to a concentration camp with the other jews so he allegedly told the Nazis where the annex was indirectly.
Room 214 of this hotel has been converted to "The Scandal Room," with decor that includes newspaper headlines about Richard Nixon's resignation
What is the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC?
Edward Lawrence Logan, first enlisted in the military during the Spanish-American War and later rose to the rank of major general following his efforts in this global conflict
What is World War 1?
In 1901, their 63rd birthday, this person was the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in nothing but a barrel
Who was Annie Edson Taylor?
The Highwaymen band consists of these music stars
Who are Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson?
Name a theory that may have happened to Cleopatra's tomb, which remains missing to this day.
What is in Ancient Alexandria but that would mean it's underwater in the Mediterranean Sea?
This name is best known as the American inventor of the electronic television set, a rival for credit with the Russian Vladimir Zworykin
Who is Philo Farnsworth?
After the Japanese surrender to the Allies in 1945, British troops led by this British military commander, who was also in charge of Southeast Asia Command?
Who was Louis Mountbatten, who was assassinated by bomb by the Provisional IRA?