AMERICAN HISTORY
THE BODY HUMAN
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
ISLANDS
PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES
200
'14 years before coming to America, this Quaker was imprisoned in the Tower of London for his beliefs'
William Penn
200
'When cardiac muscle cells contract, they push blood out of this organ and into the arteries'
Heart
200
'In 1257, Robert de Sorbonne opened a college of theology in this European city'
Paris
200
'In 1954, after 63 years, the immigrant station on this island in New York Harbor was closed'
Ellis Island
200
'The Columbia was the 1st of these that could lift off like a rocket and land like an airplane'
Space Shuttle
400
'In 1949 the U.S. joined this Western defense pact; our 1st ever peacetime alliance'
NATO
400
'From constantly using a pencil, you can develop this hardening of the skin'
Callous
400
'Harvard's sister college was named for Lady Anne Molson, whose maiden name was this'
Radcliffe
400
'Over 500 bison live in the Bison Refuge on Antelope Island in this Utah lake'
Great Salt Lake
400
'The Japanese automaker that introduced the popular MX-5 Miata'
Mazda
600
'It's now thought that an internal explosion, not a mine, caused this ship to sink in Havana Harbor in 1898'
U.S. Maine
600
'Skin grafts often involve the replacement of these two layers of skin'
Epidermis & Dermis
600
'Rev. John Witherspoon was president of this New Jersey university when he signed the Declaration of Independence'
Princeton
600
'Qishm and Bahrain are the largest inhabited islands in this gulf'
Persian Gulf
600
'This huge wooden plane was flown only one time; for less than a mile by Howard Hughes'
The Spruce Goose
800
'This settlement's economy grew after John Rolfe found that tobacco could be successfully grown there'
Jamestown
800
'The 1st part of the small intestine loops around this organ which produces insulin'
Pancreas
800
'You'll find both campuses of Northwestern University on this Great Lake'
Lake Michigan
800
'Royale, Joseph, and Devil's Islands make up the Safety Islands owned by this country'
France
800
'The term for jets like the Concorde that travel faster than the speed of sound'
Supersonic/SST
1000
'19th century term for the belief that U.S. expansion across North America was "destined by God"'
Manifest Destiny
1000
'Air enters the lungs through these two tubes which are extensions of the trachea'
Bronchial Tubes
1000
'This town with a religious-sounding name is home to the main campus of the University of North Carolina'
Chapel Hill
1000
'Stewart Island, south of South Island, is this island country's 3rd largest'
New Zealand
1000
'A golden spike was driven into the ground at Promentory Point, Utah, when this was completed'
Transcontinental Railroad
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