Indiana
Probably the biggest event in Indiana is the Indianapolis 500, a race of these vehicles.
What are cars?
John Paul Jones fought for this country during its revolution against Great Britain.
What is the USA?
Perhaps the most famous raiders of old are these Norse pillagers who attacked the Lindisfarne Monastery.
Who are the Vikings?
A now-lost relic is this cup that Christ supposedly drank from at the Last Supper.
What is the Holy Grail?
The Gateway Arch was built by Eero Saarinen in this city.
What is St. Louis?
The first governor of the Indiana Territory was this man, the victor over Tecumseh at the battle of Tippecanoe and shortest-serving president.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
Charles Dow and Edward Jones founded this newspaper to detail financial news.
What is the Wall Street Journal?
This man was foiled by Robert E. Lee in his attempts to foment a slave rebellion in his raid on Harpers' Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
This woman and Fred Noonan went missing somewhere over the Pacific in 1937.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
The quarterback for the Texas Longhorns is Arch, from this famous football family.
What is the Manning family?
One Governor of Indiana was this man, a future Republican vice president who once said that he would never have dinner alone with a woman other than his wife.
Who is Mike Pence?
Herbert Jones won a posthumous Victoria Cross for his leading role at the Battle of Goose Green during this 1980s conflict in which the General Belgrano was sunk.
These Ottoman corsairs based in North Africa caused the United States were really annoying until, of course, we sent our navy over there and smushed them.
Who are the Barbary Pirates?
Bruno Hauptmann kidnapped the baby of this aviator who made the first trans-Atlantic plane crossing in his The Spirit of St. Louis.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This landmark featuring numerous arches was the specific location at which Ronald Reagan called on Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
What is the Brandenburg Gate?
A prominent Indiana politician is this man who gave the Murphy Brown speech arguing against single motherhood and was George H.W. Bush's vice president.
Who is Dan Quayle?
Notorious cult leader Jim Jones was allied with this man who was gunned down along with Mayor George Moscone by Dan White.
Who is Harvey Milk?
The Raid on the Medway was a complete humiliation for England in its war against the Dutch during the reign of this Stuart nicknamed the "Merry Monarch."
Who is Charles II?
Marcel Duchamp's original Fountain - a urinal signed with his name and now lost to history - is considered a part of this anti-art movement.
What is Dadaism?
This casualty of World War 1 rests underneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and represents all who died fighting for France.
Who is the Unknown Soldier?
This man served as the attorney for Indiana native Eugene Debs for his role in the Pullman Strike, but is best known for his defense of John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial."
Who is Clarence Darrow?
Mother Jones was a prominent activist associated with this group once led by Big Bill Haywood that organized the Bread and Roses textile strike and was nicknamed "The Wobblies."
What is the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)?
The pirates calling themselves the Sea Beggars helped beat off Spain in this war that was sparked by the harsh measures of the Duke of Alba like the tenth penny tax.
What is the Eighty Years' War (or Dutch War of Independence)?
This explorer managed to survive two years of being stranded after the 1915 sinking of his ship Endurance in Antarctica.
Who is Ernest Shackleton?
An arch in Ancona commemorates this Roman emperors successful campaign against the Dacians, though he has a more famous column in Rome.
Who is Trajan?