Presidential Assassinations & Attempts
In 1881, Charles J. Guiteau shot this President the same year that he took office.
James Garfield
This man holds the highest number of Olympic swimming medals.
Micheal Phelps
In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas may no longer produce this hormone that controls blood sugar.
Insulin
Repeals the 18th Amendment and makes it a federal offense to transport or import intoxicating liquors into U.S. states and territories where such is prohibited by law.
The 21st Amendment
There are more of this animal in Australia than than there are humans.
Kangaroos
October 14, 1912, while arriving at a campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this former President was shot by a delusional saloonkeeper named John Flammang Schrank. He declined suggestions to go to the hospital immediately and instead delivered a 90-minute speech with blood seeping into his shirt.
Theodore Roosevelt
This sport takes place in the open sea and involves using the power of the wind. It has been an official Olympic sport since the first Games in Athens in 1896.
Sailing (or yachting)
This is a dizziness or disorientation in which the sufferer feels as though he is falling. It results from problems with the body’s balancing system, part of which is in the inner ear.
Vertigo
Prohibits the denial of the right of US citizens, 18 years of age or older, to vote on account of age.
The 26th Amendment
True or False: Australia’s diameter is larger than the moon’s.
True. The moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4000km. The moon, as a sphere, has more surface size.
On September 6, 1901, Leon Czolgosz shot this President twice in the abdomen at point-blank range. The President died 8 days later from gangrene caused by the wound.
William McKinley
This sport is also known as water ballet.
Synchronized swimming
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare but fatal & transmissible brain disease closely related to this bovine affliction.
Mad Cow Disease
Permits Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the various states or basing it on the United States Census.
The 16th Amendment
This unisex style of sheepskin boot that was popular in the early 2000s originated in Australia. The boots are typically made of twin-faced sheepskin with fleece on the inside, a tanned outer surface and a synthetic sole.
Ugg Boots
In 1835, just outside the Capitol Building, a house painter named Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot this Presidentwith two pistols, both of which misfired. Lawrence was apprehended after the President beat him severely with his cane.
Andrew Jackson
George Freeth was billed as the “man who can walk on water.” What water sport did he help to popularize?
Surfing
Mary Styles Harris helped lead the fight against this type of anemia; it results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells.
Sickle Cell Anemia
This amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause.
The 4th Amendment
This largest desert in Australia covers an area of 348,750 km2(134,650 sq mi) & consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains,, and salt lakes.
Great Victoria Desert
John Hinckley Jr. fired six gunshots toward this President after he spoke at the Washington Hilton hotel, striking him and three others. The President, White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and police officer Thomas Delahanty all survived.
Ronald Reagan
In this sport, the rider's feet are bound to a board towed behind a boat & performs tricks.
Wakeboarding
This deadly disease that struck a convention in Philadelphia in July 1976 and was named for the convention where it struck.
Legionnaires Disease
Revises presidential election procedures by having the president and vice president elected together as opposed to the vice president being the runner up in the presidential election.
The 12th Amendment
You won’t be able to eat at Burger King in Australia, you’ll have to settle for this Australian fast food franchise of the Burger King Corporation instead.
Hungry Jack’s