American History
This conflict took place from 1861 to 1865, and saw fighting between Union and Confederate forces.
What is the Civil War?
This is a tiny square that emits a certain amount of red, green, and blue light. Many of these make up a modern computer screen.
What is a pixel?
This is the most intense, final turning point in a story.
What is a climax?
The India Gate is located in this country's capital.
What is India?
This is a wooden screening apparatus owned by the head of the postal service.
What is a fence-postmaster general?
This 'great' economic crisis was caused by the 1929 stock market crash.
What is the Great Depression?
This is a style of music sung without accompaniment.
What is a capella?
This novel is the first of the Chronicles of Narnia to be written, and has three important nouns in the title.
What is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?
This is the first verb in the Pledge of Allegiance.
What is 'pledge'?
This is stopping the usage of a reclining chair in protest.
What is a lazy-boycott?
This president is the longest-serving in American history.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This Macedonian king conquered the Persian Empire, earning the epithet "the Great."
Who is Alexander the Great?
This novel features a symbolic green light and is a commentary on American 1920s high culture.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This company's logo features an arm holding a hammer.
What is Arm and Hammer?
This is where disgruntled employees across multiple industries refuse to work for the highest position in the UN.
What is a secretary general strike?
This group was led by Samuel Adams and organized the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This famous epic features an author self-insert as he travels to hell, purgatory, and heaven.
What is the Divine Comedy?
The first medical description of this disease was written by James Parkinson.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
This is the act of covering up the uncomfortable truths about the main character of Breaking Bad's past.
What is Walter Whitewashing?
This person owned Standard Oil and is the richest person in American history.
Who is John Rockefeller?
This "belt" of celestial objects is located beyond Pluto.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
This character went under the pseudonym "Nobody" and was a principal actor in the trick of the Trojan Horse in the Iliad.
Who is Odysseus?
Glen Bell founded this taco chain in 1962.
What is Taco Bell?
This is the one component that limits the maximum efficiency of a device meant to hold water.
What is a water bottleneck?