PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
NAME THE GAME
YOU GOT 2 As & 2 Ds
INTERNATIONAL PARKS
FIND A SYNONYM
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
In 1908 he rolled out the first car affordable for most Americans, the Model T
(Henry) Ford
100
Use all 7 of your tiles on one turn & get a 50-point bonus
Scrabble
100
A person seeking political office on the ballot
a candidate
100
Denmark created the largest national park in the world on this vast island
Greenland
100
Seism is an old-timey word for this geological event
an earthquake
200
This future presidential assassin made his acting debut in an 1855 Baltimore staging of "Richard III"
John Wilkes Booth
200
The classic version incorporates real streets in Atlantic City
Monopoly
200
The woman who owns the apartment you rent is your this
landlady
200
Italy has national parks dedicated to Etna & to this other infamous southern volcano
Vesuvius
200
This word starting with "re" also means "revolution" & it's one letter shorter
rebellion
200
CATEGORY
OTHER NATIONS' PRESIDENTS
300
In 1927 he made aviation history aboard a plane called the Spirit of St. Louis
Lindbergh
300
Water on the knee is one challenge
Operation
300
In a children's song, it comes between "knick knack" & "give the dog a bone"
paddywhack
300
The lands at Tel Megiddo National Park in Israel feature prominently in this last book of the Bible
Revelation
300
This synonym for a news reporter & a person who keeps a diary comes to us partly from the French
journalist
300
ANSWER
This nation's 1st 8 presidents were all born in the U.S.; the 1st local-born president came in 1884, 37 years after independence
400
FBI headquarters is housed in a building named for this man who was director from 1924 to 1972
J. Edgar Hoover
400
Use letter tiles to build words in this a-peeling game with a fruit in its name
Bananagrams
400
Morbid-sounding 2-word term for a race that ends in a tie
a dead heat
400
Badaling National Forest Park contains the most visited section of all the miles of this edifice
the Great Wall of China
400
Instead of "global", you can use this more cosmic word for something that applies everywhere
universal
400
QUESTION
Where is Liberia?
500
After his first wife Miriam died in 1832, this religious leader wed as many as 56 more times
Brigham Young
500
It takes some math skills & strategy to win in this ancient African family of games
mancala
500
You don't want to get kicked out of the army this alliterative way
by dishonorable discharge
500
Germany's Schwarzwald is this colorful national park in English
Black Forest
500
This is a synonym for a great circle of longitude on the Earth, especially when it is "prime"
a meridian