Roaring 20s
This type of illegal nightclub sold alcohol during Prohibition and was often run by organized crime.
Speakeasy
This jazz legend, nicknamed “Satchmo,” helped popularize jazz worldwide with his trumpet playing and gravelly voice.
Louis Armstrong
This famous escape artist and illusionist died on Halloween from appendicitis
Harry Houdini
How many colors of M&Ms are there in a normal bag?
6 - Red, Orange, Green, Blue, Yellow and Dark Brown
What year was the iphone released?
2007
In 1920, this amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote.
19th amendment
Known for poems like “I, Too” and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” this writer became one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This person of royalty died in a car accident. Activism and glamour made her one of the most popular members of the royal family throughout history.
Diana, Princess of Wales
What was the first individually wrapped penny candy in America?
Tootsie Roll
What county is Gifford located in?
Middlesex County
This saw hundreds of thousands of African Americans move from the rural South to northern cities in search of better jobs and freedom.
“Great Migration”
This singer, known as the “Empress of the Blues,” helped bring the blues genre to mainstream audiences during the Harlem Renaissance.
Bessie Smith
this French chemist is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer. In 1903 they won the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering radioactivity. In 1911 she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for isolating pure radium.
She died in 1934 of leukemia, believed to have been brought on by her extensive exposure to the high levels of radiation involved in her studies.
Marie Curie
What is the best selling Halloween candy in the world?
Snickers
this country is known for windmills and tulips
the Netherlands
The trial of this Tennessee teacher in 1925 tested laws banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.
The Scopes Monkey Trial
This poet, author of “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” collected African American folklore and celebrated Black womanhood.
Zora Neale Hurston
This Russian mystic and holy man, best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia was assassinated by Nobles.
He was first given food and wine laced with cyanide, however, when this failed his shot him at close range and left him for dead. In spite of these murderous measures, he revived shortly thereafter and made an attempt to flee, only to be intercepted by his assailants who shot him again and viciously beat him. They then bound him, who was remarkably still alive, and threw him into the freezing Neva River. His battered body was found several days later and it was reported that there was water in his lungs, indicating that he finally died by drowning.
Rasputin
In which country were gummy bears first invented?
Germany
Who was the first American to be killed in the American Revolution?
Crispus Attucks, an African and Native American man, is widely recognized as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre of 1770, an event that helped spark the Revolution}. On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people, with Attucks being the first to die.
The group who created a new alphabet and traded purple cloth.
the Phoenicians
This elegant Harlem nightclub hosted performers like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington but only allowed white patrons.
The Cotton Club
He was one of the greatest of the barbarian rulers was one of the most feared enemies of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires. He attacked Gaul and then Italy after the Western Roman emperor refused to marry his sister to him with half the Western Empire as her dowry.
This ruler died because of a nosebleed at a celebration. It could have been because of poisoning, internal bleeding caused by heavy drinking, or worst of all he simply had a bad nosebleed. After his death, the group basically disappeared from history.
Attila the Hun
According to Boston 25 what was the most popular candy in Massachusetts?
Butterfinger
Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent and is the subject of a long-running territorial dispute between India, Pakistan, and China. The region is predominantly mountainous, with lush valleys, forested hills, and high plateaus.
Kashmir