American History
This president was the only U.S. president never elected as either president or vice president.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This actor played the title character on Columbo.
Who is Peter Falk?
Before CDs and cassette tapes, this format played music on a continuous loop and was especially popular in cars.
What is an 8-track tape?
This European capital sits on the River Seine.
What is Paris?
Unlike most mammals, this egg-laying Australian animal has a duck-like bill and venomous spurs on the males.
What is the platypus?
The United States purchased Alaska from this country in 1867.
What is Russia?
This 1976 film featured the line, “You talkin' to me?”
What is Taxi Driver?
This household catalog was so widely used that generations of Americans referred to it as the “Wish Book.”
What is the Sears Christmas catalog?
This country was formerly known as Ceylon.
What is Sri Lanka?
This planet rotates so slowly that one of its days lasts longer than one of its years.
What is Venus?
This woman refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks did the same.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This actress played the mother, Marion Cunningham, on Happy Days.
Who is Marion Ross?
This home-movie film format, introduced by Kodak in 1965, became enormously popular for recording family vacations and birthdays.
What is Super 8?
The ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of this volcano.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
This is the largest species of shark—and despite its enormous size, it feeds primarily on plankton.
What is the whale shark?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Before starring in The Golden Girls, Bea Arthur played this outspoken character on All in the Family and her own spin-off.
Who is Maude Findlay?
Before electronic cash registers, this mechanical brand became so synonymous with checkout machines that its initials appeared on countless store registers.
What is NCR — National Cash Register?
This strait separates Spain from Morocco and connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
The human body's smallest bones—the malleus, incus, and stapes—are found in this part of the body.
What is the middle ear?
This president signed the legislation creating the Interstate Highway System in 1956.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The 1983 series finale of M*A*S*H, “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen,” drew more than 100 million viewers. In the episode's memorable final shot, Hawkeye looks down from a helicopter to see this word spelled out in stones by B.J.
What is GOODBYE?
This small record format, usually containing one song on each side, was commonly called a “single” and played at this speed.
What is 45 RPM?
This African country, formerly known as Abyssinia, was never permanently colonized by a European power.
What is Ethiopia?
Discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, this object was considered our ninth planet until it was reclassified in 2006.
What is Pluto?