American History
He delivered the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited with inventing this form of transportation in 1903.
What is the airplane?
This singer was known as “The King of Rock and Roll”.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This indoor game uses 16 squares, 32 pieces, and involves strategy and checkmate.
What is chess?
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison before becoming President and ending apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This President enacted the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This invention by Alexander Graham Bell made it possible to speak with someone miles away.
What is the telephone?
This TV show featured characters named Archie and Edith Bunker.
What is All in the Family?
This sport uses terms like, ”love,” ”serve,” and “ace.”
What is tennis?
This British Prime Minister was nicknamed “The Iron Lady”.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
The Louisiana Purchase as made from this country.
Who is France?
Thomas Edison is most closely associated with improving this everyday source of light.
What is the light bulb?
This Broadway musical, which opened in 1957, features the songs Maria and Tonight and is set in New York City.
What is West Side Story?
This Olympic sport combines swimming, cycling, and running into one continuous race.
What is a triathlon?
He wrote The Old Man and the Sea.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
He was President when Alaska and Hawaii became states.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This medical invention, discovered by Alexander Fleming, has saved millions of lives.
What is penicillin?
This talk-show host became famous for The Tonight Show in the 1960s.
Who is Johnny Carson?
This sport involves a shuttlecock, rackets, and is popular in Asia and Europe.
What is badminton?
He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michaelangelo?
The first President to be born in a hospital.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This household invention, introduced in 1908, was designed to reduce the spread of germs by eliminating shared drinking cups.
What is the paper cup (Dixie Cup)?
This Jazz trumpeter and vocalist led the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
In baseball, this term describes a pitcher who retires the side without allowing any batter to reach base.
What is a perfect game?
He was the British naturalist who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?