Sports Teams in Plane Crashes
This West Virginia football team lost 37 members of the team to a plane crash and were later memorialized in a film starring Matthew McConaughey.
Marshall
This ancient civilization built the city of Machu Pichu.
Inca
In the 1440s, this inventor invented the movable type printing press.
Johannes Gutenberg
A slit or loop through which a button is placed.
Buttonhole
The testicles of this animal are commonly referred to as Rocky Mountain Oysters.
Cow/Bull/Calf
In 2017, this Big Ten basketball team on their way to the conference tournament saw its basketball team’s plane slide off the runway and have a minor crash, before ultimately winning the tournament and ending their season in the Sweet Sixteen.
Michigan
Until 1951, this North African country that would be home of Muammar Gaddafi was under Italian control.
Libya
Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic after observing the presence of mold in petri dishes.
Penicillin
A person or thing seen comparable to another.
Analog
In 1950 this future symbol of fire prevention was rescued from a fire in a New Mexico forest.
Smokey the Bear
The Purple Aces of this school lost all but one member of their basketball team in a plane crash in 1977.
Evansville
Founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1585, this settlement in present day North Carolina disappeared by the time it was revisited in 1590.
Roanoke Colony
This unit, the equivalent of joules per second, was named for this James who invented the steam engine.
Watt
To split almost entirely and spread apart.
Butterfly
This state has the most ghost towns in the United States.
In 1972, professional athletes of this sport of a team from Uruguay died in a plane crash in the Andes Mountains, with the survivors ultimately resorting to cannibalism.
Rugby
Upon coronation in 1422 at 8 months of age, this monarch is still the youngest to take power.
VI
Until 2015, this Menlo Park, New Jersey inventor was the most patented inventor in the United States.
Thomas Edison
An acute infectious bacterial disease characterized by tonic spasm of voluntary muscles especially of the jaw and caused by an exotoxin of a clostridium.
Tetanus
This colorful pirate’s reign of terror along the Carolina coast ended when he was killed in battle on Nov. 22, 1718.
Blackbeard
Despite losing 14 players in a plane crash in 1970, this now defunct college football team, whose school now features an American Conference basketball team, would plow on with their ultimately winless season 23 days later.
Wichita State
This African country's capital city is the home of a national park founded in 1946 and is the home of the only national park located within a capital city in the world.
Nairobi, Kenya
The earliest known, publicly displayed video game appeared in 1950, which allowed users to play this traditional grid game.
Tic-Tac-Toe
The act of responding to an argument, especially in a legal suit.
Rebuttal
Jim Davis was the cartoonist behind this widely syndicated comic strip.
Garfield