U.S. and World Politics
He was elected the 16th President of the United States in 1860, the first Republican to win the presidency.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In 1955, she refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a major civil rights movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
In 1904, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented a process to make this spread from raw peanuts.
What is peanut butter?
In 2005, this party-video-game for Nintendo GameCube debuted in North America.
What is Mario Party?
In 1920, the first Thanksgiving Day parade took place in this U.S. city.
What is Philadelphia?
In 1940, he won an unprecedented third term as president of the United States.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
At 6 years old, she became the first Black child to integrate William Frantz Elementary in Louisiana in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This gaming console was launched by Microsoft in 2001 and joked about surviving a zombie apocalypse.
What is the Xbox?
The Batman TV show first aired in 1966, starring this actor as the Caped Crusader.
Who is Adam West?
In 1865, the first commercial greeting for this winter holiday was printed in London.
What is Christmas?
This U.K. king abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée.
Who is Edward VIII (8th)?
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929, he became a key leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
In 2006, Nintendo released this motion-control video game system.
What is the Wii?
On January 8, 1964, this quiz show first aired, giving players the answers and requiring them to phrase the response as a question.
What is Jeopardy?
In 1882, the first electric lights were put on this holiday decoration in New York City.
What is a Christmas tree?
In 1973, this French king became the last Bourbon monarch to be executed by guillotine.
Who is Louis XVI (16th)?
On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted this document that protects human freedoms worldwide.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
In 1992, Neil Papworth sent the first ever text message saying “Merry Christmas” via this network.
What is Vodafone?
In 1965, this TV special featuring a Peanuts character premiered and became a holiday tradition.
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
In 1974, archaeologists discovered Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old ancestor of humans, in this country.
What is Ethiopia?
On January 20, 2020, this disease was confirmed for the first time in the U.S.
What is COVID-19?
In 1620, the Pilgrims signed this agreement, one of the first examples of self-government in America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi sent the first successful wireless message across this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The first Coca-Cola was sold at a pharmacy in Atlanta in 1893 by this pharmacist.
Who is John Pemberton?
The very first “pencil with an eraser on top” was introduced in 1969 by this company.
What is Pentel?