Before 1970
In 1947, this pilot became the first person to officially break the sound barrier in level flight.
Who is Chuck Yeager?
His Fifth Symphony begins with perhaps classical music's most famous four-note motif.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
America's first successful continuously published newspaper, founded in 1704, was the Boston this.
What is the News-Letter?
Someone who speaks several languages is described by this word beginning with P.
What is a polyglot?
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
In 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against racial segregation in public schools in this landmark case.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Russian composer wrote The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and The Sleeping Beauty.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
Completed in 1930, this New York skyscraper was briefly the world's tallest before the Empire State Building surpassed it.
What is the Chrysler Building?
Meaning a remedy for all diseases or problems, this word comes from the name of a Greek goddess.
What is panacea?
Developed the first successful polio vaccine, announced in 1955.
Who is Jonas Salk?
This Egyptian president nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, helping trigger the Suez Crisis.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?
This Austrian prodigy composed The Magic Flute during the final year of his life.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This historic trail connected Independence, Missouri, with the Pacific Northwest during 19th-century westward migration.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This word means to formally renounce a throne.
What is abdicate?
Served as Britain's prime minister for most of World War II and returned to the office in 1951.
Who is Winston Churchill?
In 1960, this American U-2 pilot was captured after his reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
Who is Francis Gary Powers?
This composer wrote the orchestral suite The Planets.
Who is Gustav Holst?
The first U.S. national monument, designated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, is this Wyoming landmark.
What is Devils Tower?
Beginning with E, this adjective describes something short-lived or fleeting.
What is ephemeral?
Discovered the first antibiotic after noticing mold killing bacteria in a Petri dish.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
In 1944, representatives from 44 Allied nations met at this New Hampshire resort to establish a new international monetary system.
What is Bretton Woods?
This Czech composer wrote the New World Symphony while living in the United States.
Who is Antonín Dvořák?
America's first federal highway, authorized in 1806, was commonly known by this name.
What is the National Road/Cumberland Road?
This 12-letter word beginning with O means stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.
What is obstreperous?
Was a Norwegian explorer who became the first person confirmed to reach the South Pole.
Who is Roald Amundsen?