Music Mania: American Edition
This is the title of the song which enjoys 'official' status as the fanfare reserved exclusively for appearances of the American President.
Give me your answer, do!
I'm half crazy
All for the love of you!
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
Daisy Bell (Harry Dacre)
Bones, hearts, contracts.
Things you can break.
Federalist
This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Michaelangelo
This is the name of the songwriter who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner"
Francis Scott Key
Inspired by the Battle of Baltimore
Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze
Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver)
Bad habits, footballs, buckets.
Things you kick.
This state held the first MLB game.
New Jersey
This kind of band never plays any music.
A rubber band.
Finish the lyric! “Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light…”
“What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming”
Close my eyes at night
And wonder where would I be without you in my life
Everything was just a bore
All the things I did, seems I've done 'em before
But you brightened up all of my days
With a love so sweet in so many ways
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) (Marvin Gaye)
Traffic, rivers, veins.
Things that flow.
This was the first US billionaire.
John D. Rockefeller
This is the country in which the first modern Olympic Games were held.
Greece
Originally composed in November 1906 as a Naval Academy football fight song, "Anchors Aweigh" was adopted by this branch of the US military as their official song in 1907.
US Navy
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow, may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss (Richard Rodgers, Sound of Music)
Eggs, jokes, knuckles.
Things you crack.
This was the first American to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Theodore Roosevelt
This natural wonder is commonly referred to as “the Lungs of the World”
The Amazon Rainforest
The music of the British National Anthem, "God Save the King," is also the tune to this popular American song.
America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)
And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free
And I won't forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me
And I'd gladly stand up
Next to you and defend her still today
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land
God Bless the USA (Lee Greenwood)
Clothes, keys, passwords.
Things you may change.
This was the year of the first US census.
1790
3,929,214 people across the original states and territories.
The shooting of this man, in 1914, started World War I
Archduke Franz Ferdinand