Your US History Test
An early experiment in representative government, the House of Burgesses met for the first time in 1619 in this settlement
What is Jamestown?
Term for an electric generator at a power plant or a hardworking doer at the office
What is Dynamo?
The field of celestial mechanics studies the motions of heavenly bodies, principally under the influence of this force
What is Gravity?
On June 10, 1996 her syndicated talk show debuted with George Clooney & Susan Lucci as guests
Who is Rosie O'Donnell?
It all adds up; he paired with Paul Simon for a while & also got a masters in math from Columbia
Who is Art Garfunkel?
HIGH PLACES:
Rising to over 14,000 feet, the highest paved road in North America is found in this U.S. state
What is Colorado?
The assassination of James Garfield made this man the 21st president
Who is Arthur?
In the mid-1400s he sculpted the biblical David a bit over 5 feet high in bronze
Who is Donatello?
Quantum physics explains why these negative particles don't lose energy & crash into a positively charged nucleus
What are Electrons?
The theme song to this Tim Daly sitcom is based on the fourth movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in A Major
What is Wings?
John Astin studied math at Johns Hopkins before becoming a creepy & kooky patriarch on this '60s sitcom
What is The Addams Family?
THE EMMY AWARDS:
A former Screen Actors Guild president, he's the only actor to win both comedy & drama Emmys for playing the same character
Who is Ed Asner?
The Compromise of 1850 admitted this Western state to the Union, with slavery banned there
What is California?
A Brooklyn neighborhood has this acronymic name that fits the category
What is DUMBO?
Not just the ocean but the solid Earth itself experiences these twice a day, with a maximum amplitude of about 12 inches
What are Tides?
This Phil Silvers character was master sergeant of the motor pool at Fort Baxter, Kansas
Who is Sgt. Bilko?
"Radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud" won an astrophysics Ph.D. for Brian May (not Mr. Mercury) of this band
What is Queen?
SOUTHERN CITIES:
In the 1830s settlers gave this city its name in the hope of having the University of Mississippi placed there
What is Oxford?
MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech called for freedom to ring from Stone Mountain in Georgia & this mountain in Tennessee
What is Lookout Mountain?
Room 222 at the Strater Hotel in this Colorado city was where Louis L'Amour wrote many of his Western novels
What is Durango?
A famous 17th c. experiment used a bell inside a jar in which this had been created to prove that air was needed to transmit sound
What is a Vacuum?
In 1996 he won the first acting Emmy for a cable TV series for playing Artie on "The Larry Sanders Show"
Who is Rip Torn?
Here's "The News": The "Power of Love" singer was an engineering major at Cornell
Who is Huey Lewis?
GEOGRA-FLEE:
In July 2022 the ousted president of this country fled west across the Indian Ocean to the Maldives
What is Sri Lanka?
An eyewitness account of the Boston Massacre said this man hit several soldiers with a club before he was shot
Who is Crispus Attucks?
It's the proprietary name for an acoustic guitar with a metal resonator built into its body; it's popular for country music
What is Dobro?
American physicist Willard F. Libby developed the method of dating artifacts via the decay of this isotope of carbon
What is Carbon-14?
In this 1950s sitcom Theodore's classmates at Grant Ave. School included Larry Mondello, Gilbert Bates & Whitey
What is Leave it to Beaver?
In 2008 he hitched a ride on "The Pineapple Express" as Saul Silver & brushed up on his English lit as a UCLA grad
Who is James Franco?
LITERATURE:
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel
What is Frankenstein?