American History
This document, adopted in 1787, established the framework of the U.S. federal government.
What is the Constitution?
This is the longest mountain range in the world, running along South America’s western coast.
What is The Andes?
This 1939 fantasy film features a tornado that carries a farm girl to a magical land.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
This “Rat Pack” member, also a talented singer and dancer, wrote a memoir titled “Yes I Can.”
Who is Sammy Davis Jr.?
This scientist is credited with discovering the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This war, fought from 1775 to 1783, won America its independence from Britain.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This African country is home to the pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx
What is Egypt?
This actor played the Cowardly Lion in “The Wizard of Oz.”
Who is Bert Lahr?
This husband-and-wife country duo had a hit with “Jackson” in 1967.
Who are Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash?
This scientist developed the periodic table of elements.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
This Founding Father invented bifocal glasses and flew a kite in a famous experiment.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This South American country shares its name with a river and a rainforest.
What is the Amazon/Brazil?
This 1946 Frank Capra classic features an angel named Clarence trying to earn his wings.
What is It’s a Wonderful Life?
This vocal group, made up of four brothers from Ohio, sang “I’ll Be There” and “ABC.”
Who are the Jackson 5?
This Polish-French scientist won Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry for her research on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States, purchased from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Scandinavian country is known for its fjords, deep narrow inlets carved by glaciers
What is Norway?
This actress starred as the icy, glamorous socialite in “The Philadelphia Story.”
Who is Katharine Hepburn?
This youngest Jackson brother went on to a massive solo career, releasing “Thriller” in 1982.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This is the term for the basic unit of heredity, made of DNA.
What is a gene?
This President negotiated the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is the world’s largest island (not counting continent-sized Australia).
What is Greenland?
This 1950 film noir, set in Hollywood, is narrated by a dead man floating in a swimming pool.
What is Sunset Boulevard?
This singer, known as “The Piano Man,” had a hit with the song of the same name in 1973.
Who is Billy Joel?
These two scientists are credited with discovering the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953.
. Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?