Events
What holiday do we celebrate to honor leaders like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln?
President's Day.
Who was the famous explorer who sailed the ocean blue in 1492?
Christopher Columbus.
What did knights live in to protect themselves and their kings?
Castles.
Which god has a trident and rules over the fish and the ocean?
Poseidon.
Long ago, did people use a computer or a feather quill to write letters?
A quill.
What did the Statue of Liberty represent when it was given to the U.S. as a gift?
Friendship.
What was the name of the Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Sacagawea.
Who were the "Minutemen" during the American Revolution?
Soldiers who had to figuratively sleep with an eye open, AKA soldiers ready with guns locked and loaded ready to fight whenever.
What body part was the only weak spot for the hero Achilles?
His heel.
What did the Wright Brothers use to stay in the air for the first time in 1903?
An airplane.
What was the "Boston Tea Party" protesting against?
Unfair taxes.
Who was the "Conductor" of the Underground Railroad who helped enslaved people escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman.
Which side wore blue uniforms during the American Civil War—the North or the South?
North.
In Greek myths, what happens to someone if they look directly at the snake-haired Medusa?
They turn to stone.
What was the "Oregon Trail" used for in the 1800s?
Moving west.
What famous speech did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give in Washington, D.C.?
"I have a dream."
Benjamin Franklin is famous for flying a kite in a storm to study what?
Lightning.
What was the name of the wall that divided a famous German city for many years after World War II?
The Berlin Wall.
What did the box belong to that, when opened, let all the troubles out into the world?
Pandora.
Before we had refrigerators, what did people put in "iceboxes" to keep food cold?
Actual ice.
What was the "Louisiana Purchase"?
When America bought a bunch of land from France.
Which scientist discovered that gravity makes an apple fall from a tree?
Isaac Newton.
What document ended the Revolutionary War and made the United States its own country?
The Treaty of Paris.
Who was the Goddess of Wisdom who was said to have popped out of Zeus’s head wearing armor?
Athena.
What was the "Silk Road" famous for in ancient times?
Trading.