DEAD PRESIDENTS
This man was the shortest president at 5’4” and weighed barely over 100 pounds.
Who is James Madison?
These are the requirements someone need to meet to become president.
The name of the President of China.
Who is Xi Jinping?
One of these is larger than the other: Universe or Galaxy? What is our Galaxy called?
Half points for answering one, full points for answering two.
A universe contains millions of galaxies.
Milky Way.
How much blood is in the human body (adult)?
6 quarts or 5.6 liters.
The only president from New Hampshire; also attended college in New England—Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
This amendment gave women the right to vote, happening in this year.
What is 1920, 19th Amendment?
These countries use the currency, Euro. Name as many as you can.
10:Plus 100 points
15:Plus 150 points
20:Plus 300 points
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Cyprus
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
the Netherlands
Portugal
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
The phrase was originally said by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in the original Star Trek series in regards to space. It is now a nickname we give the vastness of space.
Bonus quote: To go where...
"Space: the final frontier." Or, "To go where no man has gone before."
This number is how many bones a human baby is born with.
300
The Presidents that presided over the period of time known as "The Cold War."
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George HW Bush
Who held the title of ‘father of modern science’ (given to him by Einstein, no less). His work included fiddling with and improving the telescope (discovering a handful of astronomical features, such as a couple of Jupiter’s moons, while he was at it), running experiments to show how gravity causes the same acceleration regardless of mass, and defending the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Which of the following countries has the highest population?
Russia, India, China, USA
India: 1.417 Billion
China: 1.412 Billion
Russia: 147.1 Million
USA: 333.3 Million
The rise and fall of the tide on Earth is controlled by this object.
The Moon.
What organ famously has little to no use in a human body?
What is the Appendix?
In 1849, the inauguration of Zachary Taylor landed on a Sunday, and the religious incumbent refused to be sworn in on a holy day. He had this man, the president pro tempore, stand in for him, making him our only "President for a Day", and the shortest term of any president we ever had at 24 hours.
President David Rice Atchinson
Name 3 of the Amendments in the original Bill of Rights.
This man was the first Tsar in Russia, in 1547.
Who is Grand Prince Ivan IV of Moscow (Ivan the Terrible).
What planets, after laboratory simulations, did we find out rained diamonds?
Hint, there are 2.
Uranus and Neptune.
This is the largest nerve in a human body.
What is the Sciatic Nerve?
Years after leaving the White House, this president argued a famous Supreme Court case that freed the captive Africans who had rebelled aboard the Amistad slave ship.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Name 3 of the later Amendments added in the Bill of Rights.
Amendment 11 Lawsuits against states
Amendment 12 Presidential elections
Amendment 13 Abolition of slavery
Amendment 14 Civil rights
Amendment 15 Black suffrage
Amendment 16 Income taxes
Amendment 17 Senatorial elections
Amendment 18 Prohibition of liquor
Amendment 19 Women's suffrage
Amendment 20 Terms of office
Amendment 21 Repeal of Prohibition
Amendment 22 Term Limits for the Presidency
Amendment 23 Washington, D.C., suffrage
Amendment 24 Abolition of poll taxes
Amendment 25 Presidential succession
Amendment 26 18-year-old suffrage
Amendment 27 Congressional pay raises
Ancient Chinese medicine already discovered blood 2,000 years before what European scientist discovered it in 1628.
Who is William Harvey?
This planet is the only one in our solar system to spin the opposite direction.
What is Venus?
Surplus red blood cells, needed to meet an emergency, are MAINLY stored in what organ of the human body?
What is the spleen?