Founding Fathers
How many men signed the Declaration of Independence?
56
This sport is often called "America's Pastime."
What is Baseball
This famous statue was a gift from France.
What is the Statue of Liberty
This American music tradition features storytelling and acoustic instruments and is popular in the Appalachian region.
What is Folk Music
Created by a pharmacist in Atlanta in 1886, this carbonated beverage was originally sold as a patent medicine for five cents a glass.
What is Coca-Cola
This Founding Father helped convince the colonies to declare independence through his pamphlet Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine
This Thanksgiving tradition has the President symbolically sparing the life of one lucky bird.
What is the National Thanksgiving Turkey Pardoning
"International Orange" is the signature color of this iconic California suspension bridge.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge
Developed in the late 1940s by musicians like Bill Monroe, this subgenre of country music gets its name from a nickname for the state of Kentucky.
What is Bluegrass
Introduced in Highland Park, Michigan, in 1908, this revolutionary automobile was the first to be mass-produced on a moving assembly line.
What is Ford Model T
This Founding Father was the first Secretary of the Treasury?
Who is Alexander Hamilton
This famous annual hot dog eating contest is held on every year on the Fourth. Hint: it share the name of someone in this room :)
What is the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
This memorial in South Dakota is still currently being carved to honor a Lakota leader.
What is Crazy Horse Memorial
1971 epic masterpiece about "the day the music died".
What is "American Pie" by Don McLean
Popularized during the Great Depression, this board game features a character named Rich Uncle Pennybags and locations based on Atlantic City.
What is Monopoly
On July 4, 1826, Thomas Jefferson died. 5 hours later, this founding father also died.
Fact: Both men died on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Adams
Originating in the 1920s, this festive pre-game parking lot tradition gets its name from the specific part of the vehicle where food and drinks are served.
What is Tailgating
This national park is home to Half Dome and El Capitan.
What is Yosemite National Park
Billy Joel famously sang in 1976 that he was taking a Greyhound bus on the Hudson River Line because he was in a "___ State of Mind."
What is New York
This U.S. company pioneered online retail and cloud computing infrastructure that powers much of the internet today.
What is Amazon
This "Father of the Constitution," and future president, earned the distinction of being Princeton University's first graduate student, staying on to study Hebrew and political philosophy.
Who is James Madison
This American sporting event is traditionally called "The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports."
What is the Kentucky Derby
This national monument in Wyoming became America's first national monument in 1906.
What is Devils Tower National Monument
While "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem, an act of Congress in 1987 officially designated this John Philip Sousa composition as the official "National March of the United States".
What is the "Stars and Stripes Forever"
Inventor Percy Spencer created this popular appliance in 1945 after realizing a military radar vacuum tube had accidentally melted a candy bar in his pocket.
What is the Microwave Oven