250 Years of AMERICAN HISTORY round 2

American Folklore

100

This winged creature was reportedly seen around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the 1960s and later became tied to the Silver Bridge collapse

Mothman

200

Bigfoot is an example of this kind of creature, whose existence is claimed by eyewitness reports but not proven by science

Cryptids 

300

This cannibalistic spirit or monster from Algonquian folklore is often associated with winter and hunger

Wendigo

400

This small Westmoreland County town became known as “Pennsylvania’s Roswell” after a reported 1965 crash of an acorn-shaped UFO-like object

Kecksburg 

500

This legendary Black folk hero supposedly raced a steam-powered drill and won  

John Henry 

American Crime

100

Charles Manson interpreted this Beatles song as a prophecy for an apocalyptic race-war

Helter Skelter

200

This U.S. city is where D. B. Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 in 1971 before hijacking the plane

Portland, Oregon

300

This Colorado city was the site of the 1996 murder of child pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey

Boulder, Colorado

400

This Italian-born mobster helped reshape American organized crime in the 1930s by creating the modern Mafia Commission

Lucky Luciano 

500

This former schoolteacher and convicted child molester became one of the best-known suspects in the Zodiac Killer case, though he was never charged

Arthur Leigh Allen

The Turbulent 60s

100

Featuring acts like Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and Janis Joplin, this legendary 1969 festival was held on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York

Woodstock

200

This Alabama city was the starting point of the 1965 voting-rights marches to Montgomery

Selma

300

This Palestinian-born man was convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968

Sirhan Sirhan

400

This activist co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton in Oakland in 1966 and later became one of the Chicago Eight defendants

Bobby Seale

500

This author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest became a counterculture icon after leading the Merry Pranksters and hosting the Acid Tests

Ken Kesey

The Cold War

100

This Cold War doctrine held that if either the United States or Soviet Union launched a nuclear attack, both sides would be destroyed by retaliation, making full-scale nuclear war irrational

Mutually Assured Destruction

200

This Vietnamese revolutionary leader helped found the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and became the communist symbol of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War

Ho Chi Minh

300

This campaign of anti-communist suspicion and blacklists was named after a Wisconsin senator who claimed communists had infiltrated the U.S. government

McCarthyism 

400

This policy of easing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union was associated with Richard Nixon during the 1970s

Détente

500

John F. Kennedy declared this German phrase in a 1963 speech in West Berlin, showing American solidarity with the city during the Cold War

Ich bin ein Berliner

21st Century Pop Culture

100

This actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the Joker and was also Oscar-nominated for portraying Johnny Cash in Walk the Line

Joaquin Phoenix 

200

Running from March 2023 to December 2024, this Taylor Swift concert tour celebrated the different phases of her career

The Eras Tour

300

Before Beyoncé became one of the biggest solo artists in pop history, she rose to fame as a member of this R&B girl group alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams

Destiny's Child

400

This 2016 coming-of-age drama follows Chiron through three stages of life and famously won Best Picture after La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner 

Moonlight

500

This beauty YouTuber, famous for his catchphrase “Hi sisters!,” faced major backlash in 2021 after allegations involving inappropriate messages to minors

James Charles