Presidents
The faces of presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt are carved into this massive South Dakota monument.
What is Mount Rushmore National Memorial?
After struggling with drug and alcohol dependency, this First Lady helped establish an addiction treatment center.
Who was Betty Ford?
This is the sport that Jackie Robinson played
What is baseball?
Cupid typically carries these two things.
What are a bow and arrow?
On average, this is how many times the heart beats per day:
a. 1,000
b. 10,000
c. 100,000
What is 100,000?
Before turning to politics, this two-term president considered becoming a professional saxophone player.
Who is Bill Clinton?
“Lady Bird” was the nickname for the wife of this president.
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
This is the city where Rosa Parks got arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
This famous playwright coined the term “star-crossed lovers”.
Who was William Shakespeare?
(From Romeo and Juliet (1595))
The Queen of Hearts reigns as a tyrannical and hot-tempered character in this Lewis Carroll story.
What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
This Republican president, serving from 1974 to 1977, had turned down offers to play professional football.
Who was President Gerald Ford?
(Ford attended the University of Michigan, where he was a star football player. The team won national titles in both 1932 and 1933. After graduation, he turned down offers to play with both the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers. Instead, he took a coaching job at Yale University in 1935 because he also wanted to attend law school. He left after six seasons with a law degree in hand.)
Before becoming a First Lady, she starred in 11 feature films, including The Next Voice You Hear, Donovan’s Brain, and the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Dark Wave.
Who was Nancy Reagan?
(Her stage name was “Nancy Davis”)
This is the secret escape system that Harriet Tubman used to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom.
What is the Underground Railway?
This 1942 film features the famous movie line, “Of all the gin joints in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.”
What is Casablanca?
True or False:
Exposure to polluted air can damage your heart.
What is true?
(Breathing polluted air can trigger inflammation and elevate blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure—all detrimental to your heart’s health.)
After completing his time in office, this U.S. president picked up painting portraits of world leaders and heroes as a hobby.
Who is Gearge W. Bush?
In April of 1933, she made history by becoming the first first lady to fly in an airplane piloted by Amelia Earhart.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
(She snuck out of a White House dinner with famed aviator Amelia Earhart and other guests, and together they commandeered an airplane near Hoover Field. Earhart even promised to give Mrs. Roosevelt flying lessons!)
This is the name of the novel that earned author Alice Walker a Pulitzer Prize.
What is The Color Purple?
In the 1955 animated feature “Lady and the Tramp,” two dogs share a smooch over this meal.
What are spaghetti and meatballs?
This is the year that the I ❤ NY logo was created:
a. 1952
b. 1965
c. 1977
What is 1977?
(It was created to boost morale for a city in crisis. Trash piled up on the streets, the crime rate spiked, and it was near bankruptcy. It was hoped that the image would increase tourism.)
Four U.S. presidents have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Name two.
Who are Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama?
She saved a rare painting of George Washington before British troops torched the White House in 1814.
Who was Dolley Madison?
Maya Angelou became the first woman and first African American to read a poem at this person’s presidential inauguration.
Who is Bill Clinton?
This popular TV sitcom popularized the concept of celebrating Galentine’s Day.
What is Parks and Recreation?
This famous work of Gothic fiction tells the story of a man driven mad by the sound of what he believes is his victim’s beating heart.
What is “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe?