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100
This sport, once dominated by players like Babe Ruth and Jacki Robinson, is known as "America's pastime"
What is baseball?
100
This is America’s first national park, home to Old Faithful, and visited by 4 million annually
(fun fact: it ISN’T America’s most popular national park!)
What is Yellowstone?
100
In order to create a system of checks and balances, the founding fathers instituted these three branches of government
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches?
100
In 1492, he sailed the ocean blue
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This towering figure steered the country through the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and was assassinated on April 14, 1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
He ran across America, played ping pong in China, met multiple US presidents, and went into the shrimp business, all in one movie.
Who is Forrest Gump?
200
The shape of this state
What is Kansas?
200
This official presides over the Senate and casts a vote in the event of a tie
Who is the Vice President?
200
This 1930s economic crisis led to widespread unemployment and poverty across the US
What is the Great Depression?
200
This artist, known as the "Queen of Soul," produced famous hits like Respect and A Natural Women. She collected 18 grammy awards and a Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
300
This artist's transition from country prodigy to cultural juggernaut included a record four Album of the Year awards.
Who is Taylor Swift?
300
This city served as the young nation’s capital before Washington D.C.
What is Philadelphia?
300
Only this branch of government can declare war
What is the Legislative branch?
300
J. Robert Oppenheimer led this secretive military project (1942-1945) that resulted in the creation of the world's first nuclear bomb.
What is the Manhattan project?
300
One of the most famous first ladies, this person married the second President of the United States.
Who is Abigail Adams?
400
This New Orleans sandwich, often filled with fried seafood, gets its name from the striking workers it originally fed.
What is a po’ boy?
400
Formed over 480 million years ago, this mountain range predates its american sibling by hundreds of millions of years
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
The total number of voting members in the United States Congress
What is 535?
400
This 19th century political philosophy is depicted in this painting, titled “American Progress” by John Gast
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
This person was the first and only American to be elected Pope. He took the name Leo XIV.
Who is Robert Prevost?
500
After the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, millions of Americans watch the National Dog Show. This breed won last year's competition for the first time ever.
What is the pug?
500
The American empire extends far beyond the 50 states. It includes Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and this territory, located in the Southern Pacific ocean.
What is American Samoa?
500
This failed first attempt at a national government was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789
What are the Articles of Confederation?
500
In 1896, Plessy v Ferguson upheld "separate but equal" segregation laws in the US. This 1954 ruling overturned that decision
What is Brown v Board of Education?
500
A pivotal leader of the American suffrage movement, this Quaker staged hunger strikes and was viewed as radical for their time. They saw their efforts come to fruition with the passage of the 19th amendment.
Who is Alice Paul?