Presidents
Who was the third President of the United States and primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Which New England state is the most thickly forested, with 89.8 percent of its land area classified as wooded by the U.S. Forest Service?
What is Maine
What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims traveled to North America in 1620?
What is The Mayflower
What parts of Europe did the "new" (1880-1915) wave of immigrants come from
Southern and Eastern
Who did James Early Ray assassinate in Memphis in April 1968?
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
Who became US president after Herbert Hoover?
What is Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)
Which state is America's flattest, with a difference of only 345 feet between its highest and lowest points?
What is Florida
What was the name of the world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957?
What is Sputnik
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
The 19th
This is the name of the strategy of attacking islands to move closer to Japan
Island Hopping
This man was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK (John F. Kennedy)
On which river is the USA's highest concrete dam?
What is Colorado River
What took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773?
What is The Boston Tea Party
What document is the "supreme law of the land"?
The Constitution
This is the longest river in the US
Missouri River
This president was the first candidate of the Republican party
Abraham Lincoln
In which state do you find the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
California
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from which country?
What is France
Jackie Robinson's number and the team he played for?
42
The Brooklyn Dodgers
Name the four presidents on Mount Rushmore
Washington
Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
Jefferson
FDR man was president during which TWO key major events (in chronological order).
Great Depression
World War II
The Black Hills and Mount Rushmore are in which state?
South Dakota
Marjorie Robb, who died in Boston in 1992 (age 103), Barbara Dainton, Millvina Dean, and Lillian Asplund, achieved notoriety for being among the last living survivors of what?
What is The sinking of the Titanic (1912)
This man was a Scottish immigrant who founded US Steel
Andrew Carnegie
Name the 13 colonies
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island