Presidents
The sixteenth President of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This 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?
This famous ship brought the Pilgrims to North America in 1620.
What is The Mayflower?
This state is the home of Mount Rushmore.
What is South Dakota?
James Early Ray assassinated this well known civil rights activist in Memphis in April 1968.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This man became US president after Herbert Hoover.
Who is Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)
This state is America's flattest, with a difference of only 345 feet between its highest and lowest points?
What is Florida
The world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957 which also helped launch the US/USSR space race and led to the creation of NASA in 1958.
What is Sputnik?
This California city was the first in the state to be named using a non hispanic name.
What is Stockton?
This US President, who famously said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," was impeached in 1998 for lying under oath.
Who is Bill Clinton?
The two signers of the Declaration of Independence went on to serve as president of the United States.
Who are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
The USA's highest concrete dam, the Hoover dam, blocks this famous river which also shares its name with this "Centennial State."
What is the Colorado River?
This influential act of protest took place on Griffin's Wharf in 1773.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
This city, known as the Motor City, is the headquarters of Daimler-Chrysler, Ford and General Motors.
What is Detroit?
This popular 1968 Democratic Party presidential candidate's last words were,"Now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there" shortly before he was shot to death at a Los Angeles Hotel.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
This man is the only person to have served in the top positions in both the executive and the judicial branches.
Who is Willam Howard Taft?
This peak is the highest point in the continental United States and is located a mere 80 miles from the lowest point in the United States.
What is Mount Whitney?
In 1885, this newspaper mogul ran fundraising ads in the New York World to raise funds to build the Statue of Liberty.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
This city in Ohio is named after the a club of military officers from the Revolutionary War. That club was named after this famous dictator of the early Roman Republic.
Who is Cincinnati?
He was the first African American be appointed associate justice of the US Supreme Court. He also was a prosecuting attorney for the Brown v. Board of Education SCOTUS case in 1954.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Caught on camera, he assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin (according to official accounts) of US President John F Kennedy.
Who is Jack Ruby
This state's panhandle was once an unclaimed territory and was also home to many dust bowl refugees en route to California.
What is Oklahoma?
This Industrial Age tycoon who was also the chairman of Carnegie Steel Company escaped possible death in 1912 by not sailing on the Titanic. He and his wife had tickets for a suite on the ill fated ship.
Who is Henry Frick?
These two states never join ed the confederacy, but were officially recognized by the confederacy and were even given two stars on the confederate flag.
What are Missouri and Kentucky?
This woman, who suffered through mental illness and addiction, was the wife of Civil War president, Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Mary Todd?