Hollywood
What American woman became a global Hollywood superstar starting out as a highly sought-after pin-up model?
Extra point if you know how the term pin up girl was coined.
Marilyn Monroe
mass-produced images that became popular and intended to be "pinned up" on a wall becoming mainstream during WW2
This famous idiom is often used when asking for a signature, referring to a founding father signing the Declaration of Independence.
Put your John Hancock.
Who gifted the United States the Statue of Liberty?
France
What is the unofficial anthem for baseball?
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
On July 20, 1969, he became the first person to walk on the moon, famously stating, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Neil Armstrong
What artist performing the Super Bowl in 1993 walked on to the center of the stage, froze completely, and stood perfectly still in complete silence for nearly two minutes.
Micheal Jackson
Who said "nothing is certain except death and taxes"?
Benjamin Franklin
Who sang the "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl on January 27, 1991?
Whitney Houston
What was the first professional women's sports league in the US called?
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Who became the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What film era spanned from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s
The Silent Film Era
Who said that without free speech, "then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter" in his famous Newburgh Address on March 15, 1783? Within this speech he argued that if citizens cannot debate issues, reason becomes useless.
George Washington
Who designed and sewed the first American flag?
Betsy Ross
Why is the number 42 retired across all of Major League Baseball? (the first uniform number to be retired across the sport)
To honor Jackie Robinson, the first professional athlete to break baseball's color barrier in 1947
What American president said "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it"
President Ronald Reagan
In this movie Tom Hanks delivered the iconic five-word line, "There's no crying in baseball."
A League of Their Own
This founding father famously said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" in his speech to the Second Virginia Convention at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia urging them to prepare for war.
March 23, 1775
Patrick Henry
What year did the bald eagle become the United States official national bird?
2024
During the 1943 NFL season, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles temporarily merged into a single team called [BLANK] because so many of their players had left for World War II military service.
"Steagles"
Other than the words in its title, this three-word imperative is the most often repeated phrase in Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
"Let freedom ring"
What was the first western movie ever made?
The 1903 silent film "The Great Train Robbery"
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
Which founding father wrote this famous line in his foundational argument for freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state?
Thomas Jefferson
What is written on the bottom of the Statue of Liberty?
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Who played against each other in the most famous "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match on September 20, 1973?
Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
What speech was delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York?
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"