The Buckeye State
This state has the nickname "the Buckeye State"
What is Ohio?
Ohio is called the Buckeye State due to the abundance of Ohio Buckeye trees native to the region, whose nuts resemble the eye of a buck deer.
This planet is known as the Red Planet due to its iron oxide surface.
What is Mars?
Gravity on Mars is only 38% of Earth's, meaning you could jump nearly three times higher there.
How someone might get to the top of a tree or mountain.
What is climb?
"Climb" has a silent "b" due to its historical origin in the Old English word climban. Although the pronunciation of the "b" was lost by roughly 1300, the spelling was kept.
This is the plural form of the word fungus
What is fungi?
Cordyceps fungi can infect insects, taking over their bodies and manipulating their behavior to spread spores, often dubbed "zombie ant fungus".
This “Rebel Without a Cause” became the symbol of teenage rebellion.
Who is James Dean?
His three films are Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, and Giant. He was also an auto racer, and he died because of injuries sustained in a car crash on his way to a racing event.
April 4, 1968, this iconic civil rights leader was assassinated outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
When MLK was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he was the youngest person to ever receive it at the time (35 years old).
This city, the largest in Ohio, sits on Lake Erie and is home to the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.
What is Cleveland?
DJ Alan Freed coined the term "rock and roll" in Cleveland in the 1950s, leading to the city hosting the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
This planet is famous for its prominent ring system.
What is Saturn?
Saturn has 146 moons, making it the planet with the most moons in the solar system.
Your in this if you owe somebody money
What is debt?
The letter "b" was added to "debt" in the 16th century by scholars attempting to Latinize English spelling.
This is how many sides a hexagon has
What is six?
Some common objects that are hexagons include stop signs, a honeycomb, and standard pencils.
This popular TV show about a suburban family, starring Lucille Ball, debuted in 1951.
What is I Love Lucy?
At its peak, the second season of I Love Lucy was viewed on nearly 68 percent of all American televisions.
April 23 1564 - This author of the plays Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet is born.
Who is William Shakespeare?
His gravestone bears a curse threatening anyone who moves his bones, which has kept his grave in Stratford-upon-Avon undisturbed.
This is the capital city of Ohio
What is Columbus?
The first Wendy's restaurant was opened by Dave Thomas in downtown Columbus in 1969.
This planet is the largest in our Solar System.
What is Jupiter?
As the third brightest object in the night sky (after the Moon and Venus), Jupiter can often be seen with the naked eye.
A piece of land surrounded by water
What is an island?
Roughly 9% of the world's population lives on islands, with Java being the most populated, while others remain completely uninhabited.
This is the name of the body organ that filters and removes waste from the blood
What are the kidneys?
Each kidney contains about one million tiny filters called nephrons.
This doll, first introduced in 1959, became a cultural phenomenon and is still popular today.
What is Barbie?
She is officially named Barbara Millicent Roberts from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin. She has had over 250 careers, including astronaut—a role she took in 1965, 18 years before the first American woman in space
April 18, 1775 -This man rode at night from Boston to the towns of Lexington and Concord to warn that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
Revere never made it to his final destination of Concord. He was captured by a British patrol in Lincoln, interrogated, and briefly held prisoner before being let go without his horse.
These Ohio-born inventors is credited with creating the first practical airplane
Who are the Wright Brothers?
The Wright Brothers National Museum in Dayton, Ohio, houses the 1905 Wright Flyer III—the only airplane designated a National Historic Landmark.
This is the term for a rocky object that enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up, often called a “shooting star.”
What is a meteor?
They are small debris, usually pieces of rock or metal from shattered asteroids or comets.
The little bits of bread left over on your plate
What are crumbs?
The oldest breadcrumbs, dating back 14,000 years, were found in a fireplace in Jordan, proving humans were making bread-like products long before farming.
Buenos Aires is the capital city of this country
What is Argentina?
The dance known as the Tango emerged in the city's portside neighborhoods in the mid-19th century.
In 1950, this agency released the first 10 Most Wanted list.
What is the F.B.I.?
The list was implemented on March 14, 1950 by Director J. Edgar Hoover to increase public assistance in capturing dangerous criminals. It was inspired by a 1949 newspaper story requesting names of the "toughest guys" the bureau was seeking
April 28, 1945 - Twenty Three years of fascist rule of Italy ended when this dictator was shot trying to flee the country.
Who is Mussolini?
Mussolini was expelled from his first boarding school at age 10 for stabbing a fellow student with a penknife.
This city in southern Ohio sits on the Ohio River, and is home the the NFL's Bengals and MLB's Reds?
What is Cincinnati?
In the 1800s, Cincinnati was the world's top pork-processing hub. This history is celebrated today through pig statues across the city and the annual Flying Pig Marathon.
This NASA space telescope, launched in 1990, has captured some of the most detailed images of distant galaxies.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Despite its immense capabilities, Hubble operates on an average of just 2,100 watts of power, which is only slightly more than a standard hair dryer.
This fish is famous for its upstream migration to spawn, often returning to the very river where it was born.
What is salmon?
During the Middle Ages, the French removed the 'l' from the spelling and pronunciation of many words. While the pronunciation kept the French style, scholars later added the 'l' back to the English word to make it look closer to the Latin root salmō.
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Inca or Incan People?
The Inca did not have a written language, instead using quipu—a system of knotted, colored strings—to record data, taxes, and census information.
This movement gained momentum after the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Rosa Parks’ arrest sparked the boycott when she refused to give up her seat on the bus on December 1, 1955 .
On April 12, 1861 The American Civil War began as Confederate troops opened fire at this fort, located in Charleston South Carolina
What is Fort Sumpter?
During the initial 34-hour bombardment (April 12–14, 1861), not a single soldier on either side was killed. Two Union soldiers were killed during a 100-gun salute to the flag on April 14, 1861, after the surrender, when a gun misfired.
This Ohio-born astronaut was the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
Who is John Glen?
After retiring from NASA, he served as a U.S. Senator for Ohio for 24 years, from 1974 to 1999.
This is the name of the rocket, that launched last week, that will send humans to lunar orbit for the first time since the since the 1960s and 70s with the Apollo Program.
What is the Artemis II?
The crew will travel roughly 252,760 miles from Earth, which is expected to break the record for the farthest distance humans have traveled from our home planet (previously held by Apollo 13).
An infection that inflames one or both lungs, causing them to fill with fluid or pus
What is Pneumonia?
While the word originates from the Greek pneumon (lung), where the 'p' was pronounced, English adopted the spelling but dropped the initial 'p' sound to fit its own pronunciation constraints, similar to words like psychology or pterodactyl.
He is the Greek god of the sea
Who is Poseidon?
He was a notoriously grumpy and vindictive god, most notably in The Odyssey, where he plagued Odysseus for blinding his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus.
In 1954, this landmark Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Brown v. Board wasn't a single lawsuit from Kansas. It was a consolidation of five separate cases from Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, and Washington D.C., all fighting segregated education.
April 26, 1986 - In Ukraine, Soviet Union, a meltdown at this nuclear power plant led to an evacuation of 135,000 people in a ~300 mile square radius and dozens of death.
What is Chernobyl?
Without humans, the exclusion zone has become a thriving, accidental nature reserve for wolves, horses, and bears, though some animals show radiation-related health issues.