FAMOUS BUILDINGS
The name of this Indian mausoleum means “crown of the palace.”
Taj Mahal
February 3, 1959 is known as “The Day the Music Died” after a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa took the lives of three early rock stars. Name one of them.
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson, Jr.)
He is more than “relatively” famous for the equation e=mc2 .
Albert Einstein
All domesticated dogs are descended from this wild animal.
The grey wolf
These huge constructions enabled water to flow 60 miles from the hills down to the baths and fountains of ancient Rome.
Aqueducts
Located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, this D.C. headquarters is named after the director who led the crime-fighting agency for almost 50 years.
J. Edgar Hoover Building (FBI Headquarters)
On August 21,1959, this was the last US state to be admitted to the union.
Hawaii
He is best remembered for his theories of the unconscious mind and the interpretation of dreams.
Sigmund Freud
The average weight of this breed is 2 to 4 pounds, making it the smallest dog in the world.
Chihuahua
In August 79AD, a massive eruption of this volcano buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Mt. Vesuvius
Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling are all buried in this nearly 800- year-old London church.
Westminster Abbey
In a model of a typical American home, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in an impromptu “Kitchen Debate” with this Soviet leader.
Nikita Khrushchev
This inventor and oceanographer also won two Academy Awards for his films The Silent World and World Without Sun.
Jacques Cousteau
This breed boasts the tallest known dog – nearly four feet high.
Great Dane
This most powerful government body of ancient Rome passed decrees and handled foreign policy.
The Senate
A multi-venue performing arts center renowned for its striking, sail-like roof structure. It is a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture.
The Sydney Opera House
In April 1959, NASA selected the first seven astronauts. Can you name two of them?
Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, and Deke Slayton
Presper Eckert and John Mauchly built the ENIAC in the 1940s. It was the first truly modern version of this technology.
The computer
Most of us remember the 1957 movie Old Yeller; but do you remember why Yeller died?
Yeller had to be shot by his young owner, because he (Yeller) had been bitten by a rabid wolf while defending the boy and his family.
After the western Roman Empire broke off, the capital moved east to Constantinople, a city in Turkey now known by what name?
Istanbul
These are the only two major league baseball stadiums built in the first half of the 20th century that are still in use.
Boston’s Fenway Park (1912) and Chicago’s Wrigley Field (1914
In October 1959, the Guggenheim Museum opened in New York City, four months after the death of this legendary architect who designed it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Born in Lincolnshire, England in 1642, this physicist, astronomer, mathematician who invented integral and differential calculus, alchemist, and more, is considered the most original and influential thinker in the history of science and the greatest genius that ever lived.
Isaac Newton
Alphabetically, this little dog is the last breed officially recognized by the American Kennel Club.
Yorkshire Terrier
After seven years of war, Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 58 BC. What do we call Gaul today?
France