PRIDE
Before Pride Month was nationally recognized, many cities held Pride events in this month to commemorate Stonewall.
What is June?
The city where General Order No. 3 was announced on June 19, 1865.
What is Galveston?
This literary device uses words that imitate sounds, such as "buzz" or "hiss."
What is onomatopoeia?
The element with the atomic number 79.
What is gold?
This television western starring James Arness became one of the longest-running primetime dramas in U.S. history.
What is Gunsmoke?
This San Francisco politician became one of the first openly gay elected officials in California before his 1978 assassination.
Who was Harvey Milk?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution formally abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A phrase whose meaning cannot be understood from the literal meanings of the individual words is called this.
What is an idiom?
This layer of Earth's atmosphere contains most weather phenomena.
What is the troposphere?
This 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick featured the computer HAL 9000.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
The first Pride flag designed by Gilbert Baker contained this number of stripes.
What is eight?
Juneteenth occurred approximately this many years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
What is 89 years?
A word or phrase that reads the same forward and backward is known as this.
What is a palindrome?
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without becoming liquid.
What is sublimation?
This 1977 disco soundtrack became one of the best-selling albums of all time.
What is Saturday Night Fever?
This annual reminder, observed on October 11, encourages LGBTQ+ individuals to share their identity openly if they choose.
What is National Coming Out Day?
The Union officer who delivered General Order No. 3 was this rank.
What is Major General?
This word refers to a phrase or sentence where the first letters of words create another word, such as NASA or SCUBA.
What is an acronym?
This physicist developed the uncertainty principle in 1927.
Who was Werner Heisenberg?
This 1980s television series featured the fictional Miami Metro Police Department and popularized pastel-colored fashion.
What is Miami Vice?
This LGBTQ+ rights organization was founded in 1950 and took its name from a medieval French society.
What is the Mattachine Society?
This Confederate department, commanded by General Edmund Kirby Smith, was the last major Confederate territory where slavery remained largely unenforced after the Civil War ended.
What was the Trans-Mississippi Department?
This rhetorical device uses a single word to modify two other words in different ways, as in "She broke his car and his heart."
What is zeugma?
This theoretical boundary around a black hole marks the point beyond which nothing can escape.
What is the event horizon?
This 1975 film became the first movie ever to earn more than $100 million at the U.S. box office.
What is Jaws?