This Day in History
Common Bonds
Green
Irish Americans
13 Letter Words
100
461
This Christian missionary, bishop and apostle of Ireland, died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland. Today he is honored with the annual holiday on this day.
Who is St. Patrick?
100
Question
Knee
Ring
What is a wedding proposal?
100
This Wisconsin city sits on the spot where the Fox River empties into a certain body of water
What is Green Bay?
100
Assassinated in 1963, he was the 35th president of the United States.
Who is JFK?
100
From the Latin for "ask", it's the formal & systematic questioning of a suspect
What is interrogation?
200
1905
Future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt weds this woman, his fifth cousin once removed.
Who is Elanor Roosevelt?
200
Danka
Tack
Grazie
What is Thank you (German, Sweedish, Italian)
200
Get strong to the "finich" with the Savoy type of this leafy green
What is spinach?
200
An American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III
Who is Grace Kelly?
200
You might have to perform with some real dummies if you seek this stage job perfected by Edgar Bergen
What is a ventriloquist?
300
1992
White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in a referendum to end minority rule, thus ending this turbulent period.
What is apartheid?
300
Bunny
Ant
Capitol
What are HILLS?
300
Joe Raposo wrote the words & music, but this character first sang, "It's Not Easy Being Green"
Who is Kermit the Frog?
300
Whilst he may have been born in the USA himself, this rock and roller is actually a descendent of the Gerrity family from Co. Kildare.
Who is Bruce Springsteen?
300
The perimeter of a circle
What is circumference?
400
1969
This woman is elected the fourth Prime Minister of Isreal, the first woman to do so.
Who is Golda Meir?
400
FDR
Zachary Taylor
William Harrison
Who are Presidents who died in office?
400
During the Han dynasty, Chinese royals were buried in suits of this green gem
What is jade?
400
The maker of the Model T and the man behind the development of the assembly line technique of mass production, hailed from a family from Ballinascarthy in West Cork.
Who is Henry Ford?
400
This adjective means having only one color
What is monochromatic?
500
1919
This American musician who first came to prominence as a jazz pianist but who reached enormous popularity with his warm, relaxed, somewhat breathy-voiced ballad singing, was born.
Who is Nat King Cole?
500
Nymphs
Streamers
Bucktails
What are fishing lures?
500
This man ran for President four times for the political Green party.
Who is Ralph Nader?
500
An American actor, producer, and former rapper. His work as a leading man spans the comedy, drama, and action genres
Who is Mark Wahlberg?
500
It's the fear of spiders... multi-legged, creeping, sometimes venomous spiders
What is arachnophobia?