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These are three most famous landmarks in New York City.

What are the  Statue of Liberty, Central Park and Broadway?

100

A landmark U.S. law signed by Lyndon B. Johnson that legally ended segregation in public places.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

100

The Jewish New Year: September 11-12, 2026.

What is Rosh Hashanah?

100

GPS pioneer and mathematician. One of the hidden figures. Her work and contributions went larger unrecognized for years. Called the Mother of the  GPS. 

Who is Gladys West?

100

Briefly held the title of the "World Tallest Building" in 1930 before the Empire State Building took the title.

What is the Chrysler Building?

200

The original name for New York City.

What is New Amsterdam?

200

Three Civil Rights workers murdered in Neshoba, Mississippi.

Who are:

Andrew Goodman

James Chaney

Michael Schwerner




200

A holiday that celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from slavery to Egypt.

What is the Passover?

200

One of the wealthiest Black communities in the United States destroyed in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

What is Black Wall Street? (Greenwood)

200

A distinctive inverted ziggurat-like spiral museum building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on the Manhattan's Upper East Side.

What is the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum?

300

This building is so massive and houses many businesses  that it has its own Zip Code.

What is The Empire State Building?

300

The notorious segregationist and Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama.

Who is Bull Conor?

300

The first five books of the Hebrew holy book.

What is the Torah?

300

The speech that outlined methods to control the enslaved within the colonies.

What is the Willie Lynch Speech? (Also know as the Willie Lynch Letters)

300

The number of minutes in a year.

What is 525600 minutes?

400

Established in 1825, this area of land was located between West 82nd and West 89th Streets. It was Manhattan's first significant community of free Black property owners.

What is Seneca Village? (Know today as Central Park)

400

Who said that the Civil Rights Crisis was a "moral issue" as old as the scriptures and clear as the Constitution.

Who is President John F. Kennedy?

June 11, 1963

400

The date that created a permanent homeland for the State of Israel.

What May 14, 1948?

400

First Black woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress.

Who is Shirley Chisholm?

400

The number of Planets in our solar systems.

What is 8 planets?

Mercury      Venus         Earth

Mars          Jupiter       Saturn

Uranus       Neptune

500

5 Jewish Museums in New York City Your Kids Will Love

What are:

1. The Jewish Museum            11 5th Ave @ 92nd St

2. Museum at Eldridge Street     12 Eldridge St

3. Museum of Jewish Heritage    36 Battery Place

4. Jewish Children’s Museum   792 Eastern Parkway

5. Tenement Museum                103 Orchard St  

500

The only women to speak at the 1963 March on Washington.

Who were:

1. Daisy Bates - civil rights activist and president of  the Arkansas NAACP ( gave a brief tribute)

2. Josephine Baker - famous entertainer (said "Hello")

3.Lena Horn - Actor/singer (spoke single word "Freedom")


500

Three ritual items traditionally used together during Havdalah ceremony that marks the end of Shabbat.

1. A braided candle with multiple wicks

2. A cup of wine

3. Sweet spice

500

The original singer of "You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog" 

Who is Big Mama Thornton august 1952?

(Elvis Presley covered it in 1956)

500

The President with the youngest wife living in the White House.

Who is President Glover Cleveland? (age 49)

(Frances Folsom - Wife age 21 years old

the youngest First Lady of the U.S.)