What?
Who?
Aha!
Why?
Surprise!
100

document needed to enter port by land or sea.

visa or passport

What is a passport?

100

First baby born of colonial settlers.  

Virginia Dare or Charles Darwin

Who was Virginia Dare?

100

First explorers from St Louis to West Coast.

Vasco DaGama crew or Lewis and Clark

Who were Lewis and Clark?

100

This Quaker accepted 45,000 miles of land for religious freedom.

William Penn or Nathaniel Ely.

Who was William Penn?

100

How many states exist today?

48 or 50

What is Fifty?

200

Number of stars on Betsy Ross flag.

10 or 13

What is thirteen?

200

First man to step on to moon.    John Glenn or Neil Armstrong

Who was Neil Armstrong?

200

First to climb Mount Everest. Pershing or Hillary.

Who are Edmund Hillary (and Tenzing Norgay)?

200

Cattle drive from Texas to Kansas stock yards: Cattlemen's Trail or Chisholm Trail.

What was The Chisholm Trail?

200

Lewis and Clark took this guide along to West Coast.    Sitting Bull or Sacajawea.

Who was Sacajawea?  

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY  Sacajawea brought this person along all the way to the West Coast:

her husband or her baby

Who is her baby?

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY He explored Oregon Trail.  Mix or Carson.

Who is Kit Carson?

300

Discovered North Pole Tranor or Peary.

Who is Robert Peary?

300

Mormon (LDS) Settlers made their home here.

Provo or Salt Lake City


What is Salt Lake City, Utah?

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY   Name any four colonies.  

What are Virginia, NY, N Carolina, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, PA, Mass Bay Colony, Georgia, Connecticut, Maryland, So Carolina and New Hampshire?

400

The first colony settlement was this in Virginia.

Jamestown or Richmond

What was Jamestown, VA?

400

Sailor discovered Nova Scotia.  Lodge or Cabot.

Who was John Cabot?

400

Discovered South Pole.  Amundson or Powers.

Who was Roald Amundson?

400

Shipping route dug to shorten trips from West to East coasts. 

Erie Canal or Panama Canal.

What is the Panama Canal?

400

In Boston, he yelled, "The British are coming!" and saved the town.  

Paul Revere or William Penn.

Who was Paul Revere?

500

Name two skills that Native Americans taught early settlers.

What are planting, hunting, fishing and building?

500

This many of the 102 settlers of Mayflower lived to see first harvest.  25% 50% 75%

What is 50%?
500

Found the wreckage of Titanic.  Ballard or Smithson.

Who is Robert Ballard?

500

First thanksgiving 1621, landed 1620.  Explain the delay.  

They hid from Indians or They had to plant crops and harvest.

Why did it take a year to harvest crops and build houses?

500

Native Americans called their land this.  

Turtle Island or Bull Shoals.

What is Turtle Island?