Abe Lincoln
What was the first permanent English settlement in the United States?
Jamestown
Name two of the four Golden Girl's characters.
Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, Sophia
People who are short but aggressive are often said to have a "complex" named after this French leader
Napoleon
What are the vertical coordinates of a location referred to as?
Longitude
On November 9, 1989, this famous European boundary began to be dismanteled.
Berlin Wall
James Madison is on what denomination of paper money?
5,000
Marie Curie is the only woman in history to win two Nobel Prizes. Name one of the two categories for which she won.
Physics and Chemistry
Which tiger-like province in British India had a devasting famine in 1943?
Bengal
What continent has hosted the most Olympic games?
Europe
in 1996, Dolly becomes the first successfully cloned mammal. What was Dolly?
Sheep
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is rumored to have started using this gangster's bulletproof car during WWII.
Al Capone
Lynda Carter played which iconic superhero with an invisible fighter plane on TV?
Wonder Women
What day did FDR declare would "live in infamy?"
December 7th, the attack on Pearl Harbor
What device is used to locate True North?
Compass
In 1935, the Kingdom of Persia changes to the name we know it by today.
This 25th President had a pet parrot that could whistle "Yankee Doodle Dandy".
William Mckinley
Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark 1, an early version of this tech device.
Computer
Ted Kaczynski was given this nickname by the FBI because he sent mail bombs to universities and airlines. Jerk Alert!
Unabomber
What body of water separates England and France and sounds like a radio station that plays British rock?
English Channel
The English theoretical physicist is best known for his book A brief History of Time.
Stephen Hawking
In 2013, this American was forced into exile after releasing classified documents about the NSA's most massive surveillance programs
This photographer became famous for her portraits of American life during the Great Depression.
Dorothea Lange
Name two of the three famous musician who died in a plane crash in Iowa in 1959, also the inspiration for the song American Pie.
Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly
What geographical feature separates China and India?
The Himalayas
This French-Algerian philosopher contributed to the rise of Absurdism and wrote The Myth of Sisyphus.
Albert Camus