US History
In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed laws closing the Port of Boston, revoking Massachusetts' Charter of self government, allowing British officials to be tried for crimes in front of British juries, and providing for the quartering of British troops in colonial homes. They were called this by the Colonists.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
He was the first Republican president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Boston College was founded in this year.
What is 1863?
George H. W. Bush nominated this man to fill Thurgood Marshall's seat on the Supreme Court (what an improvement!)
Who is Clarence Thomas?
This is the only fruit whose seeds are on the outside.
What is a Strawberry?
Abraham Lincoln won reelection in 1864 against this execrable former-General, the second-worst New Jersey Governor to win the Democratic Nomination.
Who is George B. McClellan?
He was the first Republican nominee for President.
Who is John C. Fremont?
αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν, a Greek phrase from Homer's Illiad, translates to this in English.
What is "Ever to Excel"?
Appointed to fill the Senate seat of retiring Senator Jim DeMint, he is the first black man to serve as both a Congressman and Senator.
Who is Tim Scott?
Russia has this many time zones.
What is 11?
If Ron DeSantis is elected President in 2024, he will be the first President to have served in the House since George H. W. Bush, but this Republican is the only President to have been an incumbent member of the House of Representatives when he was elected.
Who is James A. Garfield?
This was the largest Electoral Landslide for a Republican in American History.
What was Ronald Reagan's 1984 Reelection?
The religious order that founded Boston College, the priest who founded the order, and that order's motto.
What are the Society of Jesus, St. Ignatius Loyola, and 'Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam'?
Edward Brooke was the first black senator popularly elected. He represented this state.
What is Massachusetts?
This movie character was originally going to be called "Lunar Larry".
Who is Buzz Lightyear?
In 1945, Soviet Spy Alger Hiss attend this Second-World-War-Conference on the staff of Franklin Roosevelt.
What was the Yalta Conference?
This was the largest popular vote total for a Republican President in American History, nearly matching Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 rout of Kansas Governor Alf Landon.
(Roosevelt got 60.8% or the popular vote, this Republican got 60.7%.)
A bench in the Fulton Hall atrium reads, "Certes Toto Sentio Non In Kansate Tam Adesse", which translates to this in English.
What is 'Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.'?
Hiram Rhodes Revels and Blanche Bruce were appointed to the Senate to represent this state in the 1870s.
What is Mississippi?
This one-syllable state is the closest U.S. State to Africa.
What is Maine?
Thanks to clandestine military aid from the United States and her allies, freedom fighters in this country became the first group to defeat the Red Army.
What is Afghanistan?
A group of Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Anti-Slavery Democrats met at a Little White Schoolhouse in this town to form the Republican Party.
What is Ripon, Wisconsin?
BC has played this school in football more times than any other school.
What is Holy Cross?
This black republican was defeated by Barack Obama for a Senate seat in 2004.
Who is Alan Keyes?
These are the only three English words that begin with "dw-".
What are dwindle, dwarf, and dwell?