Twentieth Century Writers
This author survived The Holocaust and witnessed Auschwitz first hand.
Who is Elie Wiesel?
This man was born into great adversity and became an international bestseller. His first book was published in 1845.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
He was the last president to be assassinated; this happened in 1963.
Who is John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
This war ended in 1865, the biggest on American soil.
What is the Civil War?
This boxer, before he changed his name, won an Olympic Gold medal in Rome, 1960.
Who is Cassius Clay?
This writer, still alive today, is considered the Master of Horror.
Who is Stephen King?
Her poems were about serious life and death themes. She stashed away many poems that weren't read until after her death; now she's more popular.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This group of people earned the right to vote in 1920. The 19th Amendment, passed in 1919, guaranteed that right.
Who are women? Or, who are American Women?
Both of my grandfathers fought in this huge war that ended in 1945. One grandad in the Pacific Theater, one in the European Theater.
What is WWII?
The Phoenix Suns met this team in the 1993 NBA finals. And yeah, that team had a pretty good player.
Who are the Chicago Bulls?
This writer used her first two initials to hide the fact she was female to avoid prejudice from book publishers.
Oh yea, she wrote The Outsiders.
Who is S.E. Hinton.
This wild man, known for gambling and other bad habits, wrote the first detective story, mastered the suspenseful short story, and wrote a poem that an NFL team is named after.
Born--1809; died--1949.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
The Gadsden Purchase in the mid-nineteenth century added a great deal of land to these two states. The deal was between the US and Mexico, finalized in 1854.
What are Arizona and New Mexico?
This war was over taxes and representation in government. Before it, there was no United States of America.
What is the Revolutionary War?
The Tokyo Olympic games were postponed from this year to this year because of a little pandemic issue. This is the first time in history the olympics were postponed because of a pandemic.
What is from 2020 to 2021?
This author of children's poetry used to hang out with Johnny Cash.
Who is Shel Silverstein?
William Lloyd Garrison was a famous _____________ who met Frederick Douglass at an anti-slavery convention in the mid 1800s.
He was impressed with Douglass's skills as an ________ and encouraged him to write his autobiography. The rest is history.
What are abolitionist and orator?
What is Pre-Columbian?
This war was fought over a dude named Paris stealing a Greek king's wife; her name was Helen.
What is the Trojan War?
Who is Javiar Hernandez Balcazar?
R.L. Stine wrote a series of books in the late 1990s known as...
What is Goosebumps?
This brainiac philosopher and poet blended concepts from classical Greek mythology with ideas found in Asian, Middle Eastern, and Native American stories.
He was born in Boston in 1803 and went to Harvard at the age of 14.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Also Acceptable: Emmerson.
This president was assassinated while watching a play days after leading the Union through the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This island country was the center of military conflict between Spain and the US in the Spanish American War. It ended in 1898.
What is Cuba?
Also acceptable: What are the Philippines?
She is the most decorated olympic gymnast in olympic history.
Who is Simone Biles?