Inventions
This year is when the first Macintosh computer was developed.
When is 1984?
Churchill was in this location when he made the Iron Curtain Speech.
Fulton, Missouri
What Object does archaeological research estimate that its initial nose was about 3 feet wide when it was first constructed around 2500 BC?
What is the Sphinx?
What is Kansas?
This boat is where the formal surrender of the Japanese was signed in 1945.
What is the USS Missouri?
This piece of aquatic transportation was invented by Robert Fulton in 1803
What is a Steamboat?
This US president ordered the most assassination attempts against Fidel Castro (197 attempts).
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This former capital of Ancient Egypt is located 12 miles (20 km) south of Cairo on the west bank of the Nile, and this city shares its name with a city in Tennessee.
What is Memphis?
This state has the most amusement parks.
What is Texas?
This ship was the first in-land aircraft carrier built in 1942 and shares its name with a popular superhero character.
What is the USS Wolverine?
This Scientist invented dynamite and bequeathed his fortune to establish this prize, which bears his name.
Who is Alfred Nobel?
General MacArthur did what to lead to his immediate dismissal in 1951.
What is trying to go over the President with the press and Congress?
In ancient Egyptian mythology, the god Geb, who is often depicted with the head of a goose, is the father of this underworld god who married his sister, Isis
Who is Osiris?
This state has the longest coastline.
What is Alaska?
The HMS Hampshire was carrying this man, and 643 seamen were sunk off the coast of Orkney Islands on June 5th, 1916, on the way to meet the Tsar.
Who is Lord Kitchener, the British War Secretary?
Georges de Mestral invented this fastening system
What is Velcro?
On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro’s forces overthrew the government led by this leader.
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
In ancient Egypt, this Queen, whose name translates as “a beautiful woman has come”, was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten and was once considered a candidate for Tutankhamun’s mother
Who is Nefertiti?
This US state borders six states and one Canadian province
What is Idaho?
In 1807, this British ship attacked the U.S.S. Chesapeake and inflicted 21 casualties and boarded it to search for deserted British seamen.
What is the Leopard?
This scientist developed the first computer program.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This journalist broke the news about the My Lai Massacre.
Who is Seymore Hersh?
This Egyptian god is often accosiated with funerary practices and is often depicted to have the head of a jackal.
Who is Anubis?
This state is the only one that has a two-sided flag.
What is Oregon?
In 1982, this British ship fired at the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano, which became the first warship to be sunk by a nuclear submarine in combat.
What is the HMS Conquerer?