U.S. Presidents
This president was in office when Iranians stormed the American embassy in Tehran and took around 60 Americans hostage for 444 days.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This Seattle band was part of the "grunge" movement, taking pop music to a darker, angrier, angstier place.
Who is Nirvana?
This was the secretive codename for America's nuclear weapons program in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This man was argued Brown vs. Board of Education before the Supreme Court he would later join.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This man won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote to George W. Bush in 2004.
Who is John Kerry?
This was an entire bureau created during the Nixon administration dedicated to combatting pollution, protecting endangered species, enforcing clean air and water laws, etc.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
Ronald Reagan hosted a dramatic tv show telling different stories hosted by what corporation? He also regularly gave speeches at their factories.
What is General Electric?
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
This Chicano union organizer was a powerful force for civil rights in the American West.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
The U.S. embassies in these countries were bombed by Al-Qaeda in 1998.
What are Kenya and Tanzania?
This actor-turned-president was once the head of the most powerful union in Hollywood.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
This superhero was created by the Jewish artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and was first depicted punching Adolf Hitler in the face.
Who is Captain America?
This Caribbean country was invaded by the U.S. military for less than a week in 1983.
What is Grenada?
On this night, German citizens rose up in riots against their Jewish neighbors across the country, destroying their homes and businesses. Tens of thousands of Jews were then arrested and sent to the first concentration camps.
What is Kristallnacht?
The Branch Davidians made their home in this Texas town until their fatal confrontation with the ATF.
What is Waco?
This United States president desegregated the armed forces in 1948.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
This superhero was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and was in part inspired by the philosophical ponderings of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Who is Superman?
This Japanese city was firebombed on a near-nightly basis in the final weeks of World War II, killing tens of thousands.
What is Tokyo?
These laws passed in Germany in 1935 denied the rights of citizenship to Jewish people and nullified marriages between Jewish people and non-Jews.
What are the Nuremberg Laws of 1935?
Barack Obama's stepfather was from this country, and for a few years of Obama's youth this country was his home.
What is Indonesia?
This president warned against the dangers of weapons manufacturers routinely pushing the United States towards war for their own profit in his farewell speech.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Along with John Lennon, these men were the Beatles.
Who is Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr?
This is the location of the DMZ, or Demilitarized Zone, on the Korean Peninsula.
What is the 38th parallel?
This was location was seized by Native Americans in the 1970s, citing a treaty stating that unused federal lands would return to Native ownership.
What is Alcatraz?
This man worked for George H.W. Bush's defense department and later became the Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush.
Who is Donald Rumsfeld?