Famous Firsts
This woman became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia Earhart
This beloved children’s book features a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a strange and magical world.
The first National Park in the U.S., this park is famous for its geysers, including Old Faithful.
Yellowstone National Park
Humans need to breathe this gas in order to survive.
Oxygen
This city is the capital of Ohio and is home to The Ohio State University.
Columbus
This man became the first Vice President of the United States in 1789, serving under President George Washington.
John Adams
This American author wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, narrated by a young girl named Scout.
Harper Lee
This famous national park in Arizona is known for its enormous canyon carved by the Colorado River
Grand Canyon National Park
This part of the human body pumps blood throughout the body.
Heart
This Midwestern city is the capital of Illinois and is located on the Sangamon River.
Springfield
This was the first man to walk on the Moon in 1969.
Neil Armstrong
This author created the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This California national park is home to giant sequoia trees, including the famous General Sherman Tree.
Sequoia National Park
This is the closest planet to the Sun.
Mercury
This city is the capital of New York State, even though New York City is much larger.
Albany
This woman became the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981.
Sandra Day O'Connor
In this novel, four sisters named Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy grow up together during the Civil War.
Little Women
This Oregon national park surrounds the deepest lake in the United States.
Crater Lake National Park
Water freezes at this temperature on the Fahrenheit scale.
This Pennsylvania capital is famous for its large golden dome on top of the state Capitol building.
Harrisburg
This American was the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Marie Curie
This novel tells the story of a poor orphan named Pip who receives help from a mysterious benefactor.
Great Expectations
This Alaska national park is famous for its large population of brown bears, which can often be seen catching salmon at Brooks Falls.
Katmai National Park and Preserve
This scientist proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection after studying plants and animals around the world.
Charles Darwin
This capital city is located at the meeting point of the Missouri and Kansas rivers and is the capital of Missouri.
Jefferson City