Food and Drink
This wiggly dessert introduced in 1897 is known for its catchphrase 'There's always room for it'.
What is Jell-O?
On Oct. 29, 1929, we saw the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression. What was the nickname for this day?
What is Black Tuesday?
This singer electrified audiences with hits like "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Hound Dog" and served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This chemical element has the symbol Au and atomic number 79; it is a yellow precious metal used in jewelry and electronics.
What is gold?
This US State is nicknamed the "Peach State."
What is Georgia?
This U.S. holiday commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Independence Day? (4th of July)
In 1955, this fast-food chain opened its first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, revolutionizing the industry.
What is McDonald's?
Created by President Roosevelt in 1935, this federal program provides retirement and disability benefits to millions of Americans.
What is Social Security?
This long-running television game show, used the line "Come on down! You're the next contestant on ______"
What is The Price Is Right?
This process allows green plants to convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
This vast desert covering much of North Africa is the world's largest hot desert.
What is the Sahara?
This board game sees players move around the board building houses and hotels, while trying to avoid going to jail; it was introduced during the Great Depression.
What is Monopoly?
During the 1950s, this malted milk drink mix became popular and was promoted with the slogan 'More _____, please!'.
What is Ovaltine?
This city-state was the birthplace of democracy in ancient Greece.
Athens
This 1942 romantic drama starring features the famous line "Here's looking at you, kid" and is set mostly in a Moroccan nightclub.
What is Casablanca?
This physicist's theory of relativity introduced the equation E=mc²
Who is Albert Einstein?
This body of water separates the Arabian Peninsula from northeastern Africa and was crossed by Moses in the Bible.
What is the Red Sea?
According to the old saying, this number of stitches is saved by one timely stitch.
What is nine?
This canned beef stew brand, introduced in 1934 and popular during World War II, includes potatoes, carrots and beef in gravy.
What is Dinty Moore?
This war between North and South lasted from 1950 to 1953, ended with an armistice, and created a demilitarized zone along the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
This British rock group from Liverpool ignited the "British Invasion" and appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964.
Who are The Beatles?
This simple machine consists of a rigid bar that pivots around a fixed point called the fulcrum; it can be used to lift heavy objects, like a seesaw.
What is a lever?
Nicknamed "The Gateway to the West," this U.S. city sits on the Mississippi River and is home to a famous arch.
What is St. Louis?
Nicknamed "The Greatest," this heavyweight boxing champion lit the Olympic cauldron at the 1996 Atlanta Games despite his Parkinson's disease.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This West Coast burger chain known for its "Animal Style" options opened its first location in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948.
What is In-N-Out Burger?
This tense 13-day standoff in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over missiles brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film features a shower scene that became one of the most famous in movie history.
Psycho
This 1969 NASA mission carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and achieved the first manned moon landing.
What is Apollo 11?
This French river flows through Paris, passes under bridges like the Pont Neuf and Pont des Arts, and empties into the English Channel at Le Havre.
What is the Seine?
This 1951 coming-of-age novel by J.D. Salinger features the rebellious teenager Holden Caulfield.
What is "The Catcher in the Rye"?
Introduced in 1963 by the Coca-Cola Company, this diet soda was one of the first low-calorie colas.
What is Tab?
In 1954, this landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
On the western television series "Bonanza," the Cartwright family lived on this sprawling ranch near Lake Tahoe in Nevada.
What is the Ponderosa?
Invented at Bell Labs in 1947, this semiconductor device replaced vacuum tubes and paved the way for the development of modern electronics and computers.
What is the transistor?
Mount Everest sits on the border between Nepal and this high‑altitude autonomous region of China.
What is Tibet?
During the 1960s, this astronaut became the first American to orbit the Earth and later became a U.S. senator.
Who is John Glenn?
This famous TV chef and cookbook author hosted "The French Chef" from 1963 to 1973, bringing French cooking into American homes.
Who is Julia Child?
This 19th-century British prime minister was known as “The Iron Duke” and defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
Who is Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington
This Broadway songwriting duo created hit musical theatre productions including "Oklahoma!", "South Pacific," "The King and I," and "The Sound of Music."
Who were Rodgers and Hammerstein?
Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense in the late 1960s, this early network connecting universities and research centers was a forerunner of the modern Internet.
What is ARPANET?
This ancient trade route connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean facilitated the exchange of goods for centuries.
What is the Silk Road?
Nicknamed 'The Iron Horse,' this first baseman played 2,130 consecutive games before retiring in 1939
Who is Lou Gehrig?