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Widely considered to be the country music capital of the world, this Tennessee city is home to the Grand Old Opry
What is Nashville?
While Nashville is known as the country music capital, the moniker "Music City" actually originated in the 1870s when a touring group called the Fisk Jubilee Singers performed for Queen Victoria, who declared they must come from a city of music.
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Legends in this musical genre include John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Louie Armstrong.
What is Jazz?
Miles Davis' signature raspy voice wasn't natural. It became permanent after he permanently damaged his vocal cords by yelling during an argument just days after throat surgery in 1956, defying strict doctor's orders to remain silent.
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This large wooden boat in the Bible was built to withstand 40 days and nights of a rainstorm.
What is Noah’s ark?
The ark is referenced in Genesis 6–9.
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This horse-like creature with a single horn is said to possess healing powers and can only be approached by the pure of heart.
What is a unicorn?
The unicorn is the official national animal of Scotland. It was chosen to symbolize power, chivalry, and innocence.
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This is the style of music/dance the bugle boy played while in Company B
What is the Boogie Woogie?
Born in the rough-and-tumble logging and turpentine camps of East Texas in the early 1900s, the boogie woogie eventually became a national sensation and laid the groundwork for rock and roll.
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This Revolutionary-era upholsterer and seamstress became an enduring symbol of early American patriotism through her our national flag.
Who is Betsy Ross?
Born into a strict Quaker family, Betsy eloped across the Delaware River to Gloucester, New Jersey, at age 21 to marry John Ross, an Anglican. This elopement resulted in an irrevocable split from her Quaker community.
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Every year, this Kentucky city is home to the annual Kentucky Derby horse race.
What is Louisville?
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory features a 120-foot tall, 68,000-pound replica of Babe Ruth’s bat leaning against the building.
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While not as comprehensive as a test or an exam, teachers often give this assessment to see what students remember from a recent lesson.
What is a quiz?
The 1999 premiere of the hit television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? revolutionized the modern quiz show format. Contestant John Carpenter became an American pop culture icon when he used his final "phone-a-friend" lifeline not to ask for help, but simply to call his father and tell him he was about to win a million dollars. [1]
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This murder mystery board game features characters such as Miss Scarlett, Colonel Mustard, and Professor Plum
What is Clue?
The classic board game Clue (originally called Cluedo) was invented in 1943 by Anthony Pratt, an English musician, while sheltering in air-raid bunkers during World War II.
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This legendary ape-like creature is said to roam the forests of the Pacific Northwest, leaving behind oversized footprints.
What is Bigfoot or Sasquatch?
While hotspots are generally in the Pacific Northwest, over 10,000 sightings have been reported across nearly every US state
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This casino card name is also known as 21
What is Blackjack?
Napoleon Bonaparte was a huge fan of the game and played it regularly while exiled on the island of Elba.
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This pioneering aviator became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, however, her 1937 attempt to fly around the world ended with her disappearance over the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
Earhart persuaded the National Aeronautic Association to establish separate records for female pilots so they wouldn't be forced to compete unfairly against men with better funding. In 1929, she co-founded the Ninety-Nines, an international organization for female pilots
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This city in northern Florida is home to the NFL's Jaguars.
What is Jacksonville?
Thanks to a 1968 government consolidation with Duval County, the city spans nearly 747 square miles, making it the largest city in the contiguous U.S. by area.
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This prison on an island in San Francisco Bay closed on March 21, 1963
What is Alcatraz?
Before it was a prison, the island was home to the first operational lighthouse on the Pacific Coast, built in 1854.
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This is the natural disaster featured in the beginning of The Wizard of Oz
What is a tornado?
The famous tornado that swept Dorothy to Oz was actually a 35-foot-long tapered muslin cloth sock designed to look like an airport windsock, suspended from the studio ceiling, and coated in a powdery-brown dust called Fuller's Earth. The gantry, motor, and setup for the tornado cost more than $12,000 in 1938 dollars, making it the most expensive single special effect in the entire movie.
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This legendary creature is said to inhabit a deep freshwater lake in the Scottish Highlands.
What is the Loch Ness Monster?
Despite the lack of scientific proof, Nessie generates a massive tourist industry. Visitors can browse museums, take sonar-equipped boat tours, and view 24/7 live streams looking out over the water.
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A compilation of recipes all bound together.
What is a cook book?
Before 1896, recipes were notoriously vague—often instructing cooks to use a "lump of butter" or "salt to taste". Fannie Merritt Farmer revolutionized this by publishing The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, which was the first to standardize exact measurements like teaspoons and cups.
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This civil rights icon refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
When she passed away at age 92, she became the first woman in U.S. history to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda
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This city is home to the University of Tennessee, and was the site of the 1982 World's Fair, leaving behind the iconic Sunsphere.
What is Knoxville?
Knoxville became known as the “Scruffy Little City” when it surpassed major expectations to successfully host the 1982 World’s Fair, attracting 11 million visitors during its six-month run.
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In football, this defensive strategy that sends extra players rushing toward the quarterback to create pressure gets its name from a German word from World War II
What is Blitz?
The word "blitz" translates to "lightning" in German and is shortened from Blitzkrieg (lightning war).
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The likeness of John F. Kennedy can be found on this demonintation of U.S. currency.
What is the half-dollar (50-cent) coin and the Presidential $1 coin?
The Kennedy Half Dollar was first authorized and issued in 1964 as a tribute to the late president following his assassination, and it remains a legal tender coin in U.S. currency. Additionally, the John F. Kennedy Presidential $1 Coin was issued in 2015 as part of the U.S. Mint's Presidential $1 Coin Program.
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In many European legends, knights earn glory by slaying this fire-breathing beast.
What is a dragon?
Dragons are mythical creatures found in nearly every global culture, famously split into two camps. Western lore depicts them as fire-breathing, greedy monsters, while Eastern traditions revere them as wise, benevolent controllers of the weather.
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When military jets fly low to a crowd, like at an airshow or before an NFL football game.
What is a flyby?
The largest flyover in NFL history featured an incredible 42 aircraft roaring over Arrowhead Stadium at once. . The historic event was part of a charity and breast cancer awareness campaign.
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`She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize(physics), the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields(physics and chemistry)
Who is Marie Curie?
During World War I, she developed and operated mobile X-ray units, affectionately known as Petite Curies. These vehicles drove directly to the front lines, helping doctors quickly locate shrapnel and fractures in wounded soldiers.
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Home to the University of Virginia, this Virginia city was founded by Thomas Jefferson.
What is Charlottesville?
Monticello, the historic primary plantation and estate of Thomas Jefferson, is located in central Virginia, about 2 miles southeast of downtown Charlottesville.
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This is the most popular brand of ketchup in the United States
What is Heinz?
Henry J. Heinz, founder of Heinz ketchup, was a huge advocate for workplace conditions, providing his factory workers with free manicures, dining rooms, a library, and on-site medical care.
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The process by which plants use sunlight to make food is called this.
What is Photosynthesis?
Photosynthesis is nature's ultimate solar power system, turning sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into life-sustaining glucose and oxygen. It is the base of nearly all food chains and continuously recycles the air we breathe.
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This sea dwelling creature of myth is said to be the upper body of a human, usually a woman, and the lower body of a fish. And they aren't always little.
What is a mermaid?
Historians believe many real-life "mermaid sightings" by weary explorers were actually just manatees or dugongs. From afar and with enough imagination, a waving manatee could easily look like a mermaid.
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A billionaire businessman living a life of luxury might be called this feline inspired nickname.
What is a fat cat?
The term originated in the United States during the Roaring Twenties. It was coined by political writer Frank R. Kent in 1928 to describe wealthy businessmen with "deep pockets" who financed political campaigns.
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She became the first female Prime Minister of India in 1966.
Who is Indira Gandhi?
At just 12 years old, she formed the Vanar Sena (Monkey Army), a youth resistance group composed of thousands of children. They aided the Indian independence movement by running errands, delivering messages, and putting up posters, as police rarely suspected kids.
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The U.S. Space & Rocket Center can be found in this Alabama city
What is Huntsville?
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, located just outside of Huntsville, developed the Saturn V rocket that successfully sent American astronauts to the moon.
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This is a slang term for a scatterbrained, or silly person, often a woman, who is often forgetful or easily distracted
What is a ditz?
In television, ditzes can range from "brainless beauties" to highly specialized "Genius Ditzes" who are brilliant in one area (like math or cooking) but completely inept at common sense.
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This once dangerous Mexican border town is now popular with San Diego locals and visitors.
What is Tijuana?
It has grown from a small, gritty border town to a travel destination with thriving food and cultural scenes
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This creature from Greek mythology has the upper body of a human and the lower body of a horse.
What is a centaur?
Historians theorize that the myth of the centaur originated when non-riding cultures first encountered horseback nomads. The mounted riders looked so much like a single creature that viewers misinterpreted them as monsters
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This rhyming phrase warns that hesitation, possibly due to sleep, can mean missing out on an opportunity.
What is "you snooze, you lose"?
While the exact phrase gained mainstream popularity in the 20th century, the underlying sentiment is as old as time.
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Nicknamed "The Lady with the Lamp," she revolutionized cared for wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, and is known as the founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
She transformed nursing from an informal, often disreputable job into a respected, evidence-based profession by pioneering strict sanitation and hygiene practices.
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This teenage French heroine claimed to receive divine visions that inspired her to lead troops during the Hundred Years' War, however she was captured by the enemy at burned at the stake for heresy in 1431.
Who is Joan of Arc?
Her original conviction for heresy was nullified by a posthumous retrial in 1456, which cleared her name and declared her a martyr. She was later beatified by Pope Pius X in 1909 before finally achieving sainthood under Pope Benedict XV.