WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY
STARTS WITH A SILENT LETTER
THOMAS EDISON
100

A NEW DAY DAWNED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN 1920 WHEN THE 19th ONE OF THESE GAVE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE

 WHAT IS AMENDMENT ?

100

BAKERS DO IT TO PREPARE DOUGH & MASSEUSES DO THE SAME TO YOUR KNOTTY MUSCLES TO MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER

WHAT IS KNEAD ?

100

EDISON WAS GOOD FRIENDS WITH THIS INDUSTRIALIST, WHO HOPED TO USE EDISON'S NICKEL-IRON BATTERIES TO POWER HIS CARS

WHO IS FORD ?

200

IN JANUARY 1959 MODERATE LIBERAL MANUEL URRUTIA WAS CUBA'S NEW PRESIDENT, BUT BY JULY, THIS MAN WAS FULLY IN CHARGE

WHO IS FIDEL CASTRO ?

200

THE BITING MIDGE, OR 

NO-SEE-UM, 

IS ONE OF THESE SMALL, PESKY FLIES WHOSE "G" IS A NO-HEAR-UM

WHAT IS A GNAT ?

200

THE KINETOGRAPH DEVELOPED BY EDISON IN THE 1890s, WAS ONE OF THESE, BASICALLY THE SAME TYPE USED FOR THE NEXT CENTURY-PLUS

WHAT IS A MOVIE CAMERA ?

300

THIS NORTHEAST STATE GOT ITS NAME IN THE 1620s FROM A COUNTY IN ENGLAND WHERE THE SCENE WAS DULL--

TIME FOR SOMETHING "NEW"

WHAT IS NEW HAMPSHIRE ?

300

WHETHER IT BEGINS WITH A SILENT "T" OR A SILENT "C", IT'S THE TITLE FOR A FORMER RULER OF RUSSIA

WHAT IS TSAR (OR CZAR) ?

300

IN THE 1860s EDISON WORKED AS A ROVING OPERATOR OF THIS COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR COMPANIES LIKE WESTERN UNION

WHAT IS A TELEGRAPH ?

400

AROUND 1001 A WHOLE 

NEW WORLD BECKONED THIDS NORSE EXPLORED WHO ESTABLISHED A SETTLEMENT IN VINLAND IN NORTH AMERICA 

WHO IS LEIF ERIKSON ?

400

AS A NOUN, IT IS A TOOL IN YOUR TOOLBOX; AS A VERB, IT REFERS TO SOMETHING YOU DON'T WANT TO DO TO YOUR BACK

WHAT IS WRENCH ?

400

LESS RENOWNED PATENTS INCLUDE A SWAGING MACHINE, A RHEOTOME & A CEMENT-BURNING ONE OF THESE BIG OVENS, ALSO A POTTERY TERM

WHAT IS A KILN ?

500

TO GET BACK IN SYNC WITH THE SOLAR YEAR, THIS NEW CALENDAR NAMED FOR A POPE MADE OCT. 15, 1582 

THE DAY AFTER OCT. 4

WHAT IS THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR?

500

"THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD; I SHALL NOT WANT", BEGINS NO. 23 OF THESE IN THE BIBLE

WHAT ARE PSALMS ?

500

TOM'S OWN RECORDING OF "MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB" IN 1877 WAS A BREAKTHROUGH IN THE INVENTION OF THIS "TALKING MACHINE"

WHAT IS A PHONOGRAPH ?