🇺🇸 AMERICAN HISTORY
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson completed one of the largest territorial expansions in American history when the United States acquired this enormous region from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100 — Clue: This 1954 musical film stars Gene Kelly and features the famous title song performed during a memorable rain-soaked dance number.
Answer: What is Singin’ in the Rain?
This legendary singer was known for his distinctive voice and the hits “My Way” and “New York, New York,” and was a major star for more than five decades.
Who is Frank Sinatra?
Covering more than 60 million square miles, this body of water stretches from Asia and Australia to the Americas.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The unusual baseball term “southpaw” originated from the orientation of a pitcher's throwing hand at an old Chicago ballpark.
What is the left hand?
In 1963, thousands gathered in Washington, D.C., where this civil rights leader delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This long-running sitcom follows a working-class family in Queens, including characters named Archie, Edith, and Gloria.
What is All in the Family?
Born Richard Starkey, this Liverpool musician joined three other members to form the world's most famous four-man rock group.
Who is Ringo Starr?
The 50th state to join the Union consists of an island chain in the central Pacific and is home to Pearl Harbor.
What is Hawaii?
This legendary slugger batted from the left side and became baseball's career home-run leader during his era, earning the nickname “The Sultan of Swat.”
Who is Babe Ruth?
In December 1773, colonists protesting British taxation dumped a shipment of this beverage into the harbor of this Massachusetts city.
What is Boston?
In the 1939 MGM classic, this little dog accompanies Dorothy throughout her journey through Oz.
What is Toto?
Her rendition of “Respect” became an anthem, helping cement the reputation of this Detroit-born singer as the “Queen of Soul.”
Who is Aretha Franklin?
The Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre are among the famous landmarks found in this European capital.
What is Paris?
While John Lennon played guitar right-handed, this former Beatle famously played his bass with the instrument configured for a left-handed player.
Who is Paul McCartney?
After a four-day journey that began at Kennedy Space Center, this Apollo mission achieved the first crewed lunar landing.
What is Apollo 11?
Before becoming an action star, this actor wrote the screenplay for the 1976 boxing film in which he played an unknown Philadelphia fighter.
Who is Sylvester Stallone?
At Woodstock in 1969, this guitarist transformed the national anthem into one of the festival's most memorable performances.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
Ancient Egyptian civilization depended heavily on the annual flooding of this river, which flows northward into the Mediterranean.
What is the Nile River?
This Renaissance polymath filled notebooks with observations, inventions, and mirror-writing, while creating one of the world's most recognizable portraits.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Of the original 13 colonies, this small Mid-Atlantic colony was the first to formally approve the new U.S. Constitution.
What is Delaware?
Steven Spielberg's second theatrical feature became a cultural phenomenon after audiences were introduced to Chief Brody and the waters surrounding Amity Island.
Formed in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, this group later produced the albums Hotel California and The Long Run.
Who are The Eagles?
The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor in the 1880s as a gift commemorating the friendship between the United States and this nation.
What is France?
Before becoming the youngest elected U.S. president, this Massachusetts-born politician was known for his left-handedness as well as his New England roots.
Who is John F. Kennedy?