24 Facts
The Crucible & McCarthyism
McCarthyism and the Red Scare
Potpourri
Miscellaneous
100

This war began as the Soviet Union installed repressive Communist puppet régimes across Central and Eastern Europe

What is Cold War?

100

This person was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II and was elected to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin in 1946. 



Who is Joseph McCarthy?

100

American leaders repeatedly told the public that they should be fearful of subversive Communist influence in their lives

What is the Red Scare?

100

He was 11 days shy of 90 when he announced his retirement from the Supreme Court in 2010

Who is John Paul Stevens?

100

A movie series that involves Lightsabers

What is Starwars?

200

This person was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945.

Who is Elizabeth Terrill Bentley?

200

an anti-Communist organ, McCarthy’s accusations heightened the political tensions of the times.  

What is House Un-American Activities Committee?

200

These people had stolen classified secrets from the wartime Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.

Who are Communist Agents?

200

From the Latin, for tail, it's what the Brits stand in to get in to see a movie

What is a queue?

200

This item is universally used to write and draw 

What is a Pencil?

300

This came into being in 1947 when the House Committee on Un-American Activities began to summon certain Hollywood entertainment professionals on the suspicion that their work was communist-inspired

What is The Hollywood Blacklist?

300

Among the first film industry witnesses subpoenaed by the Committee were ten who decided not to cooperate.

What is The Hollywood Ten?

300

These people were condemned to die in the electric chair as punishment for their theft of atomic secrets

Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?

300

These sheet retailers try to impress you with this number 300 or 600 or even 1500

What is a Thread Count

300
This sport involves 2 goals with only having to use your legs

What is Soccer?

400

This person was a high-level State Department official and was convicted of perjury. Hiss was found guilty of espionage. 

Who is Alger Hiss?

400

a suspected communist by another suspect at the hearings and married to Marilyn Monroe

Who is Arthur Miller?

400

This person was leading the investigation for Eisenhower who had no choice but to fight back

Who is lawyer Roy Cohn?

400

A rowing team or all of the personnel serving aboard a ship


What is a Crew?

400

This Planet is the smallest in our solar system

What is Mercury?

500

This person was a scientific director of the Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb, then working as a consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission, was stripped of his security clearance after a four-week hearing.

Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?

500

This play focuses heavily on the fact that once accused, a person would have little chance of exoneration, given the irrational and circular reasoning of both the courts and the public.  



What is The Crucible?

500

a right-wing Republican launched a series of highly publicized probes into alleged Communist penetration of the State Department

Who is Joe McCarthy?

500

Dark drinks like scotch have lots of vodka and fewer impurities called congeners a culprit in this nasty condition

What is a Hangover?

500

A video game that is based on Building and Crafting

What is Minecraft?