250 Years of American History
In 1794, farmers in Western Pennsylvania rebelled against this federal tax, prompting president George Washington to personally lead the army to quash the resistance.
What is the Whiskey Tax?
Adds all numbers in a range of cells.
What is SUM()?
Former students of this "higher education" institute alleged that the unaccredited, for-profit seminars were a scam that defrauded them; they settled a class action lawsuit in 2018 for $25 million.
Around the year 1500, Czar Ivan III enacted a state monopoly on production of this potent potable.
What is vodka?
1980s
HE IS AFRAID.
HE IS TOTALLY ALONE.
HE IS 3,000,000 LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME.
What is E.T. the Extra Terrestrial?
This compromise, engineered by Henry Clay in 1820, admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free State while drawing a geographic line for slavery's expansion.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Performs a logical test and returns one value if the condition is true, and another if it is false.
What is IF()?
Originally acquired from Eastern Airlines in 1990, this shuttle-service airline project ultimately failed due to unsustainable operating costs and was surrendered to creditors in 1992, resulting in a $250 million loss.
What was Trump Airlines?
A classic martini gets an olive; a Gibson martini gets one of these.
What is a pearl onion?
1990s
Two star-crossed, ill fated lovers; one upper class and one steerage.
Before becoming president, he argued 78 of the 150+ cases brought before the Supreme Court, earning the nickname "Mr. Justice"
Who is William Howard Taft?
Searches for a specific value in a range and returns a corresponding result from another column or row. It is the modern, more flexible replacement for VLOOKUP
What is XLOOKUP()?
Public scrutiny of this 2026 halftime event was focused heavily on Kid Rock, whose performance was widely derided after apparent lip syncing problems during the song "Bawitdaba"
What was the TPUSA All-American Halftime Show?
This Greek liquer is flavored with anise, a Mediterranean plant.
What is ouzo?
2000s
The plot centers around a strip-mining operation for "Unobtainium" that sold for "20 million a kilo"
What is Avatar?
The 1898 explosion of this US battleship in Havana Harbor became the rallying cry, "Remember the ______?"
What is the USS Maine?
Converts Arabic numerals into Roman numerals (e.g., changing 2026 to MMXXVI)
What is ROMAN()?
This female author alleged that she was assaulted by Donald Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1996. In 2022, a jury awarded her more than $5M in damages stemming from this claim.
Who is E. Jean Carroll?
The "Lynchburg" in a Lynchburg Lemonade refers to this brand-name spirit.
What is Jack Daniels?
2010s
Series comeback with the tagline "Every generation has a story."
What is Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
This 1924 law severely restricted immigration by establishing national-origin quotas that heavily favored immigrants from Northern and Western Europe.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
Returns the double factorial of a number, a highly advanced mathematical concept rarely used outside of specific statistical and combinatorial analysis.
What is FACTDOUBLE()?
What were the Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Marina Hotel Casino, and Trump Plaza Casino & Hotel
A writer into "self-reliance" goes for this one-word drink with Maraschino liqueur, vermouth, gin, and lemon juice.
What is the Emerson?
2020s
This action flick sequel/reboot features a fictional hypersonic jet that looked so real, reports say Chinese satellites rerouted to photograph it.
What is Top Gun: Maverick?