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The renowned author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
What is Mark Twain?
100
The period of transition from predominantly agriculture to new manufacturing process and factory systems from the late 1700s to 1800s in America.
What is The Industrial Revolution?
100
A popular newspaper comic about an obese orange cat and his owner and dog, Odie.
What is Garfield?
100
The name of the Japanese city that was bombed at the end of WWII on August 6, 1945, by the atomic bomb Little Boy.
What is Hiroshima?
100
An American daily newspaper founded in 1851 in New York City, has the second-largest circulation behind The Wall Street Journal, and has won 117 Pulitzer Prizes.
What is The New York Times?
200
An English film director and producer nicknamed the "Master of Suspense".
What is Alfred Hitchcock?
200
A tire and rubber manufacturing company founded in 1898, and is famous for having an advertising blimp that shows up during sporting events on television.
What is Goodyear?
200
The name of the tiger who is the best friend of Calvin, a six year old boy, in this comic by Bill Watterson.
What is Hobbes?
200
The name of the political scandal occurring in Washington DC before Nixon's reelection, finding him responsible for sending burglars to steal official documents and wiretap phones, and trying to stop the FBI from investigating.
What is Watergate?
200
A 1941 drama directed by and starring Orson Welles, centering around a newspaper magnate, and his life and death.
What is Citizen Kane?
300
A 1940s-1960s actor famous for his role as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird.
What is Gregory Peck?
300
The number one best selling car brand in the US.
What is Toyota?
300
The name of the creator of the world-famous strip, Peanuts.
What is Charles M. Schulz?
300
The period of severe dust storms that ravaged the ecology and agriculture of the US prairies during the 1930s.
What is The Dust Bowl?
300
A popular board game known as the "fast dealing property trading game" created in 1903 to demonstrate the benefits of an economy that rewards wealth creation.
What is Monopoly?
400
An influential Republican president who became a role model for the party and served as the 40th president of the US, and played a key role in ending the Cold War.
What is Ronald Reagan?
400
An American financier and banker who controlled the American corporate banking industry during the Gilded Age, and is believed to have inspired the Monopoly man character.
What is J.P. Morgan?
400
The nickname of the best friend of Archie from the comic Archie.
What is Jughead?
400
A list of entertainment professionals in the US that were put out of work due to suspicions that they were creating communist-inspired work, made in 1947 by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. This also inspired the movie Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston.
What is The Hollywood Blacklist?
400
An English rock band formed in London in 1962, with lead vocalist Mick Jagger.
What is The Rolling Stones?
500
The incredibly rich business magnate who created Standard Oil an died in 1937.
What is John D. Rockefeller?
500
The name of the popular low-cost automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 to 1927, and made car ownership a reality for middle class Americans.
What is The Ford Model T?
500
The name of the animal who is in a constant and futile attempt to capture or kill the roadrunner in Looney Tunes.
What is Wile E. Coyote?
500
The year of the 44th presidential election in which JFK was elected to the presidency.
What is 1960?
500
The German-Hungarian inventor of the field-sequential color technology for the color television, demonstrated in 1940.
What is Peter Carl Goldmark?