All About Hank Aaron
This sport Hank Aaron played professionally.
What is baseball?
This 1941 attack on a U.S. naval base prompted the United States to enter World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The force that keeps us on the ground.
What is gravity?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
On this day, many newspapers, companies, and websites publish fake stories as jokes.
What is April 1?
The MLB team Hank Aaron is most famous for playing on.
What is the Atlanta Braves?
This amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin (epidermis)?
The fastest land animal.
What is a cheetah?
This harmless type of joke is most commonly played on April Fools’ Day.
What is a prank?
Hank Aaron broke this baseball legend’s home run record.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This government program, launched during the Great Depression, aimed to create jobs and provide economic relief.
What is the New Deal?
The center of an atom is called this.
What is the nucleus?
The currency used in Japan.
What is the yen?
This European country is often credited with helping popularize April Fools’ Day after calendar changes in the 16th century.
What is France?
This was Hank Aaron’s famous number.
What is 44?
This 1803 acquisition nearly doubled the size of the United States after it was purchased from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere and is essential for plant growth.
What is nitrogen?
What is Mt Everest (29,032 feet or 8,849 meters)?
In France, April Fools’ Day is known by Poisson d’Avril, which translates to ______________?
What is “April Fish"?
Hank Aaron finished his career with this many home runs. [closest number gets the points]
(HINT: It's more than 500.)
What is 755?
This 1944 law provided returning World War II veterans with benefits such as college tuition assistance and low‑interest home loans.
What is the GI bill?
This layer of Earth is made of molten rock and lies between the crust and the core.
What is the mantle?
This animal’s fingerprints are so similar to humans’ that they have been mistaken for human prints at crime scenes (In Australia).
What is a koala?
In 1957, this news organization famously aired footage of Swiss farmers harvesting spaghetti from trees, fooling thousands of viewers.
What is the BBC?