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Rivers History
The Number 100
In The Year 1915
Centennials
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100
Of the newer buildings on campus, this one was built just before the Campus Center.
What is Bradley Hall?
100
This person, often known as the "biological father" of the United States, appears on the $100 bill.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
In April, 1915 began the genocide of an estimated 800,000 to 1.5 million people of this nationality by Turkish soldiers.
What is Armenian?
100
This well-known American singer, born "Francis Albert" on December 12, 1915 and on whom Michael Bublé can be said to model his sound, would have celebrated his hundredth birthday this year.
Who is Frank Sinatra?
100
In 1915, in a game against the Yankees, this Boston Red Sox pitcher hit the first of his 714 home runs.
Who is Babe Ruth?
200
This is a previous name for The Rivers School.
What is Mr. Rivers' Open-Air School or The Rivers Country Day School?
200
This Jewish holiday is celebrated with 100 blasts of the shofar during services.
What is Rosh Ha Shanah?
200
In the year 1915, this person was President of the United States.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
This famous Florida vacation destination, recently popularized on TV, celebrates its centennial year this year.
What is Miami Beach?
200
He was the first NBA player in history to score 100 points in a single game.
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
300
Open-air education was supposed to protect children from this major killer of children in the early twentieth century.
What is Tuberculosis (TB)?
300
There are a hundred tiles in a standard set of this game.
What is Scrabble?
300
In 1915, after repainting a brand new face onto an old faded doll for his daughter, artist and writer Johnny Gruelle applied for — and received — a patent for his creation, giving her this name.
What is "Raggedy Ann"?
300
This actress was born on August 29, 1915, and appeared in the Academy Award-winning movie "Casablanca" alongside Humphrey Bogart.
Who is Ingrid Bergman?
300
This musician or band has been on the Billboard Top 100 list more than any other.
Both acceptable: Who is Elvis Presley? / Who are the Beatles?
400
This Rivers faculty member went to Rivers, has children who went to Rivers, and his father taught at Rivers.
Who is Mr. Navoni?
400
Gabriel García Marquez’s nobel prize-winning novel is called “100 Years of…” Double points for the Spanish word ("Cien Años de...)
What is "Solitude"? ("Soledad"?)
400
On January 25, 1915, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company made a call between these two cities, marking the first coast-to-coast call, a little under 40 years after Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call.
What are San Francisco and New York City?
400
Grace Lee Boggs, an American author, social activist, and philosopher, turned 100 this past June and is probably best known for her community activism in this city, often referred to as the world's automotive center.
What is Detroit?
400
In the year 100 A.D., the wheelbarrow made its first appearance in this country.
What is China?
500
This is the year in which Rivers first went co-ed.
What is 1989?
500
This is the hundredth digit of both pi (3.1415...) and e (2.71828...)
What is 7?
500
One of the major events that helped push the United States into World War I was the May 7, 1915 sinking of this boat, sailing from New York City to Liverpool, England.
What is the Lusitania?
500
Thanks to paleontologist Earl Douglass, this state's Dinosaur National Monument (an 80-acre monument filled with an immense deposit of dinosaur bones) will be celebrating its 100th year in existence on October 4, 1915.
What is Utah?
500
The Hundred Years’ War, which actually lasted 116 years, was waged between these two belligerents?
What are England and France?