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A self-described average student this former Late Show host funds a scholarship at Indiana's Ball State

Letterman

100

On April 19 1995 2 homegrown terrorists bombed the U.S. Federal Building in this city

Oklahoma City
100

Oregon Idaho

Washington

100

In 1980-81 the eyes of Texas--& apparently everyone else--were on this CBS nighttime soap No. 1 for the season

Dallas

100

How many National Championships does Iowa football have?

Six (1899, 1921, 1922, 1956, 1958 and 1960)

200

Tito Puente was delighted when royalty checks started arriving after this guitarist covered his song Oye Como Va

Santana

200

The photo from a 1967 march on the Pentagon demonstrates this rhyming slogan of the time

Flower Power

200

Indiana Ohio Wisconsin

Michigan

200

Ken Levine & David Isaacs penned The Boys in the Bar & The Last Angry Mailman episodes of this sitcom

Cheers

200

When was the last time the Iowa Hawkeyes went to the Rose Bowl?

2016

300

For producing a 2019 live version of All in the Family & The Jeffersons this man became the oldest Emmy winner ever at age 97

Norman Lear

300

In 1797 most of Congress counted themselves part of this party but by 1827 it was dead

Federalist Party

300

New Mexico Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana

Texas

300

The song Kiss says You don't have to watch this ABC drama to have an attitude but many did watch those Carringtons

Dynasty

300

What is the Iowa Hawkeye?

This popular nickname for the state of Iowa is said to have come from the scout, Hawkeye, in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans published in 1826.

400

Sarah Paulson got rave reviews for playing this prosecutor in The People v. O.J. Simpson

Marcia Clark

400

Leaked to the press in 1971 the Pentagon Papers detailed America's involvement in this conflict

Vietnam War

400

A majority of Wyoming's western border is with this state


Idaho

400

Not Hawkeye but this M*A*S*H tentmate became the title character of an '80s drama

Trapper John

400

Was Hayden Fry in the Military?

Fry served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1952 to 1955. He played with the Quantico Marines football team in 1953, winning the Marine Corps championship and playing in the Poinsettia Bowl.

500

He had his Cher of success as a singer of I Got You Babe before going to Congress

Sonny Bono

500

Pres. Lincoln said I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper


THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

500

On this state! Specifically on this state's northeastern border it's Michigan's Upper Peninsula!

Wisconsin

500

She played a dazzling array of characters on her show that earned the FOX network its first Emmy nomination

TRACEY ULLMAN

500

What does Iowa mean?

Iowa, in the expressive language of the aborigines… is said to signify, "The beautiful land," and seems to have been given by a tribe of Sac and Fox [Sauk and Meskwaki] Indians, who looking across the Mississippi River at Rock Island exclaimed, "Iowa! Iowa!! This is the place, 'The beautiful land. '"