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Mary Anderson invented these important safety features on cars.
What are windshield wipers?
This highway begins in Los Angeles, ends in Tumwater, Washington, and goes right through Sherman Oaks.
What is the 101?
It is the force that pulls everyone and everything on our planet toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
Jan Vermeer's most famous painting is called, "Girl With a Pearl __________."
What is an earring?
She was the first woman to fly a plane by herself across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who was Amelia Earhart?
In 1903, the Wright Brothers flew the very first airplane on a 12-second flight at this beach in North Carolina.
What was Kitty Hawk?
It is the picture on a map that shows the cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
This is what happens when liquid water turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Paolo Uccello painted a knight on horseback fighting this mythical creature.
What is a dragon?
She lived with chimpanzees in Africa and wrote very important research about their behavior.
Who is Jane Goodall?
Her father was worried about his strong-spirited, rule-breaking daughter, named ________________.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This is an artifact or document created during the time an event occurred in history.
What is a primary source of information?
This is what we call it when magnets push away from each other.
What is repelling?
On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo painted David killing this giant in battle.
Who was Goliath?
She was known as, "The Queen of Soul."
Builders in Africa were inspired by these insects to construct buildings that need less air conditioning.
What are termites?
This type of map shows the man-made features of a certain place.
What is a political map?
This is the kind of force you apply to a top to make it spin.
What is rotational force?
The Horiyu-Ji Temple was built more than 1,500 years ago in this country.
What is Japan?
She was the first African American woman in space.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
This group teaches kids that voting is important and gives teachers lessons to use in their classrooms.
What is Kids Voting USA?
It is the only suspension bridge in Los Angeles.
What is the Vincent Thomas Bridge?
The four divisions of this sport are stock, super stock, masters, and Ultimate Speed Challenge.
What is soap box racing?
Arcimboldo painted a picture of many different spring flowers, but when you back up, you see this instead.
A pretty lady!
Brought to California as a slave, she sued to get her freedom and became the first female millionaire in Los Angeles.
Who was Biddy Mason?