U.S. Presidents
Who was the first president to live in the white house?
Who is John Adams?
This musical stars Julie Andrews as a singing nanny in the Austrian Alps.
What is The Sound of Music?
This device, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, allowed people to speak over long distances.
What is the telephone?
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to the New World.
What is The Mayflower?
This famous American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald features Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.
What is The Great Gatsby?
What president is on the $20 bill?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This 1961 musical retells Romeo and Juliet on the streets of New York with the Sharks and the Jets.
The Wright brothers are credited with inventing this in 1903.
What is the airplane?
How many days did the first Thanksgiving last?
What is 3?
This classic American novel by Harper Lee features the characters Scout, Jem, and Atticus.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Which U.S President served term during WWII?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This 1976 movie follows a boxer from Philadelphia training for a big fight.
What is Rocky?
This invention from the 15th century made it possible to mass-produce books, spark literacy, and spread ideas around the world.
What is the printing press?
What Native tribe joined the Pilgrims in the first Thanksgiving?
What is The Wampanoag?
Henry David Thoreau wrote about life in the woods in Massachusetts in what iconic 1854 work of nonfiction literature?
What is Walden?
This president’s face is carved into Mount Rushmore alongside Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln — he also carried a big stick.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This film features Clint Eastwood in a poncho, whistling music, and gunfights.
What is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
This life-saving vaccine was developed by Dr. Jonas Salk in the 1950s.
What is the polio vaccine?
This is the year of the first Thanksgiving.
What is 1621?
What "phony" and "lousy" book by J.D. Salinger was Mark David Chapman holding when he killed John Lennon?
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
In 1862 he was elected to his first office -- ward supervisor in Buffalo, New York
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This 1957 film has 12 jurors debating a murder case.
What is 12 Angry Men?
This invention by Eli Whitney changed the entire cotton industry by rapidly separating seeds from fiber.
What is the cotton gin?
The only active NFL franchise to have never played on Thanksgiving.
What are the Jacksonville Jaguars?
BONUS points if you can name the state that Jacksonville is located in.
What 1995 coming-of-age comedy set in California is loosely based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma?
What is Clueless?