Moments That Made History
This 1944 military invasion, codenamed Operation Overlord, turned the tide of World War II.
What is D-Day (the Normandy invasion)?
In Gone With the Wind, this actress declared, “After all, tomorrow is another day.”
Who is Vivien Leigh?
This river forms part of the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This word means both “to raise up” and “a machine that does so.”
What is lift?
It can travel around the world but always stays in the same corner.
What is a postage stamp?
This U.S. president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This actor danced with both Ginger Rogers and an animated mouse in Anchors Aweigh.
Who is Gene Kelly?
This Midwestern city is nicknamed “The Windy City.”
What is Chicago?
An oxymoron is a phrase that combines these two types of words.
What are opposites (contradictory terms)?
What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?
What is a river?
This 1957 event made Little Rock, Arkansas, the center of the civil rights movement.
What is the integration of Central High School (Little Rock Nine)?
The 1954 film Rear Window starred this actor, often cast as Hitchcock’s “everyman.”
Who is James Stewart?
Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the U.S., is found in this Pacific Northwest state.
What is Oregon?
The phrase “Carpe diem” translates from Latin as this inspiring message.
What is “seize the day”?
The chemical symbol “Fe” stands for this element.
What is iron?
The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of war in this year.
What is 1962?
This 1941 film, often called the greatest ever made, was about a mysterious word: “Rosebud.”
What is Citizen Kane?
This national park is home to the Old Faithful geyser.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
The term for a word that is spelled the same backward and forward.
What is a palindrome?
The Apollo 13 mission was famously described by this phrase after a mid-flight accident.
What is “Houston, we have a problem”?
This Swedish actress won three Oscars for Gaslight, Anastasia, and Murder on the Orient Express.
Who is Ingrid Bergman?
The Wright brothers made their first powered flight in this North Carolina town.
What is Kitty Hawk?
The phrase “Et tu, Brute?” appears in this Shakespeare play.
What is Julius Caesar?
It’s the only word in English that ends with the letters “mt.”
What is dreamt (or dreamed, in British spelling)?