Presidents
True or False: Only seven presidents have been left handed.
True! James A. Garfield, Harry S. Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.
True or False: Florida has more shoreline than South Dakota.
False! South Dakota technically has more shoreline than Florida. This is primarily due to the numerous lakes and reservoirs, particularly the Missouri River's Lake Oahe(oh-WAA-he), within South Dakota.
True or False: The attack on Pearl Harbor happened after the United States entered World War II.
False. The attack on Pearl Harbor happened before the U.S. entered World War II; it was the reason the U.S. entered the war.
True or False: Dennis Rodman is known to hang out on occasion with Kim Jong Un.
True! Rodman visited North Korea several times in the early 2010s and developed a relationship with the North Korean leader.
True or False: The US bought Alaska from Russia.
True! Only granted statehood in 1959, Alaska was a late addition to America's territorial dominion. In 1867, US Secretary of State William H Seward finalized a deal to buy Alaska from Russia for of $7.2 million.
This president was in charge during the “race to space” program.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This state is known all over the world for their style of bourbon.
What is Kentucky? The unique geological composition of Kentucky, particularly the limestone shelf, results in water naturally filtered and rich in minerals essential for fermentation, contributing to the distinct flavor profile.
James Early Ray assassinated this person in Memphis in April 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
What is one sport America calls by a different name than the rest of the world.
What is soccer? The term "soccer" is a British slang term derived from "association football," which was its original name.
in 1929 Coca Cola changed their recipe due to there being traces of what in the popular soda?
What is cocaine? They used "spent" coca leaves (leftovers from the cocaine extraction process) with trace amounts of cocaine. By 1929, Coca-Cola switched to using a cocaine-free coca leaf extract.
One word: Watergate
Who is Richard Nixon? Watergate revolved around members of a group associated with Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, who broke into the DNC’s headquarters in the Watergate Hotel where they planted listening devices, and Nixon's later attempts to conceal his teams involvement.
This state is where Mount Rushmore is located.
What is South Dakota? The carving of Mount Rushmore began in 1927 and finished in 1941. A team of more than 400 men did the actual carving. Remarkably, no one died during construction.
How many planes were involved during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
What is four? Terrorists hijacked these planes, with two crashing into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, one crashing into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and one crashing in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers intervened.
Though basketball was invented in Massachusetts, the inventor James Naismith was born in which of following places: Canada, Mexico, California or Colorado.
What is Canada? Canadian-American physical education director invented the game as a way to make physical education more enjoyable and less dangerous.
In 1763, during Pontiac's Rebellion, British soldiers at Fort Pitt intentionally distributed blankets and other items from a hospital to Native Americans during a parlay, in an attempt to spread what disease?
What is smallpox?
Known for his leadership during the Great Depression and WW2 this person became president after Herbert Hoover.
Who is Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)?
You could face serious jail/prison time for cutting down cacti in this state.
What is Arizona? The maximum time given for this crime is up to 25 years, while fines for damaging the cactus in any way, including scratching in initials, can reach thousands of dollars.
This Wall Street Crash triggered an economic collapse that began in the United States in 1929 and lasted until around 1939.
What is the Great Depression?
This east coast state was the first to legalize boxing.
What is New York?
During World War II, the U.S. government forcibly relocated and incarcerated over 100,000 people of what descent, including US citizens, in internment camps without due process?
What is Japanese descents?
This president was known for having the largest bathtub installed in The White House.
Who is William Howard Taft? He commissioned a custom-made, extra-large tub due to his size. It was reported to be large enough for four men to sit in comfortably.
This National Park is most visited in the US.
This land deal Thomas Jefferson made with the French in 1803 doubled the size of the United States and set the stage for westward expansion.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This is considered the oldest organized sport in the United States.
What is Lacrosse? originating with Indigenous peoples, is the oldest sport in the USA, with evidence of its existence dating back to 1100 AD.
During the Cold War, the CIA tested out if mind control was possible on unknowing participants such as psych patients and veterans that were promised mental health treatment using what psychedelic drug?
What is LSD?