Yankee Doodle Went to Town
This "British Invasion" was the second time that the British entered into military conflict on American soil. This event is also called "Mr. Madison's War," and the conflict ended as a stalemate.
What was the War of 1812?
Henry Ford famously invented this manufacturing process where a set of workers would focus on a specific part of manufacturing a product rather than mastering the entire craft. Through this process, Ford revolutionized the automobile industry.
What is the assembly line?
This Founding Father was responsible for several inventions including bifocals, the lightning rod, and the postal service.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This food the first food consumed on the moon in the Apollo 11 moon mission. It is also very customary to consume one on the fourth Thursday of every November.
What is a turkey?
The "British Invasion" was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States and significant to the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This particular group of four was arguably the most popular to emerge from this movement.
Who were the Beatles?
This conflict happened during the United States' westward expansion and ambiguous border declarations between the US and Canada. The conflict concerned a 55 square mile archipelago off the coast of Washington and British Columbia. After years of confusion, the archipelagos were ultimately awarded to the United States.
What was the Pig War?
This famous inventor was famous for his contributions with his AC currents being revolutionized in the electricity industry. He was granted more than a hundred patents, and a leading electric automotive company named themselves after this person.
Who was Nikola Tesla?
This inventor was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century.
Who was George Washington Carver?
This city is famously known for its cuisine. This includes the original rainbow cone, Garrett popcorn, Italian beef, hot dogs, and pizza.
What is Chicago?
Directed by the Russo Brothers, this film was once the highest grossing films of all time, currently grossing $2,797,501,328. The film acted as the finale of a four-part series and issued a new era for the company producing the movie.
What is Avengers: Endgame?
This war was an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the US government. The confrontation lasted from May 1857 to July 1858. There were some casualties, most of which were non-Mormon civilians.
What was the Utah War?
The "Big Three" is a term that the automotive industry uses to refer to a country's three largest automobile manufacturers. In the United States, these three largest automobile manufacturers are General Motors, the Ford Motor Company, and this company.
What is the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) or the Chrysler Corporation?
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and engineer who is known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. This product was synonymous with his name during the 1900's, and he had extensive patents from across the world, including the United States.
What is the radio?
According to the National Chicken Council, Americans consume more than 100 million pounds of chicken wings on this event alone. Following Christmas and Thanksgiving, this day is considered one of the top United States food consumption days.
What is Super Bowl Sunday?
This American chess player was known for dethroning the Soviets from a century-long record of world chess champions. Unfortunately for this figure, a string of events caused him to lose his sanity and his citizenship to the United States. He died at Reykjavík, Iceland in 2008.
Who was Robert James (Bobby) Fischer?
In 1871, the United States launched an expedition to this country to improve US diplomacy with its neighbors. Although the US won militarily, they failed to meet their fundamental goal.
What is Korea (Joseon)?
This brand of automobile is considered the oldest luxury automobiles and oldest car brand in American history. It started in 1897, but was taken over by General Motors in 1908. It was active until 2004 when it ceased production.
What is the Oldsmobile?
This programming language is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. It was featured in the movie Hidden Figures where Dorothy Vaughan taught herself this language to contribute in the Scout Launch Vehicle Program.
What is FORTRAN/Fortran?
This cuisine is robust, rustic food, found along the bayous of Louisiana, a combination of French and Southern cuisines. It was brought to Louisiana from the French who migrated to the state from Nova Scotia 250 years ago and used foods, right from the land.
What is Cajun food?
Invented in 1974, this puzzle is often represented, if solved, as one's intelligence in pop culture. Liberty Science Center and Google designed an interactive exhibit based on it.
What is the Rubik's Cube?
These wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934.
What were the Banana Wars?
At the turn of the nineteenth century, there were 21 million horses in the U.S. and only about 4,000 automobiles. However, by this year, the carriage industry had been decisively overtaken by the automobile industry. (+/- 5 years)
What is 1915?
Not long after Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin, this person invented another significant agricultural invention that revolutionized farming: the mechanical reaper. Prior to this invention, reaping was a painstaking process (done by hand with a scythe) that limited a farm's harvest.
Who was Cyrus McCormick?
Native to the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Beetle is about 10 mm (3⁄8 in) long, with a bright yellow/orange body and five bold brown stripes along the length of each of its elytra. It is a major pest of this type of crops.
What is the potato?
This composer was a black American composer and pianist. Because of the fame achieved for his ragtime compositions, he was dubbed the "King of Ragtime."During his career, he wrote over 40 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas.
Who was Scott Joplin?