20th Century Stuff | This Land is Your Land | Notable Names | Play Time | 14-Letter Words |
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What is Morse Code?
When Marconi transmitted the letter "S" in 1901, it was in this form
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What is Baltimore, MD?
The Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine is locate in this city?
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Who is Neil Armstrong?
On July 20, 1969, he became the first man to set foot on the moon
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What is "Guys and Dolls"?
Nathan Lane played Nathan Detroit in a 1992 revival of this musical
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What is representation?
American colonists complained to England about "taxation without" this
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Who was Dag Hammarskjold?
From 1952 to 1953 he was the Swedish delegate to the U.N.
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What is The Great Salt Lake?
You'll find this "great" 1,700 square mile body of water in Utah?
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Who is Sacagawea?
She's the Native American guide depicted on the gold colored dollar coin
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What is "Beauty and the Beast"?
Toni Braxton & Andrea McArdle have played Belle in this musical
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What is alphabetically?
It's how the letters in sequence "e,f,g,h,i,j" are arranged
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What is The (Lincoln) Continental?
This 1939 Ford model resulted because Edsel Ford wanted a luxury car like Europe's cars
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Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Of the 4 presidents on Mt. Rushmore, he's the one wearing glasses
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Who is (Louis) Braille?
This Frenchman gave his name to the raised dot printing and writing system used by the blind
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What is "Death of A Salesman"?
After years on the road, a man realizes he's a failure as a vendor in this drama
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What is multiplication?
Math processed symbolized by "x"
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Who was Sir Alexander Fleming?
Lady Amelia, wife of this discoverer of penicillin, was in Greece's Parliament
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What is Pittsburgh?
Of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, & Detroit, the city that's farthest east
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Who is George Washington Carver?
This scientist made more than 300 products from peanuts, including ink and soap
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Who was Moss Hart?
George S. Kaufman co-wrote "You Can't Take It With You" with this man?
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What is identification?
Passports & driver's licenses are forms of this
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What is The Panama Canal?
In 1904, Col. William Gorgas fought disease in the building of this
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What is Guam?
This U.S. island of the Pacific is only about 30 miles long and 8 miles wide
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Who is Juliette Gordon Low?
in 1912, she founded the very first troop of Girl Scouts, then called Girl Guides, in Savannah Georgia
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What was "Wit"?
Kathleen Chalfant played a professor dying of cancer in this Pulitzer-wining drama
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What is reconstruction?
It was the time of rebuilding immediately after the Civil War
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