SUPREME COURT JUSTICES 20th CENTURY AMERICA BOARD GAMES FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE
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Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
2019 gave us two different films about this current associate justice: On the Basis of Sex and RBG.
200
What is an earthquake?
Game 3 of the 1989 World Series, set to be played in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, was postponed for 10 days for this reason.
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What is Clue?
The original design of this game included a fireplace poker, a shillelagh, and a syringe as weapons.
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Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The slogan “We can do it” appeared on the poster that introduced her as a symbol of women’s presence in military industry.
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Who is Tina Turner?
Her first solo hit was a cover of Al Green’s "Let’s Stay Together," a few months before "What’s Love Got to Do With It."
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Who is Clarence Thomas?
He’s the longest serving current associate justice.
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What is assassinate President Ford?
In September 1975, Sara Jane Moore and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme both attempted, separately and unsuccessfully, to do this.
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What is Chinese checkers?
Despite its name, this game, played with marbles arranged on a six-pointed star, is German in origin.
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What is Mr. Potato Head?
An Iron Man-branded edition of this classic toy was renamed "Tony Starch."
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Who is Walt Whitman?
Though this poet’s early life passed in Brooklyn, he spent most of the Civil War as a nurse in Washington, D.C.
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Who is Earl Warren?
Dwight Eisenhower said the biggest mistake of his presidency was appointing this chief justice, later to chair a noteworthy “commission” named for him.
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What are the Oscars?
The first edition of this annual event took place in 15 minutes in May 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and included a now defunct recognition for Best Title Writing.
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What is Monopoly?
It was inspired in part by the 1904 anti-capitalist toy The Landlord’s Game.
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Who is Ishmael?
He identifies himself by name in his novel’s first sentence, then goes to sea with his new friend Queequeg.
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Who is Kublai Khan?
According to a Coleridge poem, “In Xanadu did” he “a stately pleasure dome decree."
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Who is Louis Brandeis?
The athletic teams are nicknamed the Judges at the Massachusetts university named for him, the court’s first Jewish justice
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What is Howl?
In 1957, US Customs seized copies of this Allen Ginsburg poem on obscenity grounds.
800
What is pachisi?
Hasbro’s Sorry! is an adaptation of this game, considered the national game of India.
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Who is R2D2?
When this beloved droid, introduced in a blockbuster 1977 film, paid a visit to Sesame Street in 1980, he fell in love with a fire hydrant.
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Who is Franz Ferdinand?
A Scottish dance-rock band, or the short familiar name of the man whose 1914 assassination precipitated World War I.
Who is William Howard Taft?
The only ex-president to serve as a justice is this corpulent early 20th century man.
What are muckrakers?
This term, not coined but popularized by Teddy Roosevelt in a 1906 speech, referred to crusading journalists like Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell.
What is Mouse Trap?
Though told he should consider it, Rube Goldberg declined to take legal action against the creators of this children’s game.
Who is the Wicked Witch of the East?
In both a 1900 novel and a 1939 film, her shoes are taken from her after she’s killed by a falling house.
Who is Hedda Hopper?
This gossip columnist vocally supported the House Un-American Activities Committee and helped drive the Hollywood blacklist.






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