Which First Lady of the United States gave a famous tour of the White House on broadcast television?
Barbara Bush
Nancy Reagan
Michelle Obama
Jacqueline Kennedy
The mischievous boy, Samuel Clemens, grew up to be a famous write. What was the writer's name?
Jeff Kinney
E.B. White
Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Which First Lady of the United States attended two Ivy League schools, Princeton and then Harvard Law?
Jacqueline Kennedy
Michelle Obama
Hillary Clinton
Laura Bush
Which famous chef filmed French cooking leassons in her own apartment?
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Beatrix Potter
Gordon Ramsey
Julia Child
Which of these men spent a whole year stranded on an ice shelf?
Ernest Shackleton
Santa Claus
Christopher Columbus
Henry Ford
Which president helped create five national parks and preserve 150 national forests across the United States?
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
In what year was William Shakespeare born?
1620
1800
1564
2002
Which of these women was NOT born in America?
Jane Goodall
Simone Biles
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sally Ride
After serving both his terms, which president sailed for England in 1877 to meet Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle?
Ulysses S. Grant
Barack Obama
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Who was the first woman to fly across the Pacific Ocean?
Bessie Coleman
Ellen Ochoa
Sally Ride
Amelia Earhart
Who were the first three presidents?
Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson
Washington, Adams, Roosevelt
Obama, Trump, Biden
Which of the following was NOT one of Mahatma Gandhi's protest practices?
strike
boycott
fasting
organizing through social media
What year did the Civil War end?
2002
1861
1946
1865
Who helped Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869?
Abigail Adams
Ada Lovelace
Susan B. Anthony
Florence Nightingale
Thomas Edison had over 1,000 patents for his inventions. What was his FIRST invention?
light bulb
motion picture camera
phonograph
electric vote recorder
Sitting Bull was the leader of what Native American tribe?
The Arapaho
The Cheyenne
The Lakota Sioux
The Crow
Which woman's refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955?
Rosa Parks
Sojourner Truth
Ida B. Wells
Coretta Scott King
What musical instrument was Louis Armstrong famous for playing?
trombone
saxaphone
tuba
trumpet
Which former president moved to Chicago, Illinois, to become a community organizer after graduating from Columbia?
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Which scientist's observations helped prove that, like humans, chimpanzees could use tools?
Ada Lovelace
Marie Curie
Jane Goodall
Rachel Carson
Who founded the Red Cross in 1881?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Clara Barton
Harriet Tubman
Florence Nightingale
Which president, while still in college, wrote the bestselling book, Why England Slept, making him an expert on WWII?
Woodrow Wilson
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Barack Obama
Who led an army into battle when she was only a teenager?
Betsy Ross
Joan of Arc
Sacagawea
Clara Barton
What major award did Martin Luther King Jr. win for his civil rights activism?
The Nobel Peace Prize
The Pulitzer Prize
An Academy Award
A Grammy
Which president ran as a Republican candidate in 1860 and was dubbed "The Rail Candidate" because he had split wooden rails?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Which president was the Commanding General of the War of Independence, which lasted from 1775-1783?
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Ulysses S. Grant
During the Revolutionary War, one side was called the Loyalists. What was the other side called?
Enemies
Revolutionaries
Yankees
Allies
What was Mother Teresa's given first name?
Sabella
Palma
Agnes
Drana
Which city in England were both Beatrix Potter and Queen Victoria born in?
Liverpool
Bristol
London
Cambridge
What young woman who was deaf and blind said, "I should be as free as another," upon being accepted into Radcliffe?
Anne Frank
Judy Blume
Rachel Carson
Helen Keller
How many years did former South African president, Nelson Mandela, spend in prison for challenging apartheid?
27
2
7
15
Which First Lady of the United States wrote a popular newspaper column?
Rosalynn Carter
Mary Lincoln
Abigail Adams
Eleanor Roosevelt
Which former United States president was also president of the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood?
Andrew Jackson
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
George W. Bush