DC

Question 1

Speaker Joseph Cannon (R,IL)

Answer 1

The cover story of the first edition of TIME magazine (1923)

Question 2

Speaker Nicholas Longworth (R,OH)

Answer 2

White House wedding in 1906
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Married Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter
Elected speaker in 1925

Question 3

Speaker Sam Rayburn (D,TX)

Answer 3

Longest serving speaker of house in US history
Member of congress: 1913-1961
Was speaker during: JFK, Truman, Eisenhower, FDR

Question 4

Senator Richard Russell (D,GA)

Answer 4

Believed civil war would not be over until a southerner was elected president.
Campaign for nomination in 1952 and failed because his anti-civil rights record in senate turned off northern voters.
Convince LBJ to support civil rights and run for president
LBJ was first president from South in over 100 years

Question 5

Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R, IL)

Answer 5

Was at signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by president LBJ

Question 6

Senator Philip Hart

Answer 6

“The conscience of the Senate”
Catholic
Grad of Georgetown University
Was a part of D-Day invasion of Normandy, France in WWII

Question 7

Smithsonian Institution

Answer 7

Known as the ‘castle’
James Smithsonian
-born out of wedlock and scorned for being a “bastard”
-willed his money to a country that did not obsess about parental lineage: USA
-USA doesn’t care if you are “bastard”

Question 8

Smithsonian institution included 11 museums,

For example:

Answer 8

National Air and Space museum
National Museum of American History
National museum of American Indian

Question 9

Air and Space Museum

Answer 9

The Wright Brothers (from Ohio) at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903
-“the Wright Flyer”
Spirit of St. Louis flown by Charles Lindbergh
-first solo flight across Atlantic Ocean in 1927 (33.5 hours)
Bell X-1
-first plane to break sound barrier
-flown by Chuck Yeager in 1947

Question 10

Who calculated how fast sound travels?

Answer 10

Earnst Mach (700 mph)

Question 11

National Museum of American History

Answer 11

Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
Locomotive
American flag from Ft. McHenry(Francis S. Key wrote Star spangled banner on this battle)
Dorothy’s Ruby Red slippers from Wizard of Oz

Question 12

National museum of the American Indian????

Answer 12

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Question 13

National Gallery of Art

Answer 13

Architect: John Russell Pope

Only Da Vinci painting in America- “Ginevra de’Benci”

Question 14

National Gallery of Art East Wing

Answer 14

Has no right angles

Architect: I M Pei