History and Fun Facts History Flashcards
1
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What year did Armstrong walk on the moon?
A
July 20, 1969 (Sunday)
2
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What year did Jason Day win his first major golf tournament?
A
2015
3
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What Year was Obama born?
A
1961
4
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What day and year did John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die?
A
July 4, 1826
5
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What year did the Beatles start their British Invasion by playing on the Ed Sullivan Show?
A
1962
6
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What is the the most recent year that a Catholic Pope retired?
A
2013
7
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What year was the Battle of the Bay MLB World Series?
A
1989
8
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When did Reagan tell Gorbechev to tear down that wall? (Berlin Wall)
A
1989
9
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What year did the Simpsons get their own show?
A
1989
10
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What year did the major league baseball players go on strike?
A
1994
11
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Who sings Love Me Tender in 1956?
A
Elvis Presley
12
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What year did the musical movie A Sound of Music come out in theaters? It won an Oscar Award for best picture.
A
1965
13
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president in November of what year?
A
1860
14
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The Civil War ended in this year.
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1865
15
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In this year Christopher Columbus set out from Spain to look for a short route to India.
A
1492
16
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October 24th of this year the United Nations was formed.
A
1945
17
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The old south meeting house was the organizing point for this December 16, 1773 event.
A
Boston Tea Party
18
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What famous battle was in 1863?
A
Gettysburg
19
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The old south meeting house was the organizing point for this December 16, 1773 event.
A
Boston Tea Party
20
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When is Mark Twain’s birthday?
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November 30th, 1835
21
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In 1719 Irish immigrants introduced this crop to New England at Londonderry, New Hampshire.
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Potato
22
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What disaster happened in Shogohama, 2011?
A
Tsunami
23
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What exploded into a cloud of fiery ash in 79 AD?
A
Mount Vesuvius
24
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What year was the Great Chicago Fire?
A
1871
25
What year was the Magna Carta signed by King John of England?
1215
26
What year was the Boston Tea Party?
1773
27
What year was the French Revolution?
1789
28
May 17, 1957 Martin Luther King gave a speech on the third anniversary of the passage of this case.
Brown v. The Board of Education
29
Women did not get the right to vote until this year.
1920
30
What century did George Washington Carver discover many uses for peanuts?
20th (he died in 1943)
31
Louis Braille invented the Braille alphabet in this century.
19th (Louis Braille was born January 4th, 1809)
32
Who was born on January 15th 1929 and was shot and killed in 1968?
Martin Luther King Jr.
33
Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal spectacles in what century?
18th century
34
In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American to earn a degree in this.
Medicine
35
In 1421 the first one of these was written for inventions.
Patents
36
Booker T. Washington founded this institute.
Tuskegee Institute
37
Bad news for the Hindenburg. The airship burst and plunged to the ground in what year?
1937
38
What year was Jamestown settled and became part of the Virginia colony?
1607
39
In 1620 the pilgrims landed on a rocky coast, what did they name the place?
Plymouth
40
Who was the leader of the American Revolution?
George Washington
41
Paul Revere lit how many lanterns if the English left Boston by sea?
2
42
In Scotland, 1847 this inventor of the telephone was born.
Alexander Graham Bell
43
What year was the Mayflower Compact signed?
1620
44
Book Title: I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor in this year.
1941
45
Book Title: I Survived the Hurricane Katrina, this year.
2005
46
Book Title: I Survived the Japanese Tsunami in this year.
2011
47
Book Title: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic in this year.
1912
48
Book Title: I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, in this year.
1863
49
Book Title: I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, in this year.
79 A.D.
50
Who was known as "The Last King of America"
George III
51
Colonists protested the Sugar Act of 1764 by famously saying, "No taxation without" this
Representation
52
On May 14, 1804 Lewis and Clark departed this city to begin their expedition to the Pacific Northwest
St. Louis
53
The Pilgrims could tell you this is Massachusetts' official state flower.
The Mayflower
54
The Americans were protesting a tax & a monopoly with this Dec. 16, 1773 event.
The Boston tea party.
55
2015: Dates on the Calendar: Patriot Day on this date includes a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time
September 11th
56
Date Nut: It was Sept. 30, 1927 and this legend hit humber 60
Babe Ruth
57
Date Nut: On Feb. 23, 1945 6 U.S. servicemen raised the American flag on this island; sounds like a good photo op
Iwo Jima
58
What did the residence of the U.S. President become formally known as in 1901?
the White House
59
A history lesson: The Civil Rights Act and the Watts Riots happened during this decade of hope tragedy
1960's
60
James Buchanan was the first to receive one of these from overseas.
Telegram
61
James a Madison was the primary author of this document.
The U.S. Constitution
62
For the 1997 movie Air Force One starring Harrison Ford, the film company painted a rented type of this cargo plane to look like the President's aircraft.
Boeing 747
63
Air Force One has advanced technology that allows the aircraft to function as this, if the U.S. Is attacked.
A Command Center
64
Work doesn't stop on Airforce One. The plane has 80 of these and over 238 miles of cabling.
Telephones
65
Women. On U.S. Stamps: 1907: A Powhatan princess
Pocahontas
66
Native Americans: South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian reservation has a 4-year college serving the Oglala branch of this tribe
The Sioux
67
Old King Coal: In the 1300's the Southwest Indian tribes named for these dwellings used coal in pottery making.
Puebla
68
A History Lesson: In 1608 this captain and a few other colonists left Jamestown and explored the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries
John Smith
69
Museums: What's called "The Oldest House Museum Complex" is located in this Florida city, the USA's oldest city
St. Augustine
70
American History: This colony, established by Pilgrims in 1620, celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621
Plymouth
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American History: The first permanent English settlement in the American colonies
Jamestown
72
The American Revolution: Washington and his men wintered at this Pennsylvania site in 1777-'78, not only freezing but thinking over recent defeats
Valley Forge
73
State of the Estate: George Washington's Mount Vernon
Virginia
74
VOLCANOES: Soon after this volcano erupted in 1980, the city of Spokane was plunged into darkness due to the ash
Mount St. Helens
75
EXTREME GEOGRAPHY: In July 1913 this appropriately named California valley recorded the highest temperature ever in the U.S., 134°
Death Valley
76
OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENT: The 1803 treaty for this deal stated that France would give up all military posts in New Orleans
Louisiana Purchase
77
March 2018, retailer blank announced plans to liquidate almost all of its U.S. stores.
Toys R' Us
78
CROSSWORD CLUES "S": Buddha's personal given name (10)
Siddhartha
79
POKEY, MAN, GO: This Confederate president was captured on May 10, 1865 and put in the pokey in Fort Monroe, Virginia
Jefferson Davis
80
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES: Her May 24 birthday first became a holiday in Canada in 1845 and it's still celebrated today
Queen Victoria
81
LET'S SET SOME BOUNDARIES: The Mason-Dixon Line was originally the boundary between these 2 states
Pennsylvania and Maryland
82
1983--30 YEARS AGO: Sally Ride rode into history aboard this as the first American woman in space
The Challenger
83
NAME THE DECADE: Sally Ride rides in space
'80s
84
YMCA: While at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass., James Naismith developed this sport
basketball
85
JEFFERSON DAVIS: Jefferson Davis was elected to a 6-year term as President of the CSA early in this year
1861
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AMERICAN HISTORY: It was drawn in the 1760s to settle border disputes between Maryland and Pennsylvania
Mason-Dixon Line
87
SHE DID IT!: She was the first American woman to travel in space
Sally Ride
88
"HOW"-"D": Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were lost looking for this island that's 2,000 miles southwest of Honolulu
Howland Island
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RAISE THE FLAG, PLEASE: Site of a famous flag raising, Mount Suribachi s found on this isle
Iwo Jima
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PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM: Photography, 1945: Joe Rosenthal, for this image of Marines doing this on Mount Suribachi
the flag raising of Iwo Jima
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PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS: He was the first president to preside over 14 states
George Washington
