Description : British Petroleum (BP)
Last Answer : Who was the first woman to hold federal executive office in the United States?
Description : About 9 miles outside of Hartville, MO.
Last Answer : Which oil company’s rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and countless species of wildlife?
Description : A basketball court.
Last Answer : Where is the geographical center of the U.S. population (approximated in the 2020 census)?
Description : 2008
Last Answer : What type of exercise area did President Barack Obama have installed in the White House?
Description : Barack Obama.
Last Answer : What year began the worst economic recession since the Great Depression?
Description : His work on climate change education through his movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Last Answer : Who was the first Black president?
Description : Major League Baseball.
Last Answer : Why did former Vice President Al Gore win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Description : Hurricane Katrina.
Last Answer : What sports organization did Senator George Mitchell investigate after hearing rumors of athletes using steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs?
Description : Columbia.
Last Answer : What was the name of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005?
Description : 2001
Last Answer : What was the name of the space shuttle that exploded on re-entry over Texas, killing all seven astronauts aboard?
Description : Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Last Answer : What year did Apple Computer introduce the first iPod?
Description : Florida.
Last Answer : What person and organization are widely believed to be behind the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001?
Description : Marine One.
Last Answer : What state’s electoral votes ultimately decided the 2000 presidential election?
Description : John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
Last Answer : What’s the call sign of the president’s helicopter?
Description : A chocolate Labrador retriever named Buddy and a cat named Socks.
Last Answer : Two sets of fathers and sons have served as presidents. What are their names?
Description : 1997
Last Answer : What two pets did President Bill Clinton have while in office?
Description : California, in 1996.
Last Answer : When did the U.S. government issue a formal apology to the surviving members of the Tuskegee Experiments (conducted from 1932-72)?
Description : Rosa Parks.
Last Answer : What was the first state to legalize marijuana for medicinal use?
Description : Neil Armstrong.
Last Answer : Who refused to give up her bus seat, sparking national civil rights protests?
Description : The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Last Answer : Who was the first man on the moon?
Description : Hawaii.
Last Answer : Which law ended the application of Jim Crow laws and reversed the Supreme Court’s “separate but equal” decision made in Plessy v. Ferguson?
Description : The first official Veteran’s Day was Nov. 11, 1954 and was planned to honor those who died in World War I. Eventually it was changed to honor everyone who has served in the military.
Last Answer : What was the last state to be admitted into the union?
Description : Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy.
Last Answer : When was the first year Veteran’s Day was celebrated?
Description : The United States Navy.
Last Answer : Which four presidents have been assassinated while in office?
Description : President Harry Truman, who was called “General.”
Last Answer : Which branch of the military did President John F. Kennedy serve in?
Description : The United States lost 1.3 million lives.
Last Answer : Who was the first president to receive a Secret Service code name?
Description : Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Last Answer : How many Americans were killed in World War II?
Description : Dec. 7, 1941.
Last Answer : Who was the first United States president to appear on television?
Description : October 24, 1929.
Last Answer : When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
Description : In 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Last Answer : What was the date of the Black Tuesday stock market crash?
Description : KDKA in Pittsburgh.
Last Answer : What year were American women granted the right to vote?
Description : The 18th Amendment.
Last Answer : What was the United States’ first commercial radio station?
Description : 1917
Last Answer : Passed in 1919, which amendment prevented the sale of alcoholic beverages?
Description : Jeanette Rankin.
Last Answer : What year did the United States enter World War I?
Description : Girl Scouts of the USA.
Last Answer : Who was the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress in 1916?
Description : Edward Smith.
Last Answer : What young women’s organization did Juliette Gordon Low establish in 1912?
Description : 1908. But he wasn’t actually the first person to invent the automobile — German Karl Benz patented the first automobile in 1886.
Last Answer : Who was captain of the Titanic when it sank on April 15, 1912?
Description : Hiram Rhodes Revels took his oath of office in 1870.
Last Answer : What was the first United States national monument?
Description : France.
Last Answer : Who was the first African American senator?
Description : President Andrew Johnson in 1868.
Last Answer : What country gifted the United States with the Statue of Liberty?
Description : 3.9 million.
Last Answer : Who was the first president to be impeached?
Description : West Virginia.
Last Answer : About how many slaves were freed at the conclusion of the Civil War?
Description : Between 10 and 15 million.
Last Answer : What state seceded from Virginia in 1863?
Description : President Andrew Johnson officially declared victory on May 9, 1865.
Last Answer : How many Africans were captured and forcibly transported during the entirety of the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
Description : Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Last Answer : When did the Civil War end?
Description : The Battle of Appomattox Court House.
Last Answer : What is the name of the theater where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?
Description : Jan. 1, 1863.
Last Answer : What was the name of the battle after which General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant?
Description : Jefferson Davis.
Last Answer : When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
Description : Salmon P. Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War.
Last Answer : Who was the Confederate president during the Civil War?
Description : 1862
Last Answer : Whose portrait was on it?