Description : William Henry Harrison got sick and died 31 days into his term after being elected in 1841.
Last Answer : When was the last time the Liberty Bell rang?
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 : The Battle of Antietam, during the Civil War.
Last Answer : How many people were killed at that battle?
Description : The War of 1812 against Great Britain.
Last Answer : Which president signed the Indian Removal Act, which moved Native Americans into unsettled land in the West in exchange for their land within state borders?
Description : The Continental Congress began issuing paper money called Continentals after the Revolutionary War began in 1775.
Last Answer : When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
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 : What year were the first enslaved Africans brought to American colonies?
Last Answer : 1619
Description : What was the name of the first (permanent English) American colony?
Last Answer : Jamestown, after King James I.
Description : Who was the first European to land in North America?
Last Answer : Leif Erikson arrived from Norway in the 10th century.
Description : How long ago do historians estimate the first settlers arrived on what is now American soil?
Last Answer : More than 12,000 years ago.
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 : 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 : Devil’s Tower in Wyoming.
Last Answer : When did Henry Ford’s Model T hit the market?
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?