What is a Shirley Temple?
- The recipe for this carbonated soft drink is allegedly kept in two halves, each half stored in a safe deposit box at a separate Dallas bank.
What is Dr. Pepper?
- Golfer Arnold Palmer gave his name to the mixture of these two drinks.
What are ice tea and Lemonade?
New Topic: Artists
- This famous Mexican Artist suffered from severe chronic pain for most of her life as a result of a bus accident as a teenager.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
- Paintings by this Jewish artist inspired the title and set design of Fiddler on the Roof.
Who is Marc Chagall?
- This artist loved painting sunflowers and cypresses, the latter depicted in sunlight or in starlight.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
- The title of this documentary is about a truck driver who buys a painting for five dollars, and finds out it might be by the artist referred to in the title, and tries to sell the painting for millions.
What is Who the -------- is Jackson Pollack?
- This American caricaturist is best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.
Who is Al Hirschfield?
New Topic – American History
- This was the name of the locomotive hijacked by James Andrews and his band during the Civil War.
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What is The General?
- This was a major migration route to the Pacific Northwest before the Transcontinental Railroad; it gave its name to an educational computer game.
What was the Oregon Trail?
- The 9th President of the United States, this man died just 31 days after his inauguration, the shortest term of office of any American president.
Who was William Henry Harrison?
- The 37th state to join the Union, and the first do so after the Civil War, its capital was originally named Lancaster.
What is Nebraska?
- The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the order proclaiming freedom for enslaved people in this state.
What is Texas?
Next: Bodies of Water
- This body of water has the deepest point in the continental US.
What is Crater Lake in Oregon?
- This body of water is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, but only third largest by total volume.
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What is Lake Superior?
- Only two people have descended to the planet’s deepest point, this location in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
- This long-sought after passage has finally been navigated, thanks to global warming.
What is the Northwest Passage?
- This strait was crossed on June 6, 1944 in history’s largest amphibious invasion.
What is the English Channel?
Next category: World War II
- This Nazi counteroffensive in the winter of 1944 is considered the bloodiest single battle fought during WWII.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
- This operation carried out by British intelligence in 1943 convinced Hitler that the Allies were planning to invade Greece instead of Sicily
What was Operation Mincemeat?
- In announcing the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942 to the press, President Roosevelt stated that the bombers came from this fictional location.
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