Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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First president of the United States | George Washington | 75%
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US president during the Wall Street Crash who believed in "rugged individualism" and in Laissez-Faire policies | Herbert Hoover | 74%
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US President who created the First and Second New Deals, repealed Prohibition and led the USA for most of the Second World War | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 70%
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Entrepreneur who popularised the production line and made cars that were cheap enough for ordinary people to afford | Henry Ford | 65%
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Baptist preacher who led many civil rights protests including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington, believed in non-violent protest and delivered the 'I have a dream' speech | Martin Luther King Jr. | 64%
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US President who proposed the formation of the League of Nations | Woodrow Wilson | 64%
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Gang leader who was the head of a gang selling alcohol during the prohibition era | √ | 63%
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First Lady of the USA from 1933-1945 | Eleanor Roosevelt | 61%
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US President known for supporting the Civil Rights Movement, describing a 'New Frontier' and being assassinated in 1963 | John F. Kennedy | 61%
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German dictator who the US fought against in the Second World War | Adolf Hitler | 58%
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Influential Rock 'n' Roll singer | Elvis Presley | 58%
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African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, triggering the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 | Rosa Parks | 57%
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Former member of the Nation of Islam who was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam after becoming less extreme in his views | Malcolm X | 50%
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Celebrity baseball player who set a home run record that lasted until 1961 | Babe Ruth | 46%
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Former vice-president who became president after the assassination of the above; he was known for promising a 'Great Society', manipulating his opponents and passing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 46%
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Vice-president who became president in April 1945 when the previous one died; he increased the minimum wage from 40 cents per hour to 75 cents per hour as part of the 'Fair Deal' | Harry S. Truman | 43%
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Italian-born immigrant charged with robbery and murder and sentenced to death by electric chair; he may not actually have been guilty | Nicola Sacco | 42%
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Father of a black girl who took the Board of Education of Topeka to court for segregating schools by race in 1954 | Oliver Brown | 42%
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Italian-born immigrant charged with robbery and murder and sentenced to death by electric chair; he may not actually have been guilty | Bartolomeo Vanzetti | 41%
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Daughter of the above who had to walk two miles to go to school even though there was a school for white students half a mile away | Linda Brown | 40%
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Senator who claimed to have a list of 200 communist party members, who was the namesake of the 'Witch Hunts' in the Second Red Scare | Joseph McCarthy | 39%
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Influential jazz musician in the 1920s or 1930s | √ | 38%
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21-year-old woman who won the right to have an abortion in 1973 after a ruling by the Supreme Court | Jane Roe / Norma McCorvey | 38%
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Republican president elected in 1952 who brought business people into the government to maintain the economy | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 36%
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Influential cartoon maker who had a large impact on popular culture | Walt Disney | 31%
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Influential figure in the 1950s 'teenage rebellion' | √ | 27%
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Author who wrote about life in the Great Depression | √ | 23%
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Namesake of a Tariff Act that encouraged Americans to buy goods produced in the USA | Joseph W. Fordney | 22%
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US president who wanted to support businesses, saying "the chief business of the American people is business" | Calvin Coolidge | 21%
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US Attorney General whose house was the target of a Communist terrorist attack, triggering the First Red Scare | Alexander Mitchell Palmer | 20%
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Author of the book 'The Feminine Mystique', which argued that women were not being given enough opportunities to pursue a career | Betty Friedan | 20%
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Politician who didn't think the New Deal went far enough and proposed a scheme called Share Our Wealth in which nobody would be allowed to own more than $5 million and everyone would get $5000 to buy a radio, car and house | Huey Long | 19%
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US president known for corruption and wanting to get "back to normalcy" following the First World War | Warren G. Harding | 16%
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Couple executed in 1953 for passing secrets regarding the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union (they may not actually have been guilty) | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | 14%
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Billionaire who was the only individual paying 79% income tax (the top tax bracket) under the New Deal | John D. Rockefeller | 14%
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Famous performer in 1920s films | √ | 13%
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Leader of the STOP ERA campaign, which successfully opposed the Equal Rights Amendment on the grounds that it would lead to women in combat, abortion, unisex bathrooms and homosexual marriage | Phyllis Schlafly | 11%
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Namesake of a Tariff Act that encouraged Americans to buy goods produced in the USA | Porter J. McCumber | 11%
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Namesake of the tariff passed by the President in 1930, aiming to deal with the Great Depression | Reed Smoot | 11%
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Black girl who was photographed trying to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas along with eight other black students in 1957 | Elizabeth Eckford | 10%
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US president who was assassinated by the above | William McKinley | 10%
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Namesake of the tariff passed by the President in 1930, aiming to deal with the Great Depression | Willis C. Hawley | 10%
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Police chief in Birmingham, Alabama who attacked civil rights protestors on a non-violent march, leading to a greater level of support for the Civil Rights Movement | Eugene 'Bull' Connor | 9%
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Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | W. E. B. Du Bois | 9%
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KKK member who was convicted of the rape and murder of a young woman, reducing the appeal of the KKK | David Stephenson | 8%
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Namesake of a set of rules all films had to follow to avoid obscenity and incitement to crime | Will H. Hays | 8%
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Competitor in the 1927 World Heavyweight Boxing title, which had 60 million radio listeners | √ | 7%
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Celebrity golfer in the 1920s | Bobby Jones | 7%
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African-American baseball player who left the Negro National League and joined a previously all-white club in 1947 | Jackie Robinson | 7%
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Member of the US government accused of spying for the Soviet Union | Alger Hiss | 6%
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Catholic priest who set up the National Union for Social Justice, which aimed to provide fair work and wages for everyone; he had a radio show but was later forced off air for supporting the Nazis | Charles Coughlin | 6%
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Retired doctor who proposed that everyone should retire at 60 to make more jobs for the young | Francis Townsend | 6%
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Leader of the Ku Klux Klan | Hiram Wesley Evans | 6%
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Man who assassinated the above in 1968 | James Earl Ray | 6%
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Governor of Arkansas who sent soldiers to prevent these students from entering, though they were eventually forced to leave by the Federal government | Orville Faubus | 6%
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Popular musician in the 1930s (not jazz) | √ | 5%
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Stunt performer who sat on the top of a flagpole for 49 days in the 1920s | Alvin 'Shipwreck' Kelly | 5%
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African-American student who won a place at Mississippi University but was being persecuted by racists, who the president sent soldiers to protect | James Meredith | 4%
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Head of the Works Progress Administration who said in response to criticism about wasting taxpayers' money "hell, they've got to eat just like the rest of us!" | Harry Hopkins | 3%
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Mixed-race politician who successfully campaigned to allow African-American journalists into the press rooms at Congress and to allow African-American students into the US Naval Academy in the 1940s | Adam Clayton Powell | 2%
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Losing candidate in the 1936 presidential election; he lost by the greatest margin in history | Alf London | 2%
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Judge who sentenced the above; he said that he "may not actually have committed the crime but he is morally to blame because he is our enemy" | Wester Thayer | 2%
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Black American sprinter who wore black gloves and no shoes to protest against poverty in the African-American community and support the Black Power movement | √ | 1%
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Anarchist who assassinated the US president in 1901 | Leon Franz Czolgosz | 1%
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Leader of the Black Cabinet, a group advising the president about issues regarding black people in the late 1930s | Mary McLeod Bethune | 1%
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White civil rights campaigner who was murdered by the KKK in 1965 | Viola Liuzzo | 1%
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