Statistics for U.S. History by Letter- W

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
1972 presidential scandal	Watergate	97%
Airplane-inventing brothers	Wright Brothers	97%
President during WWI	Woodrow Wilson	96%
1969 music festival	Woodstock	89%
Invented the cotton gin	Eli Whitney	78%
New York military academy	West Point	78%
Western film actor, star of True Grit	John Wayne	72%
African-American educator and orator, established Tuskegee University	Booker T. Washington	64%
Director of Citizen Kane, adapted War of the Worlds to radio	Orson Welles	62%
Los Angeles neighborhood the scene of 1965 riots	Watts	62%
1890 Indian massacre	Wounded Knee	51%
Alabama governor who advocated "segregation forever"	George Wallace	48%
Colonial hub in Virginia	Williamsburg	47%
Wrote "O Captain, My Captain"	Walt Whitman	38%
1790s insurrection	Whiskey Rebellion	19%
Powerful Congressional orator who opposed secession	Daniel Webster	12%
Invented the train air brake	George Westinghouse	8%
Led the Puritan colony in Boston	John Winthrop	4%