High Court Moments
What was the name of the Supreme Court case in 1954 that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional? Answer: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka or just Brown …
What was the name of the Supreme Court case in 1954 that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional? Answer: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka or just Brown …
Which genetic disease is known as the “royal disease” due to its prevalence in royal families of the 19th and 20th centuries from Europe to Asia? Answer: Hempophilia
Which American president was in office when the Panama Canal was officially opened in 1914? Answer: Woodrow Wilson
Which African American scientist and inventor revolutionized agricultural practices in the Southern United States with his work on peanuts and other alternative crops to cotton? Answer: George Washington Carver
On June 5th, 1968, Robert Kennedy was fatally wounded by an assassin’s gun at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Who was his assassin? Answer: Sirhan Sirhan
Known as the “King of Swing”, what American bandleader and clarinetist led one of the most popular swing bands during the mid-1930’s to the mid-1940’s? Answer: Benny Goodman
A technique for dislodging objects when someone is choking using abdominal thrusts was named after the man who first published the maneuver in 1974. What is this technique called? Answer: …
What successful Scottish privateer, hired to protect England’s shipping interests in the North American colonies, was eventually arrested by the very people who hired him and executed on May 23rd, …
In 1959, Fidel Castro led a revolution that overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. What was the name of the group that Castro and his brother Raul belonged to before …
Which 20th century US President’s domestic policy was coined “The Square Deal”? Answer: Theodore Roosevelt