| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The most recent region to become an official US State in August of 1959. | Hawaii | 100%
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| This president's assassination would eventually result in the ratification of the 25th Amendment. | John F. Kennedy | 100%
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| First Catholic president of the United States. | John F. Kennedy | 100%
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| First president to live in the White House. | John Adams | 86%
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| First state to secede from the US prior to the Civil War in 1860. | South Carolina | 86%
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| First major battle that marked a turning point in the Pacific Theater of WW2, ended in US victory. | Battle of Midway | 71%
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| State where the Bethlehem Steel Plant was located. | Pennsylvania | 71%
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| 27th president of the United States, served from 1909 to 1913. | William Howard Taft | 57%
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| Period in history in the 60s where British bands and culture were becoming very popular in the US, arguably starting in 1964 when The Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan Show. | British Invasion | 43%
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| Town where John Brown got hanged. | Harpers Ferry, WV | 43%
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| Largest overall lake in the state of Vermont. | Lake Champlain | 43%
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| Term used to describe vast degregulation, increased defense spending, reducing income tax and capital gains tax, and tightening money supply to reduce inflation. This policy is controversial with supporters saying it helped end stagflation and strengthened GDP while opposers say it decreased economic mobility and widened the income gap, and increased the national debt. | Reaganomics | 43%
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| First president to visit all 50 states. | Richard M. Nixon | 43%
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| Stadium where the Beatles played in New York City on August 15, 1965 with roughly 55,600 people attending. Commonly considered as one of the first rock concerts at a major outdoor stadium. | Shea Stadium | 29%
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| Archipelago off the coast of Washington state which would become part of the US in 1872 after a series of border disputes with the UK known as the "Pig War." | San Juan Islands | 14%
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