| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 presidential scandal | Watergate | 98%
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| Airplane-inventing brothers | Wright Brothers | 98%
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| President during WWI | Woodrow Wilson | 95%
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| 1969 music festival | Woodstock | 91%
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| Invented the cotton gin | Eli Whitney | 80%
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| New York military academy | West Point | 79%
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| Western film actor, star of True Grit | John Wayne | 73%
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| African-American educator and orator, established Tuskegee University | Booker T. Washington | 68%
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| Director of Citizen Kane, adapted War of the Worlds to radio | Orson Welles | 62%
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| Los Angeles neighborhood the scene of 1965 riots | Watts | 62%
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| 1890 Indian massacre | Wounded Knee | 55%
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| Alabama governor who advocated "segregation forever" | George Wallace | 49%
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| Colonial hub in Virginia | Williamsburg | 46%
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| Wrote "O Captain, My Captain" | Walt Whitman | 40%
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| 1790s insurrection | Whiskey Rebellion | 22%
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| Powerful Congressional orator who opposed secession | Daniel Webster | 12%
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| Invented the train air brake | George Westinghouse | 7%
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| Led the Puritan colony in Boston | John Winthrop | 5%
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