Statistics for U.S. History by Letter- P

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Ban on production/sale of liquor	Prohibition	97%
The King of Rock and Roll	Elvis Presley	93%
Wrote "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe	90%
Attacked on a "day of infamy"	Pearl Harbor	89%
Founder of Pennsylvania	William Penn	89%
Artificial waterway finished in 1914	Panama Canal	87%
Saved Capt. John Smith's life	Pocahontas	75%
Author of Common Sense	Thomas Paine	74%
Horse-riding letter deliverers	Pony Express	68%
Old Blood and Guts	George Patton	60%
"Separate but equal" Supreme Court case	{Plessy} v. Ferguson	57%
Contemporaries of the Pilgrims	Puritans	47%
1800s detective agency, infiltrated unions	Pinkerton	42%
Led American troops in WWI	John Pershing	31%
Disastrous Gettysburg attack	Pickett's Charge	28%
Benjamin Franklin's newsletter	Poor Richard's Almanack	24%
Gave water to Revolutionary soldiers	Molly Pitcher	18%
Transcontinental railroad finished here, 1869	Promontory Point	13%
Hero of Lake Erie in the War of 1812	Oliver Hazard Perry	11%
Civil War site of siege warfare	Petersburg	11%