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What is March 15 (the Ides of March)?Gary Oldman won an Oscar for his portrayal of this man.
Who is Winston Churchill?In 1770 a British Sea Captain arrived on the West coast of Australia and claimed it for Great Britain.
Who is James Cook?Cook was killed in this territory, which eventually became the only state where coffee beans can grow.
What is Hawaii?This Native American Shawnee warrior and chief, was norn about 1768 south of present-day Columbus, Ohio. During the early 1800s, he attempted to organize a confederation of tribes to resist white settlement.
Who is Tecumseh?This Union Army general is famous for his role in the US Civil War. He also bears the name of the well known Shawnee Chief, Tecumseh.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?This Union general was given the Thanks from Congress for his performance at Gettysburg, and later ran for President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?This novel, written by Irish writer James Joyce, and is meant to parallel Homer's epic poem, Odyssey.
Richard, I believe you answer is wrong. Grant was in Mississippi at the time.I believe the correct response is Who is George Gordon Meade?
Neither is right. The answer is Winfield Scott Hancock, who ran for president in 1880, but lost to James Garfield. (Meade didn't run for president, and Grant wasn't at Gettysburg.)
But we might use Richard's question about what is James Joyce's novel, which is a parallel to Homer's poem, Odyssey?
What is Ulysses?This house, designed in 1935 by Frank Lloyd Wright, is partly built over a waterfall.
What is Fallingwater (it's fabulous!)This rabbit in Alice in Wonderland has part of his name from this month.
What is the March Hare?The name of this poem by Lewis Carroll also refers to meaningless writing or speech.
What is Jabberwocky?This Israeli assassin, art restorer and agent for the Israeli Secret Service is featured in a series of books by Daniel Silva
Who is Gabriel Allon?This General was killed on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who is John Reynolds?His replacement was this man, often erroneously given credit for the invention of baseball.
Who is Doubleday?This American publishing company was the largest in the U.S. by 1947. Later in 2009 it merged with Knopf which is now part of Penguin Random House.
What is Doubleday?This largest Roman artifact still in existence covers 80 miles in northern England.
What is Hadrian's Wall?This character is a former military cop, recently played by Tom Cruise in a couple of great action movies.
Who is Jack Reacher?Currently in its 11th season, a television series set in Toronto in the early 20th century, features this detective, who is a man who believes in science and forensics to solve his cases.
who is Murdoch?This fictional species was created by H. G. Wells for his 1895 novel, The Time Machine, and are the main antagonist.
Who are the Morlocks?After the mutiny on the Bounty, this island became the home of 9 of the mutineers, and the Tahitians who accompanied them.
What is Pitcairn Island?This American talent show has been on hiatus for a little while, but is now back on the air with three new judges.
What is American Idol?March 21, 1918, saw the beginning of this massive offensive by the German Army to knock the Allies out of the war before major reinforcements from the U.S. arrived.
What was the Battle of the Somme?These two colours of the spectrum make orange.
What are red and yellow?(The correct answer for the spring offensive in 1918 was either the Ludendorff Offensive or the Kaiser's Offensive. The Somme was in 1916.)
This Italian dessert consists of layers of mascarpone custard, separated by coffee-flavored ladyfingers, topped with cocoa.
What is Tiramisu?Who was the man compelled by the Romans to carry the cross of Jesus as Jesus was taken to his crucifixion?
Who is Simon of Cyrene?This work about the Exodus from Egypt is traditionally read during the Seder for the observance of Passover.
What is the Haggadah?This is the year Easter will fall on in March again.
What is 2024?2024 is the 100th anniversary of Hitler's incarceration in Landesberg prison where he dictated this book.
What was Mein Kampf?This small bird can beat its wings from 12 to 80 times per second.
What is a hummingbird?Victoria Woodhull in 1872
Who was the first woman to run for president although technically not old enough?Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, saw the first landings of this last campaign in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Okinawa?Book about the 1959 murders of a four family members in Holcomb, Kansas.
What is 'In Cold Blood'?This 2017 award-winning film was inspired by a 1991 unsolved murder in Texas.
What is "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MO"?She became the first woman to win Best Director at the Oscars.
Who is Kathryn Bigelow?This woman was the first female federal officeholder, and the only negative vote against war in 1941.
Who is Jeannette Rankin? (One of my all time heroes!)This was the last state to ratify the Constitution.
What is Rhode Island?This Rhode Island town is famous for its Gilded Age mansions, such as The Breakers.
What is Newport?This man was the first person to serve as Vice President of the US, and then later become the President
Who was John Adams?This Vice-President of the third president is more infamous for the duel he fought than his time in office.
Who was Aaron Burr?In this play, he is the patriarch of the family, and a wealthy plantation owner. His hatred of mendacity forces him to confront some painful truths with his son, Brick.
What is 'Cat on a Hot, Tin Roof'?This well-known actress in 'Cat...' won Oscars for two other films.
Elizabeth TaylorThe chemical symbol for this element is Fe.
What is iron?The 6th vice president of the United States.
Who is Daniel D. Thompkins?April 6, 1917, saw the entrance of this nation as a combatant in WWI.
What is the United States?This word is the name of an international non-profit organization and also a traffic circle.
What is a Rotary? (Good one)He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 for his subsequent research and application of the uncertainty principle.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932 for his subsequent research and application of the uncertainty principle.
We are on #1907 not #1900 (Aaron Burr), but I have changed that question to yours so we can continue.
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in 44 BC this date became infamous for the day Julius Caesar was assassinated