AMERICAN HISTORY

(e.g., What is the long form of “FBI”? Answer: Federal Bureau of Investigation.)

Freshman level

1. Who published “Poor Richard’s Almanack”?

2. During this 1773 party, demonstrators destroyed a shipment of tea.

3. What is the long form of “NAACP”?

Graduate level

4. What was the Manhattan Project?

5. This political scandal led to the resignation of Richard Nixon.

6. This was a system by which people escaping enslavement were secretly helped to reach the North.

Ph.D. level

7. Leland Stanford hammered this on May 10, 1869.

8. He founded Tuskegee University and was the first African American on a U.S. postage stamp.

9. On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant in this Virginia village.

Answers: 1. Benjamin Franklin. 2. Boston Tea Party. 3. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 4. Program to develop the atomic bomb. 5. Watergate. 6. Underground Railroad. 7. Golden Spike or Last Spike. 8. Booker T. Washington. 9. Appomattox Court House.

— North America Syndicate