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Who is Amelia Earhart?
She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Who is Bessie Coleman?
This woman was the first African American licensed pilot.
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What is a glacial age?
An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere; it has another name.
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What is Muhammad Ali's Gloves?
This 3-time World Heavyweight Champion is most famous for this item.
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Who is Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy)?
This was one of the three presidents to receive a nobel peace prize, which he received in 1906. He was Vice President the term before he became President of the United States of America.
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What is the 1903 Wright Flyer?
This was the first successful powered aircraft and flew four times on December 17th.
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What is a lunar rover?
A space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of the moon.
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What is Tyrannosaurus Rex?
This carnivorous animal was one of the last dinosaurs to live before extinction.
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What is Ruby Slippers?
Originally meant to be sliver shoes, the movie's creators changed the slipper's color to take advantage of the new colored film process.
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Who is Galileo?
He used the first telescope in 1609.
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Who is Orville and Wilber Wright?
Credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane.
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Who is Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.?
This man led the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II over North Africa and Italy.
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What is Easter Island heads?
These are the living faces of honorable ancestors made of pure rock.
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What is Archie Bunker's Chair?
This item took place in the sitcom "All in the Family" as an important prop.
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What is a holotype?
The term that describes that dinosaurs are determined to be only one specimen.
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What is the Tuskegee Air Medal?
.This award was a congressional gold medal on behalf of the Tuskegee Airmen.
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Who is Able the Space Monkey?
This female Rhesus monkey flew inside a Jupiter nose cone to test biomedical effects of space travel.
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What is Desert, Safari, Tundra, and Savanna?
Name the four African habitats.
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Who is Albert Einstein?
This man came up with the law of photoelectric effect and was later known on as the quantum theory.
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Who is Kermit the Frog?
A popular amphibian television character stored at the Smithsonian Museum.
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What is the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter?
This aircraft was operated by the air forces of more than a dozen nations from 1958 to 2004.
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What is the Lockheed Vega?
This monoplane was a six passenger aircraft built by the Lockheed company, starting in 1927.
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What is the Mesozoic Era?
Pangaea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and this early era, forming 300 million years ago.
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Who is General Custer?
This man was admitted to West Point in 1858, and was called to serve as a General in the Union army.
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What is marine life census?
The census of specimen for this species consists of 17,000 specimen.
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