NEW YORK CITY

New Amsterdam, from

100

1624 to 1664
(What was the first name of
NYC?)
The nickname of NYC

200
(Whats the Big Apple?)
The commercial, financial
300

& cultural centre of NYC.

(What is Manhattan?)

400

USA / CANADA
French and English
(What are the 2 official
languages of Canada?)

A black ghetto in North

A greyish-brown bear

East Manhattan.

living in Western North

(What is Harlem?)

America.

A receiving station for

The capital city of Canada.

immigrants between 1892

(What is Ottawa?)

& 1954

1000

(What is Ellis Island?)

Miss Liberty, The Lady of

The emblem / symbol of

the Harbour, Mother of

Canada.

exiles.

(What is the Maple Leaf?)

(What are the 3 nicknames

for the Statue of Liberty?)

stop flight across the

turn eyelids over.

film industry.

Atlantic in 1927.

(Whats a button hook?)

(What is Hollywood?)

(What did Lindberg make?)

The Great Lakes.
He won the Nobel Peace
1892 to 1954.
(Over what period / How
(What are Lake Huron,
Prize in 1964.
long/ When did new
Lake Superior & Lake
(What did Martin Luther
immigrants to America
come to E. I?)
Ontario?)
King win in 1964?)
The 35th president of the
He had to resign because of About 12 million.
the Watergate scandal.
US who was assassinated in
(How many immigrants
(What did R. Nixon have to
went through Ellis Island
1963.(Who is JFK?)
do?)
between 1892 & 1954?)

(what is a grizzli bear?)

500

FIGURES OF HISTORY
ELLIS ISLAND
POT LUCK
He made the first solo non- Some kind of little spoon to The centre of the American

An American frontiersman, You were refused entry.

(What happened if you had
trapper, politician & soldier
a blotch or a patch in your
(1786-1836).
eye / trachoma/ if you were
an anarchist or a
(Who was Davy Crockett?)
Bolchevik?)
A famous Apache Indian
A card.
who led a campaign against
(What was given to those
the white settlers until his
capture in 1886.
who were subject to
(Who is Geronimo?)
detention?)
An American athlete whose E, L or X.
hand Hitler refused to
(What chalk initials were
shake at the 1936 Olympics
marked on the clothing of
in Berlin, Germany.
detainees with medical
(Who is Jessie Owens?)
problems?)

Black religious music

originating in the churches
of Southern US.
(What is Gospel music?)
He invented dynamite.
(Whos Alfred Nobel?)

A paramilitary group
fighting for an end to
occupation of northern
Ireland by the British
troops & an ultimate
reunification of Ireland.
(Whats the IRA?)
A word you use to say that
many races are mixed.
(Whats a melting-pot / a
mosaic of people/ a tossed
salad or a rainbow?)
The other name of an
American Indian medicine
man.
(Whats a Shaman?)