Sample 60-Seconds Rounds

(Available in Tournament 60-Seconds Sets and in Practice 60-Seconds booklets)

60-Seconds: Famous Last Names

Here's a chance for you to do some real detective work. I've got a list of famous people, all of whom have been given fictitious last names. To get their real names, just change the last name to its synonym.

1. Chief Justice Salmon P. Hot Pursuit
   Ans. Chase
   
2. Comedian Jackie Bricklayer
   Ans. Mason
   
3. Mystery writer Raymond Candlemaker
   Ans. Chandler
   
4. Talk-show host Larry Monarch
   Ans. King
   
5. Diarist Anne Candid
   Ans. Frank
   
6. Poet Robert Ice Crystals
   Ans. Frost
   
7. Playwright Arthur Flour Grinder
   Ans. Miller
   
8. Painter Benjamin 270 Degrees on the Compass
   Ans. West
   
9. Economic philosopher Adam Metalworker
   Ans. Smith
   
10. Naval commander Jonathan Wagon-builder
    Ans. Wainwright

60 Seconds: American History

1. In 1677, William Penn was the first person to write a charter separating what?
   Ans. Church and state
   
2. In 1785, Congress initiated mail service using what horse-drawn vehicles?
   Ans. Stagecoaches
   
3. Who was the only sitting Vice President to defeat a sitting President in an election?
   Ans. Thomas Jefferson
   
4. Who escaped from the shackles of slavery in 1838 to become one of America's leading orators?
   Ans. Frederick Douglass
   
5. What 1857 Supreme Court decision said that no black, free or slave, could claim citizenship?
   Ans. Dred Scott decision
   
6. In Sept. 1862 Robert E. Lee crossed the Potomac and invaded what state?
   Ans. Maryland
   
7. Before this battle, David Farragut was a Rear Admiral: after, a Vice Admiral.
   Ans. Mobile Bay
   
8. Which city along the Mississippi River was known as the "Gibraltar of the Confederacy"?
   Ans. Vicksburg
   
9. In 1917, what did President Wilson say "must be made safe for democracy"? Ans. The world
   
10. Name the longest war ever fought by the U.S.
    Ans. Vietnam War