(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.

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

60 Seconds: American History

• In 1677, William Penn was the first person to write a charter separating what?
  Ans. Church and state
• In 1785, Congress initiated mail service using what horse-drawn vehicles?
  Ans. Stagecoaches
• Who was the only sitting Vice President to defeat a sitting President in an election?
  Ans. Thomas Jefferson
• Who escaped from the shackles of slavery in 1838 to become one of America's leading orators?<
Ans. Frederick Douglass

• What 1857 Supreme Court decision said that no black, free or slave, could claim citizenship?<
Ans. Dred Scott decision

• In Sept. 1862 Robert E. Lee crossed the Potomac and invaded what state?
  Ans. Maryland
• Before this battle, David Farragut was a Rear Admiral: after, a Vice Admiral.
  Ans. Mobile Bay
• Which city along the Mississippi River was known as the "Gibraltar of the Confederacy& quot;?
Ans. Vicksburg

• In 1917, what did President Wilson say "must be made safe for democracy"? Ans. The world
• Name the longest war ever fought by the U.S.
  Ans. Vietnam War