# U.S. History trivia quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 26, 2007, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091 "2007-10-26T12:09:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/201 "2007-10-28T21:42:58Z")
1. Lou Gehrig? ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/202 "2007-10-28T21:44:04Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] 81. Lou Gehrig? [/QUOTE] Nope. I think this is one that you will not guess. You have to know it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/203 "2007-10-28T22:04:35Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] 91. Natchez Trace [/QUOTE] Correct. > [@5 time champ](#): > > 1. a) Maryland > **Queen Henrietta Maria wife of King James I** > b) Virginia > **The Virgin Queen Elizabeth I** > c) North and South Carolina > **King Charles II** > d) Georgia > **King George I** a) Right (But she was not the wife of James I. She was the wife of Charles I.) b) Right c) Wrong d) Wrong > [@](#): > > 1. In what state do you find the legendary Dodge City (the setting for TV’s Gunsmoke, and onetime home of lawmen Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp)? > **Kansas** Right > [@](#): > > 1. What town was the site of the deadliest natural disaster in US history? > \*\*Galveston, TX \*\* [hurricane] Right > [@](#): > > 1. The Alamo is located in which US city? > **San Antonio, TX** Right > [@](#): > > 1. What natural formation did Theodore Roosevelt establish as the first National Monument? > **The Badlands??** Wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/204 "2007-10-28T23:44:25Z")
1. What U.S. governor became Vice President and signed the Declaration of Independence (and as a clue, has a map figure and my K-5 elementary school named after him)? 2. What colonel, later general, and his fishermen-soldiers rowed George Washington across the Delaware on Christmas night to rout successfully the Hessians and who earlier evacuated Washington’s army from Long Island, NY, saving them from certain defeat? 3. What was the name of the first ship in the American navy (owned by same colonel)? 4. In what town were that vice president and that colonel/general born and where was that ship built and where hangs the original painting by Archibald M. Willard, _The Spirit of '76_? [Cal Meacham need not respond] ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/205 "2007-10-29T00:20:01Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] 1. In what town were that vice president and that colonel/general born and where was that ship built and where hangs the original painting by Archibald M. Willard, _The Spirit of '76_? [/QUOTE] Marblehead, MA ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/206 "2007-10-29T00:27:06Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] 107. What U.S. governor became Vice President and signed the Declaration of Independence (and as a clue, has a map figure and my K-5 elementary school named after him)? [/QUOTE] Well, I have no idea about your elementary school, or the map figure, but I believe Thomas Jefferson fits all of your other criteria. (Though I don’t think that’s who you have in mind.) ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/207 "2007-10-29T00:40:10Z")
[QUOTE=RandMcnally] 33: Tyranny, like what, is not easily conquered? [/QUOTE] No one has gotten this one yet. C’mon, it’s not that hard. You can’t give up just yet. Just keep in mind that the summer doper and sunshine poster will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his message board, but he that responds NOW deserves all the thanks of man and woman. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/208 "2007-10-29T02:17:09Z")
1. Moe Berg? ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/209 "2007-10-29T02:26:29Z")
[QUOTE=Random] Marblehead, MA [/QUOTE] Correct ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/210 "2007-10-29T02:29:01Z")
[QUOTE=gardentraveler] [97. FLW’s artists colony] Taliesin (sp?) Excellent quiz, BTW. GT [/QUOTE] Correct. And thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/211 "2007-10-29T02:30:05Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] Well, I have no idea about your elementary school, or the map figure, but I believe Thomas Jefferson fits all of your other criteria. (Though I don’t think that’s who you have in mind.) [/QUOTE] Sorry, not President Thomas Jefferson - not from Mass. I’m going to bed after I finish reading today’s paper. Been on here all day. Will be back to check answers Monday evening. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/212 "2007-10-29T02:30:30Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] … 100. What D.C. detective was away from his post at Ford’s Theater the night of Lincoln’s assassination, but was apparently unpunished and suffered no career setback? **Allen Pinkerton** 1. The Industrial Workers of the World, a prominent labor union of the late 19th century, had what unflattering nickname? **Wobblies** [/QUOTE] 2. Incorrect. 3. Correct (and **spoke-** got it, too). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/213 "2007-10-29T02:31:57Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] [Who sang at the premiere of “Gone With The Wind”?] 19. Jimmie Carter [/QUOTE] No. Already correctly answered earlier: Martin Luther King Jr. (he was a young member of the choir of his father’s gospel church at the time). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/214 "2007-10-29T02:32:58Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] 47 Donald Segretti coined “ratfu\*king” [/QUOTE] I don’t know if he coined it, but he certainly popularized it. Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/215 "2007-10-29T02:58:19Z")
\*\*These questions are, I believe, still unanswered. (And if I’ve overlooked any, please let me know). \*\* 17. This French ambassador annoyed President Washington by his indiscreet revolutionary diplomacy and schmoozing, and was eventually asked to leave. 1. What flag, first raised in Cambridge, Mass. in early 1776, is considered by many historians to be the country’s first national flag? 2. Who swore [George Washington] in [as President for his first term]? 3. What color was Washington’s suit (discussed in another recent SDMB thread, believe it or not)? 4. Teddy’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, is believed by many literary experts to have been one of the inspirations for what iconic fictional character? 5. Who served first as one of Lincoln’s aides, and later as TR’s Secretary of State? 6. The British ambassador once said humorously of TR, “You must always remember that the President is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_.” 7. The Ft. Sumter flag, flown over the fort at both the beginning and the end of the Civil War, had how many stars in a distinctive diamond pattern? 8. This surveyor’s misspelled last name became the name of what major American city? 9. What D.C. detective was away from his post at Ford’s Theater the night of Lincoln’s assassination, but was apparently unpunished and suffered no career setback? 10. The following states were named in honor of which royal personages (be specific): … c) North and South Carolina d) Georgia 11. What natural formation did Theodore Roosevelt establish as the first National Monument? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/216 "2007-10-29T03:33:47Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I’ll try again: William Howard Taft. [/QUOTE] Correct! And 55 is Chief Justice John Jay? 100 is (James?) Pinkerton. 106 is, I believe, Yellowstone National Park. I hope these have not been asked before. I’m losing track: 1. Who was the youngest president? (NOTE: I am NOT asking who was the youngest president elected.) 2. Which president was a pretty good tailor and routinely made clothes for his Cabinet members? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/217 "2007-10-29T03:35:11Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] 107. Who was the youngest president? (NOTE: I am NOT asking who was the youngest president elected.) [/QUOTE] Teddy Roosevelt ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/218 "2007-10-29T03:43:52Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Teddy Roosevelt [/QUOTE] Correct! When he became president upon the death of McKinley, he was younger than Kennedy was when he was elected. Then when Teddy WAS elected, he was older than Kennedy was. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/219 "2007-10-29T03:56:10Z")
Also still unanswered: 1. The “Gadsden Flag” (the yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” rattlesnake flag) is named for the leader of the Sons of Liberty of which colony? 2. Meriwether Lewis died at an inn in what state? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/220 "2007-10-29T04:23:42Z")
And hey, here are some more: 1. The first Mardis Gras festival in what is now the US was celebrated **not** in New Orleans, but in what other coastal Southern town? 2. Back to Lewis and Clark: In what present-day state would you find the location of Fort Mandan, where Lewis and Clark wintered? 3. In which state did the deadliest fire in US history occur? 4. Which Indian leader is famous for the quote, “I will fight no more, forever.” 5. Speaking of Indian leaders, the riverside trading post of Cherokee leader John Ross became the site of what US city? 6. What US military leader was known as “Old Fuss and Feathers”? 7. Which president ran for office on the campaign slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”? 8. Which presidential candidate was taunted by opposing crowds with the cry “Ma! Ma! Where’s my Pa?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=12)