# 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:** 13
**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, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/241 "2007-10-29T16:39:22Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 108. Andrew Johnson. I know he was a tailor, but I never heard that he made clothes for his Cabinet. [/QUOTE] Correct. Yes, apparently it was a little fringe benefit. ---
**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, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/242 "2007-10-29T16:44:49Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 126. Why was Fall River, MA once home of “The Trial of the Century”? [/QUOTE] That was the Lizzie Borden case. ---
**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, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/243 "2007-10-29T16:46:49Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 122. U-505, a German submarine, during WW2. It’s now on display in a museum in Chicago, IIRC. 126. The murder trial of Lizzie Borden; she was acquitted. [/QUOTE] Yup! ---
**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, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/244 "2007-10-29T18:10:58Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 120. This Nebraska author and poet wrote about the difficulties of life on the frontier. [/QUOTE] Willa Cather. 1. What American author wrote stories about a character named Nick Adams, set mostly in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? 2. Which president ran as “the log cabin and hard cider” candidate? 3. What military man, prominent in American history, commanded troops that, with fixed bayonetes, routed the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans that descended on Washington DC in 1932 seeking financial help? 4. Labor organizer Eugene V. Debs ran for president on what party’s ticket? 5. What Shreveport-based radio show (later a television show) had both Hank Williams and Elvis Presley under performance contract at various times (giving each performer an early career boost)? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/245 "2007-10-29T18:17:18Z")
1. Mobile, Alabama? ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/246 "2007-10-29T18:18:52Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] Willa Cather. 1. What American author wrote stories about a character named Nick Adams, set mostly in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? 2. Which president ran as “the log cabin and hard cider” candidate? 3. What military man, prominent in American history, commanded troops that, with fixed bayonetes, routed the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans that descended on Washington DC in 1932 seeking financial help? 4. Labor organizer Eugene V. Debs ran for president on what party’s ticket? 5. What Shreveport-based radio show (later a television show) had both Hank Williams and Elvis Presley under performance contract at various times (giving each performer an early career boost)? [/QUOTE] 6. hemingway 7. Socialist 8. Louisiana hayride. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/247 "2007-10-29T18:22:09Z")
1. Douglas MacAurthur. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/248 "2007-10-29T18:23:01Z")
1. What major party presidential candidates in the 60’s were not born in the U.S.? Why were they Constituionally qualified to be president? ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/249 "2007-10-29T18:37:39Z")
1. What son of a slave became an All-American football player and member of Phi Beta Kappa before becoming a lawyer, movie star, concert singer, civil rights worker and admirer of the Communist Party? ---
**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, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/250 "2007-10-29T18:42:46Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? > [@JKellyMap](#): > > 1. Mobile, Alabama? Correct! (And they still have a fine Mardis Gras bash there today.) > [@](#): > > 1. What American author wrote stories about a character named Nick Adams, set mostly in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? > > 2. Labor organizer Eugene V. Debs ran for president on what party’s ticket? > > 3. What Shreveport-based radio show (later a television show) had both Hank Williams and Elvis Presley under performance contract at various times (giving each performer an early career boost)? > [@denquixote](#): > > 1. hemingway > > 2. Socialist > > 3. Louisiana hayride. Oll Kerrect ---
**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, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/251 "2007-10-29T18:47:28Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] [120.] Willa Cather. [/QUOTE] Correct. 1. William Henry Harrison ran as the “log cabin and hard cider” candidate against the (supposedly) effete, champagne-swilling Martin Van Buren. 2. Barry Goldwater was born in the Arizona Territory which, although not a state at the time, was still U.S. territory, so he was eligible to serve as President. 3. Paul Robeson. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/252 "2007-10-29T18:50:49Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Correct. 1. William Henry Harrison ran as the “log cabin and hard cider” candidate against the (supposedly) effete, champagne-swilling Martin Van Buren. 2. Barry Goldwater was born in the Arizona Territory which, although not a state at the time, was still U.S. territory, so he was eligible to serve as President. 3. Paul Robeson. [/QUOTE] 4. correct 5. half credit ---
**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, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/253 "2007-10-29T18:55:23Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 128. William Henry Harrison ran as the “log cabin and hard cider” candidate against the (supposedly) effete, champagne-swilling Martin Van Buren. [/QUOTE] Correct. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/254 "2007-10-29T18:56:54Z")
1. What Polish immigrant served in the U.S. Army, was wounded on D-Day, helped with the sculpting of Mt. Rushmore and spent over 40 years building a monument to the American Indian that remains a work in progress? ---
**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, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/255 "2007-10-29T21:31:24Z")
The first-posted questions numbered 107-109 in post #206 have not been answered but Siam Sam re-used the question numbers in post #216. Hints for my 107 and 108: Starts with G. 109 starts with H. 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)? ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/256 "2007-10-29T21:38:29Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] The first-posted questions numbered 107-109 in post #206 have not been answered but Siam Sam re-used the question numbers in post #216. Hints for my 107 and 108: Starts with G. 109 starts with H. 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)? [/QUOTE] 4. I thought someone guessed Thomas jefferson, was that wrong? ---
**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, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/257 "2007-10-29T22:00:08Z")
1. What military man, prominent in American history, commanded troops that, with fixed bayonetes, routed the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans that descended on Washington DC in 1932 seeking financial help? Macarthur, Patton and Eisenhower were all involved. ---
**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, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/258 "2007-10-29T22:03:29Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 107. I thought someone guessed Thomas jefferson, was that wrong? [/QUOTE] Yes, because of the Massachesetts connection. (See previous Marblehead answer) I know the answer, but I had to google it to confirm, ans so am not posting it. (The “map figure” element is a bit confusing. It might be easier to answer if you think of it as a “mapping practice”.) ---
**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, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/259 "2007-10-29T22:05:31Z")
[QUOTE=Random] 129. What military man, prominent in American history, commanded troops that, with fixed bayonetes, routed the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans that descended on Washington DC in 1932 seeking financial help? Macarthur, Patton and Eisenhower were all involved. [/QUOTE] Correct. But MacArthur was in command. ---
**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, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/260 "2007-10-29T22:11:16Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 132. half credit [/QUOTE] The other half of this is Mitt Romney’s father (firstname George, I think), who was a serious candidate in the 1968 election. IIRC, he was born in Mexico, or perhaps South America, to American parents, thus qualifying as a natural-born citizen. There was a Mormon connection that I cannnot completely recall which explains their absence from the US. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=14)