# 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:** 14
**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, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/261 "2007-10-29T22:23:21Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 107. I thought someone guessed Thomas jefferson, was that wrong? [/QUOTE] My post #211: Quote: Originally Posted by 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.) 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:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/262 "2007-10-29T22:35:35Z")
[QUOTE=Random] 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”.) [/QUOTE] Also, Jefferson became president, my guy only got to veep. Another hint on my Q107: The “map figure” to which I referred is an animal/birdlike figure formed by the combination of several eastern Mass. towns/cities. The term is still used today during the political/voting process. And it should be pronounced with a hard “g”, not the soft one. Roll over more hints on my Q108: “General John G \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ and his Marblehead Mariners”. is the title of a local history book about the man and the men. And on 109: The ship was built in Marblehead but was fitted out in a little town the other side of Salem so there is still rivalry between them as to which is the “Birthplace of the American Navy”. BTW, the word, “American” is used vs. the “U.S.” Navy as it was not yet the U.S. of A. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/263 "2007-10-29T23:40:54Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] Also, Jefferson became president, my guy only got to veep. Another hint on my Q107: The “map figure” to which I referred is an animal/birdlike figure formed by the combination of several eastern Mass. towns/cities. The term is still used today during the political/voting process. And it should be pronounced with a hard “g”, not the soft one. Roll over more hints on my Q108: “General John G \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ and his Marblehead Mariners”. is the title of a local history book about the man and the men. And on 109: The ship was built in Marblehead but was fitted out in a little town the other side of Salem so there is still rivalry between them as to which is the “Birthplace of the American Navy”. BTW, the word, “American” is used vs. the “U.S.” Navy as it was not yet the U.S. of A. [/QUOTE] :smack: I thought this had been answered, or meant to do it myself last night. The answer is Elbridge Gerry [or is it Eldridge] of the famous ‘gerrymannder’ map figure. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/264 "2007-10-30T00:40:05Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] :smack: I thought this had been answered, or meant to do it myself last night. The answer is Elbridge Gerry [or is it Eldridge] of the famous ‘gerrymannder’ map figure. [/QUOTE] Correct - Elbridge ---
**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 30, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/265 "2007-10-30T04:12:41Z")
Here are some “law-talkin’” questions: 1. This early U.S. Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review of Acts of Congress. 2. The most famous portrait of John Jay has him in robes of these two colors. 3. George Washington first used the presidential pardon for individuals involved in what? 4. This Attorney General oversaw notorious roundups of suspected radicals and anarchists in the late 1910s. 5. This Copperhead leader was arrested, sent through the Confederate lines, and eventually ended up in Canada and running (unsuccessfully) for governor of Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/266 "2007-10-30T09:38:30Z")
[QUOTE=Random] 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. [/QUOTE] correct, he lost the race for the republican nomination to nixon, was born in mexico of american parents. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/267 "2007-10-30T11:43:39Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. This early U.S. Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review of Acts of Congress. Marbury vs. Madison 139. Who was the first US President born in a hospital? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/268 "2007-10-30T12:27:46Z")
[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] Darn, if only I had typed “129” instead of “121” I’d have gotten credit, no wonder my answer was ignored. :smack: Very gracious of you to ignore my seemingly boneheaded answer, **Elendil’s Heir**. Thanks. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/269 "2007-10-30T12:52:06Z")
I got one right back on page one, so here’s my question: 140: In 1863 or 1864, Lincoln’s son Robert Lincoln was pushed by a crowd against a train at a railway platform. As the train began to move, he fell in the gap between the train and the platform and was quite helpless until a rescuer pulled him up by his coat collar to safety. Who was the man that saved young Lincoln’s life? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/270 "2007-10-30T12:53:48Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t Call Me Shirley] 1. Who was the first US President born in a hospital? [/QUOTE] Jimmy Carter ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/271 "2007-10-30T12:55:22Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] I got one right back on page one, so here’s my question: 140: In 1863 or 1864, Lincoln’s son Robert Lincoln was pushed by a crowd against a train at a railway platform. As the train began to move, he fell in the gap between the train and the platform and was quite helpless until a rescuer pulled him up by his coat collar to safety. Who was the man that saved young Lincoln’s life? [/QUOTE] Only because I’m fond of irony, I’m going to guess - John Wilkes Booth? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/272 "2007-10-30T12:58:27Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Only because I’m fond of irony, I’m going to guess - John Wilkes Booth? [/QUOTE] No but not a bad guess. ---
**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 30, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/273 "2007-10-30T13:31:41Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t Call Me Shirley] [134.] Marbury vs. Madison [/QUOTE] Correct. **BMalion** , no sweat! 1. It was John Wilkes Booth’s father, whose name escapes me, who saved Robert Todd Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/274 "2007-10-30T13:35:40Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Correct. **BMalion** , no sweat! 1. It was John Wilkes Booth’s father, whose name escapes me, who saved Robert Todd Lincoln. [/QUOTE] Untrue. Close again but no cigar. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/275 "2007-10-30T14:53:13Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Here are some “law-talkin’” questions: [/QUOTE] 1. George Washington first used the presidential pardon for individuals involved in what? **Whiskey Rebellion** 2. This Attorney General oversaw notorious roundups of suspected radicals and anarchists in the late 1910s. **Palmer. . . can’t remember his first name though. Oh yeah Alberto Gonzalez Palmer** . Originally Posted by Elendil’s Heir 1. It was John Wilkes Booth’s father, whose name escapes me, who saved Robert Todd Lincoln. Untrue. Close again but no cigar. **Edwin Booth??** ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/276 "2007-10-30T15:10:13Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] **Edwin Booth??** [/QUOTE] We have a winner! Here is [Robert Lincoln’s account.](http://www.historynet.com/magazines/civil_war_times/3033971.html) > [@](#): > > There was some crowding, and I happened to be pressed by it against the car body while waiting my turn. In this situation the train began to move, and by the motion I was twisted off my feet, and had dropped somewhat, with feet downward, into the open space, and was personally helpless, when my coat collar was vigorously seized and I was quickly pulled up and out to a secure footing on the platform. Upon turning to thank my rescuer I saw it was Edwin Booth, whose face was of course well known to me, and I expressed my gratitude to him, and in doing so, called him by name. > [@](#): > > According to one Booth biographer, Robert’s superior, Ulysses S. Grant, also wrote to Booth to congratulate him on his heroism. Grant not only praised Booth’s quick actions but also said that if he could ever serve Edwin, he would gladly do so. Edwin reportedly replied that when Grant was in Richmond, the actor would perform for him there. Apparently Robert did not inform his parents of the incident. With all that Abe had to worry about and his mother’s mental state, one can hardly blame him. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/277 "2007-10-30T15:22:00Z")
1. We learned earlier that Trick Dick Nixon smeared Helen Gahagan Douglas to win a seat in the US Senate from California. What popular US Representative did Nixon defeat in 1946 to begin his political career? 2. Where was the famous, or infamous Dred Scott Decision handed down? 3. What is distinctive of all the President’s ELECTED on the Whig ticket? [If I am remembering correctly] 4. Who is the only President who was survived by both of his parents? 5. What President was ex-President for the longest time? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/278 "2007-10-30T15:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 1. Who is the only President who was survived by both of his parents? 2. What President was ex-President for the longest time? [/QUOTE] 3. Kennedy? 4. Nixon? ---
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[QUOTE=An Gadaí] 142. Kennedy? 1. Nixon? [/QUOTE] Those were quick answers; Kennedy is correct, Nixon is not. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/280 "2007-10-30T15:26:11Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 1 143. What President was ex-President for the longest time? [/QUOTE] Hoover? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=15)