# 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:** 2
**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 26, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/21 "2007-10-26T15:15:05Z")
For the Abigail Adams quote, was she talking about Washington? ---
**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 26, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/22 "2007-10-26T15:17:36Z")
Correct! GW himself. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/23 "2007-10-26T15:20:09Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] This would be question 7. I believe the answer is FDR. [/QUOTE] Sorry, that’s wrong (though I can understand why some might think that’s right). Another president had a presidential library before Franklin Roosevelt, who came second in this context. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/24 "2007-10-26T15:21:31Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 12. Who was the only President to serve nonconsecutive terms? (an easy one) [/QUOTE] Grover Cleveland. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/25 "2007-10-26T15:23:19Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 10. What state did Gettysburg hero Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain hail from? [/quote] Maine ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/26 "2007-10-26T15:26:31Z")
1. Secretary of State–in which capacity he didn’t get the commissions delivered! 2. Pompey ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/27 "2007-10-26T15:30:42Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. What state did Gettysburg hero Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain hail from? [/quote] That would be the grand old State of Maine. Where he later became Governor. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. What notorious sweatshop fire scandalized the nation? [/quote] That would be the Triangle fire in NYC where dozens of women died because they were essentially locked into their workplace. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/28 "2007-10-26T15:35:41Z")
1. Secretary of State 2. Hmm, need teh internets for this one. 3. Maine 4. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory 5. Cleveland ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/29 "2007-10-26T15:37:33Z")
Damn, late on all but the one I didn’t know. Well, it was Jean Baptiste. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/30 "2007-10-26T15:42:58Z")
\*\*13. \*\* An easy one, immortalized in song. What battle was fought on US soil after the war had ended? \*\*14. \*\* Slightly harder - in what US state was oil first produced as a commercial product. \*\*15. \*\* The toughy! Which US Vice President was once quoted as saying, “The Vice Presidency of the US is not worth a pitcher full of warm spit!”? ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/31 "2007-10-26T15:44:06Z")
1. Battle of New Orleans 2. Pennsylvania ---
**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 26, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/32 "2007-10-26T15:44:20Z")
All guesses since my last post are correct, I believe. 1. It was FDR’s first VP, John Nance Garner (usually inaccurately quoted as “spit” and not “piss”). ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/33 "2007-10-26T15:46:15Z")
1. I’m gonna guess Teddy Roosevelt. Sounds like him. Now I’ll look it up. ---
**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 26, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/34 "2007-10-26T15:47:17Z")
[QUOTE=kelly5078] … Now I’ll look it up. [/QUOTE] No, don’t! You might see something you’ll be tempted to use as a question! ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/35 "2007-10-26T15:47:42Z")
1. The War of 1812 2. Pennsylvania (Quaker State) ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/36 "2007-10-26T15:47:45Z")
Oooooo. :smack: ---
**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 26, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/37 "2007-10-26T15:54:40Z")
1. This first Treasury Secretary was nearly undone by a sex scandal. 2. This French ambassador annoyed President Washington by his indiscreet revolutionary diplomacy and schmoozing, and was eventually asked to leave. 3. This was the largest earthquake ever recorded in the American Midwest (and might be again, someday). 4. A young man, later to become much more famous, sang with a choir at the movie premiere of _Gone with the Wind_. Who was he? 5. What was the name of JFK’s small warship in WW2? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/38 "2007-10-26T15:56:38Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 20. What was the name of JFK’s small warship in WW2? [/QUOTE] I know this one! It’s PT-109. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/39 "2007-10-26T15:56:53Z")
1. New Madrid (accent on the ‘a’) 2. PT 109 Must dash, dammit. This is fun. ---
**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 26, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/40 "2007-10-26T15:57:50Z")
Both correct ( **RandMcnally** , too). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=3)