# 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:** 21
**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:** [November 5, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/401 "2007-11-05T17:40:39Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 198. For most of the history of the CIA, what was the exact title of its top official? **Director, Central intelligence** [/QUOTE] Pretty close. I’ll give it to you in its statutory form, without a comma: Director of Central Intelligence. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/402 "2007-11-05T17:42:48Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] … 199. What was the alias of the leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army and what is the source of the name? **General Cinque** [/QUOTE] I didn’t know that answer. But if it’s correct, I’ll answer the second part of the question: he’d have been named after the heroic leader of the uprising aboard the slave ship _Amistad_. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/403 "2007-11-05T17:56:48Z")
I’m pretty sure **Cinque** is right, as sure as I am of this one: 1. Patty Hearst was famously kidnapped by the aforementioned SLA, what was the name of her boyfriend? He has a somewhat distinctive last name. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/404 "2007-11-05T21:21:05Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I didn’t know that answer. But if it’s correct, I’ll answer the second part of the question: he’d have been named after the heroic leader of the uprising aboard the slave ship _Amistad_. [/QUOTE] You are correct Actuallly he identified himself as Field Marshall Cinque, but full credit. 1. Stephen Weed. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/405 "2007-11-06T04:58:11Z")
Here are some more for your delectation. What were the _middle_ names of these famous Americans: 1. Edison, the inventor 2. Cleveland, the President 3. Hay, McKinley’s Secretary of State 4. Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War 5. Rehnquist, the Chief Justice ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/406 "2007-11-06T05:51:59Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Here are some more for your delectation. What were the _middle_ names of these famous Americans: 1. Edison, the inventor 2. Cleveland, the President 3. Hay, McKinley’s Secretary of State 4. Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War 5. Rehnquist, the Chief Justice [/QUOTE] 6. Alva ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/407 "2007-11-06T07:37:44Z")
1. Harry Truman’s midle name ---
**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:** [November 6, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/408 "2007-11-06T12:48:51Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 201. Alva [/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:** [November 6, 2007, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/409 "2007-11-06T12:50:02Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 206. Harry Truman’s midle name [/QUOTE] 1. He had none. The “S.” didn’t stand for any particular word (although the names of Shippe and Solomon ran in his family). Sometimes he dotted it, sometimes he didn’t. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/410 "2007-11-06T15:18:16Z")
1. Cleveland, the President **It’s a trick question, Grover was his middle name, Stephen his first.** ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/411 "2007-11-06T16:36:07Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 206. He had none. The “S.” didn’t stand for any particular word (although the names of Shippe and Solomon ran in his family). Sometimes he dotted it, sometimes he didn’t. [/QUOTE] I was always under the impression that the “S” never was accompanied with a period but you could easuily be correct. I had a political science teacher in college who was (in)famous for marking the answer wrong if the period was used when writing Truman’s full name. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/412 "2007-11-06T16:37:24Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 206. He had none. The “S.” didn’t stand for any particular word (although the names of Shippe and Solomon ran in his family). Sometimes he dotted it, sometimes he didn’t. [/QUOTE] I was always under the impression that the “S” never was accompanied with a period but you could easily be correct. I had a political science teacher in college who was (in)famous for marking the answer wrong if the period was used when writing Truman’s full name. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/413 "2007-11-06T17:29:49Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 202. Cleveland, the President **It’s a trick question, Grover was his middle name, Stephen his first.** [/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:** [November 6, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/414 "2007-11-06T17:32:18Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] I was always under the impression that the “S” never was accompanied with a period but you could easuily be correct. I had a political science teacher in college who was (in)famous for marking the answer wrong if the period was used when writing Truman’s full name. [/QUOTE] A year or so back, I saw on the Truman Presidential Library website an article on this very point. The Wikipedia article on him also has some info on that, IIRC (but don’t look now, while the quiz is underway!). Truman often, but not always, dotted the “S.” Your poli sci teacher was overreacting, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/415 "2007-11-06T19:06:48Z")
Someone post some more questions. I’ve got two good ones, but I can’t ask them until I’ve answered one. I’ve read through the thread, and all the ones I knew have already been answered. And one other request, when you post an answer, please quote the question. It’s annoying to see > [@](#): > > 1. P. T. Barnum and then have to scroll back to see remember what the question was. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/416 "2007-11-06T19:24:35Z")
Ok, 207. In what town in Illinois was Church of Latter Days Saints founder Joseph Smith lynched? ---
**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:** [November 6, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/417 "2007-11-06T19:41:54Z")
and here are some more, Nicknames 1. Wizard of Menlo Park? 2. Wild Horse of the Osage? 3. Boy Orator of the Platte? 4. Great Compromisor? 5. Father of the Constitution? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/418 "2007-11-06T19:43:41Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 208. Wizard of Menlo Park? [/QUOTE] Thomas Edison. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/419 "2007-11-06T19:46:59Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] Thomas Edison. [/QUOTE] Correct, fire away. . . er throw away. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/420 "2007-11-06T19:54:07Z")
That was just a gimme to get me into the thread, wasn’t it? But I’ll take it. 1. Where was Alexander Hamilton born? 2. On what current ship in the U.S. military did Adolph Hitler once sleep? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=22)