# 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:** 22
**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, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/421 "2007-11-06T20:12:43Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] … 210. Boy Orator of the Platte? 1. Great Compromisor? 2. Father of the Constitution? [/QUOTE] 3. William Jennings Bryan 4. Daniel Webster 5. Either James Madison or Gouverneur Morris ---
**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, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/422 "2007-11-06T20:15:21Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] … 213. Where was Alexander Hamilton born? 1. On what current ship in the U.S. military did Adolph Hitler once sleep? [/QUOTE] 2. On a Caribbean island… St. Kitts? 3. The Coast Guard’s training ship, _Eagle_, which was taken as reparations after WW2. It was formerly called the _Horst Wessel_ after a “martyred” Nazi thug. ---
**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, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/423 "2007-11-06T20:23:59Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 213. On a Caribbean island… St. Kitts? 214. The Coast Guard’s training ship, _Eagle_, which was taken as reparations after WW2. It was formerly called the _Horst Wessel_ after a “martyred” Nazi thug. [/QUOTE] 1. Close, but wrong. 2. 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, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/424 "2007-11-06T20:26:04Z")
Some more… how about other U.S. warships? 1. This destroyer was sunk by a U-boat before the U.S. was technically at war with Germany in WW2. 2. This battleship made a famous dash around South America to reach the Pacific during the Spanish-American War. 3. The USS _Missouri_ is a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_-class battleship. 4. The first _Trident_-class ballistic missile submarine was the USS \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. 5. John Paul Jones won his battle against HMS _Serapis_ but lost his own ship, the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**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, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/425 "2007-11-06T20:41:46Z")
1. The USS Missouri is a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_-class battleship. **New Jersey** 2. John Paul Jones won his battle against HMS Serapis but lost his own ship, the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. **Bon Homme Richard** ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/426 "2007-11-06T20:47:11Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 218. The first _Trident_-class ballistic missile submarine was the USS \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. [/QUOTE] The USS _Ohio_. To pick a nit: they are the _Ohio_ class boats, firing Trident missiles. No more than the _Polaris_ is the proper name of the classes of earlier boomers. (Though, I couldn’t tell you what the class vessel of the _Polaris_ missile boats might be.) ---
**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, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/427 "2007-11-06T21:00:01Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 217. The USS _Missouri_ is a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_-class battleship. [/QUOTE] Iowa. ---
**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, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/428 "2007-11-06T23:04:53Z")
1. Wild horse of the Osage - Pepper Martin? 2. The great Compromiser - Henry Clay? ---
**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 7, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/429 "2007-11-07T00:41:53Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 209. Wild horse of the Osage - Pepper Martin? 1. The great Compromiser - Henry Clay? [/QUOTE] Yep ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/430 "2007-11-07T00:44:53Z")
Here’s a couple more Naval ones: 1. Can anyone name the name ship, that is the ship for which the following class took its name, for the first version of the US Navy’s Aegis Cruiser? 2. The Aegis system was built around the SPY-1 phased array radar. This was not the first time a phased array radar was put into a US Navy warship. Name one of the two ships that first pioneered the original phased array radar. 3. The USS _Arleigh Burke_ was named after a famous WWII Admiral. What made naming the ship after him so unusual? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/431 "2007-11-07T03:52:53Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 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. [/QUOTE] I’ve also heard that it should not have a period (full stop for you Brits) after it. The problem is, that LOOKS like you’ve made a mistake. Like the people who spell their first name “Mathew.” ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/432 "2007-11-07T05:01:28Z")
1. What American city was once described as “hell with the lid off?” 2. What is its most famous museum dedicated to the works of arguably its most famous artist? (Shares the same block, said a critic, as an Italian eatery where alll the customers seem to be related to Roseanne Arnold and John Goodman.) ---
**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 7, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/433 "2007-11-07T06:00:08Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 217. The USS Missouri is a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_-class battleship. **New Jersey** 1. John Paul Jones won his battle against HMS Serapis but lost his own ship, the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. **Bon Homme Richard** [/QUOTE] 2. Incorrect. 3. 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 7, 2007, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/434 "2007-11-07T06:01:52Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] The USS _Ohio_. To pick a nit: they are the _Ohio_ class boats, firing Trident missiles. No more than the _Polaris_ is the proper name of the classes of earlier boomers. (Though, I couldn’t tell you what the class vessel of the _Polaris_ missile boats might be.) [/QUOTE] Correct, and duly noted. The first Polaris-carrying boat was the USS _George Washington_, IIRC. ---
**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 7, 2007, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/435 "2007-11-07T06:03:08Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Here’s a couple more Naval ones: 1. Can anyone name the name ship, that is the ship for which the following class took its name, for the first version of the US Navy’s Aegis Cruiser? 2. The Aegis system was built around the SPY-1 phased array radar. This was not the first time a phased array radar was put into a US Navy warship. Name one of the two ships that first pioneered the original phased array radar. 3. The USS _Arleigh Burke_ was named after a famous WWII Admiral. What made naming the ship after him so unusual? [/QUOTE] 4. USS _Ticonderoga_ 5. USS _Long Beach_ 6. He was still alive 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:** [November 7, 2007, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/436 "2007-11-07T06:05:00Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] [217. USS Missouri was what class of ship?] Iowa. [/QUOTE] Correct. Now moored at Pearl Harbor, not far from the sunken USS _Arizona_. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/437 "2007-11-07T08:27:44Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 220. USS _Ticonderoga_ 221. USS _Long Beach_ 222. He was still alive at the time. [/QUOTE] All correct. The other vessel that would have been a correct answer for 221 was the USS Enterprise. About Arliegh Burke - I can’t swear to it, but I think he is the only person honored with a ship named after him in the US Navy who was alive at the launching of that ship. ---
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[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] . About Arliegh Burke - I can’t swear to it, but I think he is the only person honored with a ship named after him in the US Navy who was alive at the launching of that ship. [/QUOTE] There was at least one more, and (odds are) in 2009, there will be another. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/439 "2007-11-07T09:47:21Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 223. What American city was once described as “hell with the lid off?” 1. What is its most famous museum dedicated to the works of arguably its most famous artist? (Shares the same block, said a critic, as an Italian eatery where alll the customers seem to be related to Roseanne Arnold and John Goodman.) [/QUOTE] 2. Pittsburgh 3. The Andy Warhol Museum ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/440 "2007-11-07T10:03:17Z")
[QUOTE=Random] There was at least one more, and (odds are) in 2009, there will be another. [/QUOTE] D’oh! :smack: How could I forget Mr. Peanut? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=23)