# 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:** 27
**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 15, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/521 "2007-11-15T18:43:24Z")
Thank you, **5 time champ**. Let us not forget the women: 1. This black “poetess” (to use the terminology of the day) once met General Washington, about whom she wrote a poem. 2. This abolitionist famously asked, “Ain’t I a woman?” 3. This suffrage advocate gave her last name to the pants which she and like-minded women wore to celebrate their freedom from cumbersome petticoats and dresses. 4. She banned alcohol from the White House. 5. Pro-suffrage women gathered in this New York village to adopt a “Declaration of Sentiments.” ---
**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 15, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/522 "2007-11-15T18:47:43Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] … 275. When he was told that a former mayor of Dublin was Jewish his response was “only in America.” Who was he? 1. When this irascible former champion golfer saw his age misprinted in the paper he accosted the author of the article and complained. The author responded that it was a typographical error. The golfer then said “typographical my a\*\* it was a perfect 5 and a perfect 9.” Who was he? [/QUOTE] Just guessing. 1. Yogi Berra. 2. Ben Hogan. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/523 "2007-11-15T18:49:29Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 280. She banned alcohol from the White House. [/QUOTE] Lemonade Lucy Hayes ---
**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:** [November 15, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/524 "2007-11-15T20:05:56Z")
1. Phyllis Wheatley 2. Sojourner Truth 3. Bloomer (first name Susan?) 4. Seneca Falls ---
**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 15, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/525 "2007-11-15T21:04:31Z")
[QUOTE=Random] Lemonade Lucy Hayes [/QUOTE] Correctamundo. Ditto to **Freddy the Pig**. Well done! ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/526 "2007-11-15T21:21:38Z")
Nothing to add, just want to thank **Freddy the Pig** for correcting and expanding on my previous answer, and fighting my own ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/527 "2007-11-15T23:14:09Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Just guessing. 1. Yogi Berra. 2. Ben Hogan. [/QUOTE] 3. correct 4. wrong ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/528 "2007-11-15T23:48:38Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] 277. Phyllis Wheatley 278. Sojourner Truth 279. Bloomer (first name Susan?) 281. Seneca Falls [/QUOTE] 1. Bloomer, Amelia ---
**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:** [November 16, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/529 "2007-11-16T01:21:54Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] 279. Bloomer, Amelia [/QUOTE] Yeah, I thought Susan might be wrong . . . I think I was thinking of Susan Butcher! > [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Nothing to add, just want to thank Freddy the Pig for correcting and expanding on my previous answer, and fighting my own ignorance. To paraphrase **Cecil** , public service is my only goal! ---
**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 16, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/530 "2007-11-16T18:39:00Z")
True Crime trivia. 1. Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered this prison closed in 1962 when it became cost-ineffective. 2. What are O.J. Simpson’s actual first and middle names? 3. He was J. Edgar Hoover’s longtime aide and, some think, gay lover, and is now buried near his late boss. 4. She was the first woman ever executed by the U.S. Government. 5. Besides protecting the President and other VIPs, what are the Secret Service’s two other major responsibilities? ---
**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 16, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/531 "2007-11-16T19:09:07Z")
1. Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered this prison closed in 1962 when it became cost-ineffective. **Alcatraz** 2. What are O.J. Simpson’s actual first and middle names? **Orenthal James** 3. She was the first woman ever executed by the U.S. Government. **Mary Surat, although I wonder if I should have gone with the first name that came to mind** 4. Besides protecting the President and other VIPs, what are the Secret Service’s two other major responsibilities? **Counterfeiting , er anti-counterfeiting is one** ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/532 "2007-11-16T20:30:51Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] True Crime trivia. 1. Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered this prison closed in 1962 when it became cost-ineffective. 2. What are O.J. Simpson’s actual first and middle names? 3. He was J. Edgar Hoover’s longtime aide and, some think, gay lover, and is now buried near his late boss. 4. She was the first woman ever executed by the U.S. Government. 5. Besides protecting the President and other VIPs, what are the Secret Service’s two other major responsibilities? [/QUOTE] 6. Clyde Tolson 7. Ethel Rosenbrg 8. Protecting foreign dignitaries, investigating counterfeiting ---
**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 16, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/533 "2007-11-16T21:13:01Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 282. Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered this prison closed in 1962 when it became cost-ineffective. **Alcatraz** 1. What are O.J. Simpson’s actual first and middle names? **Orenthal James** 2. She was the first woman ever executed by the U.S. Government. **Mary Surat, although I wonder if I should have gone with the first name that came to mind** 3. Besides protecting the President and other VIPs, what are the Secret Service’s two other major responsibilities? **Counterfeiting , er anti-counterfeiting is one** [/QUOTE] 4. Correct. 5. Correct. 6. Mary Suratt, yes. One of the alleged Lincoln conspirators (the case against her was pretty weak, though). 7. Yabbut… half a point. ---
**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 16, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/534 "2007-11-16T21:14:30Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 284. Clyde Tolson 285. Ethel Rosenbrg 286. Protecting foreign dignitaries, investigating counterfeiting [/QUOTE] 1. True. 2. False. 3. Yes on the first (although I already said “protecting… other VIPs”), yes on the second. But the USSS has a third duty, relatively recently imposed. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/535 "2007-11-16T23:51:51Z")
1. Name the star, his character’s name and the name of the 1950’s series about an FBI agent who infiltrated the Communist party. 2. Name the theater where John Dillinger was shot. 3. Name the owner of the steel mill where the Homestead strike took place where many strikers and strike-breaking Pinkertons were killed. 4. Name the murderer of Stanford White who had the first “brainstorm.” 5. Name the murderer of Harvey Milk, which paved the way for the ascension of Dianne Feinstein. How did the newspapers characterize his defense? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/536 "2007-11-17T00:49:42Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 1. Name the theater where John Dillinger was shot. 2. Name the murderer of Stanford White who had the first “brainstorm.” 3. Name the murderer of Harvey Milk, which paved the way for the ascension of Dianne Feinstein. How did the newspapers characterize his defense? [/QUOTE] 4. The Biograph. 5. Harry Thaw. 6. First off, it’s murder of George Moscone that resulted in Feinstein’s rise. To actually answer the question, the murderer of Milk and Moscone was Dan White, and his defense became known as the “Twinkie defense” ---
**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 17, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/537 "2007-11-17T01:10:51Z")
1. Which African nation has a capital named after a US president? ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/538 "2007-11-17T01:37:52Z")
1. Monrovia Liberia? ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/539 "2007-11-17T01:40:06Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 288. The Biograph. 1. Harry Thaw. 2. First off, it’s murder of George Moscone that resulted in Feinstein’s rise. To actually answer the question, the murderer of Milk and Moscone was Dan White, and his defense became known as the “Twinkie defense” [/QUOTE] 3. correct 4. correct 5. dan white and twinkie correct, the rest, arguable. ---
**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 17, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/540 "2007-11-17T01:50:12Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 292. Monrovia Liberia? [/QUOTE] No, it’s Egypt, whose capital was named after President Joe Cairo. No, wait! I mean Correct! Named after James Monroe. Liberia was founded by freed slaves from the US. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=28)