# 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:** 3
**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, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/41 "2007-10-26T15:58:31Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 16. This first Treasury Secretary was nearly undone by a sex scandal. [/quote] Alexander Hamilton ---
**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, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/42 "2007-10-26T15:58:36Z")
1. When was the last time a President called a special session of Congress? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/43 "2007-10-26T16:00:12Z")
Let’s see. 22: Which signer of the Declaration of Independance served as the U.S.'s first ambassador to England? 23: Gen. Sherman himself, inspecting a Confederate position, ordered the bombardment which ended the life of whom? ---
**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, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/44 "2007-10-26T16:00:28Z")
Yes, Alexander Hamilton. 1. Harry Truman in 1948 (the “Do-Nothing Congress”). ---
**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, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/45 "2007-10-26T16:01:46Z")
1. John Adams. 2. I want to say Gen. Leonidas K. Polk on Pine Mountain, 1864, but it wasn’t Sherman who gave the order, was it? On further review… **smiling bandit** , have you correctly answered someone else’s question(s) yet? Can’t ask questions of your own until you do; see the OP. If I’ve overlooked your having done so, forgive me. ---
**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, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/46 "2007-10-26T16:08:03Z")
By my tally, those who’ve answered previous questions correctly and may now ask questions of their own are: **MGibson Freddy the Pig Giles BobLibDem spoke- Fir na tine kelly5078 bordelond RandMcnally** Let me know if I’ve missed anyone. ---
**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, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/47 "2007-10-26T16:13:46Z")
1. A submarine was first sent to attack an enemy vessel during which US war? 2. Bonus: What was the name of the submarine? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/48 "2007-10-26T16:18:30Z")
What questions haven’t been answered? (No that’s not a trivia question.) ---
**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, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/49 "2007-10-26T16:18:36Z")
I don’t see a correct answer to my question 7 yet. One more: 26. President Eisenhower is generally supposed to have seen two states join the union under his administration, i.e., Alaska and Hawaii. However, he completed the paperwork for the admission of another state. Which state was that? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/50 "2007-10-26T16:26:47Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] I don’t see a correct answer to my question 7 yet. One more: 26. President Eisenhower is generally supposed to have seen two states join the union under his administration, i.e., Alaska and Hawaii. However, he completed the paperwork for the admission of another state. Which state was that? [/QUOTE] Don’t know #7, but I believe #26 is New Mexico. ---
**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 26, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/51 "2007-10-26T16:33:41Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] 24. A submarine was first sent to attack an enemy vessel during which US war? 1. Bonus: What was the name of the submarine? [/QUOTE] 24.The American Civil War? EDIT - I reckon I’m wrong, just reread the question. ---
**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, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/52 "2007-10-26T16:38:40Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 21. Harry Truman in 1948 (the “Do-Nothing Congress”). [/QUOTE] Correct, although I was actually thinking of Franklin Roosevelt in 1939. Technically, the 80th Congress was “in recess” when Truman made his Turnip Day speech in 1948, so he was calling it _back_ into session, rather than calling a new session. Whereas Congress had adjourned _sine die_ when World War II broke out, and Roosevelt had to call a new session to repeal the Neutrality Act. The 76th Congress (1939-41) is the last Congress to have three separate and distinct numbered sessions. Either action, however, involves the President’s invokation of the same constitutional power to convene Congress “on extraordinary occasions”, so the distinction is very arbitrary. #7–Herbert Hoover? I know he has one, but I don’t know if it was built first. ---
**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, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/53 "2007-10-26T16:42:21Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] Don’t know #7, but I believe #26 is New Mexico. [/QUOTE] Not New Mexico. [QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] #7–Herbert Hoover? I know he has one, but I don’t know if it was built first. [/QUOTE] Not Hoover. ---
**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, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/54 "2007-10-26T16:50:42Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] 24. A submarine was first sent to attack an enemy vessel during which US war? 1. Bonus: What was the name of the submarine? [/QUOTE] The Revolutionary War/The Turtle. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/55 "2007-10-26T17:03:52Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] 24. A submarine was first sent to attack an enemy vessel during which US war? [/QUOTE] Oh man, The Revolutionary War is my answer and I don’t have a clue what it was called. Blast! I should have previewed to see my late response. Oh well, more questions please 🙂 ---
**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, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/56 "2007-10-26T18:19:11Z")
1. Rutherford B. Hayes, in Fremont, Ohio. Right? I should have thought of this sooner. :smack: Several questions are still unanswered, including 17. (the troublesome French ambassador, in post 37) and 26. (Ike and a third state’s admission, in post 49). Several others are awaiting ayes or nays on guesses already made. And some more: 1. In what American war was the first _successful_ submarine attack against another vessel? 2. What was the name of the sub? 3. What was the name of its target? 4. How many vice presidents did FDR have? 5. On what date did the Kent State shootings take place? ---
**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, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/57 "2007-10-26T18:24:20Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 27. In what American war was the first _successful_ submarine attack against another vessel? 28. What was the name of the sub? 29. What was the name of its target? [/QUOTE] The Civil War The C.S.S. Hunley Damnit, I used to know this one. It started with an “L.” ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/58 "2007-10-26T18:28:39Z")
Oh I’m so slow… ---
**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, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/59 "2007-10-26T18:29:33Z")
[QUOTE=RandMcnally] [27.] The Civil War [28.] The C.S.S. Hunley [29]. Damnit, I used to know this one. It started with an “L.” [/QUOTE] 1. Correct. 2. Yes, although it was never formally commissioned as a C.S. Navy ship, so it shouldn’t have the C.S.S. prefix. The State of South Carolina was very adamant about that at the time the wreck was recovered, so that the state wouldn’t immediately lose ownership to the Feds; they finally worked out a deal for possession and historical preservation. 3. No, it actually starts with a different letter. Come to think of it, the letter “L” doesn’t even appear in the name. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/60 "2007-10-26T18:31:55Z")
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