# 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:** 31
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/601 "2007-11-26T00:03:43Z")
1. The fine wooden recreational boats of this American manufacturer were recently honored on U.S. postage stamps. **Chris-Craft** Would that I had the money… ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/602 "2007-11-26T01:08:23Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 332. This was the only American-built nuclear-powered cargo ship. [/QUOTE] 1. The _Savannah_. Actually, she was a hybrid vessel - cargo and very posh passenger accomodations. ---
**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 26, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/603 "2007-11-26T05:13:38Z")
All correct as to civilian ships so far. (Hey, I don’t have to be the only one posting questions here! If you haven’t already done so, please read the OP. Then post up to five questions of your own at a time.) ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/604 "2007-11-26T09:02:02Z")
I know. But, somehow, asking what design of reactor/steam plant was aboard the _Savannah_ seems to go beyond trivia and all the way into obsession. 😉 I’ll try to think of some more for today. ---
**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 26, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/605 "2007-11-26T15:18:48Z")
Since you left me the easiest one: 328. Robert Fulton’s first small steam-powered ship was named this. **Clermont** Trying to think of some more questions, don’t know where **Elendil’s Heir** is coming up with all of these ---
**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 26, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/606 "2007-11-26T15:22:09Z")
1. Not sure if this is properly phrased but, Which Amendment in the Bill of Rights is the least interpreted by the Supreme Court? Girls Gone Wild 334. Powerful House Ways & Means Chairman Wilbur Mills career ended when he landed in the Tidal Basin with this “Argentinean Firecracker”? 1. Name the _Three Bimbos_, i.e. the three attractive women involved in very high profile scandals in the mid-1980s. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/607 "2007-11-26T15:58:44Z")
1. What was the only US submarine to _ahem_ boast a liquid sodium cooled reactor plant? 2. What New England writer gained notoriety for his work to bring Christmas gifts to the families of lighthouse keepers? (Talk about outdated charities, btw…) 3. What was the original goal of The March of Dimes? ---
**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 26, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/608 "2007-11-26T16:04:15Z")
1. What was the only US submarine to _ahem_ boast a liquid sodium cooled reactor plant? **Nautilus**?? 2. What was the original goal of The March of Dimes? **find cure/vaccine for polio** ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/609 "2007-11-26T16:06:07Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 336. What was the only US submarine to _ahem_ boast a liquid sodium cooled reactor plant? **Nautilus**?? 1. What was the original goal of The March of Dimes? **find cure/vaccine for polio** [/QUOTE] 2. Nope. 3. Yes. ---
**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 26, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/610 "2007-11-26T16:13:15Z")
Hmm- then I will make one other guess **USS Jimmy Carter**? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/611 "2007-11-26T16:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] Hmm- then I will make one other guess **USS Jimmy Carter**? [/QUOTE] No, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/612 "2007-11-26T16:26:53Z")
1. Oh, the last voyage of the whaler _Essex_ is remembered for two notorious episodes. Obviously, one of them is that the ship was sunk by a whale ramming it, as mentioned above. What was the _other_ notorious act that made the story of the _Essex_ survivors so dramatic? ---
**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 26, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/613 "2007-11-26T18:34:12Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] Since you left me the easiest one: 328. Robert Fulton’s first small steam-powered ship was named this. **Clermont** Trying to think of some more questions, don’t know where **Elendil’s Heir** is coming up with all of these [/QUOTE] Correct as to the _Clermont_. And I’m cursed/blessed with a near-boundless store of American history trivia in my head! ---
**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 26, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/614 "2007-11-26T18:37:04Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 339. Oh, the last voyage of the whaler _Essex_ is remembered for two notorious episodes. Obviously, one of them is that the ship was sunk by a whale ramming it, as mentioned above. What was the _other_ notorious act that made the story of the _Essex_ survivors so dramatic? [/QUOTE] The survivors’ resort to cannibalism? (I read the book _In the Heart of the Sea_ by Nathaniel Philbrick a few years ago). 1. USS _Thresher_ (just a guess). ---
**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 26, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/615 "2007-11-26T18:39:38Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 333. Not sure if this is properly phrased but, Which Amendment in the Bill of Rights is the least interpreted by the Supreme Court? … 335. Name the _Three Bimbos_, i.e. the three attractive women involved in very high profile scandals in the mid-1980s. [/QUOTE] 1. The Ninth Amendment. 2. Fawn Hall (Oliver North’s secretary) and Donna Rice (Gary Hart’s maybe-lover), then the lady who extorted Jim Bakker and brought down PTL. Can’t remember her name - give me partial credit if you must! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/616 "2007-11-27T00:09:35Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] The survivors’ resort to cannibalism? (I read the book _In the Heart of the Sea_ by Nathaniel Philbrick a few years ago). 1. USS _Thresher_ (just a guess). [/QUOTE] Yes for the survivor’s cannibalism. AIUI, what was particularly shocking to society upon their return was that they admitted it, not simply that it happened. 1. Nope. _Thresher_ had a PWR. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/617 "2007-11-27T00:15:16Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 333. The Ninth Amendment. 1. Fawn Hall (Oliver North’s secretary) and Donna Rice (Gary Hart’s maybe-lover), then the lady who extorted Jim Bakker and brought down PTL. Can’t remember her name - give me partial credit if you must! 😉 [/QUOTE] To build off your answer: Wasn’t the third woman Jessica Hahn? ---
**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 27, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/618 "2007-11-27T00:46:27Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 333. The Ninth Amendment. 1. Fawn Hall (Oliver North’s secretary) and Donna Rice (Gary Hart’s maybe-lover), then the lady who extorted Jim Bakker and brought down PTL. Can’t remember her name - give me partial credit if you must! 😉 [/QUOTE] 2. I was thinking of another one than the Ninth. The subject came up in **GD** or **GQ** not too long ago, and a different amendment in the Bill of Rights was the consensus. 3. **Elendil’s Heir** and **OtakuLoki** working together are correct. ---
**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 27, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/619 "2007-11-27T03:23:20Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 1. Powerful House Ways & Means Chairman Wilbur Mills career ended when he landed in the Tidal Basin with this “Argentinean Firecracker”? [/QUOTE] Fanne Foxe (or something like that) was her stage name; I do not remember her real name. ---
**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 27, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/620 "2007-11-27T04:00:43Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] Fanne Foxe (or something like that) was her stage name; I do not remember her real name. [/QUOTE] That’s good enough- can’t remember her real name either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=32)