# 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:** 38
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/741 "2007-12-08T06:56:23Z")
1. Already answered, but her name was Louisa, I believe. 2. Mae Jemison 3. Bugs Moran ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/742 "2007-12-08T17:36:52Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] I think it was Woodrow Wilson’s first wife, but don’t know her first name. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=OtakuLoki] She doesn’t qualify, though - she was dead before Wilson ever became president. Wilson had already remarried while he was President at Princeton, not while he was in the White House. (Else we couldn’t say that Mrs. Cleveland was the only First Lady to marry into the position…) [/QUOTE] Actually, Wilson did marry his second wife Edith while he president in 1915. (I looked it up to be sure). His first wife Ellen died in 1914. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/743 "2007-12-08T18:24:33Z")
[QUOTE=Petey] Actually, Wilson did marry his second wife Edith while he president in 1915. (I looked it up to be sure). His first wife Ellen died in 1914. [/QUOTE] Rats. 😉 Thanks for clearing that up. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/744 "2007-12-08T22:38:04Z")
[QUOTE=thirdwarning] … 440. [First black female U.S. astronaut] Mae Jemison… [/QUOTE] Correct. **Petey** , per the OP, no research for either formulating or answering questions. Thanks. Judges and jurists… 1. This “Yankee from Olympus” willed his entire estate to the U.S. government. 2. By statute, the Supreme Court begins its term on this day every year. 3. Appointed by FDR to the Supreme Court, he also served as a prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials of accused Nazis. 4. Appointed by JFK, this justice was a star football player in his youth. 5. Two Chief Justices have presided over presidential impeachment trials. Name them. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/745 "2007-12-08T22:52:36Z")
1. This “Yankee from Olympus” willed his entire estate to the U.S. government. Holmes. 1. Appointed by FDR to the Supreme Court, he also served as a prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials of accused Nazis. Jackson. 1. Appointed by JFK, this justice was a star football player in his youth. White. 1. Two Chief Justices have presided over presidential impeachment trials. Name them. Rehnquist and ? ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/746 "2007-12-09T01:20:04Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] **Petey** , per the OP, no research for either formulating or answering questions. Thanks. [/QUOTE] I wasn’t answering a question, just correcting an error that was stated. I knew it from memory, but thought it would be embarrassing if I turned out to be wrong. But your point is a good reminder for the thread. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/747 "2007-12-09T01:24:30Z")
[QUOTE=Petey] Actually, Wilson did marry his second wife Edith while he president in 1915. (I looked it up to be sure). His first wife Ellen died in 1914. [/QUOTE] Yes, I believe that’s correct. I think what we say about Mrs. Cleveland is she was the only first Lady to marry in the White House. Wilson and his bride married off-premises. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/748 "2007-12-09T04:04:32Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] The fatal Alexander Hamilton-Aaron Burr duel. [/QUOTE] 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:** [December 9, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/749 "2007-12-09T04:46:28Z")
1. By statute, the Supreme Court begins its term on this day every year. **The first Monday in October** 2. Two Chief Justices have presided over presidential impeachment trials. Name them. **Salmon P Chase**? ---
**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:** [December 9, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/750 "2007-12-09T06:00:14Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 457. By statute, the Supreme Court begins its term on this day every year. **The first Monday in October** 460. Two Chief Justices have presided over presidential impeachment trials. Name them. **Salmon P Chase**? [/QUOTE] You and **Random** have them all correct. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Robert Jackson and Byron “Whizzer” White, if you’re looking for first names). Chase and William H. Rehnquist were the only two Chief Justices of the United States to preside at presidential impeachment trials. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/751 "2007-12-09T20:35:59Z")
Famous American battles… 1. At this “Gettysburg of the West” in late 1864, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood threw his men against entrenched Union troops, nearly destroying his own army. The Union Army withdrew from the field that night, but it was a bitter “win” for Hood. 2. Alexander Hamilton personally led the infantry which captured a British fort during this battle, won by Gen. Washington with French help. 3. President Lincoln himself came under Confederate fire during Jubal Early’s attack against this fortification guarding Washington, D.C. 4. British redcoats forced the patriot defenders from this Boston-area heights, usually incorrectly called “Bunker Hill,” but took heavy losses. 5. The name of this American general appears on no official monument at Saratoga, even though many historians consider it his finest hour. Who was he, and why is he not appropriately honored? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/752 "2007-12-09T20:57:14Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 462. Alexander Hamilton personally led the infantry which captured a British fort during this battle, won by Gen. Washington with French help. 464. British redcoats forced the patriot defenders from this Boston-area heights, usually incorrectly called “Bunker Hill,” but took heavy losses. 465. The name of this American general appears on no official monument at Saratoga, even though many historians consider it his finest hour. Who was he, and why is he not appropriately honored? [/QUOTE] 1. I’m guessing that this is Yorktown, but that’s just a guess. (Mostly because it’s the most famous battle I can think of where Washington won with French help.) 2. Breed’s Hill. 3. Benedict Arnold. Do I really have to mention that by the time the honors were being constructed for the monument Benedict Arnold was living as a pensioner in England, and his name was mud here in the US? 😉 A new question from me: 4. Who said this after the Battle of Bunker Hill: “Another three such victories and we will have lost the colonies.”? ---
**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:** [December 10, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/753 "2007-12-10T16:09:03Z")
1. At this “Gettysburg of the West” in late 1864, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood threw his men against entrenched Union troops, nearly destroying his own army. The Union Army withdrew from the field that night, but it was a bitter “win” for Hood. **Franklin, TN** 2. Who said this after the Battle of Bunker Hill: “Another three such victories and we will have lost the colonies.”? **George III**? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/754 "2007-12-10T19:06:38Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 466. Who said this after the Battle of Bunker Hill: “Another three such victories and we will have lost the colonies.”? **George III**? [/QUOTE] No, that’s not it. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/755 "2007-12-10T19:32:58Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 462. I’m guessing that this is Yorktown, but that’s just a guess. (Mostly because it’s the most famous battle I can think of where Washington won with French help.) 1. Breed’s Hill. 2. Benedict Arnold. Do I really have to mention that by the time the honors were being constructed for the monument Benedict Arnold was living as a pensioner in England, and his name was mud here in the US? 😉 … [/QUOTE] All correct. Well done, **Otaku**! Also correct, **5 time** , as to Franklin, Tenn. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/756 "2007-12-11T06:07:53Z")
Hmmm. 1. Lord Howe? Some noteworthy Secretaries of War and, later, Defense… 1. This first SecWar had been Washington’s artillery chief during the Revolution. 2. This Pennsylvania hack helped Lincoln secure the GOP nomination and was rewarded with the post of SecWar. After revealing himself to be incompetent and crooked, he was packed off far, far away as minister (ambassador) to Russia. 3. This early SecDef suffered from depression, committed suicide at Bethesda and later had an aircraft carrier named after him. 4. This SecDef served for all of the Kennedy and most of the Johnson administrations. 5. Nicknamed “the Knife” in another role during the Nixon years, this SecDef was called “the Ladle” as he spread around billions for Reagan’s massive defense buildup. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/757 "2007-12-11T06:26:42Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Hmmm. 1. Lord Howe? [/quote] No, sorry. > [@](#): > > 1. This early SecDef suffered from depression, committed suicide at Bethesda and later had an aircraft carrier named after him. 1. James Forrestal. Namesake of the “Forestfire” ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/758 "2007-12-11T07:26:53Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 470. This SecDef served for all of the Kennedy and most of the Johnson administrations. 471. Nicknamed “the Knife” in another role during the Nixon years, this SecDef was called “the Ladle” as he spread around billions for Reagan’s massive defense buildup. [/QUOTE] 1. Robert McNamara? 2. Cap Weinberger? ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/759 "2007-12-11T07:34:19Z")
1. Seward? ---
**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:** [December 11, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/760 "2007-12-11T16:05:29Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Some noteworthy Secretaries of War and, later, Defense… 1. This first SecWar had been Washington’s artillery chief during the Revolution. 2. This Pennsylvania hack helped Lincoln secure the GOP nomination and was rewarded with the post of SecWar. After revealing himself to be incompetent and crooked, he was packed off far, far away as minister (ambassador) to Russia. 3. This early SecDef suffered from depression, committed suicide at Bethesda and later had an aircraft carrier named after him. 4. This SecDef served for all of the Kennedy and most of the Johnson administrations. 5. Nicknamed “the Knife” in another role during the Nixon years, this SecDef was called “the Ladle” as he spread around billions for Reagan’s massive defense buildup. [/QUOTE] Hmm- coming up with questions is harder than answering them, for me at least: 467: Henry Knox 468: Simon Cameron The other three were correctly answered. What do I know about Secretaries of the Interior. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=39)