# 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:** 4
**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, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/61 "2007-10-26T18:51:38Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 29. No, it actually starts with a different letter. Come to think of it, the letter “L” doesn’t even appear in the name. [/QUOTE] You’re right, I’m a moron. I know exactly how I screwed that up too. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/62 "2007-10-26T18:55:42Z")
1. Thomas Jefferson? Someone beat me to the CSS Hunley, so I’m hoping I can still get in the game with this. Ask more questions! ---
**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:** [October 26, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/63 "2007-10-26T18:58:55Z")
Is 29 The Monitor? ---
**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, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/64 "2007-10-26T19:05:39Z")
30: What time and date did the Civil War start? 31: Who was the general who fired the first shot? 32: Who was the commander of the fort that was Fired on? What was the fort’s name? 33: Tyranny, like what, is not easily conquered? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/65 "2007-10-26T19:24:30Z")
Apologies for arriving late- I might not be answering in order of first one’s not [QUOTE=RandMcnally] 30: What time and date did the Civil War start? [/QUOTE] April 13, 1861, at about 5 am. > [@](#): > > 31: Who was the general who fired the first shot? Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard. > [@](#): > > 32: Who was the commander of the fort that was Fired on? What was the fort’s name? Major Robert Anderson (a slaveowner), Fort Sumter. Anderson was previously Beauregard’s favorite professor at West Point. (I LOVE the Ft. Sumter tour, incidentally- I’ve been on it everytime I’m anywhere in the area.) > [@](#): > > 33: Tyranny, like what, is not easily conquered? Crab lice? Q34: Edward Bernays, an immigrant, is considered the father of Public Relations and one of the fathers of modern advertising and is still studied in classes on both subjects. Who was his incomparably more world famous non-American uncle? Q35: John Adams was a descendent of which famous “speak for yourself” Pilgrim couple? Q36: What semi-famous American was in the same city and neighborhood as the president at the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley and as a result stopped ever appearing anywhere near a president because he thought he was a jinx? Q37: Adrienne de Noailles, the wife of the Marquis de Lafayette, was saved from the guillotine that killed her mother, sister, and grandmother by diplomacy and probably bribery from what super-rich one-legged womanizing Founding Father who was in Paris at the time? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/66 "2007-10-26T19:28:12Z")
Q37: Benjamin Franklin? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/67 "2007-10-26T19:30:25Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 30. How many vice presidents did FDR have? [/QUOTE] Three. The only one I can remember is Truman, though. ---
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/68 "2007-10-26T19:40:25Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 22. John Adams. [/quote] Correct. > [@](#): > > 1. I want to say Gen. Leonidas K. Polk on Pine Mountain, 1864, but it wasn’t Sherman who gave the order, was it? Yes he did. He was present and personally gave the order for that specific battery to fire upon the Confederate officers he saw there. The artillery officer, of course, handled the actual bombardment. > [@](#): > > 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. See post #19. The answer you wanted for Question #2 was incomplete. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/69 "2007-10-26T19:46:44Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 9. What was Sacagawea’s son’s name? [/QUOTE] Jean Baptiste “Pomp” Charbonneau (which I can actually prove I knew without sources- I’ve written about him online) > [@](#): > > 1. What state did Gettysburg hero Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain hail from? Maine I know “Triangle Fire” but I can’t remember if that’s a sweatshop fire. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/70 "2007-10-26T19:50:20Z")
1. Who was the first African-American woman (probably the first woman of any color) to lead troops in battle in a military engagement? 2. What was the condition from which 36 suffered that caused her to occasionally lose concentration? 3. To what prison south of Miami were (the way less innocent than popularly portrayed) Dr. Samuel Mudd and other convicted Lincoln conspirators sent? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/71 "2007-10-26T19:55:17Z")
I’m having trouble picturing anyone considered an ‘African-American’ being around earlier than Joan of Arc. Unless, of course, you are implying Joan of Arc is, in fact, a shade of grey. PS: #36, Harriet Tubman ---
**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, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/72 "2007-10-26T20:22:34Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 7. Rutherford B. Hayes, in Fremont, Ohio. Right? I should have thought of this sooner. :smack: [/QUOTE] Correct! ---
**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:** [October 26, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/73 "2007-10-26T20:43:09Z")
1. On what date did the Kent State shootings take place? **May 4, 1970** Q35: John Adams was a descendent of which famous “speak for yourself” Pilgrim couple? **John & Priscilla Alden** ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/74 "2007-10-26T20:58:19Z")
[QUOTE=Baffle] I’m having trouble picturing anyone considered an ‘African-American’ being around earlier than Joan of Arc. Unless, of course, you are implying Joan of Arc is, in fact, a shade of grey. PS: #36, Harriet Tubman [/QUOTE] The limits on the game are American History and as such the question is limited to troops in American history. Sorry, should have specified (and Joan of Arc was thousands of years after any number of female war leaders). ---
**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:** [October 26, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/75 "2007-10-26T20:59:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] 37. What was the condition from which 36 suffered that caused her to occasionally lose concentration? [/QUOTE] I believe it was epilepsy brought about by a blow to the head she suffered escaping slavery… ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/76 "2007-10-26T21:02:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Q36: What semi-famous American was in the same city and neighborhood as the president at the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley and as a result stopped ever appearing anywhere near a president because he thought he was a jinx? Robert Todd Lincoln (Abe’s son) ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/77 "2007-10-26T21:17:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] The limits on the game are American History and as such the question is limited to troops in American history. Sorry, should have specified (and Joan of Arc was thousands of years after any number of female war leaders). [/QUOTE] I was mostly being snarky, but thanks for the correction. Was my answer correct? ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/78 "2007-10-26T21:56:42Z")
[QUOTE=Fir na tine] \*\*13. \*\* An easy one, immortalized in song. What battle was fought on US soil after the war had ended? [/QUOTE] A small nit to pick here: The war had not ended when the Battle of New Orleans was fought. While the Treaty of Ghent had been signed, it was not ratified by the American Congress until mid-February. And, while the treaty specified that no further hostilities should occur, that was with the understanding that hostilities would be occuring until the signing of the Treaty and its terms could be communicated to the war theaters. Indeed, the British were in the process of invading the Mobile/Biloxi area when the fact that hostilities were to cease was made known. ---
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[QUOTE=Sampiro] 38. To what prison south of Miami were (the way less innocent than popularly portrayed) Dr. Samuel Mudd and other convicted Lincoln conspirators sent? [/QUOTE] I can’t remember the name of the prison itself, but it was on the Dry Tortugas islands. I believe Dr. Mudd ended up being the prison physician. ---
**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, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/80 "2007-10-26T23:57:04Z")
[QUOTE=Baffle] 17. Thomas Jefferson?.. [/QUOTE] No. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=5)