# 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:** 5
**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, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/81 "2007-10-26T23:58:09Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] Is 29 The Monitor? [/QUOTE] Also no. ---
**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, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/82 "2007-10-26T23:59:22Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] … 36: 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? 37: 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? [/QUOTE] 1. Robert Todd Lincoln, the 16th President’s eldest son. 2. Gouverneur Morris (Franklin had both legs, despite his gout). ---
**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 27, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/83 "2007-10-27T00:00:31Z")
[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] Fort Jefferson, which was and is in the Dry Tortugas. And I agree with you about Dr. Mudd’s level of culpability (I’ll be taking a “Booth’s escape route” tour next spring and expect to learn more). I _believe_ he was the only Lincoln conspirator sent to Fort Jefferson, but I may be wrong. Now don’t anybody go looking it up until the game is over! ---
**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 27, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/84 "2007-10-27T00:03:54Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] … 19. A young man, later to become much more famous, sang with a choir at the movie premiere of _Gone with the Wind_. Who was he?.. [/QUOTE] This question remains unanswered, I believe. ---
**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 27, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/85 "2007-10-27T00:05:20Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 31. On what date did the Kent State shootings take place? **May 4, 1970** … [/QUOTE] Correctamundo! ---
**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 27, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/86 "2007-10-27T00:09:28Z")
Was #19 Jimmy Carter, by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/87 "2007-10-27T01:22:50Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] 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? [/QUOTE] Sigmund Freud. ---
**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 27, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/88 "2007-10-27T01:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Was #19 Jimmy Carter, by any chance? [/QUOTE] No. But you’re kinda warm. 1. We’ve already mentioned John Nance Garner and Harry Truman; who was FDR’s second VP? 2. Benjamin Franklin thought what bird should be the national symbol, rather than the bald eagle? 3. Who was Amelia Earhart’s also-later-disappeared navigator? 4. What flag, first raised in Cambridge, Mass. in early 1776, is considered by many historians to be the country’s first national flag? 5. What senator, later to gain greater notoriety/fame after Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential term, was his best friend? ---
**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 27, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/89 "2007-10-27T01:38:54Z")
[QUOTE=smiling bandit] …See post #19. The answer you wanted for Question #2 was incomplete. [/QUOTE] Right you are. I’ll give you that. Thanks. ---
**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 27, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/90 "2007-10-27T01:44:51Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. Benjamin Franklin thought what bird should be the national symbol, rather than the bald eagle? [/QUOTE] The noble Turkey. Gobble, gobble, gobble! ---
**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 27, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/91 "2007-10-27T01:47:38Z")
[QUOTE=RandMcnally] … 33: Tyranny, like what, is not easily conquered? [/QUOTE] Ignorance. I forget who said that, though. Correct about the turkey, **Frosted Glass**. ---
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Ignorance. I forget who said that, though. [/QUOTE] That is a negative. ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/93 "2007-10-27T02:04:06Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 39. We’ve already mentioned John Nance Garner and Harry Truman; who was FDR’s second VP? [/QUOTE] I know it’s a Wallace. Henry Wallace? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/94 "2007-10-27T02:11:31Z")
[Quote=Elendil’s Heir] 19. A young man, later to become much more famous, sang with a choir at the movie premiere of Gone with the Wind. Who was he [/Quote] The (then future Reverend) Martin Luther King Jr. [Quote=Giles] 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] Ohio – the state was celebrating the 150th anniversary of its putative 1803 admission just as Ike’s term was beginning, and the error was discovered. [Quote=Elendil’s Heir] 39. We’ve already mentioned John Nance Garner and Harry Truman; who was FDR’s second VP? 41. Who was Amelia Earhart’s also-later-disappeared navigator? 42. What flag, first raised in Cambridge, Mass. in early 1776, is considered by many historians to be the country’s first national flag? [/Quote] 1. Henry Agard Wallace 2. Fred Noonan 3. The “Don’t Tread on Me” banner with the snake? ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/95 "2007-10-27T03:04:08Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 4. This East Liverpool, Ohio-born composer wrote the hymn “Softly and Tenderly,” so popular there are still dozens of versions available on iTunes (including by Elvis Presley, k.d. lang and Garrison Keillor)? [/QUOTE] Not to nitpick, but how is this remotely a US history question? ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/96 "2007-10-27T03:07:41Z")
[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] The Hunley was a Confederate submarine launched during the Civil War. ---
**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 27, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/97 "2007-10-27T03:25:47Z")
[QUOTE=Petey] I know it’s a Wallace. Henry Wallace? [/QUOTE] Correct (also by **Sternvogel** , who also got 19, 39 and 41 correct, but not 42). ---
**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 27, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/98 "2007-10-27T03:28:18Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] Not to nitpick, but how is this remotely a US history question? [/QUOTE] It’s about an American composer, who in the past wrote a song still popular in the U.S. ---
**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 27, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/99 "2007-10-27T03:29:56Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] [As to questions 24 and 25] The Hunley was a Confederate submarine launched during the Civil War. [/QUOTE] Incorrect. This was correctly answered above: it was the _Turtle_, sent to attack HMS _Eagle_ during the American Revolution. The _Hunley_ made the first _successful_ attack; we’re still waiting for the answer as to its target. ---
**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 27, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/100 "2007-10-27T03:36:38Z")
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