# 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:** 56
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1. Alaska’s first (and only) district? [/QUOTE] Also my guess. Would that count? ---
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Some more Ohio history. 1. He was mayor of Cleveland when it became the first city of its size to default since the Great Depression. 2. This river was so notoriously polluted that chemicals floating on its surface caught fire in the late 1960s (it’s a lot cleaner now, fortunately). 3. John Glenn hailed from this Ohio town. 4. Why did Mayor Ralph Perk of Cleveland and his wife decline an invitation to a state dinner during the Nixon Administration? 5. This notable crimefighter served a stint as Cleveland’s safety director. [/QUOTE] 6. Dennis Kucinich ---
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1. Correct! Is the St Louis Deseg case from the 1980s famous or infamous? Wasn’t sure that someone from outside St Louis would know that. 2. Correct 722 That is not the Senator I was thinking of. Unless the “I’ll bring the pork, and the BBQ sauce, too” is a common expression. The Senator that I thinking of might be a little surprising. 1. Correct, my assumption is that since Alaska is the largest state, and has only one at-large Representative, then it follows that it must be the largest district. ---
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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] 714. Dennis Kucinich [/QUOTE] Correct. **5 time champ** , I didn’t know that Judge “Attila the” Hungate had handled a desegregation case, but I met him once at a judicial conference. He’s the only former congressman from Missouri I know of who later served as a Federal judge (although I’m sure there were others), so it was a longshot guess. 😃 I’ve told this story elsewhere on the Dope, but I’ll tell it again. Judge Hungate occasionally got admiralty-law cases because of the Mississippi River jurisdiction of his court. One particularly complex admiralty case languished on his docket for months. The lawyers just couldn’t settle it, and he didn’t want to try it. The judge bumped into one of the lawyers at a party and asked, “How’s that _Smith Navigation Co._ case going?” The lawyer said, “We keep trying, but we haven’t been able to work out a settlement, Your Honor.” The judge said, “Well, just tell counsel for the other side that the judge is crazy as a bedbug and doesn’t know a thing about admiralty law.” The lawyer shot back, without missing a beat, “Oh, I told them that months ago, Judge, and it didn’t do a bit of good!” ---
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1. What was the first WW II Liberty ship named? **Fittingly enough, the Patrick Henry** 2. It was not a secret code name but, what was the development code name of Microsoft’s wildly popular Vista OS? **Longhorn** 3. The Freeport Doctrine came from these debates **Lincoln-Douglas Debates** 4. The people of Charleston, SC used to jokingly wonder why the city didn’t fall into the sea. What and who were the cause of this? **US Represntative Mendel Rivers, D-SC, was a long-time Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Rivers brought an enormous amount pork, er important national defense installations to the Charleston, SC area.** 5. This First Lady did a fair amount of traveling-- while in Hawaii she once went surfing. [Hint: it was before WWII] **Mrs [Ellen ??] Taft, according to a recent biographer that I heard on NPR, Mrs Taft was quite a liberated lady for her time** ---
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1. It was bowling league night for Perk’s wife. 2. Donald Riegel. ---
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correct on 719 ---
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I think I’ll try this… first, a couple of easy ones: 1. This is the longest continuously inhabited city in the continental United States. 2. This newspaper printed the erroneous “Dewey defeats Truman” headline. 3. This institution was the site of Churchill’s famous speech whence came the phrase “Iron Curtain”. And one hard one (I think): 1. This future Governor walked 1,000 miles across his State in a 1970 Senate election campaign. ---
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[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 717. It was bowling league night for Perk’s wife… [/QUOTE] Yup. Johnny Carson had some fun with that. 1. St. Augustine, Fla. 2. The _Chicago Tribune_. 3. Westminster College, Mo. ---
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1. This future Governor walked 1,000 miles across his State in a 1970 Senate election campaign. I believe that is the very aptly named Dan Walker. Walker was elected Illinois Governor in 1972. ---
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Yup. Johnny Carson had some fun with that. 1. St. Augustine, Fla. 2. The _Chicago Tribune_. 3. Westminster College, Mo. [/QUOTE] All correct, although the newspaper was at that time named the _Chicago Daily Tribune_. [QUOTE=5 time champ] 727. This future Governor walked 1,000 miles across his State in a 1970 Senate election campaign. I believe that is the very aptly named Dan Walker. Walker was elected Illinois Governor in 1972. [/QUOTE] Remarkably, this is the wrong answer (I had no idea that walking around a state was such a popular campaign tactic in the 70’s.) Walker did it during his gubernatorial race; the guy I’m thinking of, although he would later become a Governor, did it during a Senate campaign. ---
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Illinois 728. Actress Mary Astor, serial killer “Double O Swango”, and Enola Gay all hail from this small Mississippi River city in Illinois. 1. Back in the 18th century, the village in Illinois was the center of government for a good part of New France. 2. This Illinois Governor had some highs and lows; chaired a national commission on race relations and later did time in prison on corruption charges. [Hint: no, not that governor] 3. Speaking of corrupt Illinois politicians, what did Sec’y of State Paul Powell do with his ill-gotten gains. 4. This is one of those, If I remember correctly: What was remarkable about Governor “Big Jim” Thompson’s first term in office? Besides not being indicted for corruption charges. Which is a joke because former US Attorney Thompson had a squeaky clean image. ---
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[QUOTE=5 time champ] … 730. This Illinois Governor had some highs and lows; chaired a national commission on race relations and later did time in prison on corruption charges… [/QUOTE] Kerner. First name… Hugh? **Really Not All That Bright** , Bruce Babbitt also walked across Iowa as part of his 1988 presidential campaign, and Eric Fingerhut walked a south-to-north route through Ohio during his 2002 U.S. Senate campaign. Both lost. Who said it? 733. “The Federal Reserve’s job is to take away the punch bowl just as the party’s really getting started.” 734. “The police officer’s job is not to prevent disorder, it is to preserve disorder.” 735. “The surest means of ensuring peace is to be prepared for war.” 736. “A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.” 737. “Father always wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.” ---
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Kerner. First name… Hugh? Who said it? 734. “The police officer’s job is not to prevent disorder, it is to preserve disorder.” 735. “The surest means of ensuring peace is to be prepared for war.” 736. “A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.” 737. “Father always wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.” [/QUOTE] Otto Kerner, actually 1. Mayor Richard J Daley after the “police riot” at 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. 2. :smack: I should know this, Alice Roosevelt Longworth about her father Theodore. ---
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[QUOTE=5 time champ] … 734. Mayor Richard J Daley after the “police riot” at 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. 1. :smack: I should know this, Alice Roosevelt Longworth about her father Theodore. [/QUOTE] Right you are. ---
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These Presidency-defining catchphrases are associated with which men? 738. The New Freedom 739. The New Foundation 740. The Great Society 741. The Square Deal 742. The New Federalism ---
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1. The New Freedom **JFK**? 2. The Great Society **LBJ** 3. The Square Deal **Harry Truman** 4. The New Federalism **Richard Nixon** ---
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] These Presidency-defining catchphrases are associated with which men? 738. The New Freedom 739. The New Foundation [/QUOTE] 1. Woodrow Wilson 2. Reagan. ---
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] **Really Not All That Bright** , Bruce Babbitt also walked across Iowa as part of his 1988 presidential campaign, and Eric Fingerhut walked a south-to-north route through Ohio during his 2002 U.S. Senate campaign. Both lost. Who said it? 733. “The Federal Reserve’s job is to take away the punch bowl just as the party’s really getting started.” 735. “The surest means of ensuring peace is to be prepared for war.” 736. “A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.” [/QUOTE] Interesting. 1. Greenspan? 2. (Andrew) Carnegie. I have no idea why. Doesn’t seem like the sort of thing he’d have said, but then I suppose defense spending is good for steel magnates. ---
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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] 735. (Andrew) Carnegie. I have no idea why. Doesn’t seem like the sort of thing he’d have said, but then I suppose defense spending is good for steel magnates. [/QUOTE] Never mind. Googling suggests that I remembered this backwards and he actually railed _against_ the notion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=57)