# 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:** 57
**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:** [January 31, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1121 "2008-01-31T00:06:24Z")
1. Lawton Chiles, of Florida. 2. IIRC, he hid the money in shoeboxes in his hotel room, where it was found after his death. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1122 "2008-01-31T00:14:37Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 727. Lawton Chiles, of Florida. [/QUOTE] Winner, winner chicken dinner. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1123 "2008-01-31T00:42:24Z")
Yep, there was something like $600K in cash in shoeboxes, this happened in the late 60s. I wonder where he got all that money on a Sec’y of State’s salary. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1124 "2008-01-31T00:55:59Z")
While we’re on the subject of Illinois, let’s head to the politics of Cook County. Name the following Cook County Executives: 1. The last Cook County Executive to become Mayor of Chicago. 2. The Cook County Executive for whom a major freeway in Chicago is named. 3. The last Republican to be elected Cook County Executive AND the last Cook County Executive to become Governor of Illinois. 4. This Cook County Executive, dumped by his party for re-election, got his revenge many years later through court rulings that kept his party from taking the Governorship. 5. The Cook County Executive who served a record twenty-one years. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1125 "2008-01-31T03:23:38Z")
1. The Cook County Executive for whom a major freeway in Chicago is named. Dan Ryan ---
**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:** [February 1, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1126 "2008-02-01T02:23:02Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 744. The Cook County Executive for whom a major freeway in Chicago is named. Dan Ryan [/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:** [February 1, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1127 "2008-02-01T02:58:39Z")
Thanks, I guessed it was either that, or Jimmy Tri-State. 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 1, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1128 "2008-02-01T06:09:51Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 738. The New Freedom **JFK**? 1. The Great Society **LBJ** 2. The Square Deal **Harry Truman** 3. The New Federalism **Richard Nixon** [/QUOTE] Only 740 is correct. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1129 "2008-02-01T06:11:43Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] 738. Woodrow Wilson 739. Reagan. [/QUOTE] Correct, and incorrect, respectively. And both incorrect as to 733 and 735. And no Googling, please! You know better than that, my 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:** [February 1, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1130 "2008-02-01T14:26:27Z")
Identify these notable Americans by their nicknames. 1. The Boy Orator of the Platte 2. The Only Law West of the Pecos 3. Cump 4. Bunny (hint: it was a President) 5. The Plumed Knight ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1131 "2008-02-01T14:26:42Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] And no Googling, please! You know better than that, my friend. [/QUOTE] I googled _after_ I gave my answer. ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1132 "2008-02-01T15:00:06Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. The Square Deal [/QUOTE] Theodore Roosevelt [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. The Only Law West of the Pecos [/QUOTE] Judge Roy Bean (played by Paul Newman in the movie) ---
**Author:** ![Saratoga\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Saratoga\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saratoga_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1133 "2008-02-01T21:38:09Z")
1. The last Republican to be elected Cook County Executive AND the last Cook County Executive to become Governor of Illinois. Big Jim Thompson? ---
**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:** [February 1, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1134 "2008-02-01T21:46:23Z")
1. The New Federalism I thought that was Nixon’s program of things like revenue sharing with the states. But if that’s not it, then by process of elimination it would have to be John Adams. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1135 "2008-02-01T23:43:11Z")
[QUOTE=Saratoga Sam] 745. The last Republican to be elected Cook County Executive AND the last Cook County Executive to become Governor of Illinois. Big Jim Thompson? [/QUOTE] Incorrect. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1136 "2008-02-02T01:10:31Z")
[QUOTE=Petey] Judge Roy Bean (played by Paul Newman in the movie) [/QUOTE] Dang! Somehow, I did not see that. Would have known it right away. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1137 "2008-02-02T01:23:55Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Identify these notable Americans by their nicknames. 748. The Boy Orator of the Platte 750. Cump 752. The Plumed Knight [/QUOTE] 1. William Jennings Bryan 2. William T. Sherman 3. James G. Blaine ---
**Author:** ![Saratoga\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Saratoga\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saratoga_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1138 "2008-02-02T01:41:47Z")
1. Bunny (hint: it was a President) Warren G. Harding? (I’m pretty certain this is one of the Presidents in the 1910-1932 time frame but am just guessing as to which). ---
**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:** [February 2, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1139 "2008-02-02T02:40:15Z")
[QUOTE=Petey] [741.] Theodore Roosevelt [749.] Judge Roy Bean (played by Paul Newman in the movie) [/QUOTE] Both correct. **Governor Quinn** is correct as to his three guesses, and **Petey** as to his two, as well. **5 Time Champ** is incorrect about New Federalism. Another hint: it was another 20th C. president. **Saratoga Sam** is incorrect as to Bunny. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1140 "2008-02-03T05:38:46Z")
Give the first name of the First Lady. 1. McKinley 2. Buchanan 3. Hoover 4. Roosevelt (1901-1909) 5. Hayes [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=58)