# 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:** 64
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1261 "2008-02-14T15:19:44Z")
Speaking of Annie Oakley: 1. Annie Oakley was involved in a long-running feud with a prominent newspaperman of her day. Who was it? 2. Why was she feuding with him? ---
**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 14, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1262 "2008-02-14T15:22:45Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] I know I’ve seen **Paul in Saudi** , among others, use the expression [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5867559&postcount=26) on the Dope. It may be old fashioned, but it’s still getting used. [/QUOTE] I’ll be damned. Thanks - I didn’t know that. ---
**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 14, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1263 "2008-02-14T15:23:51Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Speaking of Annie Oakley:… [/QUOTE] Heh. That was in the other thread. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1264 "2008-02-14T15:26:33Z")
nit, nit, nit. These two questions are US history, though - not world. ---
**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 14, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1265 "2008-02-14T16:49:21Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] … 838. Annie Oakley was involved in a long-running feud with a prominent newspaperman of her day. Who was it? 1. Why was she feuding with him? [/QUOTE] 2. I’ll guess… William Randolph Hearst. 3. He went out of his way to print unflattering pictures of her. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1266 "2008-02-14T19:28:29Z")
1. Yes. 2. No. I really don’t think you’re going to get this by guessing. ---
**Author:** ![Enterprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/76d3ee/32.png) [@Enterprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enterprise)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1267 "2008-02-14T20:00:20Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Civil War slang. 835. To cowardly flee from danger was to \_\_\_\_\_\_. [/QUOTE] 1. Skedaddle? ---
**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 14, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1268 "2008-02-14T20:14:53Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Civil War slang. 1. A soldier might visit a brothel to “enjoy a little horizontal \_\_\_\_\_\_.” 2. Infantry tended to regard cavalry as wimps, and would often jeer, “Mister, here’s your \_\_\_\_\_\_!” [/QUOTE] 3. dancing 4. mule _When a horseman passes, the soldiers have a rule, to cry out at their loudest, “Mister, here’s your mule!”_ ---- from Goober Peas ---
**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 14, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1269 "2008-02-14T20:58:00Z")
[QUOTE=Saratoga Sam] 836. dancing 837. mule _When a horseman passes, the soldiers have a rule, to cry out at their loudest, “Mister, here’s your mule!”_ ---- from Goober Peas [/QUOTE] 1. No. 2. Right! Bonus points for the “Goober Peas” reference. **Enterprise** is right about “skedaddle,” another word that lingers as a semi-anachronism. **OtakuLoki** , I _like_ guessing! 1. Hearst said Oakley wore army boots? 2. He put chewing gum in her gunsights? 3. He insisted on reeling off dirty limericks about her? 4. He said Ethel Merman would be much prettier than her? 5. He replaced her bullets with suppositories? ---
**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 14, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1270 "2008-02-14T22:06:04Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 839. He replaced her bullets with suppositories? [/QUOTE] Which would raise the question of whether he replaced someone’s suppositories with her bullets… Ow. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1271 "2008-02-14T22:27:37Z")
No, as entertaining as all those suggestions are, none match the actual circumstances that surrounded the Heart-Oakley feud. ---
**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 15, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1272 "2008-02-15T02:35:52Z")
1. Hearst published a claim that Oakley was an opiate addict who had been arrested for petty theft. She ultimately sued him and over twenty newspapers that published the story afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1273 "2008-02-15T04:10:34Z")
That’s exactly right, **Governor Quinn**. The way I recall it, he published a series of interviews with a woman who shared Oakley’s name, and presented them as being with the famous shooter. Oakley was infuriated. And proceeded to sue Hearst, and each individual paper which ran the stories for libel. She ended up spending a large portion of her fortune pursuing what she saw as the cleansing of her good name, and won every suit but one. (The numbers I recall were 35 newspapers sued, and 34 suits won.) Even with unheard of judgements for libel, for the day, she still lost money on the proposition, and Hearst’s papers made hay out of the suits, themselves. ---
**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 15, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1274 "2008-02-15T05:18:14Z")
Never heard about that. Why did she lose the single case? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1275 "2008-02-15T05:32:52Z")
Honestly, I have no idea what specifically caused her to lose that one case, but given the standard of proof required for a libel suit, I’m not surprised. IANAL, but my understanding is that to win a libel suit one has to prove that the defendant was knowingly publishing falsehoods. So, Hearst had at least one ready-made defense: the woman he did interview was Annie Oakley, just not the famous one. I suspect that there were other arguments used as well. And, well, given what I’ve heard of Hearst, I wouldn’t put it past him to bribe a judge. ---
**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 16, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1276 "2008-02-16T02:37:40Z")
On Capitol Hill. 1. What was Sen. John Tower (R-Texas) once unflatteringly named by female Congressional staffers? 2. The Congressional newspaper (not the _Record_) is called this. 3. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) famously likened the Internet to \_\_\_\_\_\_. 4. U2 frontman Bono formed an unlikely partnership with this conservative legislator. 5. Name the massive painting which covers the interior of the Capitol dome, over the Rotunda. ---
**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 16, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1277 "2008-02-16T02:41:14Z")
1. Is it still the _Globe_? 2. A series of tubes. 3. Jesse Helms. ---
**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 16, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1278 "2008-02-16T03:30:18Z")
1. Why did Theodore Roosevelt come to rue Valentine’s Day? ---
**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 16, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1279 "2008-02-16T03:45:55Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 845. Why did Theodore Roosevelt come to rue Valentine’s Day? [/QUOTE] 1. Because his wife and mother both died on Valentine’s Day – and in the same year, too. It was this that led him to travel out West for a spell. ---
**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 16, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1280 "2008-02-16T03:55:28Z")
Correct, I am surprised our learned OPer didn’t ask that question. I kinda thought he was waiting until yesterday to ask it. American history & the Arts 846. This famous Thomas Hart Benton painting shows this famous American doing this. 1. George Caleb Bingham painted humorous scenes from early American frontier life, name one of the paintings. 2. The Star Spangled Banner is sung to the melody of this earlier song. 3. Julia Ward Howe’s _Battle Hymn of the Republic_ is sung to the melody of this tune. 4. Who starred in _Our American Cousin_ at Ford’s Theatre on that fateful night? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=63) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=65)