# 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:** 66
**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 17, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1301 "2008-02-17T01:29:38Z")
1. Yes, defandant: Abbie Hoffman, presiding judge \_\_\_\_\_ Hoffman 2. 'bound and gagged, and they chained him to a chair." not Abbie Hoffman. BTW, this line comes from “(Won’t you please come to) Chicago” by Graham Nash. 3. Tom Hayden later married Jane “The C-word” Fonda 4. William Kunstler is correct ---
**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 17, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1302 "2008-02-17T01:32:31Z")
Hayden also went on to become a US senator. Is he still one? ---
**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 17, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1303 "2008-02-17T03:17:15Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Hayden also went on to become a US senator. Is he still one? [/QUOTE] A California state senator - never a U.S. senator. ---
**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 17, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1304 "2008-02-17T04:28:45Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] You are right about Ashokan Farewell. The song was written for New England folk dance camps. The song is about meeting and then saying good bye to old friends. Ashoka is in upstate New York, which is why I asked **Saratoga Sam**. [/QUOTE] Sheesh, I should pay more attention to local geography… ---
**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 17, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1305 "2008-02-17T12:57:23Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] A California state senator - never a U.S. senator. [/QUOTE] Ah yes. Thanks. ---
**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 18, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1306 "2008-02-18T17:51:08Z")
1. What was a Nantucket Sleigh Ride? 2. What was mark twain? 3. What were hoover handkerchiefs? 4. What’s the dead man’s hand? 5. What were Beecher’s Bibles? ---
**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 18, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1307 "2008-02-18T18:35:02Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 868. What was a Nantucket Sleigh Ride? 1. What was mark twain? 2. What were hoover handkerchiefs? 3. What’s the dead man’s hand? 4. What were Beecher’s Bibles? [/QUOTE] 5. Two fathoms of water (for riverboats on the Mississipi) 6. Aces and Eights, the hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he got shot ---
**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 18, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1308 "2008-02-18T18:54:10Z")
yep ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1309 "2008-02-18T19:08:40Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 868. What was a Nantucket Sleigh Ride? 1. What were Beecher’s Bibles? [/QUOTE] 2. A Nantucket Sleigh Ride was what happened when the first harpoon went into a while, during a whaling hunt. The whale would take off, and since the harpoon was tied to the whaleboat, the whaleboat would be pulled along by the whale. It was dangerous, and very exciting. Esp. with a deep diving species, like the sperm whale, the risk was that the whale would drag the boat under. 1. These were rifles. I can’t recall why Beecher was shipping them in crates marked Bibles, but… ---
**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 19, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1310 "2008-02-19T02:12:12Z")
1. Correct, Nantucket Sleigh Ride was also a song by Mountain. That’s where I fist heard of it. 2. Rev. Henry Beecher, father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was sending those rifles to Bleeding Kansas, IIRC. ---
**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 19, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1311 "2008-02-19T02:45:06Z")
Catching up on various and sundry questions 1. This Midwestern Senator, known for his expertise at securing federal appropriations for his state, has been quoted, “I’ll bring the pork, and the BBQ sauce, too!.” Christopher 'Kit" Bond of Missouri Illinois 728. Actress Mary Astor, serial killer “Double O Swango”, and Enola Gay all hail from this small Mississippi River city in Illinois. Also the home of Maid Rites, and a certain Jeopardy! champion: Quincy, IL 1. Back in the 18th century, the village in Illinois was the center of government for a good part of New France. Cahokia 2. 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. Thompson’s first term was only 2 years. This was make the term of the governor run opposite of the term of President. 791 This connects Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks John D Rockefller Parkway 794 The Gateway Arch is this type of curve Inverted catenary curve; a catenary is the curve formed a chain hanging free from two points 795 The Three Corner Stone is a feature of this National Historic Park North Carolina, Kentucky & Virginia all meet at the Three Corner Stone in Cumberland Gap Nat’l Historic Park 1. Where was the famous “Dewey defeats Truman” photo taken? Union Station in St Louis 2. Who was the first recipient of the so-called artificial heart? Barney Clarke 3. This famous Thomas Hart Benton painting shows this famous American doing this. Daniel Boone crossing the continental divide ---
**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 19, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1312 "2008-02-19T03:46:45Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] … 794 The Gateway Arch is this type of curve Inverted catenary curve; a catenary is the curve formed a chain hanging free from two points… [/QUOTE] That’s right! I should’ve known that; my eldest son wrote a school report on the Gateway Arch earlier this year. :smack: What were their middle names? 1. Warren Harding 2. Rutherford Hayes 3. Ulysses Grant (at birth) 4. Ulysses Grant (by the time he graduated from West Point, and thereafter) 5. Dwight Eisenhower ---
**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 19, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1313 "2008-02-19T03:53:59Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] That’s right! I should’ve known that; my eldest son wrote a school report on the Gateway Arch earlier this year. :smack: What were their middle names? 1. Warren Harding 2. Rutherford Hayes 3. Ulysses Grant (at birth) 4. Ulysses Grant (by the time he graduated from West Point, and thereafter) 5. Dwight Eisenhower [/QUOTE] 6. Gamiel 7. Birchard 8. Ulyssess; his first name was Hiram. 9. Simpson 10. David ---
**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 19, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1314 "2008-02-19T03:55:42Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 877. Dwight Eisenhower [/QUOTE] 1. David Now one of mine along the same lines: 1. Harry Truman. EDIT: Um, 5 Time, your numbering has gone askew. ---
**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 19, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1315 "2008-02-19T04:10:46Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 873. Gamiel 874. Birchard [875.] Ulyssess; his first name was Hiram. [876.] Simpson [877.] David [/QUOTE] All correct except 873 and 875 (which are close). 1. Simply “S,” which stood for nothing in particular, although he had both Shippe and Solomon kin. ---
**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 19, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1316 "2008-02-19T04:41:08Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 878. Simply “S,” which stood for nothing in particular, although he had both Shippe and Solomon kin. [/QUOTE] Correct. I believe I heard he simply thought a president should have a middle initial. ---
**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 19, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1317 "2008-02-19T14:36:53Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 870. What were hoover handkerchiefs? [/QUOTE] I’m guessing they were the bedsheets used to tie up bindles by the many people made homeless during the Depression? ---
**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 19, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1318 "2008-02-19T15:50:00Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] I’m guessing they were the bedsheets used to tie up bindles by the many people made homeless during the Depression? [/QUOTE] Close, they were empty pants pockets turned inside out. ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1319 "2008-02-19T16:38:44Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. Dwight Eisenhower [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Siam Sam] 877. David [/QUOTE] Similar to Grant, he changed his middle name. IHe was born David Dwight Eisenhower. Similarly, 1. What was Gerald Ford’s name at birth? [ETA- corrected number] ---
**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 19, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1320 "2008-02-19T19:04:02Z")
[QUOTE=Petey] Similar to Grant, he changed his middle name. IHe was born David Dwight Eisenhower. Similarly, 1. What was Gerald Ford’s name at birth? [ETA- corrected number] [/QUOTE] Leslie Lynch King [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=65) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=67)