# 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:** 76
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1501 "2008-03-21T17:50:40Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] Eponymous Acts of Congress, what are they about? Glass-Stegal Act, kinda been in the news lately [/QUOTE] Numbering that one 1042. Isn’t that the banking act that prohibits interlocking directorates? ---
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[QUOTE=5 time champ] Eponymous Acts of Congress, what are they about? [1042.] Glass-Stegal Act, kinda been in the news lately [1043.] Taft-Hartley [1044.] Humphrey-Hawkins [1045.] Sarbannes-Oxley [1046.] Clayton Act :smack: Daniel Sickles, Sykes was also a Corps commander- but didn’t kill his wife’s lover AFAIK [/QUOTE] 1. Passed by Congress over Truman’s veto, it guides labor-management relations, requires “cooling-off periods,” etc. 2. Sarbanes-Oxley requires more rigorous accounting standards by Big Business. Yes, it was Sickles. ---
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Sorry about the numbering, I usually compose the questions in TextEdit and then paster them in. 1. Correct, the first major federal bank regulation, it also limited banks from getting into other business. The question was brought to mind earlier this week by a board member of the not-for-profit for which I work. We were talking about the BearStearns meltdown, and someone said, “They never should have repealed the Glass Stegel Act.” 2. Correct 3. Correct, often discussed and Pitted here on the Dope ---
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[QUOTE=5 time champ] … 1044. Correct, often discussed and Pitted here on the Dope [/QUOTE] Just to be clear, I answered 1045, not 1044. ---
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1. It’s a bill that set a bunch of requirements on the Federal Reserve and the federal government in terms of monetary policy and employment goals. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1506 "2008-03-22T00:30:40Z")
1. William Walker became one of America’s most famous “filibusters” when he led a private army to invade what country? 2. What was the English name of the Indian chief (“sachem”) who led a major attack on the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the late 17th century, starting with a massacre of colonists at Deerfield? 3. What former Communist denounced Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy? 4. Who was the French admiral whose fleet blocked the Royal Navy from evacuating Cornwallis from Yorktown? 5. In what town and colony did the bloodiest slave rebellion of the 18th century British-American colonies take place? ---
**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:** [March 22, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1507 "2008-03-22T01:11:52Z")
1. It could be three: His failed attempt to take over Baja California, his briefly becoming President of Nicaragua, or the attempt to take over British Honduras (now Belize) that resulted in his execution. 2. Whittaker Chambers. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1508 "2008-03-22T02:49:59Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 1047. It could be three: His failed attempt to take over Baja California, his briefly becoming President of Nicaragua, or the attempt to take over British Honduras (now Belize) that resulted in his execution. 1. Whittaker Chambers. [/QUOTE] 2. Not one of my best questions there. It was Nicaragua I was thinking of. 3. Correct. ---
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1. What was the English name of the Indian chief (“sachem”) who led a major attack on the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the late 17th century, starting with a massacre of colonists at Deerfield? King Philip 2. Who was the French admiral whose fleet blocked the Royal Navy from evacuating Cornwallis from Yorktown? DeGrasse All correct on the Acts, except the unanswered Clayton Act. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1510 "2008-03-23T13:27:38Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 1048. What was the English name of the Indian chief (“sachem”) who led a major attack on the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the late 17th century, starting with a massacre of colonists at Deerfield? King Philip 1. Who was the French admiral whose fleet blocked the Royal Navy from evacuating Cornwallis from Yorktown? DeGrasse [/QUOTE] Very good. ---
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Harry Truman becomes President, April 1945. 1. Who was hosting him when he got the call to go to the White House? 2. What was he having to drink? 3. Who told him FDR had died? 4. Who (by name AND title) swore him in? 5. Where was he sworn in? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1512 "2008-03-24T01:45:18Z")
Well, you stumped me on the Man from Independence, I don’t have a clue on any of them. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1513 "2008-03-24T01:48:19Z")
The following is a list of political movements (largely, but not solely, parties) attached, either solely or predominantly, to one state. Name the state: 1. The Non-Partisan League. 2. The Progressive Party (1930s). 3. The Union Labor Party. 4. The Farmer-Labor Party. 5. The Law & Order Party. ---
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1. The Progressive Party (1930s). Wisconsin 2. The Farmer-Labor Party. The Democratic Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota ---
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[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 1059. The Union Labor Party. [/QUOTE] Michigan? ---
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[QUOTE=5 time champ] All correct on the Acts, except the unanswered Clayton Act. [/QUOTE] Is that the same as the Clayton Antitrust Act? If so, then forbids businesses from participating in cartel/monopoly-like behavior in restraint of free trade. ---
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**5 time champ** : Correct on both, but a bit confused on Farmer-Labor; they were an independent party from the late 1910s to the early 1940s. **Really Not All That Bright** : Incorrect on 1059. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1518 "2008-03-24T02:52:35Z")
Malaprops and putdowns 1062. At the 1976 Democratic Convention Jimmy Carter mispronounced the name of this ethnic group. 1. May have happened at the 1980 convention not sure, Carter rather hilariously mangled the name of the very famous Democrat. 2. In the 1976 campaign Ronald Reagan mistakenly referred to President Gerald Ford as one of these. 3. In turn, on Saturday Night Live, Chevy Chase referred to Ronald Reagan as this? 4. This candidate was mocked at “looking like the little groom on a wedding cake.” ---
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**RNATB** correct on the Clayton Act **Guv Quinn** The Democratic Party was officially known as the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party for a long time. So that was a bit of a guess. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1520 "2008-03-24T14:03:16Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] Malaprops and putdowns … 1063. May have happened at the 1980 convention not sure, Carter rather hilariously mangled the name of the very famous Democrat. … 1066. This candidate was mocked at “looking like the little groom on a wedding cake.” [/QUOTE] 1. Building to a crescendo in an introduction, Carter referred to "Hubert Horatio Hornblower… _Humphrey!"_ 2. Tom Dewey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=75) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=77)