# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 78
**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:** [April 7, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1541 "2008-04-07T16:24:20Z")
That is not the case I am thinking about. IIRC, Gideon mandated court-appointed attorneys for the accused. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1542 "2008-04-07T17:04:41Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] That is not the case I am thinking about. IIRC, Gideon mandated court-appointed attorneys for the accused. [/QUOTE] The only other case I could think of was _Escobedo v. Somewhere Colder than Florida_ (Michigan? Ohio?), but that one centers on the right to counsel too, I think. Been awhile since I took Con Law… and it might just be one I’d never heard of. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1543 "2008-04-07T17:39:20Z")
Escobedo v Illinois [Illinois isn’t that cold] Hmm- I thought Miranda codified what Escobedo started. But the only Con Law I ever took was in high school, more than 35 years ago :eek: ---
**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:** [April 7, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1544 "2008-04-07T17:47:28Z")
Although **Elendil’s Heir** stumped me on his earlier questions about Harry Truman, here’s a few more about the Man from Independence 1. This future mayor of St Louis often told the story of the time he shined a customer’s shoes at St Louis Union Station. The shoe shiner was surprised to note it was Harry Truman whose shoes he was shining. 2. Bess Truman was said not to have allowed this political ally of Truman into the Truman’s private residence in Independence. Her prejudice seems very strange today. 3. Truman was an early proponent of this, an issue we are still wresting with, more than 50 years later. 4. This Kansas City political boss that got Truman started in politics. 5. The boss was instrumental getting Truman elected to this position before he was elected to the US Senate. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1545 "2008-04-07T17:54:17Z")
1. Was it his Jewish haberdashery partner, Lou Jacobs, IIRC? 2. Ensuring Israel’s security; he was the first world leader to grant diplomatic recognition. 3. Pendergast. 4. County judge (the equivalent of county commissioner elsewhere). ---
**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:** [April 7, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1546 "2008-04-07T19:24:34Z")
1. Eddie Jacobs, IIRC 2. Correct, though I was thinking about his proposal for some kind of national health insurance program. correct on the other two also. ## Not sure that most St Louisans could come up with 1077. I also note that a post in a **GD** thread says that Escobedo v Illinois guaranteed the accused legal counsel during police interrogation. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1547 "2008-04-07T19:44:11Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] I also note that a post in a **GD** thread says that Escobedo v Illinois guaranteed the accused legal counsel during police interrogation. [/QUOTE] Okay, I see what you’re saying. Carry on. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091/1548 "2008-04-08T15:06:58Z")
OK, here are the answers to the as-yet unanswered questions. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. John Glenn hailed from this Ohio town. 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.” These Presidency-defining catchphrases are associated with which men? 739. The New Foundation Identify these notable Americans by their nicknames. 751. Bunny (hint: it was a President) Give the first name of the First Lady. 753. McKinley Historic American aviation. 758. This type of antique aircraft was, until recently, long used for cargo and passenger flights to South Bass Island in Lake Erie. Who said it? Bonus points for context. 771. “One war at a time.” 772. “This generation has a rendezvous with destiny.” 773. “The tree of Liberty is plant of rapid growth.” 775. “Who is that _awful_ man?” Identify these famous U.S. Army units. 777. This Ohio infantry regiment is famous for its devastating flanking fire during Pickett’s Charge. Noteworthy flags of American history. 796. The Ohio state flag has how many stars on it, and why? 798. At Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on his way to Washington, President-elect Abraham Lincoln ceremonially raised a new American flag with how many stars on it? 799. The earliest-known colonial battle flag of the American Revolution featured what body part? 800. King George III’s Royal Standard featured what two animals? Famous forts. 802. The first fort to surrender during the Civil War to a naval force unsupported by ground troops. 805. This was the closest major fort to Custer’s 7th Cavalry during the Little Big Horn campaign. Who said it? Extra credit for context. 806. “Give me a one-armed economist. All of my economists say, ‘On the one hand… but then again, on the other…’” 807. “Most of the work of [the person’s Cabinet post] could just as easily be performed by an animatronic robot.” Civil War slang. 834. A bungling, unlucky solder was called a \_\_\_\_\_\_. 836. A soldier might visit a brothel to “enjoy a little horizontal \_\_\_\_\_\_.” On Capitol Hill. 840. What was Sen. John Tower (R-Texas) once unflatteringly named by female Congressional staffers? 841. The Congressional newspaper (not the _Record_) is called this. 844. Name the massive painting which covers the interior of the Capitol dome, over the Rotunda. 1. Who painted the best-known version of “Washington Crossing the Delaware”? Some questions about the Father of His Country. 859. In the earliest-known painting of Washington, what is he wearing? 860. He built Ft. Necessity near this present-day Pennsylvania town. 862. This was his first elective public office. When the U.S. and Great Britain nearly went to war, during our own Civil War… 882. This U.S. warship stopped the British ship [_Trent_] and removed [two Confederate] diplomats at gunpoint. What President is associated with these places? 887. Spiegel Grove 889. Lawnfield More Presidential places. Who’s most commonly associated with these locales? 895. Palm Beach 897. Anderson Cottage Who said it? As always, bonus points for context. 905. “Well, he wouldn’t steal a hot stove.” 908. “The impossible we do right away; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” [More about the Presidency] 910. Name the Federal judge swore in LBJ on Nov. 22, 1963. 913. Harry Truman reacted badly to what _Washington Post_ music critic, and why? [His or her name, please] 914. Who bought the first White House china to actually feature pictures of the house itself? Who said it? Bonus points for context. 920. “A first-class temperament but a second-rate mind.” 922. “Let us never forget that this a _Constitution_ we are interpreting.” 923. “I could carve a better judge out of a banana.” The U.S. Constitution. 926. American public officials of what level(s) of government must swear an oath to the Constitution? Anchors aweigh! The U.S. Navy. 931. A young David Farragut served aboard this ship, captured by the British during the War of 1812. 933. He was the highest-ranking officer of the Continental Navy. Where were they born? 936. George G. Meade, victor of Gettysburg 937. Phil Sheridan, Civil War cavalry genius 938. Clark Gable, movie star 939. George A. Custer, slain at Little Big Horn Who most famously said it? Bonus points for context. 942. “I’ve never wished anyone dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction.” 944. “This election is not about ideology, it’s about competence.” Famous ships of American history. 956. This Confederate commerce raider was burning Yankee whaling ships in the far north several months after Lee surrendered. More on impeachment. 965. How many Cabinet secretaries in U.S. history have been impeached, convicted and removed from office? Vermont history. 970. The great Vermont flood of 1927 resulted in the accidental death of this state official. 971. This noted American author used the flood as the backdrop of one of his stories. Extra credit: what was the story? Some more Ohio history. 982. He invented the traffic light and the gas mask. 984. \_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_ was Ohio’s first Civil War governor. 985. Draft resisters in what Ohio county briefly staged a near-comical rebellion in 1863? The Presidency. 998. His poker games included White House staff, senators and his pal the Chief Justice. 999. He wore a ring containing some of Abraham Lincoln’s hair at his inauguration. 1000. He approved the last military execution of a convicted serviceman in U.S. history. [A reminder: it was not FDR/Truman and the Eddie Slovik execution] 1001. He is buried in Hollywood Cemetery. Who said it? Bonus points for context. 1003. “The buck doesn’t even slow down here.” 1005. “How is the horse?” Which Presidents owned these dogs? 1015. Sweetlips Famous American criminals, alleged or otherwise. 1038. When arrested, he was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Lincoln, crosshairs over the President’s forehead and the words, “Sic semper tyrannus.” Harry Truman becomes President, April 1945. 1052. Who was hosting him when he got the call to go to the White House? 1053. What was he having to drink? 1054. Who told him FDR had died? 1055. Who (by name AND title) swore him in? 1056. Where was he sworn in? The Vice Presidency. 1069. How many stars, in total, appear on the current Vice Presidential flag? 1070. The national museum of the Vice Presidency is in what state? 1071. Ross Perot’s campaign considered this man as a running mate in 1992 until it was pointed out that he was, in fact, dead. On Capitol Hill. 1073. This Italian immigrant painted many of the Capitol’s wall and ceiling murals. 1076. Who dedicated the cornerstone of the Capitol, and what was unusual about his attire that day? [/QUOTE] 1. New Concord, Ohio 2. Arthur Burns, Fed Chair in the LBJ-Nixon years 3. George Washington 4. Roy Cohn 5. Jimmy Carter 6. “Bunny” was Jackie Kennedy’s pet name for JFK 7. Ida 8. Ford Trimotor aircraft 9. Abraham Lincoln, when war with Britain seemed to be looming during the _Trent_ Incident 10. FDR, accepting the Democratic nomination in 1932 11. George Washington, just after the Revolution 12. FDR’s mom Sara Roosevelt, asked in a loud stage whisper while Huey Long was visiting Hyde Park. 13. The 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, largely composed of Irish dockworkers from Cleveland 14. 17 stars, as Ohio was the 17th state 15. 34 stars - Kansas had just joined the Union 16. An armored arm and gauntlet 17. The lions of England and Scotland, and the white horse of Hanover 18. Ft. Henry 19. Ft. Abraham Lincoln 20. Truman, in frustration at the mixed economic advice he got 21. Robert Reich, Clinton’s Secretary of Labor, in his memoir _Locked in the Cabinet_ 22. Jonah 23. “refreshment” 24. “Senator with whom we’d least like to be stuck alone on an elevator” 25. _Roll Call_ (which did the poll referred to in the preceding question) 26. _The Apotheosis of George Washington_ 27. Emmanuel Leutze 28. Virginia militia uniform (blue with red facings) 29. Uniontown, Pa. 30. Virginia House of Burgesses 31. USS _San Jacinto_ 32. Hayes 33. Garfield 34. JFK, who often stayed at his dad’s house there 35. Lincoln, who spent many summer days on the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home; Anderson Cottage was recently restored and reopened 36. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, said skeptically of Secretary of War nominee and fellow Pennsylvanian Simon Cameron, when asked just how crooked he was 37. Henry Kissinger, spoofing the Seebees’ motto, “The difficult we do right away; the impossible takes a little longer.” 38. Sara T. Hughes 39. Paul Hume 40. The Clintons, in time for the White House bicentennial in 2000 41. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., describing FDR 42. Chief Justice John Marshall 43. Theodore Roosevelt, describing O.W. Holmes 44. Public officials at _all_ levels of American government, local, state and Federal, swear an oath to the U.S. Constitution, as required therein 45. USS _Essex_ 46. Commodore Esek Hopkins 47. Cadiz, Spain 48. Accounts differ: either in Ireland, during the Atlantic crossing with his parents, or in New York City. No one knows for sure. 49. Cadiz, Ohio 50. New Rumley, Ohio 51. Clarence Darrow 52. Mike Dukakis 53. CSS _Shenandoah_ 54. None. Grant’s SecWar Belknap came closest, but he resigned before being removed by an impeachment verdict 55. The lieutenant governor of Vermont, whose car was caught in floodwaters and he drowned (some accounts suggest he may have been drunk) 56. H.P. Lovecraft, “The Whisperer in Darkness” 57. Garrett Morgan, a noted black inventor 58. William Dennison 59. “Ft. Fizzle” in Harrison County 60. Truman 61. Theodore Roosevelt; the ring was lent to him by a political ally 62. JFK 63. John Tyler is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, where the Southern elite have long been interred, in Richmond, Va. 64. According to the _Washington Post_, this sign was seen in the hearing room during the Iran-Contra hearings 65. TR to Taft, after Taft had telegrammed, “Just had a long morning ride and I feel wonderful!” 66. George Washington 67. Timothy McVeigh, immediately after the Oklahoma City bombing 68. Speaker Sam Rayburn and his Congressional pals, dubbed “the Board of Education” 69. Bourbon and branch water 70. Eleanor Roosevelt 71. Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone 72. The Cabinet Room 73. 17 stars - one in each corner, and 13 over the eagle’s head 74. Indiana 75. William French Smith 76. Constantino Brumidi, an Italian immigrant 77. George Washington, in full Masonic garb including a ceremonial apron [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/424091.md?page=77)