U.S. History trivia quiz

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[QUOTE=Random]
187. During the Civil War, Northern Democrats who opposed the Lincoln Administration’s policies were called _____?

Copperheads
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Correct.

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[QUOTE=5 time champ]
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185. Before the Civil War, Northern politicians who were pro-Southern in their views and/or policies were called _____?
Democrats :stuck_out_tongue:
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Well, many were, yes, but that was hardly an “epithet” (any more than it is today, I guess I should say :wink: ).

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[QUOTE=Ignatz]
[189.] Members of what quasi-religious institution had an approximately $11,000,000 jury rule against them today?
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The Rev. Fred Phelps’s Baptist Church (does it count as U.S. history if it just happened today? :dubious: :wink: )

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[QUOTE=Frosted Glass]
180. What was the station name and location of the oldest educational television network in the country?
181. What was the name of the Civil War regiment immortalized in the movie Glory?
Bonus: What was the name of its commanding officer?
182. Which teams played in the first intercollegiate football game?
183. What canals first connected the Atlantic Ocean with the Mississippi River?
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  1. Lafayette and Lehigh?
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[QUOTE=denquixote]
182. Which teams played in the first intercollegiate football game? Lafayette and Lehigh?
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Sorry, that is incorrect.

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Army and Navy?

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[QUOTE=Frosted Glass]
Sorry, that is incorrect.
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How about a clue. Who were the starting QB’s?

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[QUOTE=Frosted Glass]
182. Which teams played in the first intercollegiate football game?
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Princeton and Rutgers?

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[QUOTE=denquixote]
How about a clue. Who were the starting QB’s?
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IIRC, Rutgers is definitely one of the teams; the other is an Ivy League school. Since the other is not Harvard, it is probably Yale then.

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
**These questions are, I believe, still unanswered. (And if I’ve overlooked any, please let me know).
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17. This French ambassador annoyed President Washington by his indiscreet revolutionary diplomacy and schmoozing, and was eventually asked to leave.

  1. What flag, first raised in Cambridge, Mass. in early 1776, is considered by many historians to be the country’s first national flag?

  2. Who swore [George Washington] in [as President for his first term]?

  3. What color was Washington’s suit (discussed in another recent SDMB thread, believe it or not)?

  4. Teddy’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, is believed by many literary experts to have been one of the inspirations for what iconic fictional character?

  5. Who served first as one of Lincoln’s aides, and later as TR’s Secretary of State?

  6. The British ambassador once said humorously of TR, “You must always remember that the President is __________ ___.”

  7. The Ft. Sumter flag, flown over the fort at both the beginning and the end of the Civil War, had how many stars in a distinctive diamond pattern?

  8. This surveyor’s misspelled last name became the name of what major American city?
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As I think these have still gone unanswered, I’ll answer them here:

  1. Citizen Genet
  2. The Grand Union flag
  3. Robert Livingston, Chancellor of New York State
  4. Brown
  5. Just guessing here… Scarlett O’Hara?
  6. John Hay
  7. “about six”
  8. 33
  9. Moses Cleaveland
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[QUOTE=kidchameleon]
Princeton and Rutgers?
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Correct!

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
The Rev. Fred Phelps’s Baptist Church (does it count as U.S. history if it just happened today? :dubious: :wink: )
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Correct.

I think it is an historical event, modern history. Sorry if I have misjudged the category.

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[QUOTE=Ignatz]
…I think it is an historical event, modern history. Sorry if I have misjudged the category.
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Naw, I just jokin’. It was certainly the most recent historical question asked yet, though!

Know your failed presidential candidates?

  1. John Quincy Adams defeated this man for President in 1824.
  2. James Buchanan defeated this gentleman in 1856.
  3. Lincoln defeated this guy in 1864.
  4. James A. Garfield defeated this fella in 1880.
  5. FDR defeated this dude in 1940.
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
189. John Quincy Adams defeated this man for President in 1824.
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Andrew Jackson. (Who, while he has some humanizing qualities, cannot be described as a “good” loser.)

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Naw, I just jokin’. It was certainly the most recent historical question asked yet, though!

Know your failed presidential candidates?

  1. John Quincy Adams defeated this man for President in 1824.
  2. James Buchanan defeated this gentleman in 1856.
  3. Lincoln defeated this guy in 1864.
  4. James A. Garfield defeated this fella in 1880.
  5. FDR defeated this dude in 1940.
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Trick question, they’re all Henry Clay! :wink:

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[QUOTE=kidchameleon]
Trick question, they’re all Henry Clay! :wink:
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Henry Clay: Statesman, Orator, Undead Monster from Beyond the Grave

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[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
Andrew Jackson. (Who, while he has some humanizing qualities, cannot be described as a “good” loser.)
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Correct, and then some.

And kidchameleon, although Clay ran repeatedly, he’s not the right answer to any of these! There. No more hints.

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[QUOTE=Frosted Glass]

  1. What was the name of the Civil War regiment immortalized in the movie Glory?
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Mass 54th

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Correct, and then some.

And kidchameleon, although Clay ran repeatedly, he’s not the right answer to any of these! There. No more hints.
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Elendil’s Heir, I can’t speak to any of the other elections - but didn’t J.Q. Adams win in 1824 because the election went from the Electoral College where Jackson had the largest number of votes, but not a clear majority, to the House, where Clay used his influence to engineer a victory for Adams? And hadn’t Clay been the third ranked winner of Electoral votes in that race? And Jackson’s bitterness lead him to make all sorts of accusations about an unholy deal where Adams had promised that Clay would follow him in the Presidency, if Clay secured the Presidency for Adams. (Not that there seems to have been such a deal, just that Jackson - and his partisans - made the claim, after Clay got the position of Secretary of State.)

Sorry, recently I did some reading on Clay when I was looking up Frederick Douglass, and that seems to have stuck in my mind.

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  1. John Quincy Adams defeated this man for President in 1824.

Jackson.

  1. James Buchanan defeated this gentleman in 1856.

Fremont.

  1. Lincoln defeated this guy in 1864.

McClellan.
193. FDR defeated this dude in 1940.

Willkie