U.S. History trivia quiz

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For the Abigail Adams quote, was she talking about Washington?

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Correct! GW himself.

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Sorry, that’s wrong (though I can understand why some might think that’s right). Another president had a presidential library before Franklin Roosevelt, who came second in this context.

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Grover Cleveland.

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Maine

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  1. Secretary of State–in which capacity he didn’t get the commissions delivered!
  2. Pompey
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That would be the grand old State of Maine. Where he later became Governor.

That would be the Triangle fire in NYC where dozens of women died because they were essentially locked into their workplace.

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  1. Secretary of State
  2. Hmm, need teh internets for this one.
  3. Maine
  4. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
  5. Cleveland
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Damn, late on all but the one I didn’t know. Well, it was Jean Baptiste.

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**13. ** An easy one, immortalized in song. What battle was fought on US soil after the war had ended?

**14. ** Slightly harder - in what US state was oil first produced as a commercial product.

**15. ** The toughy! Which US Vice President was once quoted as saying, “The Vice Presidency of the US is not worth a pitcher full of warm spit!”?

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  1. Battle of New Orleans
  2. Pennsylvania
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All guesses since my last post are correct, I believe.

  1. It was FDR’s first VP, John Nance Garner (usually inaccurately quoted as “spit” and not “piss”).
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  1. I’m gonna guess Teddy Roosevelt. Sounds like him. Now I’ll look it up.
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No, don’t! You might see something you’ll be tempted to use as a question!

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  1. The War of 1812
  2. Pennsylvania (Quaker State)
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Oooooo. :smack:

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  1. This first Treasury Secretary was nearly undone by a sex scandal.
  2. This French ambassador annoyed President Washington by his indiscreet revolutionary diplomacy and schmoozing, and was eventually asked to leave.
  3. This was the largest earthquake ever recorded in the American Midwest (and might be again, someday).
  4. A young man, later to become much more famous, sang with a choir at the movie premiere of Gone with the Wind. Who was he?
  5. What was the name of JFK’s small warship in WW2?
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I know this one! It’s PT-109.

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  1. New Madrid (accent on the ‘a’)
  2. PT 109

Must dash, dammit. This is fun.

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Both correct (RandMcnally, too).