U.S. History trivia quiz

The Game Room
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Thank you, 5 time champ.

Let us not forget the women:

  1. This black “poetess” (to use the terminology of the day) once met General Washington, about whom she wrote a poem.
  2. This abolitionist famously asked, “Ain’t I a woman?”
  3. This suffrage advocate gave her last name to the pants which she and like-minded women wore to celebrate their freedom from cumbersome petticoats and dresses.
  4. She banned alcohol from the White House.
  5. Pro-suffrage women gathered in this New York village to adopt a “Declaration of Sentiments.”
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Just guessing.

  1. Yogi Berra.
  2. Ben Hogan.
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Lemonade Lucy Hayes

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  1. Phyllis Wheatley
  2. Sojourner Truth
  3. Bloomer (first name Susan?)
  4. Seneca Falls
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Correctamundo.

Ditto to Freddy the Pig. Well done!

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Nothing to add, just want to thank Freddy the Pig for correcting and expanding on my previous answer, and fighting my own ignorance.

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  1. correct
  2. wrong
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  1. Bloomer, Amelia
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Yeah, I thought Susan might be wrong . . . I think I was thinking of Susan Butcher!

To paraphrase Cecil, public service is my only goal!

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True Crime trivia.

  1. Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered this prison closed in 1962 when it became cost-ineffective.
  2. What are O.J. Simpson’s actual first and middle names?
  3. He was J. Edgar Hoover’s longtime aide and, some think, gay lover, and is now buried near his late boss.
  4. She was the first woman ever executed by the U.S. Government.
  5. Besides protecting the President and other VIPs, what are the Secret Service’s two other major responsibilities?
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  1. Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered this prison closed in 1962 when it became cost-ineffective.
    Alcatraz

  2. What are O.J. Simpson’s actual first and middle names?
    Orenthal James

  3. She was the first woman ever executed by the U.S. Government.
    Mary Surat, although I wonder if I should have gone with the first name that came to mind

  4. Besides protecting the President and other VIPs, what are the Secret Service’s two other major responsibilities?
    Counterfeiting , er anti-counterfeiting is one

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  1. Clyde Tolson
  2. Ethel Rosenbrg
  3. Protecting foreign dignitaries, investigating counterfeiting
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  1. Correct.
  2. Correct.
  3. Mary Suratt, yes. One of the alleged Lincoln conspirators (the case against her was pretty weak, though).
  4. Yabbut… half a point.
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  1. True.
  2. False.
  3. Yes on the first (although I already said “protecting… other VIPs”), yes on the second. But the USSS has a third duty, relatively recently imposed.
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  1. Name the star, his character’s name and the name of the 1950’s series about an FBI agent who infiltrated the Communist party.

  2. Name the theater where John Dillinger was shot.

  3. Name the owner of the steel mill where the Homestead strike took place where many strikers and strike-breaking Pinkertons were killed.

  4. Name the murderer of Stanford White who had the first “brainstorm.”

  5. Name the murderer of Harvey Milk, which paved the way for the ascension of Dianne Feinstein. How did the newspapers characterize his defense?

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  1. The Biograph.

  2. Harry Thaw.

  3. First off, it’s murder of George Moscone that resulted in Feinstein’s rise. To actually answer the question, the murderer of Milk and Moscone was Dan White, and his defense became known as the “Twinkie defense”

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  1. Which African nation has a capital named after a US president?
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  1. Monrovia Liberia?
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  1. correct
  2. correct
  3. dan white and twinkie correct, the rest, arguable.
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No, it’s Egypt, whose capital was named after President Joe Cairo.

No, wait! I mean Correct! Named after James Monroe. Liberia was founded by freed slaves from the US.