U.S. History trivia quiz

The Game Room
601
  1. The fine wooden recreational boats of this American manufacturer were recently honored on U.S. postage stamps.
    Chris-Craft

Would that I had the money…

602
  1. The Savannah. Actually, she was a hybrid vessel - cargo and very posh passenger accomodations.
603

All correct as to civilian ships so far.

(Hey, I don’t have to be the only one posting questions here! If you haven’t already done so, please read the OP. Then post up to five questions of your own at a time.)

604

I know. But, somehow, asking what design of reactor/steam plant was aboard the Savannah seems to go beyond trivia and all the way into obsession. :wink:
I’ll try to think of some more for today.

605

Since you left me the easiest one:
328. Robert Fulton’s first small steam-powered ship was named this.
Clermont
Trying to think of some more questions, don’t know where Elendil’s Heir is coming up with all of these

606
  1. Not sure if this is properly phrased but, Which Amendment in the Bill of Rights is the least interpreted by the Supreme Court?

Girls Gone Wild
334. Powerful House Ways & Means Chairman Wilbur Mills career ended when he landed in the Tidal Basin with this “Argentinean Firecracker”?

  1. Name the Three Bimbos, i.e. the three attractive women involved in very high profile scandals in the mid-1980s.
607

  1. What was the only US submarine to ahem boast a liquid sodium cooled reactor plant?

  2. What New England writer gained notoriety for his work to bring Christmas gifts to the families of lighthouse keepers? (Talk about outdated charities, btw…)

  3. What was the original goal of The March of Dimes?

608

  1. What was the only US submarine to ahem boast a liquid sodium cooled reactor plant?
    Nautilus??

  2. What was the original goal of The March of Dimes?
    find cure/vaccine for polio

609
  1. Nope.
  2. Yes.
610

Hmm- then I will make one other guess USS Jimmy Carter?

611

No, sorry.

612
  1. Oh, the last voyage of the whaler Essex is remembered for two notorious episodes. Obviously, one of them is that the ship was sunk by a whale ramming it, as mentioned above. What was the other notorious act that made the story of the Essex survivors so dramatic?
613

Correct as to the Clermont. And I’m cursed/blessed with a near-boundless store of American history trivia in my head!

614

The survivors’ resort to cannibalism? (I read the book In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick a few years ago).

  1. USS Thresher (just a guess).
615

  1. The Ninth Amendment.

  2. Fawn Hall (Oliver North’s secretary) and Donna Rice (Gary Hart’s maybe-lover), then the lady who extorted Jim Bakker and brought down PTL. Can’t remember her name - give me partial credit if you must! :wink:

616

Yes for the survivor’s cannibalism. AIUI, what was particularly shocking to society upon their return was that they admitted it, not simply that it happened.

  1. Nope. Thresher had a PWR.
617

To build off your answer: Wasn’t the third woman Jessica Hahn?

618

  1. I was thinking of another one than the Ninth. The subject came up in GD or GQ not too long ago, and a different amendment in the Bill of Rights was the consensus.

  2. Elendil’s Heir and OtakuLoki working together are correct.

619

Fanne Foxe (or something like that) was her stage name; I do not remember her real name.

620

That’s good enough- can’t remember her real name either.