U.S. History trivia quiz

The Game Room
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  1. 160

  2. George Keenan

  3. Marcus Garvey

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The Anasazi people did not disappear, but rather the society did. I mean, it’s not like everyone vanished into thin air. They eventually became the Hopi and maybe some of the Pueblo Indians. I spent quite a bit of time at Anasazi sites in the Southwest way back when.

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  1. George F. Kennan (and I met him once in college!)
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U.S. ambassadors and diplomacy…

  1. As minister to Paris he charmed the French and, by implying that the new United States might strike a separate deal with Britain, insured vital French support for the war effort.
  2. Appointed by Bill Clinton, she was the first female Secretary of State.
  3. He served as U.S. ambassador to the UN, the first black man to do so, and was later elected mayor of Atlanta.
  4. A self-described conservative Democrat, she served as President Reagan’s first ambassador to the UN.
  5. The decoding and publication of this German diplomatic dispatch hastened U.S. entry into World War I. Why?
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  1. The Zimmerman Telegram was an attempt to seduce Mexico into siding with the Central Powers in the event that the US entered the war. ISTR that it included promises of German support for territorial concessions from the US to Mexico, but I couldn’t guess what was being offered.

Expired questions, and their answers:

  1. The Navy’s S3G prototype at the KAPL in West Milton, NY.
  1. The launch was the M/V Moxie. Something like 10 or more teens crowded into a launch meant for five or six at most.
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  1. As minister to Paris he charmed the French and, by implying that the new United States might strike a separate deal with Britain, insured vital French support for the war effort.
    Benjamin Franklin

  2. Appointed by Bill Clinton, she was the first female Secretary of State.
    Madeleine Albright

  3. He served as U.S. ambassador to the UN, the first black man to do so, and was later elected mayor of Atlanta.
    Andrew Young

  4. A self-described conservative Democrat, she served as President Reagan’s first ambassador to the UN.
    Jeanne Kirkpatrick

  5. He went on statewide TV, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, to indignantly show pictures of students being turned back by bayonet-wielding U.S. troops during his state’s most notable crisis of the Civil Rights Movement.
    Orval Faubus of Arkansas

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Thank you! I was going nuts. I knew she had the initials M. A., and all I could think of was Margaret Atwood. :slight_smile:

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All correct, and OtakuLoki is correct about the Zimmerman Telegram. IIRC, Mexico was promised the land it lost to the U.S. in the Mexican War.

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Sadly, a distant relative of mine. My mother came from Arkansas hillbilly stock, and my great-grandmother’s maiden name was Faubus.

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  1. Correct

  2. Correct except as to spelling.

  3. Correct.

And Julius Henry is correct: Beecher’s Bibles were rifles that the abolitionist Reverend Beecher smuggled into Kansas in boxes marked as containing Chritian holy books.

  1. Paul Morphy was 19th century America’s outstanding player of what game?

  2. What important transportation innovation did Frank Sprague pioneer?

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  1. Paul Morphy was 19th century America’s outstanding player of what game?

Chess

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  1. What railway innovation did Gustavus Swift use to revolutionize the Chicago meat-packing industry in the latter 19th century?

Refrigerated cars.

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Great battles in American history…

  1. Frustrated by the bungling of Gen. Charles Lee during this battle, George Washington lost his temper and swore so long and profanely that a witness said nearby trees shook.
  2. The victorious Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry wrote after this battle, “We have met the enemy and he is ours.”
  3. The Marine Corps remembers this Mexican War battle in its anthem.
  4. The Union’s strategic victory in this battle gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
  5. This bitter urban struggle of the Vietnam War is commemorated by the name of an Aegis missile cruiser.
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  1. Frustrated by the bungling of Gen. Charles Lee during this battle, George Washington lost his temper and swore so long and profanely that a witness said nearby trees shook.
    Brooklyn

  2. The victorious Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry wrote after this battle, “We have met the enemy and he is ours.” Lake Eire

  3. The Marine Corps remembers this Mexican War battle in its anthem.Monterey

  4. The Union’s strategic victory in this battle gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
    Antietim

  5. This bitter urban struggle of the Vietnam War is commemorated by the name of an Aegis missile cruiser. Tet?

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House Judiciary Committee during Nixon Impeachment hearings
403. NJ Democrat & Committee Chair

  1. NJ Republican & staunch defender of Nixon [odd last name]

  2. IL Republican would later chair an impeachment hearing

  3. MA Democrat & Roman Catholic priest [IIRC]

  4. ME Republican would later serve in Cabinet

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USS Hue City

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Fort Jefferson is on Key West. It’s historical significance is it was under Northern control during the war. However the prison is in the Dry Tortugas ,70 miles away accessable only by boat and air. I have visited both and Mudd did hard time. The prison is very depressing .

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  1. Incorrect.
  2. Um… incorrect. (Eire is the Gaelic term for Ireland).
  3. Well, I’m not sure. Can you quote the key phrase in the anthem? Then I’ll know if you’re right.
  4. Antietam, yes.
  5. Incorrect.
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Renumbered for consistency, given previous questions of those numbers.

  1. Peter Rodino.
  2. Dunno.
  3. Henry Hyde, recently deceased.
  4. Fr. Robert Drinan.
  5. William Cohen, SecDef in President Clinton’s second term.
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Correct. Lead U.S. warship of the International Naval Review in New York harbor about a decade ago, BTW.