U.S. History trivia quiz

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721

So far as I can tell, nobody ever answered this one.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. From Thomas Paine’s The Crisis. A pamphlet that was of infinite comfort and inspiration to me on the first Wednesday of November, 2004.

722

A potpourri of ethnic mobsters in American History
441. Fictionalized in The Godfather as Moe Green, this Las Vegas mobster was gunned down in Hollywood.

  1. Fictionalized in The Godfather as Hyman Roth, this gangster always made money for his partners.

  2. This getaway car driver testified at the Kefauver Commission hearing.

  3. Members of this gang were gunned down in the St Valentine’s Day Massacre?

  4. The most recently legally executed mobster in the United States? [Hint: he was not from the New York-New Jersey Territories]

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  1. Bugsy Siegel

  2. Meyer Lansky

  3. Al Capone’s?

724

Nah, they did the shooting.

725

Ah yes. That’s right.

I fear that no is going to get my #434: Which president’s wife was the only foreign-born First Lady? I’ll give it a little while longer.

726

I think it was Woodrow Wilson’s first wife, but don’t know her first name.

Seigel and Lansky are correct.

727

She doesn’t qualify, though - she was dead before Wilson ever became president. Wilson had already remarried while he was President at Princeton, not while he was in the White House. (Else we couldn’t say that Mrs. Cleveland was the only First Lady to marry into the position…)

The things one remembers from having looked up photos/paintings of various First Ladies for the thread on the hottest First Lady. :dubious:

728

No, not Wilson’s wife. :frowning:

Actual serving First Lady. There’s only been one who was foreign-born, and she was born in London.

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  1. It was that Latino (Mexican?) drug kingpin, wasn’t it? I forget his name. Never mind.

Political slogans and ripostes…

  1. William Henry Harrison won the White House in 1840 with this memorable slogan.
  2. This was William McKinley’s best-known slogan.
  3. Barry Goldwater’s ads in 1964 intoned, “In your heart, you know he’s right.” How did Democrats reply in rhyme?
  4. In 1984, Walter Mondale put down the “new ideas” candidacy of Gary Hart by quoting this commercial catchphrase.
  5. Despite some scandals in his past, Edwin Edwards ran again for governor of Louisiana against former Klan official David Duke, and won. What rhyming slogan did Edwards’s supporters popularize?
730
  1. Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too
  2. Where’s the Beef?
731
  1. “In your guts, you know he’s nuts.”

I thought they said, “Vote for the crook, it’s important.” But that doesn’t rhyme…

732
  1. Barry Goldwater’s ads in 1964 intoned, “In your heart, you know he’s right.” How did Democrats reply in rhyme?
    In your thong, you know he’s wrong
733

Correct.

Also correct, Danimal, for 448. Incorrect as to 450.

734

I haven’t been consulting any books or websites in answering or formulating questions. However, I’m more or less constantly reading history books and websites, mostly on U.S. history after 1877 because I’m going to be teaching a course on it next semester. My “memory,” thus, is a work in progress.

So if I read something yesterday, and today I still remember it, can I formulate a question from that knowledge for the thread? Or must my questions be based on knowledge I had before I joined the thread? Or must I rely on data I learned before the thread began?

Meanwhile here are some more questions, all based on knowledge I obtained at least a year ago:

  1. What President’s administration carried out the removal of the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears?

  2. What Massachusetts dissident founded the colony of Rhode Island?

  3. In what city did New York’s Constitutional ratifying convention meet?

  4. What was the “Interview at Weehawken?”

  5. Who was the Director of Central Intelligence at the time of the Berlin Tunnel and Bay of Pigs disasters?

735

  1. Andrew Jackson.

  2. Roger Williams

  3. Allen Dulles

Okay, here’s the answer to my #434: Which president’s wife was the only foreign-born First Lady? John Quincy Adams. His wife was born in London but as an American. Her father was an American trader stationed there; can’t remember if her mother was American or British.

736

  1. Fooled ya! No, Jackson’s administration did not carry out the removal of the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears.

  2. Righto!

  3. Righto!

737

Damn! Well, if it wasn’t Jackson, then Martin Van Buren?

BTW: About John Quincy Adams, they were married in London. I wonder if that also qualifies him as the only president to be married outside of what is or would be the US.

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Yes, Van Buren had been inaugurated well before the Cherokees took the first step on the Trail of Tears. Jackson signed the infamous Indian Removal Act, but was out of office before the Cherokees were actually forced off their lands.

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As the OP, I would suggest B, to the extent possible, in fairness to our other participants. Thanks!

740

The fatal Alexander Hamilton-Aaron Burr duel.