U.S. History trivia quiz

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  1. Right. It’s “Greeley,” though, I think.
  2. Wrong.
  3. Right.

My guesses:

  1. Abraham Lincoln.
  2. Jimmy Carter.
782

  1. Incorrect.

  2. Correct. Actually, way back when, I’d heard Carter was the only president to have been born in a hospital, but we may have had one or two more since him.

And yes, it IS spelled Greeley, come to think of it.

783
  1. Geraldine Ferrarro? I know she was the Veep candidate in 1984 and am thinking she would have been the only female in 1988 with the momentum to try a run. I ought to remember the 1988 election better, but I was in Thailand even back then and so missed a lot of it.
784

  1. This candidate cried when she announced she was withdrawing from the 1988 race.
    Patricia Schroeder

  2. This 1916 GOP nominee narrowly lost to Wilson, and later went on to serve as Chief Justice.
    Charles Evans Hughes??
    Wilson defeated WH Taft in 1912. So there’s a great trivia question: Which President defeated TWO futures Chief Justices?

  3. This vainglorious general was defeated by Lincoln in 1864, but went on to serve as governor of New Jersey.
    George Brinston McCllelan

  4. Who was the last president born in a log cabin?
    Benjamin Harrison??

785
  1. Incorrect. (But we’re getting closer.)

And yes, I think #487 IS Patricia schroeder. I remember it now.

786

IIRC, they just happened to be on a commercial plane together. I think Dean was writing for Rolling Stone at the time and wrote about it. There were comments at the time that John Dean was the last person Butz should have told those jokes in front of.

787

All correct (and it’s “George Brinton McClellan,” not that spelling counts :wink: ).

788

Sorry, good thing we’re not playing Jeopardy!, TMI would have made my answer wrong!

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How 'bout some famous American treaties…?

  1. This treaty, negotiated in part by Adams and Franklin, ended the Revolutionary War.
  2. What is distinctive about the group portrait intended to mark the occasion?
  3. This treaty ended the War of 1812.
  4. President Wilson helped negotiate this treaty, which ended World War I.
  5. Japanese diplomats signed the treaty ending WW2… where, exactly?
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Treaty of Ghent.

Shoot. It was on an aircraft carrier. The Lexington?

791

I was thinking the U.S.S. Minnesota, but I looked it up and that’s not right.

792

  1. This treaty, negotiated in part by Adams and Franklin, ended the Revolutionary War.
    Treaty of Paris

  2. What is distinctive about the group portrait intended to mark the occasion?
    I’m guessing that the British & Americans signed it in separate ceremonies

  3. President Wilson helped negotiate this treaty, which ended World War I.
    Treaty of Versailles

  4. Japanese diplomats signed the treaty ending WW2… where, exactly?
    Hmm- the President then was the Man from Independence [MO] Harry Truman-- the deck of the Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay

793
  1. What is the last year that American males were drafted into the armed services?

Four terms, four questions about Franklin Delano Rossevelt.

  1. FDR used this rhyming phrase to mock three prominent Congressional Republicans that tried to thwart the New Deal.

[Wow, 500 questions in this thread!]
500. From where did FDR say the planes in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo were launched?

  1. Who was FDR’s “Assistant President”?

  2. This actor portrayed FDR in a one-man show.

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  1. Correct.
  2. Close, but no cigar.
  3. Correct.
  4. Correct.

kidchameleon, correct about the Treaty of Ghent and the War of 1812.

pravnik, no research please, per the OP.

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  1. Shangri-La. And then, later in the war, this phrase was commemorated when the Essex-class carrier, the Shangri-La was commissioned.

  2. Eleanor Roosevelt

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  1. 1971, I think.
  2. Ooo, I know this. Tip of my tongue! Damn.
  3. The Shangri-La (and a carrier was later named just that, after the novel - by James Hilton, IIRC).
  4. Harry Hopkins.
  5. James Whitmore?

Huzzah for us passing the 500 mark!

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Just popped into my head…

  1. Martin, Barton and Fish.
798

  1. Nope

  2. Said in FDR’s disdainful, patrician tones "Mahtin, Bahtin & Fiiisshh

  3. Yes

  4. Right

  5. No, that is the answer to another good question.

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BTW: The Battleship Missouri is now docked permanently at Pearl Harbor and open to the public, for a price. A bit steep, I thought, at $20! If I remember the price correctly.

Still no other answers for my #491, last president to be born in a log cabin? Well, let’s see. A hint is that, if memory serves me, the first elevator was installed in the White House while he was there.

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  1. Ralph Bellamy in “Sunrise at Campobello”