A lot of end-of-the-year cleanup
172. Julius Henry I can knock this one off the list. That would have been from LBJ’s death in January 1973 until Nixon’s resignation in August 1974. Correct
I believe Lincoln, with the 1909 Lincoln “wheat sheaf” penny. Correct, OtakuLoki
The second Cabinet Secretary to become President?
Madison was the second Secretary of State to become president. Jefferson was first. by Petey
What year was the first polio vaccine announced? It is not 1951.
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What major league baseball player was taken on an All-Star team (which included Babe Ruth) tour of Japan prior to WWII because he was conversant in Japanese and was assigned to take pictures of various Japanese sites in Tokyo which were later used in bombing raids?
At its opening, the lights of the Empire State Building were ceremonially turned on remotely by what individual?
What did Thomas Edison call his mobile film studio?
This Copperhead leader was arrested, sent through the Confederate lines, and eventually ended up in Canada and running (unsuccessfully) for governor of Ohio.
What did the US buy from Santa Anna, and how much was the price?
Before the Civil War, Northern politicians who were pro-Southern in their views and/or policies were called _____?
In the same time period, the Southerners who were most ardently pro-slavery and pro-secession were called _____?
This battleship made a famous dash around South America to reach the Pacific during the Spanish-American War.
This tiny burg in New England is famous for voting first in national elections? (Incorrect guess: Hart’s Location, NH).
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Moe Berg
Al Smith?
Black Maria
Clement Vanlandingham (spelling of last name probably wrong)
The area around Tuscon (Gadsen Purchase), for $10 million.
Doughfaces
Fire-Eaters
The USS Oregon
Dixon’s Notch?
Two from my Rte 66 category are still outstanding:
346. From Chicago to LA, Rte 66 goes through these states?
Various & sundry of mine that I don’t see answered
248. This Attorney General served the longest term of office?
This Watergate prosecutor was also a member of the 9/11 Commission?
I am prepared to run over my own mother to get the President re-elected [Watergate Era] Not G Gordon Liddy, this guy may have been as tough as Liddy.
A potpourri of ethnic mobsters in American History
443. This getaway car driver testified at the Kefauver Commission hearing.
Members of this gang were gunned down in the St Valentine’s Day Massacre.
The most recently legally executed mobster in the United States? [Hint: he was not from the New York-New Jersey Territories]
Another numismatic question:
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Another numismatic question:
Doing this without looking up the details:
The coin was designed by Victor D. Brenner, who placed his initials on the coin, IIRC in an obvious place at the bottom of the reverse. For reasons I don’t recall this made some people think it was a socialist plot, and the initials became controversial, and were removed fairly early in the coinage run, so only a small percentage of the 1909 coins were issued with the initials. The San Francisco mint version with initials was extremely rare, the least common and most expensive coin variety that was not a minting error of all Lincoln cents. (Note: the initials were restored, this time inconspicuously at the base of the Lincoln bust, about ten years later.)
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Doing this without looking up the details:
The coin was designed by Victor D. Brenner, who placed his initials on the coin, IIRC in an obvious place at the bottom of the reverse. For reasons I don’t recall this made some people think it was a socialist plot, and the initials became controversial, and were removed fairly early in the coinage run, so only a small percentage of the 1909 coins were issued with the initials. The San Francisco mint version with initials was extremely rare, the least common and most expensive coin variety that was not a minting error of all Lincoln cents. (Note: the initials were restored, this time inconspicuously at the base of the Lincoln bust, about ten years later.)
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I’ll give you this, though I’d always heard that instead of a socialist plot, it was simply that the combination of the letters V and D was suggestive, as most ahem reasonable people knew that meant Venereal Disease.
Certainly the two versions I’d referenced were the “VDB” and the “non-VDB” coins. ISTR that the initials were moved to under the bust, where they are, still, that same year, but I can’t say for certain.
During the Harding and Coolidge Administrations, from Woodrow Wilson’s death (I think in 1921 but it may have been '22 or '23) and March 3, 1929, when Coolidge left office.
Mugwumps
Fire-eaters
Samuel Seabury – who was also the only one ordained by the Scottish Episcopal Church; the St. Andrew’s Cross in the Episcopal Church’s shield logo commemorates this.
John Wesley Harding
Dixville Notch, NH
James Madison was Jefferson’s Secretary of State – Jefferson having been Washington’s.
Some “expired” questions I’ve left dangling.
*230. What was the name of the radioactive “health” drink that caused a scandal which provided some of the impetus to get the original legislation forming the FDA passed? *
Radiothor.
*399. One of the early reactors gave rise to an acronym that is used to this day to describe shutting down a nuclear fission reactor. What is this acronym, and what words were used to develop the acronym? *
The acronym is SCRAM. The phrase that corresponds to it is “Shutdown Control Rod Ax Man.” Given the people we’re talking about I don’t know whether the job was given a title that backed into the name, or not. This early pile had the control rods pulled out of the core by winch-like apparatus, with rope being wound onto drums. Instead of trying to improvise a way to let the drums spin freely, in case of a need to shut down the reactor quickly, they stationed men with axes at the rope, with instructions to use the axes to cut the ropes, if they heard the order, “SCRAM.” Presumably, after that, they were to run [del]screaming[/del] out of the building, too. 
400. In the 1950’s the US Gov’t subsidized the construction of a small town in the vicinity of Los Alamos, at the request of the researchers there. What was the grim nickname for this town? And what was the maximum population of this town?
Doomtown. Population: Zero. It was a mock-up town with dummies planted through the school, houses, and ISTR even a small clinic/hospital. Then when everything was ready - they detonated a small nuclear bomb so they could measure the effects.
*466. Who said this after the Battle of Bunker Hill: “Another three such victories and we will have lost the colonies”?
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General Thomas Gage, the man who was replaced by Lord Howe.
I think I answered this before.
Taking some wild shots here:
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118. Al Smith?
Black Maria
Clement Vanlandingham (spelling of last name probably wrong)
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Doughfaces
Fire-Eaters
The USS Oregon
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All correct except 118. And 138’s name is spelled “Vallandigham.”
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240. Who was the first Episcopal bishop in the U.S.? Hint: A seminary was later named after him.
Samuel Seabury – who was also the only one ordained by the Scottish Episcopal Church; the St. Andrew’s Cross in the Episcopal Church’s shield logo commemorates this.
John Wesley Harding
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Both correct - very good!
Answer to 514: Jimmy Byrnes
NEW QUESTIONS: These three relate to identical namesakes:
516: Grandfather and grandson were respectively Vice President and two-time unsuccessful Presidential candidate.
517: General who was father of a President and whose namesake was a President.
518: Grandfather and grandson Supreme Court justices, both remembered principally for their dissents.
And:
519: He served in the cabinets of Taft, Hoover, FDR, and Truman.
516: Grandfather and grandson were respectively Vice President and two-time unsuccessful Presidential candidate.
Adlai Stevenson
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517: General who was father of a President and whose namesake was a President.
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Benjamin Harrison (signer of Declaration of Independence) was father of William Henry Harrison and great-grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison.
(not sure if he was a general)
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Answer to 514: Jimmy Byrnes
NEW QUESTIONS: These three relate to identical namesakes:
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518: Grandfather and grandson Supreme Court justices, both remembered principally for their dissents.
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519: He served in the cabinets of Taft, Hoover, FDR, and Truman.
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My answers:
Both were named John Marshall Harlan, IIRC.
Henry Stimson.
Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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521. He ruled with an iron fist, gave his name to a House office building and demanded that the House restaurant always offer his beloved bean soup.
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