U.S. History trivia quiz

The Game Room
1121

  1. Lawton Chiles, of Florida.

  2. IIRC, he hid the money in shoeboxes in his hotel room, where it was found after his death.

1122

Winner, winner chicken dinner.

1123

Yep, there was something like $600K in cash in shoeboxes, this happened in the late 60s. I wonder where he got all that money on a Sec’y of State’s salary.

1124

While we’re on the subject of Illinois, let’s head to the politics of Cook County.

Name the following Cook County Executives:

  1. The last Cook County Executive to become Mayor of Chicago.

  2. The Cook County Executive for whom a major freeway in Chicago is named.

  3. The last Republican to be elected Cook County Executive AND the last Cook County Executive to become Governor of Illinois.

  4. This Cook County Executive, dumped by his party for re-election, got his revenge many years later through court rulings that kept his party from taking the Governorship.

  5. The Cook County Executive who served a record twenty-one years.

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  1. The Cook County Executive for whom a major freeway in Chicago is named.
    Dan Ryan
1126

Correct

1127

Thanks, I guessed it was either that, or Jimmy Tri-State. :slight_smile:

1128

Only 740 is correct.

1129

Correct, and incorrect, respectively.

And both incorrect as to 733 and 735.

And no Googling, please! You know better than that, my friend.

1130

Identify these notable Americans by their nicknames.

  1. The Boy Orator of the Platte
  2. The Only Law West of the Pecos
  3. Cump
  4. Bunny (hint: it was a President)
  5. The Plumed Knight
1131

I googled after I gave my answer.

1132

Theodore Roosevelt

Judge Roy Bean (played by Paul Newman in the movie)

1133
  1. The last Republican to be elected Cook County Executive AND the last Cook County Executive to become Governor of Illinois.

Big Jim Thompson?

1134
  1. The New Federalism
    I thought that was Nixon’s program of things like revenue sharing with the states.

But if that’s not it, then by process of elimination it would have to be John Adams.

1135

Incorrect.

1136

Dang! Somehow, I did not see that. Would have known it right away.

1137
  1. William Jennings Bryan
  2. William T. Sherman
  3. James G. Blaine
1138
  1. Bunny (hint: it was a President)

Warren G. Harding? (I’m pretty certain this is one of the Presidents in the 1910-1932 time frame but am just guessing as to which).

1139

Both correct. Governor Quinn is correct as to his three guesses, and Petey as to his two, as well.

5 Time Champ is incorrect about New Federalism. Another hint: it was another 20th C. president.

Saratoga Sam is incorrect as to Bunny.

1140

Give the first name of the First Lady.

  1. McKinley
  2. Buchanan
  3. Hoover
  4. Roosevelt (1901-1909)
  5. Hayes