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The target of the Hunley’s successful attack was the USS Housatonic (Housatanic?). I believe it was a steam sloop.
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US Grant?
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1781
- Correct on both counts; the USS Housatonic was indeed a steam sloop. Well done!
- Incorrect. Think much later.
- Correct.
Elected Speaker of the House.
- “Falling Water” for the Kauffman family outside of Pittsburgh.
- What politician was said to be “pink right down to her underwear?”
- Who said it?
- What nickname did the accuser earn in response?
If falling water is wrong, please disregard my question.
Small nitpick wrt question #7 - Hoover is the first in the official Presidential Libraries, which are a part of the National Archives. With all due respect to Rutherford B. Hayes, of course. 
Gawd, I can’t answer any of these questions, you folks are good! Let me try to tackle one, though.
- Robert E. Lee’s citizenship was finally restored by an Act of Congress signed by which President?
Og help me, but I think that was Reagan. (Please let it not be Daddy Bush!)
That’s correct.
I don’t know but please don’t tell me it’s Margaret Thatcher.
I forget the name of #49, but Nixon said it about her, and got the nickname ‘Tricky Dick’ in return.
Correct, although usually spelled as one word, “Fallingwater.” A beautiful house, by the way, and still open to the public. Visit it if you ever get the chance.
Correct!
Helen Douglas. I agree with the Nixon/“Tricky Dick” answers given earlier.
Incorrect.
- Where was George Washington first inaugurated as President?
- Who swore him in?
- What color was Washington’s suit (discussed in another recent SDMB thread, believe it or not)?
- Where was Theodore Roosevelt born on this day (Oct. 27) in 1858?
- Where were the worst draft riots of the Civil War, in terms of lives lost and property damaged?
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1781 (October 19, to be precise- I always remember it because my aunts/babysitters were born 108 years to the day later, not that there’s any connection).
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Identify the Mormon farmboy who as a 14 year old science prodigy studying a plowed field first envisioned sending photographs via waves, and who many credit as the inventor of television.
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Name the Russian Jewish immigrant and Marconi operator who founded RCA and would eventually become 52’s archrival/nemesis in the creation of television.
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Philadelphia?
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Red and blue checked jacket over a violet hoopskirt, credited to the fact that his toothache medicine was making him loopy (because nobody sane would wear checks with violet).
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Probably too obvious, but I’ll go with the NYC riots of June 1863.
- NYC.
I’ll have some questions later today - so far I can’t think of any good ones.
ETA: Sampiro, I think it’s only obvious because you’ve studied so much about the Civil War. Most Americans, I think, have no knowledge that there were ever draft riots prior to the Vietnam era.
Both correct as to the very bad NYC draft riots (but in July and not June 1863, Sampiro). Some estimates say as many as 1,000 died.
It was a major plot point in The Gangs of New York, but very unusual for a Hollywood movie- they didn’t make it as bad as it really was (or as overtly racist- many if not most of the victims deliberately killed were black).
Drat! Now I know the answer to #46, but I looked it up, so can’t post it. :smack:
But let me attempt another one …
- Where was George Washington first inaugurated as President?
Think that was NYC (again, I’m not 100% sure on this … hey, it’s been a real long time since I actually studied Revolutionary-era history. ;))
Philo Farnsworth
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Ronald Reagan kicked off his presidential campaign with a speech on states’ rights in what small-but-symbolically-significant Southern town?
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The pivotal Revolutionary War battle of Cowpens was fought in which US state?
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The “Gadsden Flag” (the yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” rattlesnake flag) is named for the leader of the Sons of Liberty of which colony?
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What words did John Wilkes Booth utter (by most accounts) after assassinating President Lincoln?
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Which US President had an adopted Native American son named Lincoya?