U.S. History trivia quiz

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  2. Hayes, Garfield, Arthur.

EDIT: Whoops! Looks like **5 Time Champ ** beat me to the punch.

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You’re both right.

5 time champ is also right about LBJ, but he was sworn in by a Federal judge aboard Air Force One while it still sat on the tarmac in Dallas.

Woohoo! We’re on to our 25th page.

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America’s National Park System
791 This connects Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
792 This is currently the only National Park site open in the state of Illinois.
793 Bright Angel, Indian Gardens and Phantom Ranch are all features of this National Park
794 The Gateway Arch is this type of curve
795 The Three Corner Stone is a feature of this National Historic Park

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The Abraham Lincoln Home in Springfield.

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793: Grand Canyon NP

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correct on both

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  1. The Colorado River
  2. A parabola, but I don’t think that’s the answer you’re looking for…
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Here’s the World History trivia thread, which Really Not All That Bright started. Check it out!: World History trivia quiz - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board

Noteworthy flags of American history.

  1. The Ohio state flag has how many stars on it, and why?
  2. Christopher Columbus’s flag had what two letters on it?
  3. At Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on his way to Washington, President-elect Abraham Lincoln ceremonially raised a new American flag with how many stars on it?
  4. The earliest-known colonial battle flag of the American Revolution featured what body part?
  5. King George III’s Royal Standard featured what two animals?
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Lion and griffon rampant, I think.

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My as-yet unanswered questions, to which I’ll give the answer in an hour or so:
763. This little-known predecessor to the SR-71 Blackbird looked almost identical, but wasn’t, and even came in a combat version.
764. What was the Navy’s A-4D more commonly known as?
784. What was the first Greek-lettered college fraternity?

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  1. Nope

  2. The Arch is not a parabola, it is similar to a parabola. But the Arch is an actual mathematical curve.

  3. The Ohio state flag has how many stars on it, and why?
    15, since Ohio was the 15th state.

  4. Christopher Columbus’s flag had what two letters on it?
    F for Ferdinand, I for Isabella.

  5. At Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on his way to Washington, President-elect Abraham Lincoln ceremonially raised a new American flag with how many stars on it?
    Hmm- new flag you say. I was thinking there were 33 states in the Union in 1861. But when did Kansas & Nebraska join the Union?

OK, in March 1861 there 35 states counting KS & NE who had newly joined the Union [still counting those in secession] so the flag had 35 stars.

  1. The earliest-known colonial battle flag of the American Revolution featured what body part?
    A middle finger, that Sam Adams was a real jokester. No, I think it was an eye?

  2. What was the first Greek-lettered college fraternity?
    Hmm, I know Phi Beta Kappa is an honor society now, but IIRC it was originally a fraternity?

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Lion, yes - two kinds, actually, for England and Scotland. But griffon (or gryphon, or griffin), no. Remember that this question is about George III’s Royal Standard, not his coat of arms.

Also, I’d earlier guessed:

  1. YF-21
  2. Intruder
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All wrong, alas, except for the letter “F” in question 797.

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  1. Er- Y for Ysabella ?

  2. Well, I see at least one problem. West Virginia was not a state in 1861 :smack: I counted all the states east of the Mississippi being in the Union.

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764: Wasn’t the A4D the Skyhawk?

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That’s the one.

Sorry, I missed those, but no sir. To my knowledge, there has never been a prototype or operational US airframe designated (Y)F-21. The Intruder is the A-6.

Yes.

The correct answer to 763 is the A-12 Oxcart (and Air Force YF-12A interceptor).

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  1. That’s it!
  2. Getting warmer…

Really Not, I can’t believe I wrote YF-21 when it should’ve been YF-12! D’oh! :smack:

Famous forts.

  1. Lewis & Clark’s westernmost fortification, in which they spent a miserably cold and wet winter.
  2. The first fort to surrender during the Civil War to a naval force unsupported by ground troops.
  3. Grant demanded the “unconditional surrender” of this fort, and gained a nickname along with his victory.
  4. The 54th Massachusetts regiment’s attack upon this fort was memorably depicted in the movie Glory.
  5. This was the closest major fort to Custer’s 7th Cavalry during the Little Big Horn campaign.
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  1. Ft. Henry

  2. Ft. Wagner.

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  1. Lewis & Clark’s westernmost fortification, in which they spent a miserably cold and wet winter.
    Ft Mandan ?

  2. The first fort to surrender during the Civil War to a naval force unsupported by ground troops.

Ft. Jefferson? - south of New Orleans, captured by Adm Porter by running past the fort’s gun, and then cutting the fort off?

  1. Grant demanded the “unconditional surrender” of this fort, and gained a nickname along with his victory.
    Ft. Donelson
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  1. Incorrect.
  2. Yes; sometimes called “Battery Wagner.”