U.S. History trivia quiz

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Vermont history.

  1. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured what lightly-defended British fort during the Revolution?
  2. Legend has it that Allen demanded the fort’s surrender in the name of two things (people, organizations or entities). What were they?
  3. Vermont was what number state to join the Union?
  4. The great Vermont flood of 1927 resulted in the accidental death of this state official.
  5. This noted American author used the flood as the backdrop of one of his stories. Extra credit: what was the story?
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  1. Ft Ticonderoga

  2. “Open in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress.” I think this question is a repeat.

  3. 14th

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All correct. Hadn’t realized 978 was a repeat… we’ve been at this for awhile now! :smiley:

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Numbering’s going a little askew. Those last two answered were 968 and 969.

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Right you are.

With what presidential candidates were these political advisors most closely associated?

  1. Thurlow Weed
  2. Louis Howe
  3. Leonard Garment
  4. Lee Atwater
  5. William McAdoo
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Just where in the hell are you getting this material/knowledge from Elendil’s Heir?? :slight_smile:
973. Louis Howe
FDR

  1. Leonard Garment
    Nixon

  2. Lee Atwater
    Bush peres; came up with Willie Horton ad amongst others

OK, those three are relatively famous/infamous, but who has heard of Thurlow Weed [I’ll make a guess: US Grant?] or William McAdoo?

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  1. This event is generally thought to have had the greatest one-day death toll in American History? [Hint, it is not 9/11/2001.]

  2. This poet performed [not sure if that is the right word] at this President’s inauguration; the poet struggled with bright sun and wind at the ceremony ending up speaking from memory rather that the printed pages in front of him.

1927 Flood
979. These two Louisiana parishes were duped into being inundated by the massive Mississippi River flood by the good people of New Orleans.

  1. RE: the aforementioned Lee Atwater; besides coming up the Willie Horton ad what other talent was Atwater know for?

  2. What is 501c3?

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  1. The D-Day landings?
  2. The IRS designation for nonprofit organizations (denotes tax-exempt status).
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  1. Nope
  2. yes
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Far too much clutter in my mental attic. It’s both a blessing and a curse. :wink:

Right on FDR, Nixon and Bush the Elder. Wrong on Grant.

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  1. The massive explosion in a Texas seaport (Galveston?) of a cargo ship loaded with fertilizer just after WW2, and the fire which swept the city afterwards.

  2. Robert Frost at JFK’s Inauguration, Jan. 20, 1961.

  3. Amateur guitar player.

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  1. The Battle of Antietem, Sept 17, 1862.
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  1. Right city, but I thought it was the hurricane that killed approx 9000 residents around the turn of the last century. I think the one day death toll at Antietem is around 6,000, but the Galveston hurricane is thought to be around 9,000. This topic has been discussed on the Board many times.

  2. correct

  3. Blues guitarist specific, I seem to recall a clip of Atwater jamming away with BB King. It was rather incongruous, this Prince of Darkness white guy matching BB King [or some other great bluesman] almost lick for lick.

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  1. The Adventure Galley. Which later grew leaky, so he burned it and switched to the captured Adventure Prize, ex-Quedah Merchant. But he didn’t do any pirating in the Adventure Prize, so the Adventure Galley should be the answer.

  2. C.S.S. Alabama?

  1. Woodrow Wilson’s Treasury Secretary?
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  1. William Seward.
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  1. Yes. Check out Robert Lawson’s Captain Kidd’s Cat for a funny, interesting kid’s look at the badly misunderstood Kidd.
  2. Nope.
  3. Wilson, yes, but I didn’t know McAdoo had served as SecTreas.

Governor Quinn is correct about Seward’s close pal and political advisor, Thurlow Weed.

Some more Ohio history.

  1. He invented the traffic light and the gas mask.
  2. John Glenn was a Korean War combat aviator in this armed service.
  3. ______ ______ was Ohio’s first Civil War governor.
  4. Draft resisters in what Ohio county briefly staged a near-comical rebellion in 1863?
  5. This governor’s Senate hopes crumbled after the Kent State shootings.
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  1. Marines
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  1. The Missouri Plan was a model reformation of this government process.

  2. This former Missouri Congressman was a consultant for and also appeared in Ken Burns’ The Civil War

  3. The only Civil War Battlefield in Missouri that is National Battlefield.

  4. Where was the first Capitol of Missouri located?

  5. According to the Missouri Historical Society, the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis is the only World’s Fair to accomplish this.

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Wilson’s Creek

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James Symington

St. Charles