U.S. History trivia quiz

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1541

That is not the case I am thinking about. IIRC, Gideon mandated court-appointed attorneys for the accused.

1542

The only other case I could think of was Escobedo v. Somewhere Colder than Florida (Michigan? Ohio?), but that one centers on the right to counsel too, I think.

Been awhile since I took Con Law… and it might just be one I’d never heard of.

1543

Escobedo v Illinois [Illinois isn’t that cold] Hmm- I thought Miranda codified what Escobedo started. But the only Con Law I ever took was in high school, more than 35 years ago :eek:

1544

Although Elendil’s Heir stumped me on his earlier questions about Harry Truman, here’s a few more about the Man from Independence

  1. This future mayor of St Louis often told the story of the time he shined a customer’s shoes at St Louis Union Station. The shoe shiner was surprised to note it was Harry Truman whose shoes he was shining.

  2. Bess Truman was said not to have allowed this political ally of Truman into the Truman’s private residence in Independence. Her prejudice seems very strange today.

  3. Truman was an early proponent of this, an issue we are still wresting with, more than 50 years later.

  4. This Kansas City political boss that got Truman started in politics.

  5. The boss was instrumental getting Truman elected to this position before he was elected to the US Senate.

1545
  1. Was it his Jewish haberdashery partner, Lou Jacobs, IIRC?
  2. Ensuring Israel’s security; he was the first world leader to grant diplomatic recognition.
  3. Pendergast.
  4. County judge (the equivalent of county commissioner elsewhere).
1546
  1. Eddie Jacobs, IIRC
  2. Correct, though I was thinking about his proposal for some kind of national health insurance program.
    correct on the other two also.

Not sure that most St Louisans could come up with 1077.

I also note that a post in a GD thread says that Escobedo v Illinois guaranteed the accused legal counsel during police interrogation.

1547

Okay, I see what you’re saying. Carry on.

1548

OK, here are the answers to the as-yet unanswered questions.

  1. New Concord, Ohio

  2. Arthur Burns, Fed Chair in the LBJ-Nixon years

  3. George Washington

  4. Roy Cohn

  5. Jimmy Carter

  6. “Bunny” was Jackie Kennedy’s pet name for JFK

  7. Ida

  8. Ford Trimotor aircraft

  9. Abraham Lincoln, when war with Britain seemed to be looming during the Trent Incident

  10. FDR, accepting the Democratic nomination in 1932

  11. George Washington, just after the Revolution

  12. FDR’s mom Sara Roosevelt, asked in a loud stage whisper while Huey Long was visiting Hyde Park.

  13. The 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, largely composed of Irish dockworkers from Cleveland

  14. 17 stars, as Ohio was the 17th state

  15. 34 stars - Kansas had just joined the Union

  16. An armored arm and gauntlet

  17. The lions of England and Scotland, and the white horse of Hanover

  18. Ft. Henry

  19. Ft. Abraham Lincoln

  20. Truman, in frustration at the mixed economic advice he got

  21. Robert Reich, Clinton’s Secretary of Labor, in his memoir Locked in the Cabinet

  22. Jonah

  23. “refreshment”

  24. “Senator with whom we’d least like to be stuck alone on an elevator”

  25. Roll Call (which did the poll referred to in the preceding question)

  26. The Apotheosis of George Washington

  27. Emmanuel Leutze

  28. Virginia militia uniform (blue with red facings)

  29. Uniontown, Pa.

  30. Virginia House of Burgesses

  31. USS San Jacinto

  32. Hayes

  33. Garfield

  34. JFK, who often stayed at his dad’s house there

  35. Lincoln, who spent many summer days on the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home; Anderson Cottage was recently restored and reopened

  36. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, said skeptically of Secretary of War nominee and fellow Pennsylvanian Simon Cameron, when asked just how crooked he was

  37. Henry Kissinger, spoofing the Seebees’ motto, “The difficult we do right away; the impossible takes a little longer.”

  38. Sara T. Hughes

  39. Paul Hume

  40. The Clintons, in time for the White House bicentennial in 2000

  41. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., describing FDR

  42. Chief Justice John Marshall

  43. Theodore Roosevelt, describing O.W. Holmes

  44. Public officials at all levels of American government, local, state and Federal, swear an oath to the U.S. Constitution, as required therein

  45. USS Essex

  46. Commodore Esek Hopkins

  47. Cadiz, Spain

  48. Accounts differ: either in Ireland, during the Atlantic crossing with his parents, or in New York City. No one knows for sure.

  49. Cadiz, Ohio

  50. New Rumley, Ohio

  51. Clarence Darrow

  52. Mike Dukakis

  53. CSS Shenandoah

  54. None. Grant’s SecWar Belknap came closest, but he resigned before being removed by an impeachment verdict

  55. The lieutenant governor of Vermont, whose car was caught in floodwaters and he drowned (some accounts suggest he may have been drunk)

  56. H.P. Lovecraft, “The Whisperer in Darkness”

  57. Garrett Morgan, a noted black inventor

  58. William Dennison

  59. “Ft. Fizzle” in Harrison County

  60. Truman

  61. Theodore Roosevelt; the ring was lent to him by a political ally

  62. JFK

  63. John Tyler is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, where the Southern elite have long been interred, in Richmond, Va.

  64. According to the Washington Post, this sign was seen in the hearing room during the Iran-Contra hearings

  65. TR to Taft, after Taft had telegrammed, “Just had a long morning ride and I feel wonderful!”

  66. George Washington

  67. Timothy McVeigh, immediately after the Oklahoma City bombing

  68. Speaker Sam Rayburn and his Congressional pals, dubbed “the Board of Education”

  69. Bourbon and branch water

  70. Eleanor Roosevelt

  71. Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone

  72. The Cabinet Room

  73. 17 stars - one in each corner, and 13 over the eagle’s head

  74. Indiana

  75. William French Smith

  76. Constantino Brumidi, an Italian immigrant

  77. George Washington, in full Masonic garb including a ceremonial apron