U.S. History trivia quiz

The Game Room
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Since no one’s touched this…
New York City

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Correct

Correct

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I knew that. The reason I was surprised was because you could see the lightbulb go off over my head,
“So that’s why he said it.”

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Okay, some [del]easy[/del] fun ones:

  1. What year did man first land on the moon?

  2. What was the name of the first US Aircraft carrier?

  3. Why is that name so ironic?

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  1. (I either remember this one or one of the subsequent ones, not sure which, but I loved the toys and remember them well.)

Speaking of Teddy Roosevelt,

  1. Teddy’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, is believed by many literary experts to have been one of the inspirations for what iconic fictional character?

  2. Who is the Baby Ruth candy bar named for (and hint: it wasn’t a baseball player)?

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Yup. I remember a Splashdown! bath/soap set toy I had that was great fun, myself. :smiley:

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Crap! That’s one I coulda answered! :frowning:

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Yeah! I totally had that one.

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I believe that was named after Grover Cleveland’s new baby?

Three of my own:

  1. Who was the only president to have been a POW? (Technically, at least.)

  2. Who was the first presdent born west of the Mississippi River?

  3. Who was the first president to ride in a motorized vehicle. (Hint: He did not know it.)

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  1. Who was the first presdent born west of the Mississippi River?
    Herbert Hoover
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Correct, in Iowa.

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Both correct.

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Correctamundo.

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While a teenage combatant, Andrew Jackson was briefly a prisoner of the Brits during the American Revolution.

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  1. USS Langley
  2. Samuel Langley was the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and an early aviation pioneer (and, as such, a fierce rival of the Wright Brothers). He was also the first American aviator to fly off a makeshift platform on a U.S. warship, the USS Pennsylvania, but crashed on one of his early flights, IIRC.
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Some more Theodore Roosevelt questions, in honor of his 149th birthday:

  1. Who served first as one of Lincoln’s aides, and later as TR’s Secretary of State?
  2. What was the highest non-Federal law-enforcement job TR ever held?
  3. From what position did he resign to fight in the Spanish-American War?
  4. The British ambassador once said humorously of TR, “You must always remember that the President is __________ ___.”
  5. TR attended the funeral of which British king?
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  1. Police Commissioner of New York City?
  2. Secretary of the Navy? Or assistant secretary?
  3. King Edward VII.
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Correct. But the way I’ve read it, he was about 10 years old and had been scouting for the Revolutionaries when the Brits nabbed him. They held him for a few days, then sent him home.

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  1. What was the highest non-Federal law-enforcement job TR ever held?
    Sheriff of Eire, Co NY?

  2. TR attended the funeral of which British king?
    Edward VII

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Correct as to all three (he was assistant SECNAV).