# U.S. History Trivia Quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 16, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684 "2009-05-16T22:35:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/41 "2009-05-19T14:36:24Z")
1. Somebody Morgan? I think it was “the Morgan affair”. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/42 "2009-05-19T14:43:39Z")
Yes, William Morgan. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/43 "2009-05-19T15:42:40Z")
1. Who is the only president to have an entire province (as well as a city) in a country outside the US named after him? 2. What president’s child was still alive 100 years after he left office? ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/44 "2009-05-19T16:45:24Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > 1. Who is the only president to have an entire province (as well as a city) in a country outside the US named after him? > 2. What president’s child was still alive 100 years after he left office? 1. James Monroe (Monrovia, Liberia) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/45 "2009-05-19T18:32:45Z")
1. I think Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter only died in the late 70’s or early 80’s? I can’t think of her name. I don’t think that’s it, though - I doubt it was a hundred years. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/46 "2009-05-19T18:56:43Z")
[Quote=Elendil’s Heir] 28. In what state is the Vice Presidential Museum? [/quote] Indiana (specifically, the city of Huntington, where Dan Quayle once lived) > [@RealityChuck](#): > > 1. Who is the only president to have an entire province (as well as a city) in a country outside the US named after him? > 2. What president’s child was still alive 100 years after he left office? 1. Rutherford B. Hayes – the country is Paraguay. 2. I believe John Tyler had a daughter who lived past World War II. ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/47 "2009-05-19T18:57:38Z")
1. In what city did the Eastland disaster take place? ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/48 "2009-05-19T19:02:14Z")
1. The site of an ambush of Oregon Trail travelers is now known as Massacre Rocks State Park. In what state and along what river is the park located? ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/49 "2009-05-19T19:06:15Z")
1. Contributions of Louis Jannin and Michael Kelly notwithstanding, Joseph Glidden is credited with the invention of what? (Hint: nothing to do with paint). ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/50 "2009-05-19T19:16:13Z")
1. Barbed wire ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/51 "2009-05-19T19:24:54Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > 1. Barbed wire yes ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/52 "2009-05-19T20:11:37Z")
1. What was Alexander Graham Bell’s principal assistant’s name at the time of his breakthrough with the telephone? 2. In what three states did Thomas Edison mainly conduct research? 3. The first controlled nuclear reaction took place in what American city? ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/53 "2009-05-19T20:55:24Z")
> [@Omega\_Glory](#): > > Flurb and Bup got two of the presidents. > > There was also > > Van Buren I believe Van Buren only ran twice, won in 1836; lost bid for re-election in 1840 to WH Harrison. Two other Presidents on the ballot three times: Andrew Jackson, lost to JQ Adams in 1824; defeated Adams in the rematch and subsequently re-elected in 1832. And how quickly we forget Tricky Dick Nixon 1960, 1968 & 1972 1. What was Alexander Graham Bell’s principal assistant’s name at the time of his breakthrough with the telephone? Watson- Thomas, I believe 2. In what three states did Thomas Edison mainly conduct research? New Jersey, New York and Ohio? 3. The first controlled nuclear reaction took place in what American city? Chicago, at the University thereof. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/54 "2009-05-19T21:28:58Z")
Van Buren also ran third party in 1848. You’re right on Nixon, though. My mistake. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/55 "2009-05-20T04:43:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 1. This Indian tribe provided horses to Lewis and Clark at a crucial juncture in their explorations. Shoshone? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/56 "2009-05-21T15:21:01Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > … > 44. What was Alexander Graham Bell’s principal assistant’s name at the time of his breakthrough with the telephone? > Watson- Thomas, I believe > > 1. In what three states did Thomas Edison mainly conduct research? > New Jersey, New York and Ohio? > > 2. The first controlled nuclear reaction took place in what American city? > Chicago, at the University thereof. 1. Correct as to Watson; I don’t know his first name. 2. Two out of three. Anyone else? 3. Yes. **AppallingGael** , incorrect as to the Shoshone. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/57 "2009-05-21T16:08:49Z")
1. NY, NJ and Florida 2. Which President submitted the most nominees to the Supreme Court that were not confirmed? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/58 "2009-05-21T17:50:21Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > 1. NY, NJ and Florida > > 2. Which President submitted the most nominees to the Supreme Court that were not confirmed? 1. No 2. Nixon ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/59 "2009-05-21T18:04:21Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > 1. Which President submitted the most nominees to the Supreme Court that were not confirmed? I know Washington and FDR oversaw the most appointments during their incumbency, so I’ll take a stab at FDR. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/60 "2009-05-21T18:43:57Z")
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