# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**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, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/61 "2009-05-21T19:18:00Z")
1. Andrew Johnson? Congress hated him. ---
**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, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/62 "2009-05-21T19:21:27Z")
About whom was this said? 1. “A second-class intellect but a first-class temperament.” 2. “Like a rotten mackeral in moonlight, he both stinks and shines.” 3. “Now look! That damned cowboy is [political office]!” 4. “You must always behave as if you’re in the presence of the Emperor of Japan.” 5. “Well, he probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove.” ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/63 "2009-05-21T19:43:17Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > 1. Name one of the three CSA generals who fought in the Spanish-American war (on the American side). > > 2. What was Abe “Kid Twist” Reles’s posthumous avian nickname? 1. Joe Wheeler (who during a battle in Cuba rallied the men with, “We’ve got the Yankees on the run!”) 2. The canary who sang but couldn’t fly (He “fell” from his room in a not-so-safe safe house after testifying in the Murder, Inc. trial) [QUOTE=Captain Carrot] 1. When was the last Presidential election in which a third-party candidate won electoral votes? [/QUOTE] 2. I believe it’s 1972, when a faithless elector pledged to Nixon instead cast a vote for the Libertarian candidate (the faithless elector who voted for Reagan in '76 and the one who voted for Bentsen in '88 presumably don’t count since they were voting for members of the two main parties) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/64 "2009-05-21T21:19:22Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > 1. Which President submitted the most nominees to the Supreme Court that were not confirmed? Total guess – Washington? **Elendil’s Heir** : Is the answer to the Edison question “New Jersey, Ohio, and Florida”? I know Tom did some work in the Sunshine State. ---
**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, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/65 "2009-05-21T21:37:46Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > …Is the answer to the Edison question “New Jersey, Ohio, and Florida”? I know Tom did some work in the Sunshine State. 1. Yes! ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/66 "2009-05-22T03:44:48Z")
1. Chicago I remember my dad telling me about it. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/67 "2009-05-22T04:01:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 1. Andrew Johnson? Congress hated him. Oh, there was a President Congress hated more. . . and for many of the same reasons. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/68 "2009-05-22T04:26:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > About whom was this said? > > 1. “Now look! That damned cowboy is [political office]!” > 2. “You must always behave as if you’re in the presence of the Emperor of Japan.” 1. (President) Teddy Roosevelt 2. MacArthur? **42fish** , correct and correct. The other two were Fitz Lee (Robert E’s nephew) and Tom Rosser (Custer’s good friend from West Point days). All three had been cavalry leaders. “Kid Twist” Reles was played by Peter Falk in the 1960 movie “Murder, Inc.” Still outstanding: 1. Who was the (eventual, anyway) Major General in the Union army who murdered a fellow officer but for whom the exigencies of the war obviated a trial? 2. Who was coached by Knute Rockne and later coached Vince Lombardi (give his real name, not his “dramatic lore” name). 3. What book and movie detective was created by John Marquand? #13 had an extremely ironic name for a Union officer. In dramatic lore, #15 was known as “Destruction”. #16 was played on film by a certain László Löwenstein , born 1904 in Austria-Hungary. Came to Hollywood in 1935. ---
**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 22, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/69 "2009-05-22T04:36:16Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > 1. (President) Teddy Roosevelt > 2. MacArthur? 1. Yes, said by Marcus Hanna, McKinley’s kingmaker, who was appalled that T.R. had succeeded McKinley. 2. No. More obscure, I’m afraid. ---
**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 22, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684/70 "2009-05-22T17:39:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 1. What book and movie detective was created by John Marquand? > #16 was played on film by a certain László Löwenstein , born 1904 in Austria-Hungary. Came to Hollywood in 1935. László Löwenstein = Peter Lorre who played Mr Moto [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-history-trivia-quiz/496684.md?page=3)