U.S. History Trivia Quiz

The Game Room
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  1. Somebody Morgan? I think it was “the Morgan affair”.
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Yes, William Morgan.

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  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?
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  1. James Monroe (Monrovia, Liberia)
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  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.
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Indiana (specifically, the city of Huntington, where Dan Quayle once lived)

  1. Rutherford B. Hayes – the country is Paraguay.

  2. I believe John Tyler had a daughter who lived past World War II.

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  1. In what city did the Eastland disaster take place?
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  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?
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  1. Contributions of Louis Jannin and Michael Kelly notwithstanding, Joseph Glidden is credited with the invention of what? (Hint: nothing to do with paint).
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  1. Barbed wire
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yes

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  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?
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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.

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Van Buren also ran third party in 1848.

You’re right on Nixon, though. My mistake.

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Shoshone?

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  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.

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  1. NY, NJ and Florida

  2. Which President submitted the most nominees to the Supreme Court that were not confirmed?

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  1. No

  2. Nixon

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I know Washington and FDR oversaw the most appointments during their incumbency, so I’ll take a stab at FDR.

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  1. Two strikes on Nixon and FDR.