American History
Throw on your New Jersey and see if you'll fail or secede with these questions. Find out if you have the Constitution to be an American History trivia champ. Have a little fun and get Whiggy with it.
In which American City was there a famous ‘Tea Party’ in 1773?
Which war was fought over “the Union” and the emancipation of slaves?
What nation do we have to thank for Florida’s orange crop?
Who drowned at Chappaquiddick in 1969?
Ed Gein was a notorious murderer and grave robber, True or False?
What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked?
Which university was founded in New York in 1906.
What was the USA’s biggest attack of the Vietnam War when it took place in February 1967?
Who became the world’s first billionaire in 1916?
What precipitated the $5.7-million renovation of the White House during the Truman administration?
In which Park was the New York marathon run until 1970?
Who was honored with the first toast ever made at a White House dinner?
How much of the currency in circulation in the United States was believed to be counterfeit in 1865, when the Secret Service was established to combat counterfeiting?
The Rock, is the nickname of which US federal prison that opened in 1934?
What American billionaire tried to airlift 28 tons of medicine and Christmas gifts to American POWs in North Vietnam in 1969?
What American city claims to have the only authentic Dutch windmill in the country?
Which criminal was set up by the Lady In Red?
Who became the world’s first billionaire in 1916?
Alfred Packer in the USA was convicted of what strange crime?
Which US state gave its name to a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein?
What presidential hopeful was once dubbed the first “welfare billionaire,” after he snagged the data processing contract for Medicare and Medicaid?
Meaning ‘Apple orchard’ in Spanish and located in California, what is the name of the ten concentration camps where thousands of Japanese Americans were imprisoned during WWII?
What got a new balcony, front portico and two extra chimneys on the back of $20 bills, in 1948?
What twentieth-century American general had a grandfather who was a confederate brigadier general in the Civil War, and a great -great-great-grandfather who was a general in the Revolutionary War?
Which airship exploded in New Jersey in 1937?
Where was the American venue of the Live Aid concert?
What was the name of General Robert E. Lee’s favorite horse before he bought it for $175 and rechristened it Traveler?
How many U.S. presidents played a role in Vietnam’s civil war?
What U.S. presidential candidate explained to voters: “The Internet is a great way to get on the net”?
What Civil War general graduated first in the West Point class of 1829?
What was George Armstrong Custer’s rank when he was killed at Little Bighorn in 1876.
E Pluribus Unum’ was one of the first mottos adopted by the United States government. What do the words mean?
In which decade did Bonnie and Clyde operate?
What was the name of the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine?
In which US city was Al Capone crime king during the Prohibition?
What did an enemy have to be, for a U. S. soldier to call him a “believer” in the Vietnam War?
Whom did Mark Chapman kill in New York?
Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President of the USA and heir to the Rockefeller family fortune, died aged 70 of a heart attack, what was he doing?
Where was Lee Harvey Oswald shot dead?
Which state along with Florida celebrated its centenary of joining the Union in 1945?
What was the B-17 long-range bomber nicknamed in World War II?
Which newspaper did Jackie Kennedy work for just before her marriage?
Which nuclear-powered US submarine passed under the ice at the North Pole in 1958?
Which Massachusetts town was the scene of witch trials in 1892 which led to 19 executions?
In what year was the Wall Street Crash?
What Oregonian issued the 1994 statement: “I’m apologizing for the conduct that it was alleged I did”?
Which dentist assisted Wyatt Earp at the OK Corral?
Which state did Amelia Earhart land in on her first solo Pacific flight?
What was first crossed by tightrope by Charles Blondin in 1859?
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