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 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?
Who set up a club of business people which developed into the Rotary Club movement?
What decade did Bonnie and Clyde turn to crime together? A) 1910s B) 1920s C) 1930s D) 1940s
What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a space shuttle mission?
Who abandoned her trademark headband during her hubby’s run for national office in 1992?
What was the name of the gangster who offered a reward of $10,000 when the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped?
According to poetic legend, Lizzie Borden used her ax to give her mother 40 whacks and her father 41. How many whacks did the police actually accuse her of delivering?
Andrea Hollen was the first woman in US to do what?
When World War II ended in 1945, How many enlisted men and women were in the nation’s armed services?
How many miles per gallon did the 22-horsepower, 4-cylinder Model T Ford get when it was introduced in 1908?
What was the name of the ship that was supposed to accompany the mayflower on its historic journey across the Atlantic in 1620?
Which year marked the bi-centenary of Kentucky joining the Union?
Which state celebrates its centenary of joining the Union in 2012?
What controversial crime fighter did Elvis Presley call “the greatest living American”?
Who was Oliver North’s immediate boss who admitted authorizing funding the Contra rebels in Nicaragua?
What was the name of the car that followed Ford’s 1932 Model B, the last in the automaker’s series of cars known by letter designations?
Who’s letter to Ronald Reagan read: “I’m very sorry…I thank God no one died”?
What was the source of billionaire recluse Howard Hughes’ original fortune?
In 1954 the Pennsylvania coal mining communities of Maunch Chunk and East Maunch Chunk merged and adopted a new name in honor of a famous athlete. What was it?
Which town was the scene of the gunfight at the OK Corral?
In 1957, the State University at Fullerton was founded as was the university at which other California location?
Which US colonel featured in the ‘Irangate’ court trials?
When Elizabeth Cochrane traveled around the world in less than 80 days in 1890, she used another name to conceal her identity. What was it?
Where did Reagan and Gorbachev have their Star Wars summit in October 1986?
In October 1966 which US naval base in Vietnam did Lyndon Jonson visit?
What U.S. state was named after chaste Queen Elizabeth I?
What was the daily ration of hard liquor for soldiers in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?
Which two members of George Washington’s cabinet were redheads?
On a World War II battleship, what was a ‘Mae West’?
In what year did America gain independence from Britain?
J Paul Getty founded a museum in which state?
What general griped in 1991: “I’m running out of villains. I’m down to Castro and Kim Il Sung”?
Which American colony was the first to enact anti-slavery legislation?
In what month in 1917 did the USA declare war on Germany?
What was the Georges that left a trail of destruction in Florida in 1998?
What U.S. military base was won in the last major battle against Japan?
What U.S. military base was won in the last major battle against Japan?
What article of clothing were women required to wear on the beach at New Jersey’s Atlantic City until 1907 – along with their standard attire of long bathing dresses, bathing shoes and straw hats?
What widow assumed U.S. congressional duties, in addition to raising Chesare and Chianna?
The city of DeKalb, Illinois is credited as the first manufacturing site of what ‘restraining’ invention that revolutionized ranching in the US?
Who was President Reagan’s Secretary for Defense from 1987 to 1989?
Who was stuck in the spacecraft while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin moon-walked?
Who led the Paris talks on behalf of the USA in May 1968?
Kitty Kelly wrote an Unauthorized Biography about which First Lady?
What city has been the center of the U.S. oil industry since 1901?
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