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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.

Point Clue: I was a famous name in America’s Old West and I died in 1887. Who am I?

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I am Doc Holliday

In which American City was there a famous ‘Tea Party’ in 1773?

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Boston

Which war was fought over “the Union” and the emancipation of slaves?

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American Civil War

Who became the world’s first billionaire in 1916?

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John D Rockefeller

What precipitated the $5.7-million renovation of the White House during the Truman administration?

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A leg of Margaret Truman’s grand piano broke though her sitting room floor into the family dining room below.

In which Park was the New York marathon run until 1970?

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Central Park.

Who was honored with the first toast ever made at a White House dinner?

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Lafayette. President John Quincy Adams proposed the toast on September 6, 1825, as the Marine Corps Band played the “Marseillaise.”

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?

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One-third.

What nation do we have to thank for Florida’s orange crop?

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Spain, every 17th century explorer was required to bring 100 orange seeds with him to the new world

Who drowned at Chappaquiddick in 1969?

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Mary Jo Kopechne.

Ed Gein was a notorious murderer and grave robber, True or False?

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True

What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked?

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The Star-Spangled Banner.

Which university was founded in New York in 1906.

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Pace University.

What was the USA’s biggest attack of the Vietnam War when it took place in February 1967?

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Operation Junction City.

What did an enemy have to be, for a U. S. soldier to call him a “believer” in the Vietnam War?

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Dead.

Whom did Mark Chapman kill in New York?

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John Lennon

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?

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Having an orgasm with his assistant

Where was Lee Harvey Oswald shot dead?

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Underground car park.

Which state along with Florida celebrated its centenary of joining the Union in 1945?

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Texas.

What was the B-17 long-range bomber nicknamed in World War II?

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The Flying Fortress.

Which newspaper did Jackie Kennedy work for just before her marriage?

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Washington Times Herald.

Which nuclear-powered US submarine passed under the ice at the North Pole in 1958?

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Nautilus

Which Massachusetts town was the scene of witch trials in 1892 which led to 19 executions?

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Salem.

In what year was the Wall Street Crash?

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1929.

What Oregonian issued the 1994 statement: “I’m apologizing for the conduct that it was alleged I did”?

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Bob Packwood.

Which dentist assisted Wyatt Earp at the OK Corral?

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Doc Holliday

Which state did Amelia Earhart land in on her first solo Pacific flight?

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California.

What was first crossed by tightrope by Charles Blondin in 1859?

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Niagara Falls

Who set up a club of business people which developed into the Rotary Club movement?

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Paul Percy Harris.

What decade did Bonnie and Clyde turn to crime together? A) 1910s B) 1920s C) 1930s D) 1940s

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C) 1930s

What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a space shuttle mission?

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Captain.

Who abandoned her trademark headband during her hubby’s run for national office in 1992?

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Hillary Clinton.

What was the name of the gangster who offered a reward of $10,000 when the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped?

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Al Capone.

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?

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Dad, 10; step mom, 19. But Lizzie was acquitted at her trial for the 1892 double slaying.

Andrea Hollen was the first woman in US to do what?

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Graduate West Point

When World War II ended in 1945, How many enlisted men and women were in the nation’s armed services?

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Almost eleven million (10,795,775).

How many miles per gallon did the 22-horsepower, 4-cylinder Model T Ford get when it was introduced in 1908?

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It got between 25 and 30 miles per gallon.

What was the name of the ship that was supposed to accompany the mayflower on its historic journey across the Atlantic in 1620?

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The speedwell. It was left behind in Plymouth, England, when it started taking on water

Which year marked the bi-centenary of Kentucky joining the Union?

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1992.

Which state celebrates its centenary of joining the Union in 2012?

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New Mexico.

What controversial crime fighter did Elvis Presley call “the greatest living American”?

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J. Edgar Hoover.

Who was Oliver North’s immediate boss who admitted authorizing funding the Contra rebels in Nicaragua?

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John Poindexter.

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?

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The Model 18 – The 8 indicated it had an eight-cylinder engine; the 1 that it was Ford’s first V8.

Who’s letter to Ronald Reagan read: “I’m very sorry…I thank God no one died”?

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John Hinckley Jr.’s.

What was the source of billionaire recluse Howard Hughes’ original fortune?

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His father’s invention of an oil drill bit capable of boring through subterranean rock.

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?

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Jim Thorpe, after the great Oklahoma Indian athlete. The renaming was part of a plan to establish the town as a shrine to Thorpe, who was buried there.

What were Robert E. Lee’s dying words?

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Strike the tent.

Who declared he had ‘ a dream’ where all Americans would live as equals?

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Marin Luther King.

Where was Lee Harvey Oswald shot dead?

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Underground car park.

What is Hillary Clinton’s daughter called?

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Chelsea.
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