Trivia Quiz on American History

1. Who founded the boy scouts of America

A) William D. Boyce

B) Robert Baden-Powell

C) Ernest Thompson Seton

D) Daniel Beard

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2. Which U.S. state is nick named 'the First State' because it was the first to ratify the American Constitution in 1787

A) Delaware

B) Pennsylvania

C) New Jersey

D) Georgia

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3. Which organisation was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1865

A) Knights of the Golden Circle

B) White League

C) Ku klux klan

D) The Confederate Knights of the South

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4. The american flag first flew over a foreign fort in what country?

A) Algeria

B) Libya

C) Morocco

D) Tunisia

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5. What is the oldest brewery in the u.s

A) Anheuser-Busch

B) Coors Brewing Company

C) Yuengling brewery

D) Pabst Brewing Company

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6. Who was the first president born in a hospital

A) Barack Obama

B) George W. Bush

C) John F. Kennedy

D) Jimmy carter

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7. Which president married Martha Dandridge Custis

A) John Adams

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) George Washington

D) James Madison

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8. What play was being performed when Abraham Lincoln was shot

A) Our american

B) Hamlet

C) Macbeth

D) The Tempest

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9. De Witt Wallace founded what

A) Readers Digest

B) Time Magazine

C) National Geographic

D) The New Yorker

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10. When was the first daytime bank robbery

A) January 12, 1862

B) February 14, 1866

C) October 19, 1898

D) July 4, 1872

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11. What us president was born july 11, 1767

A) John quincy adams

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) Andrew Jackson

D) James Madison

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12. Who was the youngest elected president of the U.S.

A) Barack Obama

B) John f. kennedy

C) Bill Clinton

D) Ulysses S. Grant

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13. Who invented the cotton gin

A) James Watt

B) George Washington Carver

C) Cyrus McCormick

D) Eli whitney

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14. Cleveland four u.s presidents have served entire terms without having a ______

A) a vice president

B) a running mate

C) a scandal

D) Vice

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15. How were 'Mr Barrow' and 'Miss Parker' better known

A) Bonnie and clyde

B) The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy

C) Laurel and Hardy

D) Thelma and Louise

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16. Name bar John Wilkes Booth got pissed in before killing Lincoln

A) The Globe Inn

B) Harpers Ferry Tavern

C) Star Saloon

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17. What kind of teeth did george washington have

A) Wooden

B) Ivory

C) Metal

D) Porcelain

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18. What Boston craftsman made George Washington's false teeth

A) Samuel Adams

B) John Adams

C) John Greenwood

D) Paul revere

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19. Who was the 26th president of the U.S.

A) Woodrow Wilson

B) Harry S. Truman

C) William Howard Taft

D) Theodore roosevelt

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20. Who hired the Mormon Mafia to prevent contamination

A) J. Edgar Hoover

B) Richard Nixon

C) Howard Hughs

D) L. Ron Hubbard

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21. Anna M Jarvis of Philadelphia instituted what she never qualified

A) Mother's Day

B) Valentine's Day

C) Arbor Day

D) Labor Day

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22. Who published "Poor Richards Almanack"

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) George Whitefield

C) John Adams

D) Benjamin Franklin

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23. Which U.S. president is on the five-dollar bill?

A) George Washington

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) Abraham Lincoln

D) Andrew Jackson

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24. In Which City In The Us Did The St Valentines Day Massacre Occur

A) New York

B) Chicago

C) Los Angeles

D) Philadelphia

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25. What was al capone finally arrested for

A) Tax evasion

B) Bootlegging

C) Racketeering

D) Conspiracy to commit murder

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26. Harry Longbaugh became better known under what name

A) The Sundance Kid

B) Billy the Kid

C) Butch Cassidy

D) Black Bart

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27. In Texas it's illegal for what profession to be communists

A) Lawyers

B) Doctors

C) Teachers

D) Pharmacists

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28. Whose last words were "Thomas Jefferson still survives"

A) John adams

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) George Washington

D) Benjamin Franklin

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29. Who cut the US flag to pieces and was honoured for it

A) Frederick Cook

B) Roald Amundsen

C) Robert Peary left bits at North Pole

D) Neil Armstrong

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30. Who was hebert c hoover's vice president

A) Charles Dawes

B) Charles Curtis

C) John Nance Garner

D) Henry A. Wallace

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31. In 1829 Walter Hunt invented what common item

A) Paperclip

B) Zipper

C) Safety Pin

D) Thumbtack

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32. By what name was the American William Cody better known

A) Wild Bill Cody

B) William F. Cody

C) Buffalo bill

D) Captain Cody

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33. Who was kidnaped on the night of March 1, 1932?

A) Bruno Hauptmann

B) Charles A. Lindbergh

C) Anne Morrow Lindbergh

D) Charles Lindbergh Jr

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34. In what state did the 1862 Sioux uprising start

A) Minnesota

B) North Dakota

C) Iowa

D) Wisconsin

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35. On what was pennsylvania incorrectly spelled

A) Declaration of Independence

B) Constitution

C) Statue of Liberty

D) Liberty bell

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36. Who was the only man to win non-consecutive terms as u.s president

A) George Washington

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) Grover

D) Barack Obama

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37. What surname do Bobby, John and Teddy have in common

A) Adams

B) Johnson

C) Roosevelt

D) Kennedy

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38. The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (aspca) was formed in what year

A) 1850

B) 1864

C) 1876

D) 1866

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39. Who said 'ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country'

A) George Washington

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) John f kennedy

D) Barack Obama

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40. The first American advertisement for tobacco was published in what year

A) 1789

B) 1769

C) 1803

D) 1847

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41. Which fictional land was used to describe John F Kennedy's term as president

A) Shangri-La

B) Narnia

C) Atlantis

D) Camelot

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42. Who was the first American to win a Nobel prize

A) Thomas Edison

B) Henry Ford

C) Albert Einstein

D) Theodore Roosevelt

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43. What did president lincoln proclaim a national holiday in 1863

A) Independence Day

B) Thanksgiving

C) Memorial Day

D) Emancipation Proclamation Day

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44. Details of what can be found in The Blue Book

A) Presidential biographies

B) Constitutional amendments

C) US Aristocracy

D) Travel routes across the United States

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45. Grover Cleveland is the only United States president to have been married where?

A) In a church in Buffalo

B) At a hotel in New York City

C) White House

D) The Capitol Building

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46. Who was the first (and last) catholic president

A) Nixon

B) Reagan

C) Kennedy

D) Obama

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47. What popular drink was introduced at the St Louis World's Fair in 1904

A) Coca-Cola

B) Lemonade

C) Ice

D) Orange Juice

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48. Who was the 15th president of the U.S.

A) James buchanan

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Andrew Johnson

D) Ulysses S. Grant

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49. What did the S stand for in Harry S Truman

A) Nothing

B) Samuel

C) Stephen

D) Sydney

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50. What title is reserved for the leader of the entire Ku Klux Klan

A) Grand Dragon

B) Imperial Wizard

C) Exalted Cyclops

D) Grand wizard

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