Trivia Quiz on American History Part 2

1. Who was Americas first billionaire

A) Andrew Carnegie

B) J. P. Morgan

C) Rockefeller

D) Henry Ford

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2. Ben Franklin invented it - Britain tried it in 1916 - What

A) The light bulb

B) Penicillin

C) Daylight saving Time

D) The telephone

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3. Who was the 35th president of the U.S.

A) Dwight D. Eisenhower

B) Lyndon B. Johnson

C) John f kennedy

D) Richard Nixon

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4. Name the first president of the american red cross

A) Henry Dunant

B) Dorothea Dix

C) Clara Barton

D) Jane Addams

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5. In 1879 James Ritty invented what

A) Cash Register

B) Typewriter

C) Phonograph

D) Telephone

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6. What the W. of George W. Bush stand for?

A) William

B) Wyatt

C) Winston

D) Walker

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7. Knickerbockers used to be the residents of where

A) Boston

B) Philadelphia

C) New York

D) Albany

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8. Which president was responsible for the 'louisiana purchase'

A) George Washington

B) John Adams

C) James Madison

D) Thomas

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9. There are more statues of ________, Lewis & Clarks female indian guide, in the U.S. than any other person

A) Sacajewa

B) Pocahontas

C) George Washington

D) Abraham Lincoln

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10. What was nancy davis reagan's birth name

A) Anne Frances Robbins

B) anne frances robbins

C) Nancy Reagan

D) Mary Anne Robbins

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11. Which American political party which held a brief existence throughout the 1850s and 1860s, resisted immigration from Europe and supported slavery?

A) Whig Party

B) Knownothings

C) Free Soil Party

D) Democratic Party

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12. What year was Theodore Roosevelt born

A) 1858

B) 1857

C) 1859

D) 1860

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13. What is the first name of webster, the man who published a dictionary still used today

A) John

B) Daniel

C) George

D) Noah

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14. As Of 2008 Only One President So Far Was Born On The 4th Of July Can You Named Them

A) Calvin Coolidge

B) George Washington

C) Barack Obama

D) Thomas Jefferson

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15. Who's aliases John Willard Eric Gault George Ramom Sneyd

A) Lee Harvey Oswald

B) David Berkowitz

C) John Wilkes Booth

D) James Earl Ray – killed M L King

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16. Lucy Hobbs Taylor 1867 first woman in the US to do what

A) Open the first all-women dental clinic

B) Become a registered dentist

C) Become the first female physician in the United States

D) Be elected to the U.S. Congress

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17. Who was assassinated on november 22, 1963 in dallas

A) Lee Harvey Oswald

B) Lyndon B. Johnson

C) Abraham Lincoln

D) President john f kennedy

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18. Goose Flats changed its name to what US city

A) Tombstone Arizona

B) Phoenix Arizona

C) Sedona Arizona

D) Bisbee Arizona

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19. What U.S. state name is sioux for "south wind people"

A) Nebraska

B) Kansas

C) Oklahoma

D) Iowa

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20. What is the slogan on license plates manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord

A) Live Free or Die

B) Freedom Bound

C) In God We Trust

D) The Pursuit of Happiness

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21. Who was the leader of the notorious Gambino Mafia family

A) Carlo Gambino

B) John Gotti

C) Paul Castellano

D) Vincent Gigante

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22. What tribe walked the 'trail of tears'

A) Choctaw

B) Chickasaw

C) Cherokee

D) Navajo

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23. Where did abraham lincoln gave his historic speech

A) Washington, D.C.

B) Gettysburg, pennsylvania

C) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

D) Charleston, South Carolina

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24. Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back by a stranger during a poker game. The hand he was holding aces & eights is known to poker players as what

A) Four of a kind Aces

B) Dead man's hand

C) Royal flush

D) Two pair: Aces and Eights

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25. Who was the first American to make $100 million a year

A) John D. Rockefeller

B) Andrew Carnegie

C) Henry Ford

D) Al Capone

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26. Who said sex is a bad thing it rumples the clothes

A) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

B) Mae West

C) Marilyn Monroe

D) Oscar Wilde

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27. Who was the youngest ever American President?

A) John F. Kennedy

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) Bill Clinton

D) Barack Obama

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28. Benjamin Franklin suggested that __________ should be the U.S. national bird

A) Bald eagle

B) Turkey

C) Blue jay

D) Red-tailed hawk

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29. Three of the following U.S. Presidents appeared at one time or another on what's my line which one did not Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush

A) Jimmy Carter

B) George bush

C) Gerald Ford

D) Ronald Reagan

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30. The only us state that celebrates its own independence day

A) Texas

B) California

C) New Mexico

D) Alaska

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31. Who advocated the planting peanuts and sweet potatoes to replace cotton and tobacco (i.e. crop rotation)

A) George Washington Carver

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) Jethro Tull

D) Benjamin Franklin

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32. Who was the 3rd president of the U.S.

A) George Washington

B) John Adams

C) James Madison

D) Thomas jefferson

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33. What mountain has the figures of three mounted confederate heroes of the civil war

A) Mount Everest

B) Stone mountain

C) Mount Rushmore

D) Pikes Peak

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34. What is jimmy carter's middle name

A) Earl

B) Alan

C) Michael

D) John

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35. On December 1, 1917, who opened Boys Town, a farm village for wayward boys, near Omaha, Nebraska

A) Father Thomas O'Neill

B) Father Edward Flanagan

C) Father John J. Cavanaugh

D) Father Michael Walsh

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36. Who signed the declaration of independence

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) Benjamin Franklin

C) George Washington

D) John hancock and charles thomson

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37. Encounter on March 5, 1770, five years before the American Revolution, between British troops and a group of citizens of Boston

A) Boston Tea Party

B) Boston Massacre

C) Battle of Bunker Hill

D) Gaspee Affair

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38. Who Was The First US President To Take Up Residence In The White House

A) John Adams

B) George Washington

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) James Madison

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39. What did the republicans call the platform they hyped in the 1994 congressional elections

A) The Republican Plan for Prosperity

B) The Conservative Agenda for Reform

C) America's Economic Renewal Project

D) Contract with america

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40. Whose headstone reads 'at rest, an american soldier and defender of the constitution'

A) George Washington

B) Ulysses S. Grant

C) Jefferson davis

D) Andrew Jackson

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41. Which racist organisation was formed in tennessee in 1865

A) White League

B) Knights of the Golden Circle

C) Ku klux klan

D) Red Shirts

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42. In which State is the Little Bighorn, scene of Custer's last stand

A) Montana

B) Wyoming

C) South Dakota

D) Idaho

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43. The first skyscraper in the United States was built in which city?

A) New York

B) Boston

C) Cincinnati

D) Chicago

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44. George Washington became the first president of the U.S. in what year

A) 1775

B) 1776

C) 1789

D) 1787

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45. In 19th century USA what was The Mongolian Curse

A) Alcohol

B) Yellow fever

C) Cholera

D) Opium

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46. George washington carver advocated planting peanuts and sweet potatoes to replace what

A) Cotton and tobacco

B) Wheat and corn

C) Rice and indigo

D) Soybeans and millet

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47. Generation X Toys: Building tool named after Civil War president

A) Tinker Toys

B) Meccano

C) K'NEX

D) Lincoln Logs

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48. What president's wife saw him elected but died before his inauguration

A) George Washington

B) John Adams

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) Andrew jackson

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49. Paul Revere was a silversmith, copper engraver and what

A) Clockmaker

B) Painter

C) Blacksmith

D) Dentist

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50. What was the last name of the american that invented root beer soft drink

A) Adams

B) Welch

C) Foster

D) Hires

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