US HISTORY QUESTIONS
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Which president survived an assassination attempt within minutes of delivering an address to AFL-CIO?
The 39th and 40th states are the only ones to join the Union on the same day. What are they?
After a major scandal, what branch severed ties with a fraternal group called the Tailhook Association for much of the 1990s?
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith died in 1985. Why was this newsworthy?
What former math teacher at West Point became one of the greatest tank commanders of WWII?
Before becoming president, I was the greatest American diplomat and one of the greatest ever secretaries of states. But I was wildly unpopular, and became the first president defeated for re-election. Who am I?
Who was the only former president elected to the US House of Representatives?
As portrayed by Anthony Hopkins on film, what former president took up the cause of the rebel slaves aboard the Amistad?
I have a lot in common with George W Bush. Like him, my dad was president, and also like him, I gained the presidency despite losing the popular vote. I also lost the electoral vote, and only beat Andrew Jackson when the decision was sent to the House. Who am I?
I'm also the only president to have named a child for George Washington, perhaps because my dad was his vice-president. Who am I?
Talmadge Hayer, Thomas 15X Johnson and Norman 3X Butler were convicted of murdering somebody. Who?
What "birthplace of California" was founded by Father Junipero Serra in 1769?
Whose life was saved by an ex-Marine named Oliver Sipple, who batted at the Smith & Wesson Sara Jane Moore was holding?
What ship sank the Merrimack in March 1862, only to be sunk in turn by a gale on a New Year's Eve of that year?
His dying command aboard the USS Chesapeake in the War of 1812 was "Don't give up the ship." Unfortunately, his crew did anyway. Who was he?
In 1912, what future president and his wife translated De Re Metallica, a mineralogy classic written by Georgius Agricola?
February 14, 1884, may have been Valentine's Day, but it was also the day that what future US president lost his mother died of typhoid fever and, just a few hours later and upstairs in the same New York brownstone, lost his wife Alice to Bright's disease, just two days after she'd given birth?
Expecting to end up in Asia, what explorer wore Chinese robes when crossing Lake Michigan into what is now Wisconsin?
Now an artists' colony, where did the Pilgrims first set foot on American soil in 1620?
In 1993, the House of Representatives voted against a proposal to create a state called New Columbia. Where would the 51st state have been?
Despite being convicted of smoking crack cocaine, Marion Barry returned to the mayor's office in what city?
Founded in 1638, Wilmington used to be called Christinahamn, and it was the capital of what colony?
In the 1810s, who set fire to the White House and to the Capitol?
Blair House is where visiting heads of state stay when they drop in to see the president in Washington. But which president was living there temporarily when assassins tried to kill him?
Nearly 500 feet of polished black granite, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial contains the names of all Americans killed during that war. How many names are on the wall?
Who was the only president to never live in the White House?
What president died in a house owned by William Petersen, across the street from where he was shot?
Who resigned the presidency six years to the day after he accepted its presidential nomination?
William Greer was at the wheel of a 1961 Lincoln Continental when he earned his place in history in the 1960s. How?
Michael Brown was asked to leave his post at the International Arabian Horse Association in 2001, but one of his buddies got him a much better job at what federal agency, which he had to resign in disgrace in 2005?
What president unsuccessfully nominated his own attorney, Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court?
In memory of one of the worst race riots in US history, what city dedicated a granite memorial in Greenwood, a black neighborhood that had been attacked by white rioters in 1921?
In 1993, members of which religious group held off federal agents for 51 days near Waco?
What former mining community in Cochise County, Arizona, was first settled in 1877 by a prospector named Ed Schieffelin?
Before Henry Cisneros became Bill Clinton's secretary of housing and urban development, he had been the first Hispanic mayor of a major US city. Which one?
On February 12, 1733, James Oglethorpe founded the first European settlement in Georgia. What historic "Hostess City of the South" is this?
Named for a Mediterranean pirate community, the Barbary Coast used to be the hard-partying quarter of what town?
What geographic term often described the Confederates States of America?
What city was founded after the Denny Party reached Alki Point in 1851?
The Canwell Committee went hunting for Communists in what state, which US Postmaster General James Farley had quipped was a Soviet in 1940?
The 39th and 40th states are the only ones to join the Union on the same day. What are they?
After a major scandal, what branch severed ties with a fraternal group called the Tailhook Association for much of the 1990s?
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith died in 1985. Why was this newsworthy?
What former math teacher at West Point became one of the greatest tank commanders of WWII?
Before becoming president, I was the greatest American diplomat and one of the greatest ever secretaries of states. But I was wildly unpopular, and became the first president defeated for re-election. Who am I?
Who was the only former president elected to the US House of Representatives?
As portrayed by Anthony Hopkins on film, what former president took up the cause of the rebel slaves aboard the Amistad?
I have a lot in common with George W Bush. Like him, my dad was president, and also like him, I gained the presidency despite losing the popular vote. I also lost the electoral vote, and only beat Andrew Jackson when the decision was sent to the House. Who am I?
I'm also the only president to have named a child for George Washington, perhaps because my dad was his vice-president. Who am I?
Talmadge Hayer, Thomas 15X Johnson and Norman 3X Butler were convicted of murdering somebody. Who?
What "birthplace of California" was founded by Father Junipero Serra in 1769?
Whose life was saved by an ex-Marine named Oliver Sipple, who batted at the Smith & Wesson Sara Jane Moore was holding?
What ship sank the Merrimack in March 1862, only to be sunk in turn by a gale on a New Year's Eve of that year?
His dying command aboard the USS Chesapeake in the War of 1812 was "Don't give up the ship." Unfortunately, his crew did anyway. Who was he?
In 1912, what future president and his wife translated De Re Metallica, a mineralogy classic written by Georgius Agricola?
February 14, 1884, may have been Valentine's Day, but it was also the day that what future US president lost his mother died of typhoid fever and, just a few hours later and upstairs in the same New York brownstone, lost his wife Alice to Bright's disease, just two days after she'd given birth?
Expecting to end up in Asia, what explorer wore Chinese robes when crossing Lake Michigan into what is now Wisconsin?
Now an artists' colony, where did the Pilgrims first set foot on American soil in 1620?
In 1993, the House of Representatives voted against a proposal to create a state called New Columbia. Where would the 51st state have been?
Despite being convicted of smoking crack cocaine, Marion Barry returned to the mayor's office in what city?
Founded in 1638, Wilmington used to be called Christinahamn, and it was the capital of what colony?
In the 1810s, who set fire to the White House and to the Capitol?
Blair House is where visiting heads of state stay when they drop in to see the president in Washington. But which president was living there temporarily when assassins tried to kill him?
Nearly 500 feet of polished black granite, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial contains the names of all Americans killed during that war. How many names are on the wall?
Who was the only president to never live in the White House?
What president died in a house owned by William Petersen, across the street from where he was shot?
Who resigned the presidency six years to the day after he accepted its presidential nomination?
William Greer was at the wheel of a 1961 Lincoln Continental when he earned his place in history in the 1960s. How?
Michael Brown was asked to leave his post at the International Arabian Horse Association in 2001, but one of his buddies got him a much better job at what federal agency, which he had to resign in disgrace in 2005?
What president unsuccessfully nominated his own attorney, Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court?
In memory of one of the worst race riots in US history, what city dedicated a granite memorial in Greenwood, a black neighborhood that had been attacked by white rioters in 1921?
In 1993, members of which religious group held off federal agents for 51 days near Waco?
What former mining community in Cochise County, Arizona, was first settled in 1877 by a prospector named Ed Schieffelin?
Before Henry Cisneros became Bill Clinton's secretary of housing and urban development, he had been the first Hispanic mayor of a major US city. Which one?
On February 12, 1733, James Oglethorpe founded the first European settlement in Georgia. What historic "Hostess City of the South" is this?
Named for a Mediterranean pirate community, the Barbary Coast used to be the hard-partying quarter of what town?
What geographic term often described the Confederates States of America?
What city was founded after the Denny Party reached Alki Point in 1851?
The Canwell Committee went hunting for Communists in what state, which US Postmaster General James Farley had quipped was a Soviet in 1940?