Question 1

D: 1. Cat: People & legends.   This real-life man was said to walk about barefoot across America around the turn of 19th Century America with a cooking pot on his head and planting apple trees.

Accepted Answer

John Chapman - How 'bout dem apples?

Question 2

D: 2 Cat: Presidents.   When fleeing the first White House before the Canadians burned it down (because we were kicking Canadian butt), First Lady Dolley Madison saved a portrait of which president?

Accepted Answer

George Wshington - More like, Goodbye Dolley.

Question 3

D: 3 Cat: Presidents   When Cherokee leader John Ross got the US Supreme court to sue Congress for passing the Indian Removal Act which led to the Trail of Tears, Chief Justice Marshall ruled

Accepted Answer

That the act was not constitutional - President Jackson enforced the act anyway...the douche.

Question 4

D: 4 Cat: Presidents   Which President's election campaign in 1840 was known as the "log cabin and cider campaign"?

Accepted Answer

William Henry Harrison - Someone should make a musical about that guy.

Question 5

D: 1 Cat: States & Regions   What was the Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

A dry area of the Great Plains in the 1930s? - Over 3 million people had to leave the Great Plains during the 30s...talk about an economy getting kicked when its down.

Question 6

D: 5 Cat: Presidents   Who was President Franklin Pierce's Secretary of War?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis - Also the name of Miles Morales' dad. Weird.

Question 7

D: 4 Cat: States & Regions   The Homestead Act of 1862 promised 160 acres of land in the West to anyone who

Accepted Answer

Pay a 10-dollar filing-fee and improve the land for five years. - Sure was nice of the government to sell all that land that totally belonged to them...

Question 8

D: 4 Cat: Presidents   Who led the British force which fired the first shots that started the 7 Years War?

Accepted Answer

George Washington - During the war, Washington once had two horses shot out from under him...those poor horses. R.I.P.

Question 9

D: 5 Cat: States & Regions   Which colony and later state was founded by a Puritan minister, Roger Williams, who left Massachusetts and founded the Baptist denomination?

Accepted Answer

Rhode Island - Williams treated the Native Americans fairly and pioneered separation of church and state as a concept...lowkey based.

Question 10

D: 4 Cat: People & Legends   Which wealthy industrialist bought Andrew Carnegie's steel company to make the U.S. Steel Corporation?

Accepted Answer

J. P. Morgan - This man was rich enough to bail the US government out of near bankruptcy in 1907.

Question 11

D: 2 Cat: People & Legends   The mythical giant lumberjack, Paul Bunyan, had a pet, giant blue ox named

Accepted Answer

Babe - Paul Bunyan's pancake house! But not too good, eh?

Question 12

D: 3 Cat: War   What popular song was written in 1917 by George M. Cohan to encourage men to enlist in WW1?

Accepted Answer

Over There!

Question 13

D: 4 Cat: People & Legends   Who was a congressman in House of Representatives for Tennessee, helped save Andrew Jackson from being assassinated, and is remembered for neither of those things?

Accepted Answer

Davy Crockett - Was known as David Crockett until the 1950s.

Question 14

D: 4 Cat: Regions & States   What year was gold discovered at Sutter's Mill which began the California gold-rush?

Accepted Answer

1848 - More like...the Miner '48er, am I right?

Question 15

D: 3 Cat: People & Legends   In 1929, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in the city of

Accepted Answer

Atlanta - "So its like Atlanta?" "Almost!"

Question 16

D: 5 Cat: Presidents   What was Theodore Roosevelt's army rank during his charge up San Juan Hill with the rough riders?

Accepted Answer

Lieutenant-colonel - That's just bully!

Question 17

D: 4 Cat: People & Legends   Who ran for President 3 times, served as Secretary of State, and famously debated Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Trial?

Accepted Answer

William Jennings Bryan - Totally not Hitler...or the cowardly lion

Question 18

D: 5 Cat: People & Legends   Who did the democratic party nominate to run for President in 1968?

Accepted Answer

Hubert Humphrey

Question 19

D: 4 Cat: People & Legends   What year did Walt Disney's character Mickey Mouse debut?

Accepted Answer

1928 - Public domain, ahoy!

Question 20

D: 3 Cat: People & Legends   Which famous American writer was a friend of both Herman Melville and President Franklin Pierce, and wrote "The House of Seven Gables"?

Accepted Answer

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Had an ancestor who was a judge of the Salem Witch Trials.

Question 21

D: 5 Cat: People & Legends   Which famous law enforcement agent led a group known as the "Untouchables" and hunted Al Capone during prohibition?

Accepted Answer

Eliot Ness - Has a lager made by the Great Lakes Brewing Company named after him.

Question 22

D: 3 Cat: States & regions   Near which city was the Battle of Bunker Hill fought?

Accepted Answer

Boston - Hail Caesar!

Question 23

D: 5 Cat: States & Regions   Which year did congress adopt the Articles of Confederation?

Accepted Answer

1777 - A farmer named Shay didn't like these articles at all.

Question 24

D:1 Cat: People & Legends   Which famous steel-driving African-American railroad worker legendarily beat a steam-powered drill in a race while digging a tunnel through a mountain?

Accepted Answer

John Henry - He was a mighty man--born with a hammer right in his hand.

Question 25

D: 2 Cat: People & legends   What is the name of the colonial militiamen known to be ready for military duty “at a minute’s warning”?

Accepted Answer

the minute-men - Most famous minuteman? Marcus Garvey.

Question 26

D: 5 Cat: Presidents   Which President was the first to own a Rolex watch?

Accepted Answer

Lyndon B. Johnson - Wonder if it said "Time to leave Vietnam"?

Question 27

D: 5 Cat: War/President   Which President was the last to have served on the Battlefield during WW1?

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman

Question 28

D: 4 Cat: Presidents   What was George Wshington's middle name?

Accepted Answer

He did not have one. - If his parents were so rich, why couldn't they afford a middle-name?

Question 29

D: 4 Cat: States & Regions   Aside from Utah and Colorado, this state is only rectangular state in the US.

Accepted Answer

Wyoming - Wyoming, as of 2023, has the lowest population of residents of any state, at about 580,000.

Question 30

D: 4 Cat: People & Legends   Famous WW2 icon "Rosie the Riveter" was painted by which famous American artist?

Accepted Answer

Norman Rockwell

Question 31

D: 3 Cat: Presidents   Which President was notorious for sleeping an average of 11 hours a day and taking an afternoon nap lasting 1-2 hours?

Accepted Answer

Calvin Coolidge - Sleepy Joe? More like Sleepy Cal!

Question 32

D: 4 Cat: States & regions   Which state has the most national historic landmarks?

Accepted Answer

New York - What was wrong with the old York?

Question 33

D: 5 Cat: People & Legends   Back in the early 1800s when canals were the big craze, who was a legendary keelboatman known for his marksmanship and being able to beat anyone in a fight?

Accepted Answer

Mike Fink - Really, he was a pre-cursor to a WWE wrestler.

Question 34

D: 2 Cat: People & Legends   Which famous female marksman starred in Bufallo Bill's Wild West Show-- able to shoot a gun backwards over her shoulder using a mirror accurately--among many feats

Accepted Answer

Annie Oakley - Known as little miss sure-shot, she could shoot her husband's cigarette out from between his lips-- that's one way to quit smoking.

Question 35

D: 4 Cat: Presidents   Which State was Bill Clinton born in?

Accepted Answer

Arkansas - It's...there.

Question 36

D: 5 Cat: War  Which US ship was known as "Old Ironsides"?

Accepted Answer

The USS Constitution - It's the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat. It's in Boston harbor.

Question 37

D: 4 Cat: War   which battle of the Civil War had the most casulaties? (over 50,000)

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg - Where do you send a letter for Abraham Lincoln to? His Gettysburg Address! Hahahaha.....people died.

Question 38

D: 4 Cat: Presidents   Who was president in 1976 during the Bicentennial celebration of America?

Accepted Answer

Gerald Ford - He went to Michigan. Ew.

Question 39

D: 4 States & Regions   In which state was the Trans-continental railroad completed in 1869?

Accepted Answer

Utah - The golden spike is now on display at Stanford University

Question 40

D: 2 War   In the battle of Ft. Sumter, which side held the fort when it was bombarded?

Accepted Answer

The Union - No one died as a result of the bombardment. A Shell accidentally went off and caused 1 death and 4 to be wounded

Question 41

D: 5 Cat: People & Legends    Which famous African-American writer and poet was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872. Wrote "Majors and Minors" and "Oak and Ivey" as collections of his poetry.

Accepted Answer

Paul Laurence Dunbar - He was a life-long friend of the Wright-brothers.

Question 42

D: 5 Cat: Presidents   Who was the first US President to appear on television wearing contact-lenses?

Accepted Answer

Lyndon B. Johnson - Where did LBJ go? He was here just a minute ago.

Question 43

D: 4 Cat: Presidents   Which scientist tried to invent a metal-detector to help doctors operate on President James Garfield after he had been shot?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 44

D: 4 Cat: People & Legends   The first steamboat, invented by Robert Fulton, sailed in 1807 and was named

Accepted Answer

The Clermont - Fulton started a shipping-line and took interest in submarines

Question 45

D: 1 Cat: People & Legends   This famous American author wrote "The Innocents Abroad," "Roughin' It," and "The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" among other works.

Accepted Answer

Mark Twain - "Sounds gay, Tom. Real gay." -- Huck Finn (end of "Adventures of Tom Sawyer).

Question 46

D: 4 Cat: People & Legends   While Wilbur Wright died in 1912, what year did Orville Wright die?

Accepted Answer

1948 - He died at the age of 76 of a heart-attack. Lived long enough to witness a world where his invention dropped an atom-bomb.

Question 47

D: 5 Cat: Presidents   Which President's father was a patriot during the revolutionary war who opposed the stamp act, signed the declaration of independence, and was governor of Virginia?

Accepted Answer

William Henry Harrison - His father was founding-father Benjamin Harrison, not President Benjamin Harrison.

Question 48

D: 5 Cat: Presidents   Who was the grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison?

Accepted Answer

William Henry Harrison - I wonder if he made his inauguration speech short?

Question 49

D: 3 Cat: Presidents   Well before he was President, Lincoln stated his opposition spoke against which war by stating "military glory—that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood"?

Accepted Answer

The Mexican-American War - Guess he changed his mind about that whole war thing.

Question 50

Who is Venom?

Accepted Answer

Eddie Brock - Never know what hit em, venom!

4th of July Quiz

2) D: 2 Cat: Presidents. When fleeing the first White House before the Canadians burned it down (because we were kicking Canadian butt), First Lady Dolley Madison saved a portrait of which president?

3) D: 3 Cat: Presidents When Cherokee leader John Ross got the US Supreme court to sue Congress for passing the Indian Removal Act which led to the Trail of Tears, Chief Justice Marshall ruled

4) D: 4 Cat: Presidents Which President's election campaign in 1840 was known as the "log cabin and cider campaign"?

5) D: 1 Cat: States & Regions What was the Dust Bowl?

6) D: 5 Cat: Presidents Who was President Franklin Pierce's Secretary of War?

7) D: 4 Cat: States & Regions The Homestead Act of 1862 promised 160 acres of land in the West to anyone who

8) D: 4 Cat: Presidents Who led the British force which fired the first shots that started the 7 Years War?

9) D: 5 Cat: States & Regions Which colony and later state was founded by a Puritan minister, Roger Williams, who left Massachusetts and founded the Baptist denomination?

10) D: 4 Cat: People & Legends Which wealthy industrialist bought Andrew Carnegie's steel company to make the U.S. Steel Corporation?

11) D: 2 Cat: People & Legends The mythical giant lumberjack, Paul Bunyan, had a pet, giant blue ox named

12) D: 3 Cat: War What popular song was written in 1917 by George M. Cohan to encourage men to enlist in WW1?

13) D: 4 Cat: People & Legends Who was a congressman in House of Representatives for Tennessee, helped save Andrew Jackson from being assassinated, and is remembered for neither of those things?

14) D: 4 Cat: Regions & States What year was gold discovered at Sutter's Mill which began the California gold-rush?

15) D: 3 Cat: People & Legends In 1929, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in the city of

16) D: 5 Cat: Presidents What was Theodore Roosevelt's army rank during his charge up San Juan Hill with the rough riders?

17) D: 4 Cat: People & Legends Who ran for President 3 times, served as Secretary of State, and famously debated Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Trial?

18) D: 5 Cat: People & Legends Who did the democratic party nominate to run for President in 1968?

19) D: 4 Cat: People & Legends What year did Walt Disney's character Mickey Mouse debut?

20) D: 3 Cat: People & Legends Which famous American writer was a friend of both Herman Melville and President Franklin Pierce, and wrote "The House of Seven Gables"?

21) D: 5 Cat: People & Legends Which famous law enforcement agent led a group known as the "Untouchables" and hunted Al Capone during prohibition?

22) D: 3 Cat: States & regions Near which city was the Battle of Bunker Hill fought?

23) D: 5 Cat: States & Regions Which year did congress adopt the Articles of Confederation?

24) D:1 Cat: People & Legends Which famous steel-driving African-American railroad worker legendarily beat a steam-powered drill in a race while digging a tunnel through a mountain?

25) D: 2 Cat: People & legends What is the name of the colonial militiamen known to be ready for military duty “at a minute’s warning”?

26) D: 5 Cat: Presidents Which President was the first to own a Rolex watch?

27) D: 5 Cat: War/President Which President was the last to have served on the Battlefield during WW1?

28) D: 4 Cat: Presidents What was George Wshington's middle name?

29) D: 4 Cat: States & Regions Aside from Utah and Colorado, this state is only rectangular state in the US.

30) D: 4 Cat: People & Legends Famous WW2 icon "Rosie the Riveter" was painted by which famous American artist?

31) D: 3 Cat: Presidents Which President was notorious for sleeping an average of 11 hours a day and taking an afternoon nap lasting 1-2 hours?

32) D: 4 Cat: States & regions Which state has the most national historic landmarks?

33) D: 5 Cat: People & Legends Back in the early 1800s when canals were the big craze, who was a legendary keelboatman known for his marksmanship and being able to beat anyone in a fight?

34) D: 2 Cat: People & Legends Which famous female marksman starred in Bufallo Bill's Wild West Show-- able to shoot a gun backwards over her shoulder using a mirror accurately--among many feats

35) D: 4 Cat: Presidents Which State was Bill Clinton born in?

36) D: 5 Cat: War Which US ship was known as "Old Ironsides"?

37) D: 4 Cat: War which battle of the Civil War had the most casulaties? (over 50,000)

38) D: 4 Cat: Presidents Who was president in 1976 during the Bicentennial celebration of America?

39) D: 4 States & Regions In which state was the Trans-continental railroad completed in 1869?

40) D: 2 War In the battle of Ft. Sumter, which side held the fort when it was bombarded?

41) D: 5 Cat: People & Legends Which famous African-American writer and poet was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872. Wrote "Majors and Minors" and "Oak and Ivey" as collections of his poetry.

42) D: 5 Cat: Presidents Who was the first US President to appear on television wearing contact-lenses?

43) D: 4 Cat: Presidents Which scientist tried to invent a metal-detector to help doctors operate on President James Garfield after he had been shot?

44) D: 4 Cat: People & Legends The first steamboat, invented by Robert Fulton, sailed in 1807 and was named

45) D: 1 Cat: People & Legends This famous American author wrote "The Innocents Abroad," "Roughin' It," and "The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" among other works.

46) D: 4 Cat: People & Legends While Wilbur Wright died in 1912, what year did Orville Wright die?

47) D: 5 Cat: Presidents Which President's father was a patriot during the revolutionary war who opposed the stamp act, signed the declaration of independence, and was governor of Virginia?

48) D: 5 Cat: Presidents Who was the grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison?

49) D: 3 Cat: Presidents Well before he was President, Lincoln stated his opposition spoke against which war by stating "military glory—that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood"?

50) Who is Venom?