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Today’s quiz is all about those influential events that shaped the nation we know today. Are you ready to test your knowledge on moments that fill you with pride for your home country? Let’s begin!
Question 1. Which number President George Washington was in the United States?
a) First
b) Third
c) Fourth
d) Second
Answer 1. Which number President George Washington was in the United States?
a) First
Question 2. In which city did President John F. Kennedy get shot and killed?
a) Dallas
b) Houston
c) Austin
d) San Antonio
Answer 2. In which city did President John F. Kennedy get shot and killed?
a) Dallas
Question 3. Which year was the first successful American landing on the moon?
a) 1989
b) 1912
c) 1969
d) 1929
Answer 3. Which year was the first successful American landing on the moon?
c) 1969
Question 4. The Constitution’s first 10 amendments are known as:
a) The Bill Of Rights
b) The Decision Of Congress
c) Appendix Of America
d) The Addendum Of Freedom
Answer 4. The Constitution’s first 10 amendments are known as:
a) The Bill Of Rights
Question 5. Who is commonly regarded as the first European traveler to set foot in the present-day United States?
a) John Cabot
b) Marco Polo
c) Juan Ponce de Leon
d) Christopher Columbus
Answer 5. Who is commonly regarded as the first European traveler to set foot in the present-day United States?
c) Juan Ponce de Leon
Question 6. Which of these dishes were not offered by the Pilgrims during the very first Thanksgiving feast in 1621?
a) Indian Corn
b) Venison
c) Ham
d) Pumpkin Pie
Answer 6. Which of these dishes were not offered by the Pilgrims during the very first Thanksgiving feast in 1621?
d) Pumpkin Pie
Question 7. Where did the pilgrims reside before setting ship for Massachusetts?
a) Egypt
b) England
c) Belgium
d) The Netherlands
Answer 7. Where did the pilgrims reside before setting ship for Massachusetts?
d) The Netherlands
Question 8. What was the location of the renowned Lost Colony?
a) Virginia
b) New Jersey
c) North Carolina
d) New York
Answer 8. What was the location of the renowned Lost Colony?
c) North Carolina
Question 9. What was the conflict that included the French and Indian War?
a) Hundred Years’ War
b) Civil War
c) World War I
d) Seven Years’ War
Answer 9. What was the conflict that included the French and Indian War?
d) Seven Years’ War
Question 10. What dispute between American colonists and the British government helped to spark the Revolutionary War?
a) Settling Of The Western Frontier
b) Women’s Suffrage
c) Slavery
d) Food Riot
Answer 10. What dispute between American colonists and the British government helped to spark the Revolutionary War?
a) Settling Of The Western Frontier
Question 11. Where were the tea goods of the East India Company thrown in 1773 by American protestors?
a) Hudson River
b) Mississippi River
c) Boston Harbor
d) Delaware River
Answer 11. Where were the tea goods of the East India Company thrown in 1773 by American protestors?
c) Boston Harbor
Question 12. Who said, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” at a speech in 1775?
a) Patrick Henry
b) James Madison
c) Nathan Hale
d) Samuel Adams
Answer 12. Who said, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” at a speech in 1775?
a) Patrick Henry
Question 13. Who made the initial move for independence at the Continental Congress?
a) Richard Henry Lee
b) John Adams
c) Benjamin Franklin
d) Thomas Jefferson
Answer 13. Who made the initial move for independence at the Continental Congress?
a) Richard Henry Lee
Question 14. General George Washington crossed the Delaware River when?
a) November 1777
b) October 1775
c) December 1776
d) January 1774
Answer 14. General George Washington crossed the Delaware River when?
c) December 1776
Question 15. What was the annual salary of President George Washington?
a) $10,000
b) $25,000
c) $5,000
d) $50,000
Answer 15. What was the annual salary of President George Washington?
b) $25,000
Question 16. In the Louisiana Purchase, how much land did the United States acquire from France?
a) 750 Million Acres
b) 100 Million Acres
c) 530 Million Acres
d) 250 Million Acres
Answer 16. In the Louisiana Purchase, how much land did the United States acquire from France?
c) 530 Million Acres
Question 17. When was the capital of the country taken and set on fire by the British invasion force?
a) 1835
b) 1863
c) 1814
d) 1778
Answer 17. When was the capital of the country taken and set on fire by the British invasion force?
c) 1814
Question 18. In Virginia in 1831, who organized an armed slave insurrection?
a) Nat Turner
b) John Brown
c) Fredrick Douglass
d) Booker T. Washington
Answer 18. In Virginia in 1831, who organized an armed slave insurrection?
a) Nat Turner
Question 19. Which president stated “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”?
a) Jimmy Carter
b) Ronald Reagan
c) Richard Nixon
d) Gerald Ford
Answer 19. Which president stated “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”?
b) Ronald Reagan
Question 20. Which American president was the first to be elected despite not winning the popular vote?
a) Rutherford B. Hayes
b) George W. Bush
c) John Quincy Adams
d) Benjamin Harrison
Answer 20. Which American president was the first to be elected despite not winning the popular vote?
c) John Quincy Adams
Question 21. The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956 was started by whose arrest?
a) James Meredith
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) Harriet Tubman
d) Rosa Parks
Answer 21. The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956 was started by whose arrest?
d) Rosa Parks
Question 22. “Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate,” stated which president?
a) Franklin D. Roosevelt
b) John F. Kennedy
c) Richard Nixon
d) Ronald Reagan
Answer 22. “Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate,” stated which president?
b) John F. Kennedy
Question 23. Which year did Congress initially declare Independence Day a national holiday?
a) 1776
b) 1938
c) 1853
d) 1870
Answer 23. Which year did Congress initially declare Independence Day a national holiday?
d) 1870
Question 24. What does the American flag’s color scheme represent?
a) Red: compassion, White: peace and unity, Blue: remembrance
b) Red: revolution, White: stability, Blue: integrity
c) Red: hardiness, White: purity, Blue: perseverance
d) Nothing, the Founding Fathers simply found them aesthetically pleasing
Answer 24. What does the American flag’s color scheme represent?
c) Red: hardiness, White: purity, Blue: perseverance
Question 25. Where did the first Fourth of July celebration with a fireworks show take place?
a) Atlanta, Georgia
b) New York, New York
c) Boston, Massachusetts
d) Washington, D.C.
Answer 25. Where did the first Fourth of July celebration with a fireworks show take place?
c) Boston, Massachusetts
Question 26. What is the term used to describe the operation that saw June 1944 see the Allied Forces arrive in Normandy?
a) Normandy Day
b) Invasion #1944
c) D-Day
d) Operation Invasion
Answer 26. What is the term used to describe the operation that saw June 1944 see the Allied Forces arrive in Normandy?
c) D-Day
Question 27. When did women in America get the right to vote?
a) 1935
b) 1969
c) 1920
d) 1905
Answer 27. When did women in America get the right to vote?
Question 28. What Supreme Court decision put an end to school segregation?
a) Brown v. Board Of Education
b) Plessy v. Ferguson
c) The Dred Scott Decision
d) Roe v. Wade
Answer 28. What Supreme Court decision put an end to school segregation?
a) Brown v. Board Of Education
Question 29. Which document, signed by Abraham Lincoln, set free the slaves in the states that had rebelled?
a) The Emancipation Proclamation
b) The Freedom Contract
c) The Free Amendment
d) The Articles Of Liberty
Answer 29. Which document, signed by Abraham Lincoln, set free the slaves in the states that had rebelled?
a) The Emancipation Proclamation
Question 30. In World War II, which of the following was not an ally of the United States?
a) The Soviet Union
b) Germany
c) Great Britain
d) France
Answer 30. In World War II, which of the following was not an ally of the United States?
b) Germany
Question 31. “The Star-Spangled Banner” was written by who?
a) Emma Goldman
b) Francis Scott Key
c) John Philip Sousa
d) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer 31. “The Star-Spangled Banner” was written by who?
b) Francis Scott Key
Question 32. Which space shuttle, carrying seven passengers on board, exploded soon after takeoff on January 28, 1986?
a) Challenger
b) Saturn
c) Voyager
d) Hubble
Answer 32. Which space shuttle, carrying seven passengers on board, exploded soon after takeoff on January 28, 1986?
a) Challenger
Question 33. What controversy occurred in 1972 when five men were captured by police for breaking into the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters?
a) The D.C. Scandal
b) The Democratic Disaster
c) Spygate
d) Watergate
Answer 33. What controversy occurred in 1972 when five men were captured by police for breaking into the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters?
d) Watergate
Question 34. What year was Prohibition abolished from the United States Constitution?
a) 1933
b) 1905
c) 1920
d) 1941
Answer 34. What year was Prohibition abolished from the United States Constitution?
a) 1933
Question 35. Which state was connected by the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869?
a) Texas
b) Louisiana
c) Utah
d) Nevada
Answer 35. Which state was connected by the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869?
c) Utah
Question 36. The Declaration of Independence was signed in which year?
a) 1492
b) 1625
c) 1795
d) 1776
Answer 36. The Declaration of Independence was signed in which year?
d) 1776
Question 37. What was the first formal post that Alexander Hamilton held in the United States?
a) Secretary Of Homeland Security
b) Secretary Of The Treasury
c) Secretary Of State
d) Secretary Of Defense
Answer 37. What was the first formal post that Alexander Hamilton held in the United States?
b) Secretary Of The Treasury
Question 38. In 1970, during a protest against the bombing of Cambodia, four students died at which university?
a) Boston College
b) University Of South Carolina
c) Kent State
d) Texas A and M
Answer 38. In 1970, during a protest against the bombing of Cambodia, four students died at which university?
c) Kent State
Question 39. Which decade saw the greatest portion of the Great Depression?
a) The 1940s
b) The 1920s
c) The 1910s
d) The 1930s
Answer 39. Which decade saw the greatest portion of the Great Depression?
d) The 1930s
Question 40. What year was the United States’ main engagement in the Vietnam War?
a) The 1980s
b) The 1950s
c) The 1970s
d) The 1960s
Answer 40. What year was the United States’ main engagement in the Vietnam War?
d) The 1960s
Question 41. In the American Civil War, who commanded the Confederate army?
a) Ulysses S. Grant
b) George McClellan
c) William T. Sherman
d) Robert E. Lee
Answer 41. In the American Civil War, who commanded the Confederate army?
d) Robert E. Lee
Question 42. Which American president made their television debut first?
a) Dwight D. Eisenhower
b) Lyndon B. Johnson
c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
d) Teddy Roosevelt
Answer 42. Which American president made their television debut first?
c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Question 43. Which nation gave the United States the Statue of Liberty in 1886?
a) England
b) Germany
c) France
d) Canada
Answer 43. Which nation gave the United States the Statue of Liberty in 1886?
c) France
Question 44. Which aircraft was given the nickname Spirit of St. Louis?
a) Teddy Roosevelt
b) Amelia Earhart
c) Howard Hughes
d) Charles Lindbergh
Answer 44. Which aircraft was given the nickname Spirit of St. Louis?
d) Charles Lindbergh
Question 45. Who is the inventor of the electric light bulb?
a) Ben Franklin
b) Nikola Tesla
c) Thomas Edison
d) Alexander Graham Bell
Answer 45. Who is the inventor of the electric light bulb?
c) Thomas Edison
Question 46. Alcatraz is now a national park, but for many years it served as what?
a) Military Base
b) A Mental Hospital
c) Federal Penitentiary
d) Quarantine Facility
Answer 46. Alcatraz is now a national park, but for many years it served as what?
c) Federal Penitentiary
Question 47. In what year did the Japanese strike Pearl Harbor?
a) 1941
b) 1914
c) 1945
d) 1973
Answer 47. In what year did the Japanese strike Pearl Harbor?
a) 1941
Question 48. What accomplishment did Jackie Robinson make as the first black man?
a) Play in Major League Baseball
b) Become President
c) Appear in a major motion picture
d) Go into space
Answer 48. What accomplishment did Jackie Robinson make as the first black man?
a) Play in Major League Baseball
Question 49. Which Massachusetts town is most renowned for the 1690s Witch Trials?
a) Plymouth
b) Lexington
c) Worcester
d) Salem
Answer 49. Which Massachusetts town is most renowned for the 1690s Witch Trials?
d) Salem
Question 50. Which cities in Japan were hit by atomic bombs dropped by the US?
a) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
b) Sendai and Nara
c) Sapporo and Fukuoka
d) Tokyo and Kyoto
Answer 50. Which cities in Japan were hit by atomic bombs dropped by the US?
a) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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