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U.S. History Groups of Two

Guess the members of these notable groups of two from American history.
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First submittedFebruary 3, 2016
Times taken32,689
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First people to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
States admitted in 1959
Alaska
Hawaii
Women to appear on $1 coins
Susan B. Anthony
Sacagawea
The Wright Brothers
Orville
Wilbur
Dueling ironclad ships of the
U.S. Civil War
Monitor
Merrimack
Louisiana Purchase explorers
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Vice-Presidents of Richard Nixon
Spiro Agnew
Gerald R. Ford
Terminal cities of the Erie Canal
Albany
Buffalo
Most well-known characters
invented by Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
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Husbands of Jacqueline Bouvier
John F. Kennedy
Aristotle Onassis
First two Mormon leaders
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Famous husbands of
Marilyn Monroe
Joe DiMaggio
Arthur Miller
Monopolies broken up by
the U.S. government
Standard Oil
AT&T
First two battles of the
Revolutionary War
Concord
Lexington
Major blockbuster movies of 1939
Gone with the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Last names of Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Parker
Clyde Barrow
Places mentioned in
"Marines' Hymn"
Shores of Tripoli
Halls of Montezuma
Nicknames of Elvis
The King of
Rock & Roll
Elvis the Pelvis
Tramp
+8
Level 76
Jun 27, 2016
I got JFK because I honestly thought he and Monroe were married at one point. Now I feel dumb.
tommo1d
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Level 52
Oct 6, 2016
same
DonTheLamplighter
+17
Level 84
Feb 1, 2017
Imagine how Jackie felt.
xXSeanCuber22Xx
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Level 61
Nov 13, 2017
JFK was accused for having an affair with Monroe. Nothing was actually proven but JFK did cheat on his wife at sometime.
ander217
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Level 75
Jun 9, 2020
His father had an affair with actress Gloria Swanson (according to her memoirs), so it's possible the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Freestatebear
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Level 85
Sep 27, 2023
Isn't it widely known, or at least believed by insiders, that all the Kennedy men were notorious womanizers?
dt1
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Level 43
Jun 27, 2016
Should Mark Twain be one Mark Twain's most famous characters as well? Just a random thought.
jmellor13
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Level 67
Jun 27, 2016
Character and fake name are not the same thing.
JackBeNimble
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Level 80
Mar 3, 2020
I think you missed the irony there...
jmellor13
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Level 67
Jun 7, 2020
I don't think I did.
OfTheMountain
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Level 63
Jun 27, 2016
Fun fact, they are restoring the Monitor at the Mariner's Museum near my house, you can even walk around in a replica of the ship. Check it out if you are in Hampton Roads its a cool museum.
NCsupercade
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Level 55
Jun 27, 2016
The U.S. government has broken up other monopolies, from Paramount pictures and the movie studios to Microsoft.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Sep 26, 2023
I still remember the day they broke up Microsoft into Micro and Soft.
RobNobody
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Level 76
Sep 26, 2023
Those weren't "broken up," just told to alter their business activities. Paramount had to sell the theater chains they owned, while Microsoft got the order to break up overturned by the Supreme Court and actually didn't have to change much of their behavior at all. Meanwhile, Standard Oil was forced to break up into 43 separate corporate entities (the two largest of which became Exxon and Mobil), while AT&T had to break up into seven local exchange operating companies.
MrMagoo
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Level 84
Oct 9, 2023
What was the story with American Tobacco?
Cleverer
+3
Level 58
Jun 27, 2016
4 minutes is way too short for a person who is just casually taking this quiz
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Feb 18, 2020
Added another minute.
prs17
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Level 75
Jun 27, 2016
If you take Bell for AT&T (as I agree you should), shouldn't you also take Esso for Standard Oil?

Also, cut us some slack on spelling for Sacagawea. Please.

SadDuck
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Level 68
Jun 28, 2016
+1 on Esso working. That's all I could think of. Doh!
divantilya
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Level 37
May 8, 2017
I thought Esso was the Canadian, not American version. And, don't they both fall under the umbrella of Shell Nederland?
Hdny42
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Level 63
Oct 9, 2023
No, Standard Oil (and now Exxon Mobil, which is basically SO put back together) was not part of Shell.
sillie
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Level 77
Feb 18, 2020
I thought Esso was just a spelling variant of Exxon?
prs17
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Level 75
Feb 18, 2020
Esso was the name on the gas stations. Esso = S.O. (Standard Oil). After the breakup, Esso became Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, and Amoco (all of which maintained the red, white and/or blue colors of Esso in their logos).
Sifhraven
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Level 67
Feb 19, 2020
Esso only became Exxon in the US in the rest of the world it remained Esso, since there were no legal issues about the name there. And only in 1973 I believe, so not at the start of the break up, which was 1911. I stand corrected if I made an error.
DonTheLamplighter
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Level 84
Jun 8, 2020
As a kid, I remember being a little perplexed when all of the Esso stations disappeared, and Exxon stations popped up. '73 sounds about right.

When we went on long trips, I would count gas stations. Exxon always won easily, quickly taking any suspense out of the "game".

ander217
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Level 75
Jun 9, 2020
When I was young, the signs at the gas station in my area said Standard and the company was still called Standard Oil. The first time I saw Esso was when we traveled to Canada.
TheCrusher
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Level 72
Oct 18, 2017
Could you add some more spellings for Sacagawea? Pretty please? It's a hard one to get right.
musiclistsareus
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Level 62
Oct 25, 2017
You've obviously seen the correct spelling by now. Is it still too hard to get it even after you've seen the correct spelling?
TheCrusher
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Level 72
Jun 25, 2020
Yes, @musiclistareus, it's still too hard to get it. I'm not American, so it hasn't been imprinted in my memory since elementary school. And the name doesn't come up in enough quizzes that I can get used to the correct spelling. It's not as if it was a "spells as it sounds" case, either. So I stand by my comment, thank you. (By the way, I left the comment almost three years ago. Took the quiz again today without knowing I had already taken it and came to the comments section to make exactly the same point, only to realize I already did in 2017. So there you go. Proof of concept. Either I'm too stupid to ever learn how to spell Sacagawea, or it's an unusual and hard to spell name that most non-Americans will have trouble with.)
ander217
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Level 75
Jun 9, 2020
Thank you, third grade music class for the Erie Canal answer. "I've got a mule and her name is Sal, fifteen miles on the Erie Canal...and she knows every inch of the way from Albany to Buffalo..."
LudwigVonKoopa
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Level 58
Feb 2, 2021
LOL I only knew Spiro Agnew because of Futurama
Dimby
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Level 77
Sep 27, 2023
Came here to ask if anyone got Spiro because of Futurama!
LudwigVonKoopa
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Level 58
Feb 2, 2021
Also does Gibbons vs Ogden count as a monopoly broken up? I mean it's kinda famous...
alex15
+3
Level 58
May 5, 2023
there have now been 3 black supreme court justices so this needs to be updated
geo304
+1
Level 76
Aug 30, 2023
Please add Ketanji Brown Jackson or replace the question.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Aug 30, 2023
Will update the quiz soon-ish.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Sep 26, 2023
Updated
Koopa
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Level 77
Sep 26, 2023
What defines "blockbuster" for movies? Didn't the Wizard of Oz actually lose money in the box office, and only see heavy sales after its re-release decades later?

I mean it's a great movie, and a lot of critics and movie-goes would agree. If that makes it a blockbuster, then I'm sold. Otherwise, it's kind of a misnomer in that sense--unless I'm missing something.

IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Sep 26, 2023
Speaking of Standard Oil's legacy, I almost stupidly tried to put Nelson Rockefeller as Nixon's Veep. He was the Veep's Veep.
cpgatbyu
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Level 85
Sep 26, 2023
Until I read Shelby Foote, I was under the impression that there were just the two ironclads. Apparently there were around 60 that saw action in the Civil War..
martay
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Level 70
Sep 28, 2023
I've been rewatching Ken Burns The Civil War and marveling at Shelby Foote's narrative flare.
Hdny42
+1
Level 63
Oct 9, 2023
I put Virginia just to make sure it worked.
Algernon
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Level 72
Oct 3, 2023
Interesting quiz.

As a Brit there were a few questions I knew I wouldn't get (the battleships, the women on the $1, the Canal cities and the “Marines’ Hymn”) and a few I might have got had I had a few more hours to think, or on a different day.

Interesting to see the spread of questions and how some, of them are common enough knowledge over here and others less so.

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