Statistics for U.S. History Multiple Choice #3

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who came after John Adams as President of the U.S.?	Thomas Jefferson	90%
What city's crime syndicate was run by Al Capone?	Chicago	88%
Where was the Constitutional Convention held?	Philadelphia	84%
What was the Watergate Scandal named after?	A hotel and office complex	80%
Who or what were speakeasies?	Illegal bars of the Prohibition era	80%
What crime were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of (and executed for)?	Giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union	77%
What does the holiday Juneteenth celebrate?	Abolition of slavery in the state of Texas	69%
Who did the U.S. fight against in the Barbary Wars?	Pirates on the northern African coast	65%
Why did Ohio's Cuyahoga River gain notoriety in 1969?	It caught fire	61%
What do people falsely claim that Abner Doubleday invented in 1839 at his home in Cooperstown, New York?	Baseball	58%
What famous failed car model, launched in 1958, was named for Henry Ford's son?	Edsel	56%
What was the middle name of Civil War general William Sherman?	Tecumseh	56%
Did Sweden ever have colonies in what is today the United States?	Yes	48%
What religious group practiced pacificism, gender equality, and celibacy?	Shakers	45%
What was notable about Virginia Dare?	She was the first English person born in the New World	43%