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U.S. History Multiple Choice #1

Can you answer these multiple choice questions related to American history?
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1. The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles in the American revolution. In what state did they take place?
Massachusetts ✓
New York ✓
South Carolina ✓
Virginia ✓
2. Who was the first president to be impeached?
John Adams ✓
BiIl Clinton ✓
Herbert Hoover ✓
Andrew Johnson ✓
3. What was John F. Kennedy's middle name?
Fitzgerald ✓
Franklin ✓
Frederick ✓
Nothing, it was just an initial ✓
Harry S. Truman's middle name was just an initial
4. Which war killed the most Americans?
American Revolution ✓
Civil War ✓
Vietnam War ✓
World War II ✓
5. What country was blamed for the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898?
China ✓
Germany ✓
Spain ✓
United Kingdom ✓
Spain probably didn't do it. The ship most likely blew up on its own after a fire.
6. Who gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
Abigail Adams ✓
Frederick Douglass ✓
Martin Luther King Jr. ✓
Abraham Lincoln ✓
7. In what year did the U.S enter World War II?
1917 ✓
1939 ✓
1941 ✓
1944 ✓
8. The Fortune 500 measures the largest companies by revenue. What company topped the Fortune 500 in 1970?
AT&T ✓
General Motors ✓
Kodak ✓
Standard Oil ✓
9. Which of these structures was once the tallest in the world?
Gateway Arch ✓
Golden Gate Bridge ✓
Statue of Liberty ✓
Washington Monument ✓
10. In exchange for the USSR taking its missiles out of Cuba, which of these countries did the U.S. remove missiles from?
China ✓
Norway ✓
Turkey ✓
West Germany ✓
11. What party did Presidents Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, and Harrison belong to?
Democratic ✓
Federalist ✓
Republican ✓
Whig ✓
12. Who was President at the time of the Louisiana Purchase?
Grover Cleveland ✓
Andrew Jackson ✓
Thomas Jefferson ✓
James Madison ✓
13. In the Constitution, each state gets a number of Representatives based on its population. Were slaves counted as part of the population?
Yes ✓
No ✓
Slaves were counted as 3/5ths ✓
14. Which of these cities has not hosted the Olympics?
Atlanta ✓
Chicago ✓
Los Angeles ✓
St. Louis ✓
15. What was the name of the spaceflight program that landed humans on the moon from 1969–1972?
Apollo ✓
Gemini ✓
Mercury ✓
Zeus ✓
kalbahamut
+7
Level 83
Jun 29, 2019
Interesting that so few people got the Washington Monument one right, though it doesn't always appear on lists of tallest things in history as it's not a proper building. The tallest man-made structure in history for thousands of years was the Great Pyramid of Giza. Then from 1311 it was various European cathedrals. The Washington Monument was the first thing to surpass all of those, in 1888, and it did so by a pretty big margin. It held the record for only ten years, however, as the Eiffel Tower took it in 1889 almost doubling the height of the obelisk. The in the 1930s we started building skyscrapers.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 83
Jun 29, 2019
Not incidentally the Golden Gate Bridge and Statue of Liberty are both shorter than the Washington Monument. The Gateway Arch, though taller than the Washington Monument, was completed after the Eiffel Tower and is shorter than the Eiffel Tower so it never held the record.
AbiA
+2
Level 79
Feb 20, 2023
The Washington Monument held the record of tallest structure from December 1884 to March 1889.
DonTheLamplighter
+1
Level 84
Jan 22, 2020
1. The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles in the American revolution. In that state did they take place?

Should ask "In what state..."

Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 22, 2020
Fixed
canadry
+1
Level 75
Feb 28, 2022
Surprising how few know the original constitutional status of slaves.
Qyz
+1
Level 62
Sep 18, 2023
Missed the WWII question, as I read it as WWI. I guess only one of the options actually being in that timeframe should've tipped me off.
Corsac
+1
Level 55
Sep 18, 2023
Question 11 should specify which President Harrison (or just remove that name).
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