| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Program which successfully landed a man on the moon | Apollo | 95%
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| I | Country which held 52 American embassy workers hostage for over a year | Iran | 93%
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| E | One of the five-star generals in WWII | Eisenhower | 88%
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| V | The last war which the U.S. fought with conscripted soldiers | Vietnam War | 87%
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| S | In 1898, the U.S. declared war against this country | Spain | 86%
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| D | City with a population of 1.8 million in 1950, but only about 600,000 today | Detroit | 85%
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| R | Last name of two different Presidents | Roosevelt | 85%
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| J | First permanent English colony in the United States, established 1607 | Jamestown | 77%
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| W | Party of four different Presidents in the 1800s | Whig | 76%
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| M | The ______ Doctrine asserts that the U.S. will not tolerate foreign interference in the Western Hemisphere | Monroe | 75%
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| Y | 1978 disco song which has been called "the gay national anthem" | Y.M.C.A. | 75%
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| B | He won a lawsuit against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in 1954 | Brown | 68%
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| C | Notable casualty of the Battle of the Little Bighorn | Custer | 65%
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| K | Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford | Kissinger | 65%
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| O | Where a land rush occurred in 1889 | Oklahoma | 65%
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| H | Target of John Brown's raid in 1859: _______ Ferry | Harpers | 63%
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| P | Period of American history lasting from 1920–1933 | Prohibition | 61%
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| F | Unflattering name for the 1867 purchase of Alaska: Seward's ____ | Folly | 59%
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| L | Town where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired | Lexington | 59%
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| U | High altitude spy plane shot down over Russia in 1960 | U-2 | 55%
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| Z | In 1917, Germany sent the __________ Telegram to Mexico, encouraging them to invade the United States | Zimmermann | 53%
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| G | William Jennings Bryan speech: "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of ____" | Gold | 52%
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| Q | City where the second and sixth Presidents were born | Quincy | 48%
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| T | Political scandal involving Warren Harding: ______ Dome | Teapot | 44%
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| N | Where the final battle of the War of 1812 happened, two weeks after the peace treaty was signed | New Orleans | 39%
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| X | 1797 incident in which French foreign minister Tallyrand demanded bribes from U.S. diplomats: ___ Affair | XYZ | 25%
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