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U.S. History General Knowledge - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 19,580 times
- The average score is 12 of 20
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What President first proposed that the U.S. send a man to the moon? | John F. Kennedy | 93%
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| What "war" took place between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the second half of the 20th century? | {Cold} War | 85%
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| What was the name of the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb? | {Manhattan} Project | 81%
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| What city hosted the Constitutional Convention? | Philadelphia | 81%
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| What were dimes and quarters (mostly) made of until 1965? | Silver | 76%
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| What did the temperance movement seek to ban? | Alcohol | 74%
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| What was the first cash crop grown in the above settlement? | Tobacco | 63%
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| What pioneer trail stretched from Missouri to the Willamette Valley? | {Oregon} Trail | 61%
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| What was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, founded in 1607? | Jamestown | 60%
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| In what city did the Battle of the Alamo take place? | San Antonio | 59%
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| What city's population has declined from 1.8 million in 1950 to about 600,000 today? | Detroit | 55%
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| What was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens? | Mark Twain | 54%
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| Who built thousands of libraries after making his fortune in the steel industry? | Andrew Carnegie | 52%
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| What Native American group did Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse belong to? | Lakota Sioux | 50%
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| What country did Commodore Perry and his "black ships" force to open up to trade and foreign relations? | Japan | 44%
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| What did the U.S. complete in 1914 that the French had previously failed to build? | Panama Canal | 42%
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| Who won the same number of electoral votes as Thomas Jefferson in the 1800 election and served as his first Vice President? | Aaron Burr | 39%
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| What husband and wife were executed for giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union? | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | 33%
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| What 1862 law allowed pioneers to claim 160 acres of free land in the West, provided they settle and improve it? | {Homestead} Act | 32%
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| What party did Eugene V. Debs represent during his five runs for U.S. President? | Socialist | 24%
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