| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Who came after John Adams as President of the U.S.? | Thomas Jefferson | 93%
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| What city's crime syndicate was run by Al Capone? | Chicago | 88%
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| Where was the Constitutional Convention held? | Philadelphia | 85%
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| What does the holiday Juneteenth celebrate? | Abolition of slavery in the state of Texas | 84%
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| What crime were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of (and executed for)? | Giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union | 82%
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| Who or what were speakeasies? | Illegal bars of the Prohibition era | 82%
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| What was the Watergate Scandal named after? | A hotel and office complex | 78%
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| Who did the U.S. fight against in the Barbary Wars? | Pirates on the northern African coast | 69%
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| Why did Ohio's Cuyahoga River gain notoriety in 1969? | It caught fire | 62%
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| What was the middle name of Civil War general William Sherman? | Tecumseh | 57%
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| What do people falsely claim that Abner Doubleday invented in 1839 at his home in Cooperstown, New York? | Baseball | 54%
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| What famous failed car model, launched in 1958, was named for Henry Ford's son? | Edsel | 53%
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| What religious group practiced pacificism, gender equality, and celibacy? | Shakers | 44%
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| Did Sweden ever have colonies in what is today the United States? | Yes | 44%
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| What was notable about Virginia Dare? | She was the first English person born in the New World | 41%
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