Loaded Questions 1/5/23 - American History
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave?
Happy Thursday! Hope your first week of 2023 is still running smoothly. Sorry if you wrote 2022 on any checks this week. Got a smattering of American History questions to test your skill. On my NYC trip last month, we went to the Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island, and we took a mock citizenship test, and I’m proud to say we passed. The below question are just slightly harder than those. If you want to see more questions that won’t be on the US Citizenship test, consider subscribing to LQ to get 55 more questions a week. Stay warm everyone!
1. Free Breakfast for Children, a Black Panther community service program, was established in 1969 at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, in what city?
2. Serving during the Battle of Fort Washington in 1776, what woman would later become the first woman to receive a pension for military action?
3. Which California river dam did John Muir remark "As well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man."?
4. What Idaho Senator from 1907 to 1940 was the leader of the "irreconcilables", a group that opposed joining the League of Nations?
5. Also called Gayanashagowa, what name is given to the oral constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy? This constitution was recorded on wampum belts.
6. The main square in Ponce is named in honor of what man, who was the main advocate of the political autonomy of Puerto Rico? He son Marín became the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico.
7. At a National Grocers Association Convention in Florida in 1992, George HW Bush was notably flummoxed by what?
8. What Liberal Republican candidate who lost to Ulysses S. Grant in the Election of 1872 actually died on November 29th, 1872? His death led to a number of faithless electors.
9. In 1864, what woman graduated from the New England Female Medical College, making her the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the US?
10. Living during the Middle Woodland period, what group of nomadic agriculturalists who constructed earthen mounds in Ohio and other areas?
11. Which 1811 battle took place near the Illinois town of Prophetstown?
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1. Free Breakfast for Children, a Black Panther community service program, was established in 1969 at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, in what city?
Oakland
2. Serving during the Battle of Fort Washington in 1776, what woman would later become the first woman to receive a pension for military action?
Margaret Corbin
3. Which California river dam did John Muir remark "As well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man."?
Hetch Hetchy
4. What Idaho Senator from 1907 to 1940 was the leader of the "irreconcilables", a group that opposed joining the League of Nations?
William Borah
5. Also called Gayanashagowa, what name is given to the oral constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy? This constitution was recorded on wampum belts.
Great Law of Peace
6. The main square in Ponce is named in honor of what man, who was the main advocate of the political autonomy of Puerto Rico? He son Marín became the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico.
Luis Muñoz Rivera
7. At a National Grocers Association Convention in Florida in 1992, George HW Bush was notably flummoxed by what?
Barcode
8. What Liberal Republican candidate who lost to Ulysses S. Grant in the Election of 1872 actually died on November 29th, 1872? His death led to a number of faithless electors.
Horace Greeley
9. In 1864, what woman graduated from the New England Female Medical College, making her the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the US?
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
10. Living during the Middle Woodland period, what group of nomadic agriculturalists who constructed earthen mounds in Ohio and other areas?
Hopewell
11. Which 1811 battle took place near the Illinois town of Prophetstown?
Tippecanoe