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Who was appointed by Richard Nixon as Chief Justice of the United States?
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Which US president created NASA ?
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What US senator cast the deciding vote against the impeachment of president Andrew Johnson?
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What US Attorney General served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal?
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What Mexican guerilla leader was hired to stage a revolution for Hollywood movie producers?
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In what year was George Washington sworn in as US president?
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Name the three authors who wrote The Federalist Papers?
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Which US president conducted a seance at the White House?
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What famous proponent of capitalism wrote Wealth of Nations?
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In what year did US president Richard Nixon resign from office?
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What were James Stockdale's opening lines at the 1992 vice presidential debate with Dan Quayle and Al Gore?
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Name the four US presidents whose faces are carved on Mt. Rushmore.
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What was the first national park established by Congress?
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What is the name of the wilderness trail leading into Kentucky marked by Daniel Boone?
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What was the first co-ed college in the US?
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What three-times-defeated US presidential candidate was the prosecuting attorney in the case against John Scopes?
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Who was the first postmaster of the United States?
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What sunken battleship was made into a memorial at Pearl Harbor?
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Who was the first US president to enter office as a 'self-made' millionaire?
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What was the name of the Mayflower's ill-fated companion ship?
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Who was US Secretary of Defense under presidents Kennedy and Johnson?
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What was Woodrow Wilson's post before entering politics.
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What did Rosa Parks refuse to do in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955?
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What state was Spiro Agnew president of?
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Which US Civil War ironclad warship, the Monitor or the Merrimac, was on the Confederate side?
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What congressman served longer than any other as speaker of the house?
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In what year did the Alamo fall to general Santa Anna?
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What US spy plane pilot was shot down over Russia in 1960?
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Who was the first US president to place a phone call to the moon?
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What patriotic song was first performed on Armistice Day, 1938?
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Who was the first English child born in North America?
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Who was the first US president to hold a press conference?
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In what year did the great San Francisco earthquake occur?
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Who assumed the role of first lady upon the death of president Thomas Jefferson's wife?
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Whose films of president John F. Kennedy's assassination where used heavily in investigations?
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What president comissioned the Lewis and Clark expedition?
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Who led the founding of the NAACP?
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What was the most decisive battle in the Civil War?
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What framework for US government was used before the Constitution was adopted?
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What photographer chronicled the Civil War?
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Who crossed the Delaware river on Christmas night, 1776?
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What historical period followed the Civil War?
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What two labor organizations merged in 1955?
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Name the only ex-president to return to the senate?
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Who said "Go West, young man"?
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In 1945 a B-25 bomber crashed into this What New York building.
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In what year did the British burn down the White House?
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What political party did George Washington belong to?
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Where was the first transcontinental railroad completed?
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Who recited a poem at president John F. Kennedy's innauguration?
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When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, drawing the US into World War II?
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What US president served only 30 days in office?
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What is Mary Mallon better known as?
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What was established after a banking and financial crisis in 1913?
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Who was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms?
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Who characterized the press as "nattering nabobs of negativism"?
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Who directed the first secret service during the revolutionary war?
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Who proclaimed Thanksgiving as a national holiday?
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This US President also serced as Vice President, Ambassador to China, and head of the CIA>
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Who was the only US president to graduate from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis?
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What did the 19th Amendment grant?
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Where were the first shots filed in the Civil War?
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Who founded the Underground Railroad?
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From what country did US secretary of state Seward purchase Alaska?
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Which of the Wright Brothers, Wilbur or Orville, made the first flight at Kitty Hawk?
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What suffragette was fined $100 for leading a group of women to vote in 1872?
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When it was in operation, some 12 million US immigrants entered the country through this 'Gateway to America'.
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Who was candidate George McGovern's campain manager in the 1968 presidential election?
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What does the eagle grasp in the Great Seal of the US?
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Who was the only US president to remain a bachelor?
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What was the US Secret Service originally established to prevent?
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What president refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities committee?
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What was gangster Al Capone finally imprisoned for?
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Whose estate was Arlington National Cemetery built on?
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When was the federal income tax first iposed?
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What year was Prohibition repealed?
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Whose campain slogan was "A Chicken in every pot"?
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Who coined the phrase "The Jazz Age" to describe the 1920's?
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What name did Mark Twain give to the period after the Civil War?
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What American landmark was designed by Frederic Auguste?
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Who founded the American Fur Company?
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Whose book collection formed the basis for the Library of Congress?
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What doctor was imprisoned for treating Lincon's Assassin?
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Name Franklin D. Roosevelt's three vice presidents.
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Who engraved the plates for printing the first paper money issued by Congress?
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What date is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty's tablet?
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How many amendments from the Bill of Rights were adopted into the US Constitution?
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Who did 'Squeaky' Fromme try to shoot?
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What future president wrote the Declaration of Independence in only 18 days?
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Who was Richard Nixon's first chief of staff in the White House?
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Who were the combatants in the 'Kitchen Debate'?
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Who was the first US president to survive being shot while in office?
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Who did Richard Nixon say he was elected by?
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What Declaration of War was issued by Lyndon Johnson on January 8th, 1964?
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What two Washington Post reporters wrote
All the Presidents Men
?
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