Practice Trivia Quiz

1. What was the Boston Tea Party?

A) When the Queen invited colonists to a party.
B) When colonists threw boxes of tea into Boston harbor to protest a tax against tea.
C) When George Washington had a party at the White House.
D) When Davy Crockett served tea to his wife.

2. What American made cars affordable to most people by a process known as "mass production"?

A) John D. Rockefeller
B) Andrew Coombs
C) Tom Hall
D) Henry Ford

3. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?

A) Neil Armstrong
B) Joseph A. Flye
C) Thomas Stringfellow
D) James Crockett

4. Who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner"?

A) Francis Scott Key
B) John Hancock
C) Irving Berlin
D) Julia Ward Howe

5. Which one of the following is not known for being an inventor?

A) Samuel Morse
B) Thomas A. Edison
C) Albert Einstein
D) Alexander Graham Bell

6. Which happened in 1849?

A) Birth of Robert E. Lee
B) The Civil War
C) The Gold Rush
D) Invention of the telegraph

7. This president issued an order in 1863 which freed the slaves.

A) George Washington
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) George Bush

8. The name of the hotel which held the Democratic National Committee headquarters that was broken into on June 17, 1972.

A) Best Western
B) Watergate
C) Westin
D) Waterfront

9. The name of the first park you could go to and see animals in America.

A) Detroit Zoo
B) Toledo Zoo
C) Philadelphia Zoo
D) Los Angeles Zoo

10. The name of the war that took place from August 2, 1990 to February 28, 1991.

A) Gulf War
B) Greek Civil War
C) Great French War
D) Georgia War

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