Practice Trivia Quiz
  • 1. What was the Boston Tea Party?
A) When George Washington had a party at the White House.
B) When colonists threw boxes of tea into Boston harbor to protest a tax against tea.
C) When the Queen invited colonists to a party.
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) Henry Ford
B) Andrew Coombs
C) Tom Hall
D) John D. Rockefeller
  • 3. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
A) James Crockett
B) Thomas Stringfellow
C) Neil Armstrong
D) Joseph A. Flye
  • 4. Who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner"?
A) Julia Ward Howe
B) Francis Scott Key
C) Irving Berlin
D) John Hancock
  • 5. Which one of the following is not known for being an inventor?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Alexander Graham Bell
C) Thomas A. Edison
D) Samuel Morse
  • 6. Which happened in 1849?
A) The Civil War
B) Birth of Robert E. Lee
C) Invention of the telegraph
D) The Gold Rush
  • 7. This president issued an order in 1863 which freed the slaves.
A) George Bush
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) George Washington
  • 8. The name of the hotel which held the Democratic National Committee headquarters that was broken into on June 17, 1972.
A) Waterfront
B) Westin
C) Best Western
D) Watergate
  • 9. The name of the first park you could go to and see animals in America.
A) Toledo Zoo
B) Detroit Zoo
C) Los Angeles Zoo
D) Philadelphia Zoo
  • 10. The name of the war that took place from August 2, 1990 to February 28, 1991.
A) Gulf War
B) Great French War
C) Greek Civil War
D) Georgia War
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