US HISTORY
What year was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
A) 1775
B) 1776
C) 1777
D) 1778
B) 1776
What major Seattle company became famous for supporting the war effort during World War II?
A) Microsoft
B) Amazon
C) Boeing
D) Starbucks
C) Boeing
Which standing US president gave a speech from the famous giant stump in Chehalis?
A) William McKinley
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) William Taft
D) Calvin Coolidge
B) Theodore Roosevelt
How many different countries have a Bigfoot type legend.
A) 3
B) 7
C) 18
D) 36
C) 18
1. What bizarre thing could a person legally send through the mail in 1913?
A) Chickens
B) 12 pounds of books
C) Live explosives
D) Children
D) Children
Which group of Christians were among the earliest outspoken opponents of slavery in America?
A) Baptists
B) Puritians
C) Quakers
D) Anglicans
C) Quakers
What unusual 1859 boundary dispute between the U.S. and Britain in the San Juan Islands became known as?
A) The Chicken War
B) The Beaver Battle
C) The Salmon Dispute
D) The Pig War
D) The Pig War
What Lewis County town was submerged beneath Riffe Lake when Mossyrock Dam was completed in 1968?
A) McCormick
B) Kosmos
C) Nesika
D) Riffe
B, C and D
Kosmos, Nesika, and Riffe
How many shots were officially fired during JFK assassination?
A) 2
B) 3
C) 6
D) 7
B) 3 witnesses all agree on 3 shots with a possibility of 4th shot.
2. What did the U.S. secretly plan to do to the Moon during the Cold War?
A) Build a base
B) Paint a flag on it
C) Detonate a nuclear bomb
D) Mine it
C) Detonate a nuclear bomb
What event brought the U.S. into World War II?
A) Pearl Harbor
B) D-Day
C) Lusitania
D) Cold War
A) Attack on Pearl Harbor
What Tacoma bridge famously collapsed in 1940 after twisting in the wind? military personnel break cadence on a bridge to avoid mechanical resonance, not aeroelastic flutter.
A) Dancing Daisy
B) Galloping Gertie
C) Wobbly Wanda
D) Shaky Sally
B) Galloping Gertie
Lewis County was originally named after which explorer?
A) George Vancouver
B) Meriwether Lewis
C) William Clark
D) John C. Frémont
A) George Vancouver
What motivated President John F. Kennedy to push America to go to the Moon?
A) To find gold on the Moon
B) To put a colony on the moon
C) To beat the Soviet Union in the Space Race
D) To test military submarines
C) Beating the Soviet Union in the Space Race during the Cold War
3. Which president was never elected president or vice president before taking office?
A) Gerald Ford
B) Lyndon B. Johnson
C) Chester A. Arthur
D) Harry S. Truman
A) Gerald Ford
4. What purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803?
A) Louisiana Purchase
B) Alaska Purchase
C) Florida Treaty
D) Oregon Treaty
A) Louisiana Purchase
What secret eastern Washington site produced plutonium for the first atomic bombs during World War II?
A) Fort Lewis
B) Hanford Site
C) Joint Base Lewis-McChord
D) Camp Murray
B) Hanford Site
Where were the first shots fired during the 1919 Centralia Massacre (Armistice Day Riot) in Centralia, Washington?
A) Outside the Lewis County Courthouse
B) On Tower Avenue in downtown Centralia
C) At the train depot
D) On a mound of sawdust on the edge of the Corwin’s property
B) On Tower Avenue in downtown Centralia
D) On a mound of sawdust on the edge of the Corwin’s property
4) During the September 11, 2001 attacks, how many planes were hijacked?
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
C) 4
4. Which U.S. city was almost destroyed by a giant molasses flood in 1919?
A) New York City
B) Boston
C) Baltimore
D) Savannah
B) Boston
Which famous document was signed in 1215 and influenced American democracy?
A) Bill of Rights
B) Federalist Papers
C) Treaty of Paris
D) Magna Carta
D) Magna Carta
What large dam on the Columbia River was completed in 1943?
A) Grand Coulee Dam
B) Hoover Dam
C) Bonneville Dam
D) Chief Joseph Dam
A) Grand Coulee Dam
Who was the last mayor to shake hands with a visiting U.S. president in Lewis County
A) Mayor Kelly Smith Johnson
B) Tucker Voetberg
C) Sean Swope
D) Mayor Pete Corwin
D) Mayor Pete Corwin
5. True or False After the death of Jesus Christ there was a huge Roman conspiracy to hide his resurrection. True or False did Jesus rise from the dead after the crucifixion?
TRUE
Which president survived being shot and still gave his speech?
A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) Ronald Reagan
C) Donald Trump
D) William McKinley
A) Theodore Roosevelt