Bet you wont say it to my face
This singer and actor had met with Richard Nixon in the White House where this person would then tell Nixon that the Beatles were un-American. He would also ask for a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge (which was the precursor to the DEA). He would later die from Prescription Drug Abuse
Elvis Presley
What was the first British settlement in the current day U.S.?
A) Massachusetts Bay Colony
B) Jamestown
C) Plymouth Colony
D) Roanoke
D! Roanoke
This Confederate sympathizer from a famous family of actors assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
On May 4, 1886, in Chicago, a bomb went off during a riot between police and workers, with 16 deaths resulting from this riot. This event inspired the creation of International Workers Day. What was it called?
A) Zoot Suits Riot
B) Watts Riots
C) Haymarket Riot
D) Stonewall Riots
C! Haymarket Riot
This young outlaw and cattle rustler became one of the most famous figures of the old west, who claimed to kill 21 people before his 21st birthday, although the real number is much lower.
Billy the Kid
President Nixon ran for President three times, twice successfully and once unsuccessfully. Name Nixon’s two running mates when he ran for President three times.
A) Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford
B) Henry Cabot Lodge, Spiro Agnew
C) Nelson Rockfeller, Gerald Ford
D) Henry Kissinger, John Lindsay
B! Henry Cabot Lodge, Spiro Agnew
What was the name of the capital city destroyed by Hernan Cortes?
Tenochtitlan
John Hinckley Jr. tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981 in an attempt to impress this famous actress who he was obsessed with.
A) Meryl Streep
B) Glenn Close
C) Jodie Foster
D) Jamie Lee Curtis
C! Jodie Foster
These raids in 1919 and 1920 were to deport suspected socialists, anarchists, and communists and were a major feature of the First Red Scare.
A) The Doolittle Raids
B) The Palmer Raids
C) Ruby Ridge Raids
D) Hoover Raids
B! The Palmer Raids
This famous actor of Westerns would form an eponymous fast food chain and had a soft drink of cola and grenadine named after him as he did not drink alcohol.
Roy Rogers
Nixon in this country was exposed to the ionizing radiation however, Nixon is also rumored to have lived in this nation as a child. While Vice Presidency, a leader of this nation got upset when they were banned from Disneyland. He would describe, the leader of this country, Brezhnev as a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, “A Bear of a man” and the “the man”
A) China
B) Romania
C) Soviet Union
D) Poland
C! Soviet Union
Which European nation colonized the most African states?
A) Britain
B) Germany
C) France
D) Belgium
C! France
This U.S. president was shot by Charles Guiteau in 1881, although he was ultimately killed by doctors’ unsanitary treatment methods.
James Garfield
This anarchist founded the Catholic Workers Movement and is currently undergoing the canonization process for her work helping the poor and homeless and her nonviolence.
A) Dorothy Day
B) Alice Paul
C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D) Dolores Huerta
A! Dorothy Day
Wild West movies became incredibly popular, not just in the US. What is the genre of European, particularly Italian, western movies named?
Spaghetti Westerns
Which of these reforms was NOT a legislative accomplishment of, or proposed by the Nixon administration
A) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
B) Supplemental Security Income
C) Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1975
D) Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan (CHIP)
C! Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1975
Which agreement/treaty, made between France and Britain in 1916, partitioned the Ottoman Empire (besides the Arabian Peninsula)?
The Sykes-Picot agreement
President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901 by this Polish-American anarchist.
A) Andrzej Kaczmarek
B) Leon Czolgosz
C) Jacek Ostrowski
D) Alek Bartosz
B! Leon Czolgosz
The Galleanisti were a group of mostly Italian-American anarchists active in the early 20th century. Which one of these did they NOT do?
A) Try to blow up John D. Rockefeller
B) Lace over 100 bowls of soup with arsenic at a banquet
C) Attempted to assassinate Woodrow Wilson
D) The Wall Street Bombing in 1920
C! Attempted to assassinate Woodrow Wilson
This famous cowboy won the Medal of Honor in 1872, then it was revoked in 1917 before he was reinstated in 1989.
A) Billy the Kid
B) Butch Cassidy
C) Buffalo Bill
D) Tom Ketchum
C! Buffalo Bill
President Nixon once said “When the President does it, that means it's not illegal”. Name the Chief Justice nominated by Nixon himself who would in his 8-0 majority opinion U.S. v. Nixon subpoenaed the White House tapes.
Warren Burger
In what decade did Indian soldiers revolt against the control of the British East India Company, leading to the instatement of the British Raj? (if you get the exact year you get bragging rights for knowing your stuff because I don’t believe in trivia extra credit)
1850s (1857-8)
The assassination of John F. Kennedy was caught on tape by this bystander, whose recording of the event became an important piece of evidence.
Abraham Zapruder
Sacco and Vanzetti were wrongfully executed in 1927 after a seven-year trial and appeals process which drew condemnation from figures like future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter and Benito Mussolini. While their involvement in the anarchist movement proved to be a central part of their trial, what were they arrested for?
An armed robbery of a shoe factory in Braintree and the murder of the two victims
Annie Oakley was a prominent performer in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, but what did she do?
Sharpshooter