Trivia Quiz: American History

Question 1: What city was the Declaration of Independence signed in?

 A: Philadelphia
 B: New York
 C: Boston
 D: Seattle

Question 2: Who was the sixteenth president of the United States?

 A: James Garfield
 B: Abraham Lincoln
 C: Millard Fillmore
 D: James Madison

Question 3: During what war was the 'Star Spangled Banner' written?

 A: Civil War
 B: WWI
 C: Revolutionary War
 D: War of 1812

Question 4: Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?

 A: John Thompson
 B: Francis Scott Key
 C: Perry Mason
 D: Ben Matlock

Question 5: What European nation originally colonized Florida?

 A: England
 B: Spain
 C: France
 D: Portugal

Question 6: Who is on the 2 dollar bill?

 A: Thomas Jefferson
 B: George Washington
 C: John F. Kennedy
 D: James Monroe

Question 7: How many presidents have been impeached?

 A: 1
 B: 0
 C: 3
 D: 2

Question 8: What U.S. president was accused, with overwhelming evidence against him, of listening in on the other party's election plans?

 A: Calvin Coolidge
 B: Herbert Hoover
 C: Richard Nixon
 D: William Taft

Question 9: Dwight D. Eisenhower won two landslide elections in the 1950s. Whom did he defeat on both occasions?

 A: Harry S. Truman
 B: Thomas Dewey
 C: Adlai Stevenson
 D: Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 10: Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a bus boycott in which state?

 A: Mississippi
 B: Louisiana
 C: Georgia
 D: Alabama