Millicent Fenwick??

Good Morning.

I am famous for multi-choice quizzes. I create them particularly for birthday parties but used to kick them out on a regular basis to friends across the country. They were opinion surveys then, but in the interest of some much needed civility this morning after another round of political unpleasantness, I will stick with factual material.

Here is an Americana Trivia Quiz. It is meant to be light, harmless, and even a bit foolish.

1. Who invented the sewing machine?

a. Betsy Ross

b. Benjamin Franklin

c. Elias Howe

d. Johnny Appleseed

2. Mark Twain owned a home in Hartford, Connecticut. Who lived next door?

a. Harriet Beecher Stowe

b. Mrs. Twain

c. Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

d. Clara Barton

3. Who played the Lone Ranger on television?

a. Bob Barker

b. Clayton Moore

c. Fess Parker

d. Andy Griffith

4. Who rode Secretariat in the Kentucky Derby?

a. Eddie Arcaro

b. Little Jimmy Dickens

c. Juan Valdez

d. Ron Turcotte

5. What movie did the Obamas see on their first date in 1989?

a. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

b. Batman

c. Do the Right Thing

d. Dead Poet's Society

6. What kind of a business did Harry Truman own prior to getting into politics?

a. A haberdashery

b. A diner

c. A dairy farm

d. A pet store

7. What was Wild Bill Hickok doing when he was shot?

a. Taking a bath

b. Playing poker

c. Buying a horse

d. Getting a haircut

8. What were the names of Lyndon Johnson's beagles?

a. Kiss and Tell

b. Him and Her

c. Where and When

d. Stop and Go

9. Who was Millicent Fenwick?

a. An outlaw who rode with Jesse James

b. A crusader for the repeal of Prohibition

c. A Congresswoman from New Jersey

d. A famous soprano with the Metropolitan Opera

10. Which one of the following was not a signer of The Mayflower Compact?

a. William White

b. Perserverence Thomas

c. Digery Priest

d. Miles Standish

11. Which poet read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy?

a. e.e. cummings

b. His mother

c. Robert Frost

d. Ogden Nash

12. What is The Painted Desert?

a. The name of George W. Bush's ranch in Texas

b. A brothel in Henderson, Nevada

c. A colorful geographic area in Arizona

d. A mural in the U.S. Senate dining room

13. What is the Edmund Fitzgerald?

a. Rush week at the University of North Carolina

b. A freighter that sank in Lake Superior

c. The annual cattle drive across the Badlands of South Dakota

d. A prize for excellence in children's literature

14. What was the name of Amy Carter's cat?

a. Feline Groovy

b. Lady Godiva

c. Misty Malarkey

d. Scarlett O'Hara

15. Where is the Eisenhower Library located?

a. West Point, New York

b. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

c. Normandy, France

d. Abilene, Kansas

16. Who were the Shakers?

a. A religious sect in Massachusetts during the nineteenth century

b. A female rock group in the 1960s

c. A pair of bank robbing brothers in the 1920s

d. Nobody in particular

17. What is The Hermitage?

a. A Franciscan monastery known for its wine-making

b. The residence of Andrew Jackson

c. A prison in upstate New York

d. A famous hotel in Las Vegas

18. What television program during the 1950s was hosted by Ronald Reagan?

a. Beat the Clock

b. I've Got a Secret

c. General Electric Theater

d. Wagon Train

19. What was John Wayne's real first name?

a. Bruce

b. Lloyd

c. Marion

d. Dudley

20. Who wrote The Song of Hiawatha?

a. Paul McCartney

b. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

c. Danielle Steele

d. Edgar Allan Poe

Best regards,

Elisabeth

Answers: 1c; 2a; 3b; 4d; 5c; 6a; 7b; 8b; 9c; 10b; 11c; 12c; 13b; 14c; 15d; 16a; 17b; 18c; 19c; 20b.

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