Practice Trivia Quiz
  • 1. What was the Boston Tea Party?
A) When the Queen invited colonists to a party.
B) When colonists threw boxes of tea into Boston harbor to protest a tax against tea.
C) When Davy Crockett served tea to his wife.
D) When George Washington had a party at the White House.
  • 2. What American made cars affordable to most people by a process known as "mass production"?
A) Andrew Coombs
B) John D. Rockefeller
C) Henry Ford
D) Tom Hall
  • 3. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
A) Joseph A. Flye
B) James Crockett
C) Thomas Stringfellow
D) Neil Armstrong
  • 4. Who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner"?
A) John Hancock
B) Francis Scott Key
C) Irving Berlin
D) Julia Ward Howe
  • 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) Invention of the telegraph
C) Birth of Robert E. Lee
D) The Gold Rush
  • 7. This president issued an order in 1863 which freed the slaves.
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) George Washington
C) George Bush
D) Abraham Lincoln
  • 8. The name of the hotel which held the Democratic National Committee headquarters that was broken into on June 17, 1972.
A) Watergate
B) Best Western
C) Waterfront
D) Westin
  • 9. The name of the first park you could go to and see animals in America.
A) Toledo Zoo
B) Detroit Zoo
C) Philadelphia Zoo
D) Los Angeles Zoo
  • 10. The name of the war that took place from August 2, 1990 to February 28, 1991.
A) Georgia War
B) Gulf War
C) Greek Civil War
D) Great French War
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