Pop Quiz on US History - Questions
By The Editors
1) On Sunday, July 3, 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, a naval vessel operating within Iranian territorial waters shot down Iranian Air Flight 655, a commercial aircraft operated by Iran Air flying from Bandar Abbas to Dubai along a standard commercial route and emitting transponder signals that identified it as a commercial aircraft. All aboard, 290 passengers and crew, including 38 non-Iranians and 66 children, were killed. What nation committed this barbaric atrocity?
a) Soviet Union
b) Iraq
c) Pakistan
d) India
e) United States
f) UAE
g) Saudi Arabia
h) France
2) In what year did the US Supreme Court rule that state laws making inter-racial marriage illegal were constitutional? (Pace vs. Alabama)
a) 1776
b) 1800
c) 1883
d) 1921
e) 1967
f) 1993
g) never
3) In states where illegal, interracial marriage was typically
a) misdemeanor
b) felony
c) never illegal
4) Which was the first state in the 20th century to declare its law against interracial marriage unconstitutional?
a) Texas
b) South Carolina
c) Mississippi
d) California
e) Massachusetts
f) Alabama
5) The US Supreme Court ruled that state laws against interracial marriage were unconstitutional in what year? (Loving vs. Virginia)
a) 1804
b) 1866
c) 1883
d) 1912
e) 1967
f) never
6) American negroes (once the polite word now replaced by blacks) were only counted as 3/5 of a person before the end of slavery. True or false.
7) When did Lincoln free the slaves?
a) 1860
b) 1861
c) 1862
d) 1863
e) 1864
e) 1865
f) never
8) True or false. General Ulysses S. Grant kept slaves throughout civil war.
9) The US suffered how many deaths in WWII?
a) Over a million
b) Approximately 800,000
c) Approximately 400,000
d) Approximately 200,000
d) Approximately 50,000
10) The Soviets suffered approximately how many deaths in WWII?
a) 500,000
b) 800,000
c) 1.5 million
d) 10 million
e) 20 million
f) 40 million
11) US and Britain faced X German divisions in 1942 and Soviets y German divisions?
a) X = 4 Y = 150
b) X = 20 Y = 20
c) X = 100 Y= 50
d) X = 150 Y = 4
e) X = 50 Y = 100
12) Britain declared war on Germany in what year?
a) 1937
b) 1938
c) 1939
d) 1940
e) 1941
f) 1942
13) US declared war on Germany in what year?
a) 1938
b) 1939
c) 1940
d) 1941
e) 1942
f) 1943
g) never
14) US Marines suffered about as many casualties in Vietnam as in WWII. True or false?
15) Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Michael Dell have college degrees in:
a) Engineering, business, mathematics.
b) Business, computer science, business.
c) All have business degrees.
d) All have engineering degrees.
e) Not one of them has a college degree.
Bonus Question: Use a correct answer to offset one wrong answer.
Approximately how many US combat troops were in Vietnam in 1975 when the North Vietnamese finally overran Saigon?
a) 250,000
b) 150,000
c) 100,000
d) 75,000
e) 30,000
f) none
