What’s Your U.S. History IQ?
It’s time to answer some cool questions about U. S. History
- 1.
What year did the "War of the Worlds" broadcast panic Americans?
- A.
1865
- B.
1885
- C.
1938
- D.
1493
Correct Answer
C. 1938 -
- 2.
What year did General Electric invent fluorescent lighting?
- A.
1939
- B.
1814
- C.
1999
- D.
1888
Correct Answer
A. 1939 -
- 3.
What year did California open the first highway in Los Angeles?
- A.
1867
- B.
1886
- C.
1940
- D.
1889
Correct Answer
C. 1940 -
- 4.
What year did the U.S. start its first peacetime military draft?
- A.
1948
- B.
1940
- C.
1936
- D.
1930
Correct Answer
B. 1940 -
- 5.
In what year did the U.S. Treasury begin issuing Liberty Bonds?
- A.
1941
- B.
1775
- C.
1841
- D.
1849
Correct Answer
A. 1941 -
- 6.
About how long did it take sculptor Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers to carve Mount Rushmore in 1941?
- A.
Four Weeks
- B.
Five Months
- C.
Three Days
- D.
Eleven Months
Correct Answer
A. Four Weeks -
- 7.
What year did U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt order internment of Japanese Americans?
- A.
1858
- B.
1903
- C.
1958
- D.
1942
Correct Answer
D. 1942 -
- 8.
When was the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded?
- A.
1772
- B.
1849
- C.
1862
- D.
1942
Correct Answer
D. 1942 -
- 9.
When were coffee, sugar and gas rationed in the U.S.?
- A.
1889
- B.
1851
- C.
1849
- D.
1942
Correct Answer
D. 1942 -
- 10.
What year did the U.S. establish the Manhattan Project?
- A.
1942
- B.
1994
- C.
1993
- D.
1997
Correct Answer
A. 1942 -
- 11.
What year was the U.S. Pentagon completed?
- A.
1889
- B.
1871
- C.
1994
- D.
1943
Correct Answer
D. 1943 -
- 12.
What year did the Allied troops storm the beaches at Normandy?
- A.
1869
- B.
1825
- C.
1997
- D.
1944
Correct Answer
D. 1944 -
- 13.
What year was the G.I. Bill of Rights passed by the U.S. Congress?
- A.
1869
- B.
1865
- C.
1944
- D.
1871
Correct Answer
C. 1944 -
- 14.
In which year did Roosevelt get elected to his fourth term?
- A.
1825
- B.
1995
- C.
1944
- D.
1865
Correct Answer
C. 1944 -
- 15.
What year did the Truman Doctrine establish the U.S. policy?
- A.
1856
- B.
1776
- C.
1947
- D.
1879
Correct Answer
C. 1947 -
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