Try your US History expertise at the following history stumpers:

1. What Presidents won the most states in a general election?

2. After landing on the moon with only 10 seconds of fuel left, what was the first thing Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong did?

3. Who was the first person Abraham Lincoln asked to command his Union army?

4. What was the original color of the White House?

5. By what better name do we know Sam Wilson, a meat-cutter from Troy N.Y.?

6. Where did the Liberty Bells inscription, "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof", originate?

7. Who was the first black recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor?

8. Where did the largest earthquake East of the Mississippi occur?

9. What Religious Denomination has had the most members become President?

10. We celebrate Memorial Day on the last Monday in May, but Holiday once a had another name. What was The original name?

11. What motivated the British to set fire to Washington D.C. during the War of 1812?

12. By what better name do we know the music from the British drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven"?

13. What President was responsible for putting "Under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance?

14. What woman has had the most statues in the United States made in her honor?

15. How many people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776?

16. What was the name of the first submarine, and in which war did it see action?

17. What was the first state to allow women to vote?

18. What did Betsey Ross do to aid the cause of the American Revolution? (hint: it is not make a flag)

19. Who successfully defended the British Soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre?

20. Since the Pony Express routes were so dangerous, who was asked in their advertisements to take the jobs?

21. What President had a candy bar named for his daughter?

22. In what U.S. city did the term "Skid Row" originate?

23. Which President gave the longest inaugural address, and how long did it last?

24. What famous Texan lived with the Cherokee Indians for 3 years in his youth, and took the name "Black Raven"?

25. What is Tecumseh's Curse?

26. What did Woodrow Wilson bring to the White House so that his gardeners would be free for military service?

27. What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?

28. What feisty Vice-President, (later President), presided over the Senate with loaded pistols?

29. Who was General Rahl, and what is his fame in US History?

30. John Adams waged the first negative Presidential campaign, saying that if his opponent was elected "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest would be openly taught." Who was his opponent?

31. How did the U.S. Marines obtain the nickname "Leathernecks"?

32. What famous Confederate escaped capture during the Civil War by dressing in his wife's clothes?

33. The top of the Washington Monument is not stone at all. What is it made of and why?

34. What famous duo was born Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longbaugh?

35. Who was the only President to face enemy gunfire while in office?

36. What would your punishment be if you were a Puritan and you beat your wife?

37. Who was the first wife of a President to be called the "First Lady"?

38. What State Capital was once named "Pigs Eye"?

39. Which President's wife was and expert equestrian, often riding alone to deliver messages to troops?

40. Who was President when electricity was installed in the White House?

41. Who was the first to designate the Presidential Mansion as "The White House"?

42. What was the actual reason for the Boston Tea Party?

43. What famous communist once worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune?

44. What part of the United States did the Japanese occupy during W.W.II?

45. What cartoonist gave us both Santa Claus and Uncle Sam?

46. Which President was once a fashion model?

47. What epidemic killed more Americans than any other?

48. "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?' was the slur used for this Presidential candidate because he had fathered a child out of wedlock. He won anyway. Who was the candidate?

49. Daylight savings time was instituted in 1917, but what American first purposed it?

50. The planned invasion of Japan called Operation Downfall was negated by the dropping of the atomic bomb. How many dead U.S. soldiers did the military estimate would be killed had the operation gone forward?

51. What is the worst marine disaster in US history?

52. How much formal education did Thomas Edison have?

53. What American Inventor was awarded the "Iron Cross' by Adolf Hitler?

54. What was the only confederate state to make slavery illegal and was specifically waived by congress from the emancipation proclamation ?

55. Which President had a foreign capital named after him?

56. This President appointed the first woman cabinet member?

57. Who was Richard Saunders and what did he publish?

58. Which President used the courts to ban the publishing of an article in the New York Times, making it the first time in U.S. history our government ever moved to try an bar in advance the printing information that the government found objectionable?

59. How did the oldest library in the United States (Wrentham, Massachusetts ) come into being?

60. During the Cuban Missile crisis, this man successfully persuaded JFK's administration not to bomb Cuba because it would appear to the rest of the world as Pearl Harbor, and he did not want President Kennedy to be the next "Hirohito"?

61. Which First lady was accused of being insane and was actually committed after she left the White House by her own son?

62. This man who was to become President hanged a man while serving as sheriff.   Who was he?

63. Why was it that when over 1200 people perished and all of the 800 buildings in the Peshtigo, Wisconsin burned to the ground in in 1871, the country's newspapers hardly mentioned the fact?

64. What was Ulysses S. Grant's occupation when the War Between the States broke out?

65. What is Wilmer McLean's claim to fame in the Civil War?

66. Twenty-one people died and another 150 were injured in Boston, Mass. on Jan. 15, 1919 by this unusual flood.

67. What was the most devastating aerial bombing of World War II?

68. Japan declared war on this country on Aug. 23, 1914.

69. What was the first world spoken on the surface of the moon?

70. Who was the first living US president for whom the Marine Band played "Hail to the chief"?

71. Who was the only First Lady born outside the United States? (Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams, who was born in London)

72. What was the name of the British warship on which Benedict Arnold sought refuge when he was exposed as a traitor? (The Vulture.)