Deck 25: Us Society

Question 1

Which of NASA's Apollo space program missions included a Christmas Eve orbit of the Moon in 1968?

A)Apollo 1
B)Apollo 7
C)Apollo 8
D)Apollo 11

Answer 1

Apollo 8

Question 2

Which two signers of the Declaration of Independence died within hours of each other on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the document's signing?

A)George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
B)John Hancock and Thomas Jefferson
C)James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
D)Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

Answer 2

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

Question 3

Which list of generations is in correct chronological order beginning with the earliest generation?

A)Silent Generation - Greatest Generation - Lost Generation - Generation X - Millenials
B)Lost Generation - Greatest Generation - Silent Generation - Generation X - Millenials
C)Millenials - Greatest Generation - Silent Generation - Lost Generation - Generation X
D)Greatest Generation - Silent Generation - Lost Generation - Millenials - Generation X

Answer 3

Lost Generation - Greatest Generation - Silent Generation - Generation X - Millenials

Question 4

Which American artist is considered the leading figure of the Pop art movement?

A)Andy Warhol
B)Jackson Pollock
C)Willem de Kooning
D)Edward Hopper

Question 5

How many years before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education did the United States send Jesse Owens to Hitler's Germany to compete in the Olympic Games?

A)12 years
B)18 years
C)24 years
D)6 years

Question 6

Which American written work served as political inspiration for Russian author Leo Tolstoy, Indian political leader Mohandas Gandhi and American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.?

A)Uncle Tom's Cabin
B)Common Sense
C)Civil Disobedience
D)Leaves of Grass

Question 7

Which government body shares its nickname with a popular R&B group of the 1960s?

A)The presidential Cabinet
B)The U.S. House of Representatives
C)The U.S. Supreme Court
D)The U.S. Senate

Question 8

Daniel Ellsberg is associated with which political event?

A)The release of the Pentagon Papers
B)Watergate
C)Iran Contra
D)The Nuremberg trials

Question 9

Which president campaigned for re-election with the slogan "It's morning in America?"

A)Dwight Eisenhower
B)Franklin D. Roosevelt
C)Richard Nixon
D)Ronald Reagan

Question 10

Anita Hill's sexual harassment allegations affected the political future of which of the following people?

A)Gary Hart
B)Bill Clinton
C)Clarence Thomas
D)Edward Kennedy

Question 11

Which of the following people was never suspected to be Deep Throat?

A)Diane Sawyer
B)Spiro Agnew
C)Henry Kissinger
D)Pat Buchanan

Question 12

Which president's political platform called for a "Great Society?"

A)Lyndon B. Johnson
B)John F. Kennedy
C)Richard Nixon
D)Dwight Eisenhower

Question 13

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem founded which publication?

A)Woman's Day
B)Jane
C)Cosmopolitan
D)Ms.

Question 14

Whose presidency offered Americans a "New Deal?"

A)John F. Kennedy
B)Theodore Roosevelt
C)Franklin D. Roosevelt
D)Harry Truman

Question 15

Which president characterized his domestic agenda as a "Square Deal?"

A)Woodrow Wilson
B)Theodore Roosevelt
C)Herbert Hoover
D)Calvin Coolidge

Question 16

Oliver North was a figure in which political scandal?

A)The release of the Pentagon Papers
B)Whitewater
C)Watergate
D)Iran-Contra

Question 17

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was an unflinching portrayal of:

A)Exploited child labor
B)Corporate monopolies and robber barons
C)The meatpacking industry
D)The slave trade

Question 18

When did the Gilded Age occur?

A)The 1820s and 1830s
B)The 1870s and 1880s
C)The 1900s and 1910s
D)The 1940s and 1950s

Question 19

Which of the following films did not become an iconic American classic due in part to annual network television broadcasts that many viewers adopted as yearly traditions?

A)Casablanca
B)The Wizard of Oz
C)It's a Wonderful Life
D)The Sound of Music

Question 20

Which motion picture featured a haunted main character whose final line in the movie is, "Rosebud?"

A)Gone With the Wind
B)Casablanca
C)The Godfather
D)Citizen Kane

Question 21

How many Founders signed both the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution?

A)20
B)12
C)6
D)25

Question 22

"The Bible Belt" is a term applied to which region of the United States?

A)The Northeast
B)The Deep South
C)The Midwest
D)The Southwest

Question 23

The Era of Good Feelings in American history came to halt during the acrimonious presidential election between which men?

A)John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson
B)John Kennedy and Richard Nixon
C)Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt
D)Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden

Question 24

Which Founding Father was hailed upon his death as, "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen?"

A)Thomas Jefferson
B)Benjamin Franklin
C)John Adams
D)George Washington

Question 25

Who mourned the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by writing of him, "O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done..."?

A)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
B)Walt Whitman
C)Mark Twain
D)Ernest Hemingway

Question 26

Which 1968 event intensified the anti-war movement in the United States?

A)The Watergate break-in
B)The civil rights demonstration at the Mexico City Olympics
C)The Kent State shootings
D)The My Lai Massacre

Question 27

Which of the following people was not a figure of the Harlem Renaissance?

A)Zora Neale Hurston
B)Marcus Garvey
C)Louis Armstrong
D)Langston Hughes

Question 28

Whose murder is viewed as the catalyst for the African-American civil rights movement?

A)Martin Luther King Jr.
B)Emmett Till
C)Medgar Evers
D)John Kennedy

Question 29

Who was President of the United States when Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon?

A)Richard Nixon
B)John Kennedy
C)Lyndon Johnson
D)Gerald Ford

Question 30

Which 19th century American intellectual was a leader of the Transcendentalist movement and authored numerous essays that formalized much of the American cultural identity of the time?

A)Henry Adams
B)Mark Twain
C)Frederick Douglass
D)Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 31

Which Founder had his role in history inflated when the event for which he is remembered was immortalized in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

A)John Hancock
B)George Washington
C)Paul Revere
D)Benjamin Franklin

Question 32

Who flew in the Spirit of St. Louis?

A)Amelia Earhart
B)Charles Lindbergh
C)Orville and Wilbur Wright
D)The Red Baron

Question 33

Abraham Lincoln's failed run at an Illinois Senate seat in 1858 featured which notable political event?

A)The Lincoln-Douglas debates
B)The Gettysburg Address
C)The Declaration on the Rights of Man
D)An assassination attempt on Lincoln

Question 34

Emigrants from which nation were integral to the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, often performing the most dangerous tasks, including using explosives?

A)Russia
B)China
C)Ireland
D)Germany

Question 35

The term "Manifest Destiny" was used to describe which 19th century American ideal?

A)That Americans were destined to settle the continent from coast-to-coast
B)That white Americans were superior to enslaved Americans
C)That women belonged in the home performing domestic duties
D)That the country was destined to split into two separate nations

Question 36

When Robert Kennedy ran for the presidency in 1968 he was a senator from which state?

A)Maryland
B)Massachusetts
C)Virginia
D)New York

Question 37

Which of the following is not a benefit provided World War II veterans by the G.I. Bill?

A)Tuition for G.I.s to pursue undergraduate, graduate, cooperative or technical education
B)Business and farm loans
C)Health insurance
D)Low-cost mortgages

Question 38

Which American novel introduced the antihero Holden Caulfield, who became an enduring symbol of teenage rebellion?

A)A Separate Peace
B)Catcher in the Rye
C)On the Road
D)On the Waterfront

Question 39

In which year did the Beatles arrive in America?

A)1964
B)1966
C)1963
D)1965

Question 40

Which westward route used by 400,000 American settlers to traverse the country in the 19th century became a popular computer game well over a century later?

A)The Pony Express
B)The California Trail
C)The Transcontinental Railroad
D)The Oregon Trail

Question 41

Which American author named his generation the "Beat generation?"

A)Allen Ginsburg
B)J)D. Salinger
C)Jack Kerouac
D)Hunter S. Thompson

Question 42

Atticus Finch is the hero in which famous novel about a racially charged court case in the Depression-era American South?

A)To Kill a Mockingbird
B)Gone With the Wind
C)The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
D)The Light in August

Question 43

The Rhodes scholarship allows students to study at which university?

A)Yale University
B)Cambridge University
C)Oxford University
D)Harvard University

Question 44

Whose portrait of Madame Pierre Gautreau, entitled "Madame X," scandalized the art world for the subject's provocative pose and attire in the painting?

A)Edward Hopper
B)John Singer Sargent
C)Pablo Picasso
D)Diego Rivera

Question 45

"The Breadbasket of America" is a term applied to which region of the United States?

A)The Midwest
B)The Northeast
C)The Pacific Northwest
D)The Mid-Atlantic

Question 46

Charles Schulz wrote which famous daily comic strip that saw one of its characters fly in space with NASA?

A)Beetle Bailey
B)The Far Side
C)Calvin & Hobbes
D)Peanuts

Question 47

How many times in American history has a president been elected without winning the popular vote?

A)2
B)6
C)4
D)0

Question 48

Which Jazz Age novel ends with the memorable final line, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past?"

A)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B)The Great Gatsby
C)This Side of Paradise
D)A Movable Feast

Question 49

To which era in American history did flappers belong?

A)The Roaring Twenties
B)The Gilded Age
C)The Era of Good Feelings
D)The Swinging Sixties

Question 50

Which author is often called the "father of American literature?"

A)F) Scott Fitzgerald
B)Ernest Hemingway
C)William Faulkner
D)Mark Twain