Dumb history quiz sponsored in connection with release of National Treasure movie
An encyclopedic knowledge of U.S. history is the one thing National Treasure protagonist Ben Gates always has on his side. How well do your history skills match up?
1. What words are written on the back of the Declaration of Independence?
2. How many pages are supposedly missing from John Wilkes Booth's diaries?
3. Which U.S. president got a "D" in history at Harvard University?
4. What body of water flows beneath the National Archives building?
5. Which U.S. president requested that a military inquiry be made into what were thought to be UFO sightings over Washington?
6. Which naval hero died in the basement of a house on Washington's Lafayette Square from wounds inflicted during a duel?
7. Who's buried beneath the statue commonly known as "Grief" in Rock Creek Park?
8. Fragments of which U.S. president's skull can be seen at the National Museum of Health and Medicine?
Bonus: Which former president died in the Capitol after uttering this final phrase: "This is the last of Earth! I am content."
Answers
1. "Original Declaration of Independence dated 4th July 1776"
2. 18
3. John F. Kennedy
4. Old Tiber Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River
5. Harry S. Truman in 1952
6. Commodore Stephen Decatur in 1820
7. Henry Adams and his wife, Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams
8. Abraham Lincoln
Bonus: John Quincy Adams
SOURCES: National Archives; "Exclusively Washington Trivia," by Anthony S. Pitch; The Washington Post Archives; National Museum of Health and Medicine
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1. What words are written on the back of the Declaration of Independence?
2. How many pages are supposedly missing from John Wilkes Booth's diaries?
3. Which U.S. president got a "D" in history at Harvard University?
4. What body of water flows beneath the National Archives building?
5. Which U.S. president requested that a military inquiry be made into what were thought to be UFO sightings over Washington?
6. Which naval hero died in the basement of a house on Washington's Lafayette Square from wounds inflicted during a duel?
7. Who's buried beneath the statue commonly known as "Grief" in Rock Creek Park?
8. Fragments of which U.S. president's skull can be seen at the National Museum of Health and Medicine?
Bonus: Which former president died in the Capitol after uttering this final phrase: "This is the last of Earth! I am content."
Answers
1. "Original Declaration of Independence dated 4th July 1776"
2. 18
3. John F. Kennedy
4. Old Tiber Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River
5. Harry S. Truman in 1952
6. Commodore Stephen Decatur in 1820
7. Henry Adams and his wife, Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams
8. Abraham Lincoln
Bonus: John Quincy Adams
SOURCES: National Archives; "Exclusively Washington Trivia," by Anthony S. Pitch; The Washington Post Archives; National Museum of Health and Medicine