1. George Washington
   Abraham Lincoln
2. John Adams
   Thomas Jefferson

One of the Founding Fathers, George Washington had the pleasure of been named as the first President of the United States. Prior to taking up the office, he served as the commander in chief of the Continental Army. Washington was in office for a period of eight years from 1789 to 1797.

1. 1939
   1940
2. 1941
   1917

Although the United States acknowledged the threat of Hitler and Germany, they were only prepared to supply Great Britain with equipment without getting involved. That all changed in 1941 with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th.

1. True
2. False

A Japanese carrier force was responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1942. Most of the U.S. Pacific fleet was at the base but not the aircraft carriers that the Japanese wished to destroy.

1. 1917
   1914
2. 1919
   1918

One of the main reasons for the United States entering World War I was a result of German U-boats sinking any ships that entered the war zone around Great Britain. The United States lost many cargo ships in this way, along with American lives forcing the US Congress to eventually enter the war on April 6, 1917.

1. Delaware
   Hawaii
2. Texas
   Alaska

On December 7, 1787, Delaware was the first state admitted to the Union. It was followed by a number of others in quick succession, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Georgia.

1. Jimmy Carter
   Ronald Reagan
2. Richard Nixon
   John F Kennedy

Ronald Reagan was just 69 days into his presidential reign when he was the victim of an assassination attempt. His would be killer, John Hinckley Jr., targeted Reagan after he left an engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel.

1. Los Angeles
   New York
2. Philadelphia
   Austin

One of the greatest symbols of American independence, the Liberty Bell is located at the Liberty Bell Center in Independence National Historical Park. It was commissioned in 1752 and was one of the bells rung on July 8, 1776, to mark the reading of the Declaration of Independence four days earlier.

1. True
2. False

Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space on April 12, 1961. He achieved the feat aboard Vostok 1 and circled the earth for 89 minutes before re-entering the atmosphere. He became a national hero for his feat.

1. Ronald Reagan
   Abraham Lincoln
2. John F Kennedy
   Jimmy Carter

Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer while attending a play at the Ford's Theatre. Lincoln slipped into a coma and died nine hours later, making him the first U.S. president killed in office.

1. 1961
   1989
2. 2017
   2000

Construction on the Berlin Wall started in 1961, but with the fall of communism and the end to the Cold War, in 1989, many communist countries eased controls on their borders, allowing citizens to move to the West. In East Germany, massive protests eventually saw the wall demolished in November 1989.

1. Stanford
   Yale
2. MIT
   Harvard

Harvard University is the oldest in the United States of America. It was first established in 1636. And the name? Well, it comes from the first benefactor of the university, John Harvard. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1. Jim Jones
   David Koresh
2. Shoko Asahara
   Luc Jouret

The leader of the Branch Davidian sect, David Koresh and 75 of his followers died on April 19, 1993, at the end of a 51-day siege at their Mount Carmel compound. Koresh instructed his followers to set fire to the compound as law enforcement officers closed in. Sadly, 22 of those killed were 17 or younger.

1. 1855
   1922
2. 1987
   1912

The "unsinkable" Titanic didn't even complete her maiden voyage. Traveling from Southampton to New York City, the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. One thousand five hundred three people died as a result of the incident.

1. Smallpox
   Spanish flu
2. Polio
   Ebola

The Spanish flu of 1918 killed up to 100 million people worldwide and infected 500 million. The flu itself originated at a troop staging area in France during World War II. But why the name Spanish flu? Well, wartime reporting was mostly censored in Britain and America, but as Spain was neutral, news of deaths as a result from the flu was reported, so it seemed it had started there.

1. Bockscar
   Enola Gay
2. Spirit of St Louis
   Memphis Belle

Spirit of St Louis was a custom built aircraft for Charles Lindbergh to attempt to fly across the Atlantic. It was based on a Ryan M-2. It managed to get Lindbergh from New York to Paris in just over 33 hours.

1. Kyoto
   Kobe
2. Nagasaki
   Osaka

Nagasaki was the second Japanese city to be bombed with a nuclear weapon. This occurred on August 9, 1945, after Hiroshima was hit three days earlier. All-in-all, 120,000 people were killed instantly in the attacks with many following of the next months, mostly from the effects of radiation.

1. The death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
   The stock market crash of 1929
2. Prohibition
   None of the above

Although the crash of the stock market was not the only reason for the Great Depression, it was the most significant factor in the economic downtrend, not only experienced by America but the world. Interestingly, before the main crash of October 1929, a mini-crash had occurred in March of the same year.

1. Billy the Kid
   Buffalo Bill
2. Butch Cassidy
   Texas Jack

Billy the Kid was just 21 years old when he died, but his legend lives on to this day. Born Henry McCarty and also known as William H. Bonney, Billy the Kid killed eight men before he, in turn, was killed by Pat Garrett. Interestingly, rumors that Billy the Kid did not die began to surface with many claiming to be him over the following years.

1. "Aryan Germany"
   "The Rise of Nazism"
2. "Mein Kampf"
   "We Shall Overcome"

"Mein Kampf," which means "My Struggle," was not technically penned by Hitler but actually narrated to Rudolf Hess. Hitler was in jail due to the failure of his attempt to overthrow the German government. His book became the blueprint for Nazi ideals.

1. The Battle of Gettysburg
   The Battle of Lexington
2. The Battle of the Alamo
   The Battle of Midway

The forces of Mexican General Santa Anna surrounded the Alamo Mission, which was under siege for 13 days. William Travis, James Bowie, and Davy Crockett all died defending the mission. The Mexicans were defeated a month later at the Battle of Jacinto which ended the Texas Revolution.

1. James Buchanan
   Abraham Lincoln
2. Jefferson Davis
   Ulysses S. Grant

Abraham Lincoln led the United States during the American Civil War. Of course, the southern states would disagree. They elected their own president during the war, Jefferson Davis. Lincoln was eventually assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederation sympathizer.

1. True
2. False

Hitler's expansionist policies had brought Europe to the brink of war in the late 1930s. Both Britain and France warned Germany that an invasion of Poland would see them declare war. This did not deter Hitler, who invaded the country on September 1. France and Britain declared war two days later.

1. The Allies
   The Axis
2. The Mensheviks
   The Bolsheviks

The United States joined up with Great Britain and its allies during both World War I and World War II. On both occasions, however, they joined the war late. In World War I they joined in 1917 and in World War II in 1941.

1. Nevada
   Texas
2. Wyoming
   California

The Californian gold rush lasted from 1848 to 1855. It was James W. Marshall who first found gold. That led to over 300,000 people coming to California to try their luck in making a fortune. Sadly many indigenous people were driven off their land as a result.

1. Sally Kristen Ride
   Barbara Bush
2. Dianne Wiest
   None of the above

Sally Kristen Ride was the first American woman in space. After joining NASA in 1979, Ride waited five years for her first space mission. She flew two missions; the first was Shuttle mission number 7 and spent 14 days in space.

1. New York
   Los Angeles
2. Dallas
   Chicago

Los Angeles was the host of the 23rd Summer Olympics. It was not the first time, however, that the city had hosted the games, the first being 1932. One hundred forty nations took part in the games with the Soviet Union, East German, and other Eastern Bloc countries boycotting. The games made a profit of around $200 million.

1. Supermarine Spitfire
   North American Mustang
2. Hawker Hurricane
   Gloster Gladiator

The North American Mustang is one of the most recognized fighter planes from World War II. Initially built for British use, the Mustang became one of the greatest aircraft of the conflict when converted to Rolls Royce Merlin engine power. Not only could it escort bombers way into Germany, but it was also a formidable dogfighter as well.

1. Vostok 1
   Apollo 11
2. Gemini 7
   SST 1

It's a day the Earth stood still. Many people can remember exactly where they were when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. Armstrong, Michael Collins and "Buzz" Aldrin etched their names in history forever on that Apollo 11 mission.

1. 1986
   1984
2. 1979
   1981

The Space Shuttle, NASA's reusable space platform, undertook its first space mission on April 12, 1981. It was 20 years to the day that Yuri Gagarin had become the first man in space. Astronaut John W. Young commanded the mission while Robert L. Crippen was the pilot.

1. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton
   Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump
2. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt
   Wilson, Hoover, Roosevelt, Eisenhower

The sculpture of the American presidents on Mount Rushmore includes George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was sculpted between 1927 and 1941 by Gutzon Borglum. Each of the heads at Mount Rushmore is 60 feet high.

1. Alaska
   Hawaii
2. New Mexico
   Arizona

Settled in 1820, it took Hawaii another 139 years to join the Union. It did so on August 21, 1959, thus becoming the 50th and last state to do so.

1. Netherlands
   England
2. Germany
   France

A gift from France, the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in 1896. The statue, which is made of copper, is constructed out of 200,000 pounds of copper and stands 93 meters tall. The design was by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, although the statue was built by Gustav Eifel.

1. 10 years
   4 years
2. 9 years
   2 years

The American Civil War between the northern Union forces and the southern Confederate forces ran from 1861 to 1865. In the end, 11 states out of 34 formed the Confederate forces who eventually lost the war.

1. Eva Braun
   Frida Heselberg
2. Anna Korfenheimer
   Maria Wilshof

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married for a period of 40 hours before both committed suicide with the Russian Army closing in on their bunker towards the end of World War II in 1945.

1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
   Rosa Parks
2. Louis Farrakhan
   None of the above

Certainly the most prominent African American civil rights leader at the time, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968. King was known for his inspirational "I have a dream" speech and based his push for African American rights on the basis of his Christian believes and non-violence.