Can you ace this US history quiz?

[fleur-de-lisa]

Found on HuffPo:

http://definition.org/are-you-a-us-historian/?utm_source=Huffpo&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=DEF_US_D_Huffpo_33867_8232&utm_content=318117&mvt=i&mvn=e6203d4c01b24a529c941048888a9d53&mvp=NA-HUFFPOST-11235841&mvl=APage+-+News+2

I didn't do so well. I got: "You are two brain cells away from being a mushroom. You must have spent your middle school years examining your belly button lint during history classes. Perhaps you should move to Russia."

That's kinda' harsh!

[Renew Deal]

1. 14 of 30

Some of those questions are obsure

[CurtEastPoint]

2. 17/30

[tymorial]

3. 24 out of 30

I guess I get to brag to my professor which would also be my mother.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I'd brag, too!

[left-of-center2012]

5. I got 20 of 30 right

"Hum okay, not bad. Looks like you made it through Middle School history classes. Try again!"

[dragonlady]

6. 26 of 30

[Va Lefty]

7. 22/30

[SCantiGOP]

17. me too, 22

Much harder than most of these on-line tests

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. 15/30 n/t

[Polly Hennessey]

9. 21/30.

[FSogol]

10. 30 of 30 right Perfect! You are a real U.S. history buff!

I had to guess on about 6.

On the campus of JMU in Harrisonburg, VA, there is a life size statue of Madison. He was a pixie.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. I guessed on that one and got it.

But why would knowing that make anyone a history expert?

I'm not sure we were taught that. Maybe it's mentioned in history books???

Then there is the statue...

[FSogol]

15. Agreed. Several were more of historic trivia than actual history.

I don't feel I'm an a history expert, just well read and well traveled.

BTW, I'm probably due beer and travel money and many experiences....

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Are You a U.S. Historian?

Are You a U.S. Historian?
I got 21 of 30 right
Really nice! Make sure you brag to your professor.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. I got 24 of 30 right Really nice! Make sure you brag to your professor!

There wenre a couple I should have know. But there was a couple I thought were silly and why would I know this.

[Wolf Frankula]

14. 28 of 30

Wolf

[angstlessk]

16. I got 23 of 30 right Really nice! Make sure you brag to your professor!

Thank goodness for google (thought it was an open book quiz?)

Of course with google at my fingertips, I shoulda got 100%

[lunatica]

18. I "made it through middle school history class"

but that's because I answered correctly when the answer was in the question, like "What color was Napoleon's white horse?"

[Stuart G]

19. Got 19/30....Dumbest Quiz ever...Now...I ought to know. I taught U.S. History for 27 years

In high schools. Most of these idiotic questions would never be asked. At least I wouldn't ask them..
so that is my opinion...if it is worth anything....!!!!

[handmade34]

23. ...

I taught Social Studies and didn't get them all... a few obscure questions there

[Stuart G]

24. I like your word..."obscure"....quite a few obscure questions there... like who was .

Vice President at a certain time......NOW GIVE ME A BREAK...THAT ONE IS .."STUPID"..as stupid is..

[UTUSN]

20. 21/30. 9 were clearly gotchas!1

[Stuart G]

21. That is correct..lots of "gotchas"...no one in their correct mind would ask some of those.

There was only one that surely would be asked. How much was the Louisiana Purchase?
....that is all folks...

[UrbScotty]

22. 27/30. "Really nice! Make sure you brag to your professor!"

[MrScorpio]

25. 25 out of 30

An off day for me.

[Glorfindel]

26. I got 24 of 30 right.

Interesting set of questions. I had actually forgotten that Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize. And I had NO idea what Grover Cleveland's first name was. Thanks for posting it!

[Throck]

27. 21 of 30

[3catwoman3]

28. 21/30 here, so mediocre in my own book, but OK...

...by the quiz description. Some of those questions were really trivial and things I never remember even hearing about, let alone forgetting.

[Doreen]

29. 13 out of 30

Hum Okay, not bad, looks like you made it through middle school history. Try again. Well, I never was good at stuff that I had to memorize.

[oswaldactedalone]

30. 20/30

I think they counted wrong.

[denbot]

31. 21 of 30

Teddy Roosevelt was pretty tough.