Bill O'Reilly's History Quiz

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O'Reilly's History Quiz

Week of 2/11 View the O'Reilly's History Quiz Archive

1. Which of the monikers below were nicknames for President Abraham Lincoln?    The Great Emancipator    Honest Abe    The Rail-Splitter    The Tycoon    All of the above

2. On the night he was assassinated, Lincoln attended Fords Theater to see which play?    Julius Caesar    Our American Cousin    Aladdin    Henry III    King Cotton

3. Lincoln grew up in which three states?    Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio    Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois    Illinois, Tennessee and Ohio    Indiana, Tennessee and Ohio    Ohio, Missouri and Illinois

4. The Lincoln Memorial was designed based on what famous structure?    The Colosseum    The Temple of Artemis    The Roman Forum    The Parthenon    The Taj Mahal

5. Lincoln famously said in a debate, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Who was he debating?    Stephen A. Douglas    Dred Scott    William Seward    John C. Calhoun    Jefferson Davis

6. Between Lincoln's election and his inauguration, which state announced that it would secede from the Union?    Georgia    Mississippi    South Carolina    Virginia    Maryland

7. Lincoln stands out as what?    The oldest president    The thinnest president    The tallest president    The youngest president    The smartest president

8. Two years after the start of the Civil War, Lincoln signed what document?    The Emancipation Proclamation    The Thirteenth Amendment    The Bill of Rights    The Writ of Habeas Corpus    The War Act

9. Lincoln spoke the following on what battlefield? "...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom?and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."    Antietam    Sharpsburg    Shiloh    Gettysburg    Fredericksburg

10. One of our most celebrated presidents, Lincoln was assassinated just five days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered. Who delivered the fatal shot?    Lewis Powell    Samuel Mudd    John Wilkes Booth    William Seward    Edwin Booth

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