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1. The Lincoln Memorial has 36 columns. 6. The National Archives houses the famous docu-
What do the 36 columns represent? ments dedicated to American freedom and democ-
A) Number of 10,000 of soldiers who died in the Civil War
racy: Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights,
and Constitution. Who were the authors of these
B) The number of president Lincoln was
documents? (An individual can be chosen more
C) The number of states Lincoln held together before his
than once.)
death on April 15, 1865
Declaration of Independence George Washington
D) Number of 100,000 of slaves Lincoln freed when he
Bill of Rights Benjamin Franklin
signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863
Constitution John Adams
2. How tall is the Washington Monument?
James Monroe
A) 444 feet
James Madison
B) 555 feet
Thomas Jefferson
C) 666 feet
7. What was Abraham Lincoln watching in Ford’s
D) 777 feet
Theater on the fateful night of April 14, 1865?
3. Who was the first president to serve a full term in
A) “Our American Cousin”
the White House?
B) “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”
A) George Washington
C) “Ion”
B) John Adams
D) “King Lear”
C) Thomas Jefferson
E) “Macbeth”
D) James Madison
8. If you were to run all the hallways of the
4. What famous politician sold his eclectic
Pentagon, how far would you have run?
book collection to the U.S. government, which
A) 2.5 miles
started the Library of Congress?
B) 6.8 miles
A) Thomas Jefferson
C) 11.9 miles
B) Benjamin Franklin
D) 17.5 miles
C) George Washington
D) John Smith
9. Before Virginia took back the land they gave to
make the District of Columbia, how many square
5. This individual was credited for helping to push
miles was our nation’s capital?
Congress to move the Supreme Court from the
A) 10 miles
2
basement of the Capitol to the building we see
B) 100 miles
2
today. Need more help? This individual has the dis-
tinction of being the only head of two branches of
C) 1,000 miles
2
the U.S. government. Still more? He has the distinc- D) 10,000 miles
2
tion of being both the heaviest U.S. president and
chief justice to date.
10. Only two people have the power to arrest the
A) William H. Taft
president. Who are they?
A) The vice president and the secretary of state
B) Grover Cleveland
B) The secretary of war and his/her deputy
C) James A. Garfield
C) The Senate sergeant-at-arms and his/her deputy
D) Rutherford B. Hayes
D) The mayor of Washington, DC, and his/her lieutenant
mayor
10) C 9) B 8) D 7) A
n o s i d a M s e m a J . i i i n o s i d a M s e m a J . i i n o s r e f f e J s a m o h T . i ) 6
5) A 4) A 3) C 2) B 1) C
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