Q 01/05

The 13 stripes on the flag of the United States stand for what?

A) The thirteen original colonies

B) The thirteen signers of the Declaration

C) The first thirteen presidents

D) Thirteen battles of the Revolution

Answer · why

A) The thirteen original colonies

The 13 stripes stand for the thirteen original colonies that declared independence in 1776; the stars, one per state, have been added as new states jo...

Q 02/05

The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from the people of which country?

A) Britain

B) France

C) Spain

D) Italy

Answer · why

B) France

The copper-clad statue was designed by sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, its metal framework built by Gustave Eiffel, and it was dedicated on 28 Oc...

Q 03/05

In which year did the United States complete the Louisiana Purchase?

A) 1803

B) 1812

C) 1819

D) 1848

Answer · why

A) 1803

The Louisiana Purchase treaty was signed in Paris on 30 April 1803 and the United States took formal possession at New Orleans that December, roughly ...

Q 04/05

Who was the first president to live in the White House?

A) George Washington

B) John Adams

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) James Madison

Answer · why

B) John Adams

John Adams moved into the unfinished White House on 1 November 1800, only months before losing the 1800 election to his own vice president, Thomas Jef...

Q 05/05

Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem in 1814 after the British bombarded which Baltimore fort?

A) Fort Sumter

B) Fort Ticonderoga

C) Fort McHenry

D) Fort Knox

Answer · why

C) Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry guarded Baltimore harbour; Key watched the Royal Navy shell it on 13-14 September 1814 and wrote the poem 'Defence of Fort M'Henry', late...