Q 01/05

Who was U.S. president when Custer was killed at the Little Bighorn in 1876?

A) Johnson

B) Grant

C) Hayes

D) Garfield

Answer · why

B) Grant

Grant. Weeks earlier he had stripped Custer of his command for testifying in a corruption inquiry that touched the president's own brother, then relen...

Q 02/05

By what name do the Lakota and other Plains peoples know the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

A) The Greasy Grass

B) The Hundred in the Hands

C) The Wagon Box

D) The Long Knives

Answer · why

A) The Greasy Grass

The Greasy Grass. It was their name for the river and its valley, so the fight is remembered for the place where it happened, not for the man who lost...

Q 03/05

Which U.S. Army regiment did Custer command at the Little Bighorn?

A) 2nd Cavalry

B) 3rd Cavalry

C) 5th Infantry

D) 7th Cavalry

Answer · why

D) 7th Cavalry

7th Cavalry. Custer split its twelve companies as he closed on the village, and the five that rode with him were wiped out to the last man.

Q 04/05

What was George Armstrong Custer's actual Army rank at the Little Bighorn?

A) Lieutenant colonel

B) Brigadier general

C) Major general

D) Full colonel

Answer · why

A) Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel. He had been a major general of volunteers before he turned 25, a wartime rank that lapsed when the Civil War armies disbanded, whi...

Q 05/05

In which present-day state is the Little Bighorn battlefield?

A) Wyoming

B) Montana

C) South Dakota

D) Nebraska

Answer · why

B) Montana

Montana. The valley lay inside the Crow reservation, so the Lakota and Cheyenne camped there were on another nation's treaty land, which is why Crow s...