Q 01/05

Which future president lost the vice-presidential spot on John C. Frémont's 1856 Republican ticket to William Dayton?

A) Andrew Johnson

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Rutherford B. Hayes

D) James A. Garfield

Answer · why

B) Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, then a former congressman from Illinois, finished second in the convention's vote for running mate. Four years later he topped the Re...

Q 02/05

Which mountain man did John C. Frémont hire as a guide in 1842 after a chance meeting on a steamboat?

A) Jim Bridger

B) Davy Crockett

C) Kit Carson

D) Jedediah Smith

Answer · why

C) Kit Carson

Kit Carson signed on for $100 a month, the best-paying job of his life. Frémont's widely read reports then made the quiet trapper famous across the co...

Q 03/05

Which San Francisco Bay name did John C. Frémont coin in 1846, modeled on an ancient harbor at Byzantium?

A) The Golden Gate

B) Angel Island

C) Treasure Island

D) Raccoon Strait

Answer · why

A) The Golden Gate

The Golden Gate got its name before the Gold Rush had even begun. Frémont saw the strait as a gateway to trade with Asia, echoing Byzantium's Golden H...

Q 04/05

The Fremont Cannon, a football trophy copying John C. Frémont's howitzer, is contested by universities in which state?

A) Colorado

B) Wyoming

C) Idaho

D) Nevada

Answer · why

D) Nevada

Nevada and UNLV play for the 545-pound replica every year, and the winner repaints its carriage in school colors. Frémont abandoned the real howitzer ...

Q 05/05

Which city named its first paved street, later lined with famous casinos, after the explorer John C. Frémont?

A) Las Vegas

B) New Orleans

C) Atlantic City

D) Sacramento

Answer · why

A) Las Vegas

Las Vegas laid out Fremont Street in 1905, paved it in 1925 and hung the city's first traffic light there in 1931. Frémont reached the valley in 1844,...