Q 01/05

In what state was Abraham Lincoln born?

A) Illinois

B) Indiana

C) Ohio

D) Kentucky

Answer · why

D) Kentucky

Kentucky: Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin near Hodgenville, yet he had no memory of the place, because the family moved away when he was two.

Q 02/05

Who served as president of the Confederacy while Lincoln led the Union?

A) Jefferson Davis

B) Robert E. Lee

C) Stonewall Jackson

D) Alexander Stephens

Answer · why

A) Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's only president, was born just eight months before Lincoln and in the very same state, though he grew up in Mississi...

Q 03/05

Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson share Mount Rushmore with which other president?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) Franklin D. Roosevelt

C) Andrew Jackson

D) Woodrow Wilson

Answer · why

A) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt: the sculptor picked the four to stand for the nation's birth, growth, development and preservation, with Lincoln chosen for holdin...

Q 04/05

Lincoln was shot five days after Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at which Virginia village?

A) Appomattox Court House

B) Spotsylvania Court House

C) Chancellorsville

D) Yorktown

Answer · why

A) Appomattox Court House

Appomattox Court House: Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865 in the parlour of Wilmer McLean, who had moved there to escape the war after its first big ba...

Q 05/05

Who won the Best Actor Oscar for playing the president in Steven Spielberg's 2012 film Lincoln?

A) Daniel Day-Lewis

B) Liam Neeson

C) Denzel Washington

D) Joaquin Phoenix

Answer · why

A) Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis took the part only after Liam Neeson, cast in 2005, dropped out five years later; the role brought him his third Best Actor Oscar.