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Shoeless Trivia: US History

Don’t be doomed to repeat it.

  1. Who was the only US President whose first language was not English?
  2. The clip below is from a song describing (and named for) what event that took place approximately two weeks after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent?https://the-avocado.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ushist2.mp3?_=1
  3. The happy gentleman pictured below is holding aloft the November 3, 1948 edition of what newspaper?
  4. What other member of the executive branch was seriously wounded by a co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth on the night that President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated? This man is better remembered for an at-the-time questionable land purchase that he negotiated with Russian minister Eduard de Stoeckl.
  5. AS-204, a planned space mission that never flew due to the deaths of its three astronauts during a rehearsal exercise, is usually referred to by what other designation?

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  1. Martin van Buren
  2. Battle of New Orleans
  3. Chicago Daily Tribune
  4. William Seward
  5. Apollo 1

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