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Trivia Questions

This state recently marked the 400th anniversary of the English settlement on Roanoake Island

In 1954 he was elected to the senate from South Carolina by a write-in vote

The 1st English settlement in Maine occured in this same year as the settlement of Jamestown

Century in which the most states, 29, were admitted to the Union

This disease transmiited by the Aedes Aegypti mosquto was brought to America on slave ships

John Q. Adams & Henry Clay were among those who negotiated the Treaty of Ghent that ended this war

In 1799 this orator was elected to VA.'s legislature but died before he could take his seat

President Ford appointed this future president director of the CIA in 1975

In 1742 James Oglethorpe won the Battle of Bloody Marsh & virtually ended this country's threat to Georgia

In 1960 he quipped, "Mr. Nixon dismissed me as 'another Truman'...I consider him another Dewey"