Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz

1. Which of the monikers below were nicknames for President Abraham Lincoln?

The Great Emancipator

Honest Abe

The Rail-Splitter

The Tycoon

All of the above

2. On the night he was assassinated, Lincoln attended Fords Theater to see which play?

Julius Caesar

Our American Cousin

Aladdin

Henry III

King Cotton

3. Lincoln grew up in which three states?

Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio

Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois

Illinois, Tennessee and Ohio

Indiana, Tennessee and Ohio

Ohio, Missouri and Illinois

4. The Lincoln Memorial was designed based on what famous structure?

The Colosseum

The Temple of Artemis

The Roman Forum

The Parthenon

The Taj Mahal

5. Lincoln famously said in a debate, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Who was he debating?

Stephen A. Douglas

Dred Scott

William Seward

John C. Calhoun

Jefferson Davis

6. Between Lincoln's election and his inauguration, which state announced that it would secede from the Union?

Georgia

Mississippi

South Carolina

Virginia

Maryland

7. Lincoln stands out as what?

The oldest president

The thinnest president

The tallest president

The youngest president

The smartest president

8. Two years after the start of the Civil War, Lincoln signed what document?

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Thirteenth Amendment

The Bill of Rights

The Writ of Habeas Corpus

The War Act

9. Lincoln spoke the following on what battlefield? "...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Antietam

Sharpsburg

Shiloh

Gettysburg

Fredericksburg

10. One of our most celebrated presidents, Lincoln was assassinated just five days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered. Who delivered the fatal shot?

Lewis Powell

Samuel Mudd

John Wilkes Booth

William Seward

Edwin Booth