Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - How Well Do You Know The First Transcontinental Railroad?

1. The first transcontinental railroad was joined together on May 10, 1869, in what territory?

Wyoming Territory

Washington Territory

California Territory

Utah Territory

New Jersey Territory

2. The transcontinental railroad reduced the voyage from coast to coast to what?

One month

One year

One week

Three days

Three weeks

3. The work of what two explorers allowed for the first topographic maps from west of the Mississippi?

Champlain and Verrazano

Lewis and Clark

Cabot and Clark

Lewis and Hudson

Hudson and Champlain

4. What modern highway mimics much of the route established by engineers in the 1860s?

Interstate 80

Interstate 75

Highway 1

Interstate 220

Highway 66

5. What was the first common carrier railroad, carrying passengers and goods at set rates, to open in the United States?

Pennsylvania

New York

Washington and Annapolis

Baltimore and Ohio

Santa Fe

6. Who proposed the first transcontinental railroad?

Samuel Huntington

Leland Stanford

Asa Whitney

Chester Arthur

John Durant

7. The majority of workers on the Central Pacific Railroad were immigrants from what country?

Japan

Ireland

China

Malaysia

Mexico

8. What religious leader provided workers for the Central Pacific Railroad as well?

Pope Ignatius X

Brigham Young

Rabbi Mordechai

John Smith

George Washington

9. The miles of track in the United States increased by how many times between 1860 and 1890?

Nine

Ten

Two

Three

Zero

10. What future U.S. capitol was founded during the run up to finish the transcontinental railroad?

Denver

Sacramento

Lincoln

St. Louis

Cheyenne