POP QUIZ (An armchair tour of Arlington National)

For Memorial Day weekend, let's take a tour of Arlington National Cemetery.

1. John F. Kennedy's grave is one of the cemetery's most-visited spots.   But one other president is buried in Arlington.  Who is it?
a) Theodore Roosevelt
b) Ronald Reagan
c) William Howard Taft
d) Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. Though the cemetery was established during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is not buried there, though one of his sons is.  Which one?
a) Robert Todd Lincoln
b) Edward Baker Lincoln
c) William Wallace Lincoln
d) Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
3. The graves of four chief justices of the United States are in Arlington.  Pick the chief who is not there.
a) Warren Burger
b) John Marshall
c) William Rehnquist
d) William Howard Taft
e) Earl Warren
4. Eight associate justices are in Arlington, butonly one of the names on this list.  Which one?
a) Felix Frankfurter
b) Louis Brandeis
c) Owen J. Roberts
d) Thurgood Marshall
5. This civil rights leader was buried here after he was shot outside his home in 1963.
a) Martin Luther King Jr.
b) Fred Hampton
c) Medgar Evers
d) Malcolm X
6. He was selected by President Franklin Roosevelt and General of the Army George C. Marshall as the first black general in the U.S. military in 1940.
a) Daniel "Chappie" James
b) Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
c) Roscoe Robinson Jr.
d) Alexander T. Augusta
7. In 1898, she became the first female Army surgeon.
a) Anita Newcomb McGee
b) Ollie Josephine B. Bennett
c) Juanita Hipps
d) Juliet Opie Hopkins
8. Two of the three victims of the 1967 Apollo spacecraft fire are in Arlington.   Which of the three is buried at West Point?
a) Roger B. Chaffee
b) Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom
c) Edward H. White
9. Army physician who established that yellow fever is transmitted by a species of mosquito.
a) Leonard Wood
b) Philip Sheridan
c) Jonathan Letterman
d) Walter Reed
10. Arlington grew around the former home of Robert E. Lee, yet it took until this year for Congress to authorize a section of Arlington for burial of Confederate dead.
a) 1870                 b) 1880
c) 1890                 d) 1900




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Answers : 1. c  ; 2. a  ; 3. b  ; 4. d  ; 5. c  ; 6. b  ; 7. a  ;8. c  ; 9. d   ; 10. d