1. What U.S. Cabinet department is in the largest office building in the United States?

2. Name the building in the preceding question.

3. What was the previous name of what is now the U.S. Department of Defense?

4. Which U.S. president was not a signer of the Declaration of Independence?

5. How many signers of the Declaration of Independence later became U.S. presidents? For Bragging Rights, name them.

6. What famed U.S. military leader declared: "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"?

7. The Desert Fox led the Afrika Korps during World War II. He was later forced to commit suicide when it was discovered he was involved in a plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler. Who was the Desert Fox?

8. Which U.S. president did Russian leader Tsar Alexander I seek out for information on how to run his country?

9. Which U.S. president had the most vice presidents during his administration? For Bragging Rights, how many of them can you name?

10. What mammal is the fastest land animal in the world, hitting speeds up to 70 miles per hour?

Answers

1.

The Department of Defense is in the largest U.S. office building.

2. That vast building is the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from the nation's capital.

3. The Department of Defense was formerly the Department of War.

4. Our first president, George Washington, was not at the conference that enacted the Declaration of Independence.

5. Two signers became presidents: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

6. These are the immortal words of Civil War Adm. David G. Farragut.

7. Erwin Rommel was the Desert Fox.

8. Thomas Jefferson gave advice on leadership to Tsar Alexander I.

9. Franklin D. Roosevelt had three vice presidents during his long-term administration: John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace and Harry S. Truman.

10. It's the cheetah, that swift-footed plains cat …

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