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Filling the Cabinet

Here is a look at some U.S. offices. See how you do on this:

1. What Cabinet position did Robert F. Kennedy have in his brother's administration?

2. Who was the first speaker of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress? For Bragging Rights, name his state and party.

3. Name the smallest U.S. state in area.

4. In proper order, name the top three U.S. states in area.

5. What U.S. state's early name was the State of Franklin or Frankland?

6. Where will you find the oldest U.S. public school still in existence?

7. For which country did Sir Francis Drake claim the San Francisco Bay region in 1579?

8. Where did Samuel F.B. Morse send the first telegraph line? For Bragging Rights, read us that famous sentence.

9. When the Empire State Building opened in 1931, what famous building was displaced as the world's tallest building?

10. Who was the first U.S.

president to have a telephone in the White House?

Answers

1. Bobby was Jack's attorney general.

2. The first speaker was Frederick Muhlenberg, a Federalist Party's House member from Pennsylvania.

3. Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state in area.

4. The trio of largest U.S. states: Alaska, Texas and California.

5. This was the early name for Tennessee.

6. The Boston Latin School was established on April 23, 1635.

7. Sir Francis Drake claimed the San Francisco Bay region for Britain.

8. Morse sent the first telegraph message from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, saying "What hath God wrought."

9. The Empire State Building was taller than the Chrysler Building.

10. President Rutherford B. Hayes had the first phone in the White House in 1879.

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