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Trivia Questions

In 405 B.C. Spartan commander Lysander won the final victory over the Athenians in this war

In 1358 Lubeck, on the Baltic coast, became the headquarters of this league

During his first term as president, the Bill of Rights became law

In 1813 the U.S. defeated the British in the Battle of the Thames River in what is now this country

In 1832 this president declared, "The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me; but I will kill it"

In November 1689 Joseph Wadsworth hid this colony's charter from the British by placing it in an oak tree

He earned his captain's commission by burning the Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804

The political ring led by this man stole as much as $200 million from NYC before it was ousted in 1871

John Adams appointed this John chief justice

President who signed the Alaskan Pipeline Act during the energy crisis