History Trivia Quiz

What is the oldest standing schoolhouse in the county?

Who was the professional baseball player who played 1st base for the St. Louis Browns when they won a pennant in 1944? He later ran a sporting goods store in Arlington.

What Arlington road was a favorite of bootleggers to use to get to D.C. during Prohibition?

This man began life enslaved on the Custis property and spent the rest of his life tending the Arlington National Cemetery. He is buried there and is the only person born on the property to be buried there.  Who was he?

Who led a raid in 1904 on the brothels, saloons, and gambling dens of Rosslyn and Jackson City to clean up these crime-ridden areas?

Where did the largest shootout in Arlington history between lawmen and gamblers occur?

The founder and owner of Arlington’s Little Tea House, Gertrude Crocker, and her sister, Ruth, spent time in the Occoquan Workhouse for what crime?

In a program sponsored by the Pentagon and managed in Rosslyn, what was the name of the system that ultimately became the Internet?

What African-American neighborhood was separated from its white neighbors by a brick and concrete wall built in the 1930s?

Which African-American neighborhood was bulldozed in 1941 to make room for the Pentagon?