American Culture Quiz: From bald eagles to bold Oscar snubs, see how high your knowledge soars
How well do you know birds of prey and box-office blockbusters?
The American Culture Quiz from Fox News Digital tests your command each week of our national heritage, history, pop-culture and top personalities.
This week's quick tackles everything from "Star Wars" to sourdough essentials to the April assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Can you get all 8 questions right?
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The bald eagle — long a spiritual symbol for Native peoples — has also been the national emblem of the U.S. since which year? 1776
1780
1782
1802 Making sourdough bread from scratch has been popular on social media. Which of these is its set of three main ingredients? Flour, olive oil, water
Flour, water, salt
Flour, vegetable oil, baking soda
Flour, water, eggs The U.S. has how many official National Parks (congressionally designated protected areas operated by the National Park Service)? 50
63
133
225 John Wilkes Booth reportedly shouted this famous Latin phrase when he shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1965. What was it? Carpe diem
Semper fidelis
Pluribus unum
Sic semper tyrannis Millions of daffodils bloom in New York City each spring. In the hours after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the flower growers of which nation gave the bulbs to the city? France
Israel
Switzerland
Netherlands What movie beat out mega-smash hit "Star Wars" and won the 1978 Oscar for Best Picture? (Famed film critic Roger Ebert called it an "unthinkable" snub.) "Saturday Night Fever"
"Smokey and the Bandit"
"Annie Hall"
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" "The Simpsons" is the longest-running sitcom in American television history. What year did it debut? 1985
1989
1991
1997 Patriots' Day is an annual legal holiday or special observance day in six U.S. states, on the third Monday of April. It commemorates the first battle of what conflict? Revolutionary War
Civil War
Vietnam War
World War II
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