OK, let's say you ARE smarter than a fifth-grader.

But how about a sixth-grader? A seventh-grader?

As Americans, we often are humbled by how many key details of our history we've lost in our mental warehouses since we studied the Magna Carta and the Stamp Act. For example, an Intercollegiate Studies Institute survey found fewer than half of us can name the three branches of the federal government. Ouch.

Here's a chance to break that streak and get your holiday flag-waving off to a bold start.

The questions below are all things covered in U.S. history classes. No obscure trivia or tricky questions to trip you up.

So sharpen your No. 2 pencils, stir some dormant brain cells and let the fireworks begin.

1. Who said, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death"?

2. Francis Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing a battle during what war?

3. We all know that Abraham Lincoln was our nation's 16th president. But after Lincoln was assassinated, who became the 17th president?

4. Which U.S. president ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

5. Who published "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852 in response to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act?

6. What famous speech begins with the words, "Four score and seven years ago�"?

7. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as what?

8. What are the five freedoms spelled out in the First Amendment?

9. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed government programs in 1933 that came to be known as what?

10. What branch of government has the power to declare war?

11. Which president declared a "War on Poverty"?

12. Finish this sentence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are�"

13. The preceding statement on truths is found in what document?

14. Which state became the nation's 50th in 1959?

15. In 1803, the United States paid 60 million francs for land in a deal that provided for westward expansion and which was referred to as what?

Answers

1. Patrick Henry

2. The War of 1812

3. Andrew Johnson

4. Harry Truman

5. Harriet Beecher Stowe

6. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

7. Bill of Rights

8. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom to petition, freedom of assembly

9. The New Deal

10. Congress

11. Lyndon Johnson

12. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

13. The Declaration of Independence

14. Hawaii

15. The Louisiana Purchase