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Six questions about a one-word telegram heard from coast to coast, the day America had two noons, and the president’s son who ran the fanciest train cars on Earth — all true.

Your first question:

In the summer of 1862, a president took time away from managing a brutal war to sign the Pacific Railway Act — the law that launched the transcontinental railroad across the American West. Which president signed it?

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