Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #138 - US and World History Trivia

World and US History trivia questions and answers.

1. What amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of
   religion, speech and the press?
    
2. Who was dubbed "Lenin's left leg" during the early stages of
   Russia's Marxist movement?
    
3. What doctor came to court dressed as Thomas Jefferson, who was
   also thought to favor helping the terminally ill commit suicide?
    
4. What country was ruled from 827 until 860 by Egbert, Ethelwulf
   and Ethelbald?
    
5. What did Elizabeth I have removed from her palaces when her hair
   thinned and her cheeks hollowed?
    
6. What historic structure was saved from a real estate syndicate by
   a donation from a Texas cattle heiress?
    
7. Who's letter to Ronald Reagan read: "I'm very sorry...I thank God
   no one died"?
    
8. How many people were killed in 1979 at the Three Mile Island
   nuclear disaster?
    
9. What British prime minister defined a fanatic as "one who can't
   change his mind and won't change the subject"?
    
10. What Japanese war cry meant "May you live forever"?
     
11. Who distanced herself from politics by changing her last name to
    Davis at 22?
     
12. Who piloted the first airplane to suffer a passenger fatality, in
    1908?
     
13. What river was Hernando De Soto the first white man to see and be
    buried in?
     
14. Who was known as "Tanya" after a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery?
     
15. What seventh king of Israel shares his name with a Herman
    Melville literary character?
     
16. What U.S. president died 79 days after being shot?
     
17. What outfit's National Intelligence Daily has a circulation of
    about 200?
     
18. What leader said in 1942: "Never before have we had so little
    time in which to do so much"?
     
19. What child name's plunge in U.S. popularity was attributed to a
    famous 1974 scandal?
     
20. What 1970 hit movie was banned on military bases for "reducing
    the conventions and paraphernalia of war to total idiocy?
     
21. What awards, founded in 1901, are funded wit the help of the Bank
    of Sweden?
     
22. What country did 300,000 Chinese troops invade in February of
    1979?
     
23. What spa town headquartered the French who collaborated with the
    Nazis in World War II?
     
24. What seductive World War I spy had a daughter named Banda who was
    also a spy?
     
25. What color were the "black boxes" on TWA  Flight 800?
     
26. Where in Beijing did Chinese students build a Goddess of
    Democracy in May, 1989?
     
27. What author moved some 56 times in the six months after he was
    issued a death threat?
     
28. What Connecticut resident was the first woman in U.S. history to
    be elected a U.S. governor without inheriting the office from a
    hubbie?
     
29. What secretary of defense admitted the Vietnam War was a
    "mistake" in 1995?
     
30. What nation's 90-man army is the world's oldest, dating back to
    1506?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes   # 138 -  US and World History

1. The First Amendment.
2. Joseph Stalin.
3. Jack Kevorkian.
4. England.
5. Mirrors.
6. The Alamo.
7. John Hinckley Jr.
8. Zero.
9. Winston Churchill.
10. Banzai.
11. Patti Reagan.
12. Orville Wright.
13. The Mississippi River.
14. Patti Hearst.
15. Ahab.
16. James Garfield.
17. The Central Intelligence Agency's.
18. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
19. Richard's.
20. M*A*S*H
21. The Nobel Prizes.
22. Vietnam.
23. Vichy.
24. Mata Hari.
25. Orange.
26. Tiananmen Square.
27. Salman Rushdie.
28. Ella Grasso.
29. Robert McNamara.
30. Vatican City's.