Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #141 - History and Historical Events, People, Places, and Things!

History Trivia Questions -  Scroll Down for Answers

1. What was a ship called the Ancon the first to travel through, on
   August 15, 1914?
    
2. What fighter pilot flew World War I missions with his Great Dane
   "Moritz" next to him in the cockpit?
    
3. What country lost 17.2 percent of its population in World War II?
    
4. What deranged Roman emperor had a name that meant "little boot"?
    
5. What Pakistani was the first head of state in the 20th century to
   give birth in office?
    
6. What two-word term describes the period between the fall of the
   Roman Empire and the beginning f the Renaissance?
    
7. What newspaper won a Pulitzer for its Watergate coverage?
    
8. Who described the impending Persian Gulf ground war as "the
   mother of all battles"?
    
9. What ship's lookout was miffed when his request for binoculars
   was denied in 1912?
    
10. What big-league baseball prospect was jailed in Cuba from 1953 to
    1955 before going on to bigger things?
     
11. Who saw the turtleneck he wore at cease-fire talks in Bosnia
    fetch $5,000 at auction?
     
12. What brave-hearted Scottish patriot led soldiers to a defeat of
    the English at the Battle of Cambuskenneth in 1297?
     
13. What nation issued the five-dollar bill found in Abraham
    Lincoln's pocket when he was shot?
     
14. What Argentinean was buried in a Milan cemetery under the
    pseudonym Maria Maggi?
     
15. What Polish political movement got the support of Pope John Paul
    II in the 1980s?
     
16. What war lasted from June5, 1967 to June 10, 1967?
     
17. Who was the longest-reigning Arab ruler, through 1995?
     
18. What famous Swiss citizen said of nuclear bombs: "If I had known, 
    I would have become a watchmaker"?
     
19. What nation was bounced from the Organization of American States
    in 1962?
     
20. What's the Islamic Resistance Movement better known as to
    Palestinians?
     
21. Who was the first president of the National Organization for
    Women, in 1966?
     
22. Who tooled around Chicago during Prohibition in a car bearing the
    license plate "EN-1"?
     
23. Who cross-examined the victims in the trial against Long Island
    Railroad shooter Colin Ferguson?
     
24. What beating victim's 23-lawyer defense team handed the city of
    Los Angeles a bill for $4.4 million?
     
25. What can Germans publicly deny the existence of to earn five
    years in prison?
     
26. What French explorer was murdered by his crew after he spent two
    years failing to locate the mouth of the Mississippi?
     
27. Who's believed by many to be buried in Downpatrick under a
    tombstone marked with the letter "P"?
     
28. What controversial crime fighter did Elvis Presley call "the
    greatest living American"?
     
29. What cavalryman's bonehead moves included leaving four Gatling
    guns behind, in 1876?
     
30. Who wrote in 1774 that "no thinking man" in America wanted
    independence from England?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes   # 140 - Historical People, Places, and Things

1. The Panama Canal.
2. Monfred von Richthofen, or " The Red Baron".
3. Poland.
4. Caligula.
5. Benazir Bhutto.
6. Middle Ages.
7. The Washington Post.
8. Saddam Hussein.
9. The Titanic's.
10. Fidel Castro.
11. Jimmy Carter.
12. William Wallace.
13. The Confederate States of America.
14. Eva Peron.
15. Solidarity.
16. The Six-Day War.
17. King Hussein of Jordan.
18. Albert Einstein.
19. Cuba.
20. Hamas.
21. Betty Freidan.
22. Eliot Ness.
23. Colin Ferguson.
24. Rodney King's.
25. The Holocaust.
26. Robert La Salle.
27. St. Patrick.
28. J. Edgar Hoover.
29. George Armstrong Custer's.
30. George Washington.