Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #143 - Famous Historical Places, People, and Events

Historical and history related trivia questions and answers for fun free quizzes.

1. What tree was named for the Native American scholar who created
   the 85-sylable Cherokee alphabet?
    
2. What country saw Ion Iliescu take over in 1989, after its
   previous president was arrested, tried and shot?
    
3. What single name is more commonly applied to Holy Roman Emperor
   Charles the Great?
    
4. What anchorman admitted he was wrong to announce Russian
   capitalists were auctioning off Lenin's preserved corpse?
    
5. What's explorer Fernao de Magelhaes better known as in English?
    
6. What got a new balcony, front portico and two extra chimneys on
   the back of $20 bills, in 1948?
    
7. What city's worker-student protests of 1968 resulted in a 33
   percent rise in the national minimum wage?
    
8. What's the top-grossing U.S. retail chain owned by one family?
    
9. What nation bartered 30 million barrels of oil for ten Boeing
   747s in 1984?
    
10. What country's civil war was described as a "rehearsal for World
    War II"?
     
11. Who was turned down by seven people he asked to be his running
    mate in 1972?
     
12. What politician agreed to cough up $432,000 in back taxes in
    April of 1974?
     
13. Who was on the cover of Time most often-Winston Churchill, FDR,
    or Joseph Stalin?
     
14. What British leader was once dubbed "Attila the Hen"?
     
15. What siblings did the Ontario government build a nursery called
    Quintland for?
     
16. What chemical's maker coughed up $180 million to pay medical
    costs for Vietnam vets in 1984?
     
17. What 1962 crisis prevented the Kennedy brothers from negotiating
    to buy the Philadelphia Eagles?
     
18. What assassin's diary reveals that he changed his plans from
    kidnapping to murder the day before he did the deed?
     
19. What war saw GI's being told over the radio: "Bart Simpson is
    making love to your wife"?
     
20. What nation's flag was referred to in World War II as a
    "meatball"?
     
21. Who was accused of dancing "with devils" after he announced plans
    to build a South Dakota casino near sacred Sioux lands?
     
22. Who's been called "the French Stalin" for executing 20,000 during
    the Reign of Terror?
     
23. Who became Britain's longest continuously serving prime minister
    of the 20th century?
     
24. What Soviet republic's 1988 earthquake marked the first time the
    USSR embraced international relief after a disaster?
    
     
25. What French Louis reigned a record 72 years?
     
26. What twin cities in Japan were largely leveled by a 1923
    earthquake?
     
27. What socialist writer's last words were: "Last words are for
    fools who haven't said enough"?
     
28. What country used weather-borne balloons to drop more than a
    hundred bombs on North America during World War II?
     
29. What 10-year-old began earning his bad reputation by throwing
    puppies off the Kremlin walls in 1540?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz   # 143

1. The sequoia.
2. Romania.
3. Charlemagne.
4. Peter Jennings.
5. Ferdinand Magellan.
6. The White House.
7. Paris.
8. Wal-Mart.
9. Saudi Arabia.
10. Spain's.
11. George McGovern.
12. Richard Nixon.
13. Joseph Stalin.
14. Margaret Thatcher.
15. The Dionne quintuplets.
16. Agent Orange's.
17. The Cuban Missile Crisis.
18. John Wilkes Booth's.
19. The Persian Gulf War.
20. Japan's.
21. Kevin Costner.
22. Maximilien Robespierre.
23. Margaret Thatcher.
24. Armenia's.
25. Louis XIV.
26. Tokyo and Yokohama.
27. Karl Marx's.
28. Japan.
29. Ivan the Terrible.