Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #144 - Historical Events, Places and People

Fun Free Historical and history related trivia questions and answers for everyone to enjoy.

1. What Woodward and Bernstein book topped the bestseller list five
   weeks before Nixon Quit in 1974?
    
2. What dictator is affectionately dubbed El Maximo by fans?
    
3. What U.S. president installed solar panels on the White House
   roof?
    
4. Who pledged in 1964: "We're not going to send American boys to do
   what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves"?
    
5. What word has appeared on every coin struck in the U.S. since
   1792?
    
6. What condiment did the Agriculture Department allow to count as
   "one of the two vegetables required" in school lunch programs in
   1981?
    
7. Where was JFK when he said the U.S. "never had to put up a wall
   to keep our people in"?
    
8. What was Titanic survivor Molly Brown nicknamed?
    
9. Who was accused of being drunk when sworn in as Abraham Lincoln's
   vice president?
    
10. What two-word phrase to describe an ambitious social program was
    coined by LBJ on April 23, 1964?
     
11. Who was U.S. president when the first edition of the Farmer's
    Almanac was published?
     
12. What assassin put his wedding ring in a demitasse cup before
    leaving home for the last time?
     
13. Who once agreed to head up Chrysler for an annual salary of one
    dollar?
     
14. What city did Napoleon occupy in 1798, sending Pope Pius VI to
    the south of France?
     
15. Who was the longest-serving president in the Americas, through
    1995?
     
16. What color shirts did Nazi SS troops wear?
     
17. What R-word described a person refused an exit visa by the Soviet
    Union?
     
18. What network did U.S. troops in the Gulf War dub "Scud-a-vision"?
     
19. Who got out of jail in time to become head of Czechoslovakia in
    1989?
     
20. Who thanked Henry VIII for allowing her to be decapitated bya
    sword instead of an ax?
     
21. What European city lost 4,000 people to a "killer fog" of carbon
    dioxide in 1952?
     
22. What New England state was originally claimed by both New
    Hampshire and New York?
     
23. Who did Iranian militants want returned in exchange for U.S.
    hostages in 1979?
     
24. What two World War I enemies suffered one million casualties in
    the Battle of Verdun?
     
25. What old soldier died in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 1964?
     
26. What Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government
    after it became an anthem for black schoolchildren?
     
27. What were Stanley's first words to David Livingstone?
     
28. What Wild West legend was fired as sheriff of Wichita for
    pocketing fines he'd collected?
     
29. What country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist
    rebellion in 1970?
     
30. Who made his first known visit to Israel in 1995, to visit
    Yitzhak Rabin's widow?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz   # 144

1. All the President's Men.
2. Fidel Castro.
3. Jimmy Carter.
4. Lyndon B. Johnson.
5. Liberty.
6. Ketchup.
7. West Berlin.
8. Unsinkable.
9. Andrew Johnson.
10. Great Society.
11. George Washington.
12. Lee Harvey Oswald.
13. Lee Iacocca.
14. Rome.
15. Fidel Castro.
16. Black.
17. Refusenik.
18. CNN.
19. Vaclav Havel.
20. Anne Boleyn.
21. London.
22. Vermont.
23. The Shah of Iran.
24. France and Germany.
25. Douglas MacArthur.
26. Another Brick in the Wall.
27. "Dr. Livingstone, I presume"
28. Wyatt Earp.
29. Canada.
30. Yasir Arafat.