Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #129 - International Trivia Quiz Questions

International trivia questions and answers.

1. What organization elects the 15 judges of the World Court?
    
2. What Irish political movement is named after a phrase meaning
   "we ourselves:?
    
3. What nation was miffed when Hubert Humphrey declined its
   secret offer to help finance his 1968 presidential campaign?
    
4. What physicist's last words were not understood because his
   nurse did not speak German?
    
5. What dictator is affectionately dubbed EL Maximo by fans?
    
6. What 10-year old began earning his bad reputation by throwing
   puppies off the Kremlin walls in 1540?
    
7. What country used weather-born balloons to drop more than a
   hundred bombs on North America during World War II.
    
8. What socialist writer's last words were: "Last words are for
   fools who haven't said enough"?
    
9. What former Soviet newspaper had to depend on cash from
   the Greek Communist Party to stay alive in the 1990s?
    
10. What strategic group of islands did Portugal allow Britain to
    access during World War II?
     
11. What country was disputed in the largest sea-air battle
    in history, from October 22-27, 1944?
     
12. What did four million prisoners die mining for in
    Stalin's Kolyma forced labor camp?
     
13. What 1938 pact caused Winston Churchill to utter: "We have
    sustained a defeat without a war"?
     
14. Who's believed by many to be buried in Downpatrick under a
    tombstone marked with the letter "F"?
     
15. What French explorer was murdered by his crew after he spent
    two  years failing to locate the mouth of the Mississippi?
     
16. What can Germans publicly deny the existence of the earn five
    years in prison?
     
17. What's the Islamic Resistance Movement better known as
    to Palestinians?
     
18. What nation was bounced from the Organization of American
    States in 1962?
     
19. What political system was gradually dismantled in South
    Africa, stating in 1989?
     
20. What famous Swiss citizen said of nuclear bombs: "If I had
    known, I would have become a watchmaker"?
     
21. Who did Yigal Amir assassinate in 1995?
     
22. Who was the longest reigning Arab ruler, through 1995?
     
23. What royal briefly banished Sir Walter Raleigh to the
    Tower of London after hearing of his secret marriage to her maid of
    honor?
     
24. What war lasted from June5, 1967 to June 10, 1967?
     
25. What Polish political movement got the support of Pope John
    Paul II in the 1980s?
     
26. What Argentinean was buried in a Milan cemetery under the
    pseudonym Maria Maggi?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 129 - International Trivia.

1. The United Nations.
2. Sinn Fein.
3. The Soviet Union.
4. Albert Einstein's.
5. Fidel Castro.
6. Ivan the Terrible.
7. Japan.
8. Karl Marx's.
9. Pravda.
10. The Azores.
11. The Philippines. 
12. Gold. 
13. The Munich Pact. 
14. St. Patrick.
15. Robert La Salle.
16. The Holocaust.
17. Hamas.
18. Cuba.
19. Apartheid.
20. Albert Einstein.
21. Yitzhak Rabin. 
22. King Hussein of Jordan. 
23. Elizabeth I. 
24. The six day war.
25. Solidarity.
26. Eve Peron.
     

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #128 - Military Trivia Quiz Questions

Military trivia questions and answers.

1. What marked the first time since the Revolution that the U.S.
   accepted direct financial aid to fight a war?
    
2. What U.S. military base was won in the last major battle
   against Japan?
    
3. What opportunistic country declared war on Japan five days
   before its surrender in 1945?
    
4. What U.S. war broke out the same year the federal government
   first printed paper money?
    
5. What country did ever-prudent King Farouk I declare war on in
   1945?
    
6. What Bill Murray Ghostbusters term did Persian Gulf Warriors
   use to describe being hit by chemical weapons?
    
7. What did an enemy have to be, for a U. S. soldier to call him
   a "believer" in the Vietnam War?
    
8. What trials, beginning in 1945, spawned the phrase "I was only
   following orders"?
    
9. What was the first war the U. S. took part in that was
   partially financed with lottery dollars?
    
10. What southeastern state was the last to return to the Union
    after the Civil War.
     
11. What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in
    charge of combat operations "Jedi Knights"?
     
12. Which two nations, constitutionally barred from military
    actions, sent money to support the Allied coalition against 
    Iraq in " 1991"?
     
13. What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?
     
14. What Civil War general graduated first in the West Point class
    of 1829?
     
15. What was the B-17 long-range bomber nicknamed in World War II?
     
16. What English King introduced death by boiling and legalized
    the killing of gypsies?
     
17. What two continents have never been the site of a major
    military conflict?
     
18. Who returned to Russia from exile in October, 1917?
     
19. What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the
    Japanese attacked?
     
20. What was the first war in which one jet plane shot down
    another/
     
21. What so called "war" spawned the dueling slogans "Better Dead
    Than Red" and "Better Red Than Dead" in the 1950s?
     
22. What modern vehicle was invented to circumvent trench
    warfare?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 128 - Military Trivia.

1. The Persian Gulf War.
2. Okinawa.
3. The Soviet Union.
4. The Civil War.
5. Germany.
6. Slimed.
7. Dead.
8. The Nuremberg war crimes trials.
9. The Revolutionary War.
10. Georgia. 
11. Norman Schwarzkopf. 
12. Germany and Japan.
13. Dayton. 
14. Robert E. Lee
15. The Flying Fortress.
16. Henry VIII.
17. Antarctica and Australia.
18. Vladimir  Ilyich Lenin.
19. The Star-Spangled Banner.
20. The Korean War. 
21. The Cold War. 
22. The Tank.