- What was the first country to recognize Mexico's independence, in
1836?
- What encyclopedia's first edition, in 1771, described California as
"a large country of the West Indies?
- Who was the only American to become vice president and president
after resignations?
- There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every how many inhabitants.
- 1 What year did the Dow Jones Industrial Average break both the
4000 and 5000 marks?
- Who saw his crew dine on wormy biscuits and rats on his fourth
voyage to the New World?
- What disgraced vice president's high school yearbook quote read;
"An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow"?
- Who was the youngest man to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
- Which of Henry VIII's wives gave birth to Elizabeth I?
- What 19th-century president erroneously noted: "The ballot is
stronger than the bullet"?
- What country led all Arab nations in the number of troops
participating in Operation Desert Storm?
- Who did George Bush accuse of being "a card-carrying member" of
the American Civil Liberties Union, in 1988?
- What presidential election year saw Republicans dub Democrats the
party of "Communism, Corruption and Korea"?
- What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a
space shuttle mission?
- What were the Viet Minh called when they crossed into South
Vietnam?
- What Russian cleric was poisoned, shot and finally drowned on
December 30, 1916?
- Who led the Million Man March on Washington?
- What country suffered the worst two earthquakes in history,
killing 830,000 in 1556 and 750,000 in 1976?
- What Eastern European city was the last city to be liberated in
World War II?
- What country used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against its Kurdish
minority in the 1990s?
- What general did GI's nickname "Top Gun" in the Persian Gulf War?
- What trade union was finally legalized in Poland in 1989?
- What symbol was first linked to the Democratic party in an 1870
cartoon by Thomas Nast?
- What Harry Callahan line did Ronald Reagan invoke to "tax
increasers"?
- What explorer of North Carolina never got to finish his "History
of the World" while banished to the Tower of London?
- Who was president of the U.S. when Uncle Sam first got a beard?
- Who did Adolf Hitler dictate Mein Kampf to while in prison?
- What structure was 26.5 miles long until 1989?
- What sport sparked a war between El Salvador and Honduras, after
an unpopular referee's call in 1969?
- US and World History
- The U.S.
- Encyclopedia Britannica's.
- Gerald Ford.
- Eight.
- 1995.
- Christopher Columbus.
- Spiro Agnew.
- Colin Powell.
- Anne Boleyn.
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Saudi Arabia.
- Michael Dukakis.
- 1952.
- Captain.
- The Viet Cong.
- Rasputin.
- Louis Farrakhan.
- China.
- Prague.
- Iraq.
- Colin Powell.
- Solidarity.
- A donkey.
- "Go ahead, make my day".
- Sir Walter Raleigh.
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Rudolf Hess.
- The Berlin Wall.
- Soccer.