- 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.