World and US History trivia questions and answers.
- What amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of
religion, speech and the press?
- Who was dubbed "Lenin's left leg" during the early stages of
Russia's Marxist movement?
- What doctor came to court dressed as Thomas Jefferson, who was
also thought to favor helping the terminally ill commit suicide?
- What country was ruled from 827 until 860 by Egbert, Ethelwulf
and Ethelbald?
- What did Elizabeth I have removed from her palaces when her hair
thinned and her cheeks hollowed?
- What historic structure was saved from a real estate syndicate by
a donation from a Texas cattle heiress?
- Who's letter to Ronald Reagan read: "I'm very sorry...I thank God
no one died"?
- How many people were killed in 1979 at the Three Mile Island
nuclear disaster?
- What British prime minister defined a fanatic as "one who can't
change his mind and won't change the subject"?
- What Japanese war cry meant "May you live forever"?
- Who distanced herself from politics by changing her last name to
Davis at 22?
- Who piloted the first airplane to suffer a passenger fatality, in
1908?
- What river was Hernando De Soto the first white man to see and be
buried in?
- Who was known as "Tanya" after a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery?
- What seventh king of Israel shares his name with a Herman
Melville literary character?
- What U.S. president died 79 days after being shot?
- What outfit's National Intelligence Daily has a circulation of
about 200?
- What leader said in 1942: "Never before have we had so little
time in which to do so much"?
- What child name's plunge in U.S. popularity was attributed to a
famous 1974 scandal?
- What 1970 hit movie was banned on military bases for "reducing
the conventions and paraphernalia of war to total idiocy?
- What awards, founded in 1901, are funded wit the help of the Bank
of Sweden?
- What country did 300,000 Chinese troops invade in February of
1979?
- What spa town headquartered the French who collaborated with the
Nazis in World War II?
- What seductive World War I spy had a daughter named Banda who was
also a spy?
- What color were the "black boxes" on TWA Flight 800?
- Where in Beijing did Chinese students build a Goddess of
Democracy in May, 1989?
- What author moved some 56 times in the six months after he was
issued a death threat?
- What Connecticut resident was the first woman in U.S. history to
be elected a U.S. governor without inheriting the office from a
hubbie?
- What secretary of defense admitted the Vietnam War was a
"mistake" in 1995?
- What nation's 90-man army is the world's oldest, dating back to
1506?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes # 138 - US and World History
- The First Amendment.
- Joseph Stalin.
- Jack Kevorkian.
- England.
- Mirrors.
- The Alamo.
- John Hinckley Jr.
- Zero.
- Winston Churchill.
- Banzai.
- Patti Reagan.
- Orville Wright.
- The Mississippi River.
- Patti Hearst.
- Ahab.
- James Garfield.
- The Central Intelligence Agency's.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Richard's.
- M*A*S*H
- The Nobel Prizes.
- Vietnam.
- Vichy.
- Mata Hari.
- Orange.
- Tiananmen Square.
- Salman Rushdie.
- Ella Grasso.
- Robert McNamara.
- Vatican City's.
