World and US History trivia quiz questions with the answers.
- What British royal spent over $26,000 on underwear in the 1980s?
- What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to
appear under subpoena before a grand jury?
- What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to
stop fighting, in 1974?
- What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the
1992 Republican convention?
- Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named
the National Civil Rights Museum?
- What Arab intoned: " I want a homeland even if the devil is the
one to liberate it for me"?
- What name was the last word uttered by Napoleon?
- What nation bid adieu to the United Kingdom in 1921?
- What Nazi propagandist said: "Think of the press as a great
keyboard on which the government can play"?
- What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish,
Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995?
- What mobster sighed: "I've been accused of every death except the
casualty list of the World War"?
- What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in
annual earnings, in 1995?
- What Uganda city's airport saw an Israeli commando raid rescue
103 hostages in 1976?
- What 20th-century conflict saw U.S. soldiers "die for a tie"?
- What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in
1930?
- What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in
the thirteen British colonies?
- What scandal was the Tower Commission set up to investigate in
1986?
- What Filipino was acquitted of fraud charges in the U.S. in 1990?
- What were the Soviet Union's symbols for work in the factory and
on the land?
- Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point
to the British?
- What did an official U.S. investigation call " the greatest
military and naval disaster in our nation's history"?
- Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lee's
note of surrender?
- What did "loose lips" do, according to a popular rhyming World
War II slogan?
- What city had North America's first medical school, bank and
city-paid police force.
- What Filipino was nicknamed the " iron butterfly".
- What did Jack McCall fall off, seconds after he shot Wild Bill
Hickok?
- Who was the longest-serving president in French history?
- What country's rampant political corruption was probed by the
Mani Pulite, or "Clean Hands," of the 1990s?
- What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September
of 1915, and April of 1918?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes # 139 - US and World History
- Princess Diana.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton.
- World War II.
- Shannen Doherty.
- Martin Luther King Jr's.
- Yasir Arafat.
- Josephine.
- Ireland.
- Joseph Goebbels.
- Pope John Paul II.
- Al Capone.
- General Motors.
- Entebbe's.
- The Korean War.
- Unemployment.
- Boston.
- The Iran-Contra affair.
- Imelda Marcos.
- Hammer and sickle.
- Benedict Arnold.
- The attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Ulysses S. Grant's.
- "Sink Ships".
- Philadelphia.
- Imelda Marcos.
- His Horse.
- Francois Mitterrand.
- Italy's.
- Manfred von Richthofen, or "The Red Barron".
