A collection of trivia questions about famous people, places, and
things for you to have fun with.
- How many swings of the ax did Sir Walter Raleigh's executioner
require?
- What Soviet made the cover of Time 14 times between 1985 and
1991?
- What outfit has troops known as Blue Helmets?
- What Reign of Terror innovation was hyped: "My victim will feel
nothing but a slight sense of refreshing coolness in the neck"?
- What European leader caused a row in 1967 when he veiled before a
French Canadian crowd: "Vive le Quebec libre"?
- What U.S. president advised: "If you can't stand the heat, get
out of the kitchen"?
- What U.S. president did African-American editor Monroe Trotter
claim to be a direct descendent of?
- What Bruce Springsteen song was quoted by both Ronald Reagan and
Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential campaign?
- Who became leader of the opposition after the 1990 Nicaraguan
elections?
- Who was the first democratically -elected president of Russia?
- What explorer introduced Italians to spaghetti in the 14th
century?
- What president had to read a news ticker to discover that his
daughter Luci was engaged?
- What did JFK refer to in noting: "This is a new ocean, and I
believe the U.S. should sail it"?
- What British royal was dubbed "Fish Face" by his wife?
- Who, after anchoring off Hawaii in 1779, was mistaken for the god
Lono?
- What physicist's last words were not understood because his nurse
did not speak German?
- What nation was miffed when Hubert Humphrey declined its secret
offer to help finance his 1968 presidential campaign?
- What Irish political movement is named after a phrase meaning "we
ourselves"?
- What organization elects the 15 judges of the World Court?
- What was the first war in which one jet plane shot down another?
- What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the
Japanese attacked?
- What two continents have never been the site of a major military
conflict?
- What country maintained an official state of emergency from 1933
to 1945?
- What group of Pacific islands did Japan attack the day after
Pearl Harbor?
- What English king introduced death by boiling and legalized the
killing of gypsies?
- What was the B-17 long-range bomber nicknamed in World War II?
- Three.
- Mikhail Gorbachev.
- The United Nations.
- The guillotine.
- Charles de Gaulle.
- Harry S. Truman.
- Thomas Jefferson.
- Born in the USA.
- Daniel Ortega.
- Boris Yeltsin.
- Marco Polo.
- Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Space.
- Prince Charles.
- Captain James Cook.
- Albert Einstein's.
- The Soviet Union.
- Sinn Fein.
- The United Nations.
- The Korean War.
- The Star-Spangled Banner.
- Antarctica and Australia.
- Germany.
- The Philippines.
- Henry VIII.
- The Flying Fortress.