History Trivia Questions - Scroll Down for Answers
- What was a ship called the Ancon the first to travel through, on
August 15, 1914?
- What fighter pilot flew World War I missions with his Great Dane
"Moritz" next to him in the cockpit?
- What country lost 17.2 percent of its population in World War II?
- What deranged Roman emperor had a name that meant "little boot"?
- What Pakistani was the first head of state in the 20th century to
give birth in office?
- What two-word term describes the period between the fall of the
Roman Empire and the beginning f the Renaissance?
- What newspaper won a Pulitzer for its Watergate coverage?
- Who described the impending Persian Gulf ground war as "the
mother of all battles"?
- What ship's lookout was miffed when his request for binoculars
was denied in 1912?
- What big-league baseball prospect was jailed in Cuba from 1953 to
1955 before going on to bigger things?
- Who saw the turtleneck he wore at cease-fire talks in Bosnia
fetch $5,000 at auction?
- What brave-hearted Scottish patriot led soldiers to a defeat of
the English at the Battle of Cambuskenneth in 1297?
- What nation issued the five-dollar bill found in Abraham
Lincoln's pocket when he was shot?
- What Argentinean was buried in a Milan cemetery under the
pseudonym Maria Maggi?
- What Polish political movement got the support of Pope John Paul
II in the 1980s?
- What war lasted from June5, 1967 to June 10, 1967?
- Who was the longest-reigning Arab ruler, through 1995?
- What famous Swiss citizen said of nuclear bombs: "If I had known,
I would have become a watchmaker"?
- What nation was bounced from the Organization of American States
in 1962?
- What's the Islamic Resistance Movement better known as to
Palestinians?
- Who was the first president of the National Organization for
Women, in 1966?
- Who tooled around Chicago during Prohibition in a car bearing the
license plate "EN-1"?
- Who cross-examined the victims in the trial against Long Island
Railroad shooter Colin Ferguson?
- What beating victim's 23-lawyer defense team handed the city of
Los Angeles a bill for $4.4 million?
- What can Germans publicly deny the existence of to earn five
years in prison?
- What French explorer was murdered by his crew after he spent two
years failing to locate the mouth of the Mississippi?
- Who's believed by many to be buried in Downpatrick under a
tombstone marked with the letter "P"?
- What controversial crime fighter did Elvis Presley call "the
greatest living American"?
- What cavalryman's bonehead moves included leaving four Gatling
guns behind, in 1876?
- Who wrote in 1774 that "no thinking man" in America wanted
independence from England?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes # 140 - Historical People, Places, and Things
- The Panama Canal.
- Monfred von Richthofen, or " The Red Baron".
- Poland.
- Caligula.
- Benazir Bhutto.
- Middle Ages.
- The Washington Post.
- Saddam Hussein.
- The Titanic's.
- Fidel Castro.
- Jimmy Carter.
- William Wallace.
- The Confederate States of America.
- Eva Peron.
- Solidarity.
- The Six-Day War.
- King Hussein of Jordan.
- Albert Einstein.
- Cuba.
- Hamas.
- Betty Freidan.
- Eliot Ness.
- Colin Ferguson.
- Rodney King's.
- The Holocaust.
- Robert La Salle.
- St. Patrick.
- J. Edgar Hoover.
- George Armstrong Custer's.
- George Washington.
