Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #142 - Free US and World Trivia Quiz

Historical trivia questions and answers.

1. What country was Adolf Hitler born in?
    
2. What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?
    
3. What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in charge of
   combat operations "Jedi Knights"?
    
4. What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join
   the cavalry reserves in the 1930s?
    
5. What president opined: "Once you get into this great stream of
   history you can't get out"?
    
6. What name has been shared by the most popes?
    
7. What leader ruled an area that stretched from the North Sea to
   central Italy at the onset of the ninth century?
    
8. What did Hirohito refer to as a "tragic interlude," during a 1975
   U.S. visit?
    
9. What nationality was Gavrilo Princip, who set off World War I by
   assassinating Archduke Ferdinand?
    
10. What 17th century English Lord Protector's severed head was
    finally buried after 300 years?
     
11. What country did the U.S. invade in 1989 in what George Will
    dubbed "an act of hemispheric hygiene"?
     
12. What U.S. state did Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky
    threaten to reclaim, in 1995?
     
13. What 1964 coin did many Americans tend to save rather than spend?
     
14. What British prime minister shared breakfast in bed with a parrot
    named Toby?
     
15. What war was raging when isolationists adopted the motto "America
    first"?
     
16. Who did Henry VIII have beheaded for witchcraft and adultery,
    along with her wolfhound?
     
17. What airline started out as the first crop-dusting outfit to
    battle boll weevils?
     
18. Who wrote a 35,000-word manifesto the New York Times and
    Washington Post published on September 18, 1995?
     
19. What civil rights leader was near death after being stabbed in
    Harlem with a seven-inch letter opener in 1958?
     
20. What future saint was originally taken to Ireland as a slave in
    405 A.D.?
     
21. What Nantucket shipwreck killed more divers exploring it than the
    52 people it sank with?
     
22. What do an average of 20 people do each year while staring at a
    Goodyear blimp?
     
23. Who was the first U.N. secretary general to have both African and
    Arab roots?
     
24. Who did former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski defeat in a 1995
    Eastern European presidential election?
     
25. Who told the House Un-American Activities Committee that
    communist cartoonists might be using Mickey Mouse to spread
    propaganda?
     
26. Who wore a suit instead of his usual military fatigues to
    celebrate the 50th anniversary of the U.N.?
     
27. What president's mug graces a $100,000 bill?
     
28. What nation started giving gas masks to its citizens before the
    Persian Gulf War?
     
29. What political movement got its name from the hill in Jerusalem
    boasting the Temple of Solomon?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes   # 142

1. Austria.
2. Dayton.
3. Norman Schwarzkopf.
4. Ronald Reagan.
5. Richard Nixon.
6. John.
7. Charlemagne.
8. World War II.
9. Serbian.
10. Oliver Cromwell's.
11. Panama.
12. Alaska.
13. The Kennedy half-dollar.
14. Winston Churchill.
15. World War I.
16. Anne Boleyn.
17. Delta Airlines.
18. The Unabomber.
19. Martin Luther King Jr.
20. St. Patrick.
21. The Andrea Doria.
22. Shoot at it.
23. Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
24. Lech Walesa.
25. Walt Disney.
26. Fidel Castro.
27. Woodrow Wilson's.
28. Israel.
29. Zionism.