Historical trivia questions and answers.
- What country was Adolf Hitler born in?
- What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?
- What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in charge of
combat operations "Jedi Knights"?
- What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join
the cavalry reserves in the 1930s?
- What president opined: "Once you get into this great stream of
history you can't get out"?
- What name has been shared by the most popes?
- What leader ruled an area that stretched from the North Sea to
central Italy at the onset of the ninth century?
- What did Hirohito refer to as a "tragic interlude," during a 1975
U.S. visit?
- What nationality was Gavrilo Princip, who set off World War I by
assassinating Archduke Ferdinand?
- What 17th century English Lord Protector's severed head was
finally buried after 300 years?
- What country did the U.S. invade in 1989 in what George Will
dubbed "an act of hemispheric hygiene"?
- What U.S. state did Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky
threaten to reclaim, in 1995?
- What 1964 coin did many Americans tend to save rather than spend?
- What British prime minister shared breakfast in bed with a parrot
named Toby?
- What war was raging when isolationists adopted the motto "America
first"?
- Who did Henry VIII have beheaded for witchcraft and adultery,
along with her wolfhound?
- What airline started out as the first crop-dusting outfit to
battle boll weevils?
- Who wrote a 35,000-word manifesto the New York Times and
Washington Post published on September 18, 1995?
- What civil rights leader was near death after being stabbed in
Harlem with a seven-inch letter opener in 1958?
- What future saint was originally taken to Ireland as a slave in
405 A.D.?
- What Nantucket shipwreck killed more divers exploring it than the
52 people it sank with?
- What do an average of 20 people do each year while staring at a
Goodyear blimp?
- Who was the first U.N. secretary general to have both African and
Arab roots?
- Who did former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski defeat in a 1995
Eastern European presidential election?
- Who told the House Un-American Activities Committee that
communist cartoonists might be using Mickey Mouse to spread
propaganda?
- Who wore a suit instead of his usual military fatigues to
celebrate the 50th anniversary of the U.N.?
- What president's mug graces a $100,000 bill?
- What nation started giving gas masks to its citizens before the
Persian Gulf War?
- What political movement got its name from the hill in Jerusalem
boasting the Temple of Solomon?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes # 142
- Austria.
- Dayton.
- Norman Schwarzkopf.
- Ronald Reagan.
- Richard Nixon.
- John.
- Charlemagne.
- World War II.
- Serbian.
- Oliver Cromwell's.
- Panama.
- Alaska.
- The Kennedy half-dollar.
- Winston Churchill.
- World War I.
- Anne Boleyn.
- Delta Airlines.
- The Unabomber.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- St. Patrick.
- The Andrea Doria.
- Shoot at it.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
- Lech Walesa.
- Walt Disney.
- Fidel Castro.
- Woodrow Wilson's.
- Israel.
- Zionism.