Historical and history related trivia questions and answers for fun free quizzes.
- What tree was named for the Native American scholar who created
the 85-sylable Cherokee alphabet?
- What country saw Ion Iliescu take over in 1989, after its
previous president was arrested, tried and shot?
- What single name is more commonly applied to Holy Roman Emperor
Charles the Great?
- What anchorman admitted he was wrong to announce Russian
capitalists were auctioning off Lenin's preserved corpse?
- What's explorer Fernao de Magelhaes better known as in English?
- What got a new balcony, front portico and two extra chimneys on
the back of $20 bills, in 1948?
- What city's worker-student protests of 1968 resulted in a 33
percent rise in the national minimum wage?
- What's the top-grossing U.S. retail chain owned by one family?
- What nation bartered 30 million barrels of oil for ten Boeing
747s in 1984?
- What country's civil war was described as a "rehearsal for World
War II"?
- Who was turned down by seven people he asked to be his running
mate in 1972?
- What politician agreed to cough up $432,000 in back taxes in
April of 1974?
- Who was on the cover of Time most often-Winston Churchill, FDR,
or Joseph Stalin?
- What British leader was once dubbed "Attila the Hen"?
- What siblings did the Ontario government build a nursery called
Quintland for?
- What chemical's maker coughed up $180 million to pay medical
costs for Vietnam vets in 1984?
- What 1962 crisis prevented the Kennedy brothers from negotiating
to buy the Philadelphia Eagles?
- What assassin's diary reveals that he changed his plans from
kidnapping to murder the day before he did the deed?
- What war saw GI's being told over the radio: "Bart Simpson is
making love to your wife"?
- What nation's flag was referred to in World War II as a
"meatball"?
- Who was accused of dancing "with devils" after he announced plans
to build a South Dakota casino near sacred Sioux lands?
- Who's been called "the French Stalin" for executing 20,000 during
the Reign of Terror?
- Who became Britain's longest continuously serving prime minister
of the 20th century?
- What Soviet republic's 1988 earthquake marked the first time the
USSR embraced international relief after a disaster?
- What French Louis reigned a record 72 years?
- What twin cities in Japan were largely leveled by a 1923
earthquake?
- What socialist writer's last words were: "Last words are for
fools who haven't said enough"?
- What country used weather-borne balloons to drop more than a
hundred bombs on North America during World War II?
- What 10-year-old began earning his bad reputation by throwing
puppies off the Kremlin walls in 1540?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 143
- The sequoia.
- Romania.
- Charlemagne.
- Peter Jennings.
- Ferdinand Magellan.
- The White House.
- Paris.
- Wal-Mart.
- Saudi Arabia.
- Spain's.
- George McGovern.
- Richard Nixon.
- Joseph Stalin.
- Margaret Thatcher.
- The Dionne quintuplets.
- Agent Orange's.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis.
- John Wilkes Booth's.
- The Persian Gulf War.
- Japan's.
- Kevin Costner.
- Maximilien Robespierre.
- Margaret Thatcher.
- Armenia's.
- Louis XIV.
- Tokyo and Yokohama.
- Karl Marx's.
- Japan.
- Ivan the Terrible.
