Saturday, June 4, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #145 - Fun Free Trivia Questions For Everyone

Fun Free Historical and history related trivia questions and answers for everyone to enjoy.

  1. What Romanian dictator banned Scrabble because he deemed it too
    intellectual?
     
  2. Who inspired Communism with the line: "From each according to his
    abilities, to each according to his needs"?
     
  3. What's the submachine gun invented by Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1947
    better known as?
     
  4. Whose quips and quotes were collected in a CD-ROM called
    Well...There You Go Again?
     
  5. What Soviet leader's second wife was also his daughter, according
    to Kremlin Wives?
     
  6. What former secretary of state noted: "The illegal we do
    immediately.  The unconstitutional takes longer"?
     
  7. What state has hosted the most nuclear tests in the U.S.?
     
  8. What Nicaraguan "freedom fighters" did Ronald Reagan call "the
    moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.
     
  9. What country left the League of Nations in 1933?
     
  10. What southeastern state was the last to return to the Union after
    the Civil War?
     
  11. What trials, beginning in 1945, spawned the phrase "I was only
    following orders"?
     
  12. What was the first war the U.S. took part in that was partially
    financed with lottery dollars?
     
  13. What Bill Murray Ghostbusters term did Persian Gulf warriors use
    to describe being hit by chemical weapons?
     
  14. What country did ever-prudent King Farouk I declare war on in
    1945?
     
  15. What U.S. president did General George McClellan sum up as
    "nothing more than a well-meaning baboon"?
     
  16. What U.S. war broke out the same year the federal government
    first printed paper money?
     
  17. What opportunistic country declare war on Japan five days before
    its surrender in 1945?
     
  18. What U.S. military base was won in the last major battle against
    Japan?
     
  19. What marked the first time since the Revolution that the U.S.
    accepted direct financial aid to fight a war?
     
  20. What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?
     
  21. Whose assassination was Sam Seymour the last living witness to,
    until his death in 1956?
     
  22. What former president was on an African hunting trip when his
    enemy J. P .Morgan quipped: "Let every lion do his duty"?
     
  23. What three words did George Bush say before "no new taxes" in
    1988?
     
  24. Who was the first lawyer to become First Lady?
     
  25. What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with
    hemorrhoids?
     
  26. What future president was the only U.S. senator from a
    Confederate state to remain in Congress after secession?
     
Answers to Fun Daily Trivia Quiz   # 145


  1. Nicolae Ceausescu.
  2. Karl Marx.
  3. The AK47.
  4. Ronald Reagan's.
  5. Joseph Stalin's.
  6. Henry Kissinger.
  7. Nevada.
  8. The Contras.
  9. Germany.
  10. Georgia.
  11. The Nuremberg war crimes trials.
  12. The Revolutionary War.
  13. Slimed.
  14. Germany.
  15. Abraham Lincoln.
  16. The Civil War.
  17. The Soviet Union.
  18. Okinawa.
  19. The Persian Gulf War.
  20. Bill Clinton.
  21. Abraham Lincoln's.
  22. Theodore Roosevelt.
  23. "Read my lips".
  24. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
  25. Jimmy Carter.
  26. Andrew Johnson.