Free US and World History trivia questions and answers.
- What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president to command a military unit during his term in office?
- What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed under his head upon his burial?
- What inscription on U.S. coins did Theodore Roosevelt try in vain to have
removed?
- What former U.S. president showed up on dollar coins in 1971?
- What did Ronald Reagan disclose he was suffering from, in 1994?
- What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic Church after an infection following spinal surgery in 1954.
- Who did Abraham Lincoln promote to major general or volunteers after he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?
- How many U.S. presidents played a role in Vietnam's civil war?
- Who said: "I'm the president of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any
more broccoli"?
- Who was the first president to appear on a U.S. coin?
- What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
- What pooch was the only gift Richard Nixon admitted accepting, in a famous 1952 speech?
- Who was assassinated the day after Andy Warhol was shot?
- What Wild West figure is described on his New Mexico tombstone as "The Boy Bandit King"?
- Who was billed as the "Killer of Custer" in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?
- What conspirator in the Lincoln assassination was pardoned for saving the lives of prison guards during a yellow fever epidemic?
- What condition was alleviated by medicine dubbed "liquid cork" by U.S. troops in Vietnam?
- What medical condition kept William Blount from traveling to Philadelphia on horseback for the 1787 Constitutional Convention?
- What physicist called nationalism "the measles of mankind"?
- What was the world's principal Christian city before it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453?
- Who is credited with creating the model of European fascism in the 20th century?
- What "revolution" saw almost every Chinese citizen to a copy of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book?
- What was closed to traffic after the Six Day War in 1967, and not reopened until 1975?
- Who convinced Jamaicans he'd made the moon disappear during a lunar eclipse in 1504?
- What group meets in a Pentagon room dubbed "The Tank"?
- What Texan ended up with one delegate after spending $12 million of his own money running for president in 1980?
- What Caribbean nation sent thousands of troops to Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s?
- What military man had a much less famous cousin nicknamed "Mudwall"?
- What Israeli is known affectionately as "Bibi"?
- What Roman emperor forbade citizens from laughing or bathing after one of his sister-wives died?
- What weekend retreat saw Menachim Begin and Anwar Sadat hammer out an Israeli-Egyptian peace accord in 1978?
- Who proved his mettle as a pollster in the 1936 presidential elections?
Answers to Fun Daily Trivia Quiz # 146
- The War of 1812.
- The U.S. Constitution.
- In God We Trust.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Alzheimer's disease.
- John F. Kennedy.
- Ulysses S. Grant.
- Five.
- George Bush.
- Abraham Lincoln.
- December 8, 1941.
- Checkers.
- Robert F. Kennedy.
- Billy the Kid.
- Sitting Bull.
- Dr. Samuel Mudd.
- Diarrhea.
- Hemorrhoids.
- Albert Einstein.
- Constantinople.
- Benito Mussolini.
- The Cultural Revolution.
- The Suez Canal.
- Christopher Columbus.
- The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- John Connally.
- Cuba.
- "Stonewall" Jackson.
- Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Caligula.
- Camp David.
- George Gallup.