Sunday, June 5, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #146 - US Presidential and World History Trivia Items

Free US and World History trivia questions and answers.
  1. What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president to command a military unit during his term in office?
  2. What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed under his head upon his burial?
  3. What inscription on U.S. coins did Theodore Roosevelt try in vain to have
    removed?

     
  4. What former U.S. president showed up on dollar coins in 1971?
  5. What did Ronald Reagan disclose he was suffering from, in 1994?
  6. What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic Church after an infection following spinal surgery in 1954.
  7. Who did Abraham Lincoln promote to major general or volunteers after he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?
  8. How many U.S. presidents played a role in Vietnam's civil war?
  9. Who said: "I'm the president of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any
    more broccoli"?
  10. Who was the first president to appear on a U.S. coin?
  11. What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
  12. What pooch was the only gift Richard Nixon admitted accepting, in a famous 1952 speech?
  13. Who was assassinated the day after Andy Warhol was shot?
  14. What Wild West figure is described on his New Mexico tombstone as "The Boy Bandit King"?
  15. Who was billed as the "Killer of Custer" in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?
  16. What conspirator in the Lincoln assassination was pardoned for saving the lives of prison guards during a yellow fever epidemic?
  17. What condition was alleviated by medicine dubbed "liquid cork" by U.S. troops in Vietnam?
  18. What medical condition kept William Blount from traveling to Philadelphia on horseback for the 1787 Constitutional Convention?
  19. What physicist called nationalism "the measles of mankind"?
  20. What was the world's principal Christian city before it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453?
  21. Who is credited with creating the model of European fascism in the 20th century?
  22. What "revolution" saw almost every Chinese citizen to a copy of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book?
  23. What was closed to traffic after the Six Day War in 1967, and not reopened until 1975?
  24. Who convinced Jamaicans he'd made the moon disappear during a lunar eclipse in 1504?
  25. What group meets in a Pentagon room dubbed "The Tank"?
  26. What Texan ended up with one delegate after spending $12 million of his own money running for president in 1980?
  27. What Caribbean nation sent thousands of troops to Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s?
  28. What military man had a much less famous cousin nicknamed "Mudwall"?
  29. What Israeli is known affectionately as "Bibi"?
  30. What Roman emperor forbade citizens from laughing or bathing after one of his sister-wives died?
  31. What weekend retreat saw Menachim Begin and Anwar Sadat hammer out an Israeli-Egyptian peace accord in 1978?
  32. Who proved his mettle as a pollster in the 1936 presidential elections?
     
Answers to Fun Daily Trivia Quiz   # 146


  1. The War of 1812.
  2. The U.S. Constitution.
  3. In God We Trust.
  4. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  5. Alzheimer's disease.
  6. John F. Kennedy.
  7. Ulysses S. Grant.
  8. Five.
  9. George Bush.
  10. Abraham Lincoln.
  11. December 8, 1941.
  12. Checkers.
  13. Robert F. Kennedy.
  14. Billy the Kid.
  15. Sitting Bull.
  16. Dr. Samuel Mudd.
  17. Diarrhea.
  18. Hemorrhoids.
  19. Albert Einstein.
  20. Constantinople.
  21. Benito Mussolini.
  22. The Cultural Revolution.
  23. The Suez Canal.
  24. Christopher Columbus.
  25. The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  26. John Connally.
  27. Cuba.
  28. "Stonewall" Jackson.
  29. Benjamin Netanyahu.
  30. Caligula.
  31. Camp David.
  32. George Gallup.