Old News Trivia - Questions and Answers - Insulin, Microwaves, Gold Standard,
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News Stories Trivia - John Scopes, Insulin, hostages, Dr. Zhivago, Ku Klux Klan, Microwave ovens, the Gold standard and more.

Who revived the Ku Klux Klan in 1915?
A: William Simmonds.

Which two Canadians discovered insulin taken from pigs could help diabetics?
A: Frederick Banting & Charles Best.

Which boat capsized in the 1997 Vendee Globe round the world race?
A: Exide Challenger.

Who is credited with inventing the microwave when a chocolate bar melted in his pocket when he was standing in front of a magnetron?
A: Percy LeBaron Spencer.

Rudolf Nureyev took citizenship of which country in 1982?
A: Austria.

Who was President when the USA went formally onto the gold standard?
A: McKinley.

In which city were the "Chariots OF Fire" Olympic Games?
A: Paris.

Who took the world land speed record in 1903?
A: Henry Ford.

Why was John Scopes brought to trial in Tennessee in 1925?
A: Teaching about evolution.

In which two events did Mildred "Babe" Didrikson win gold a the 1932 L A Olympics?
A: Hurdles and javelin.

Who were the two women hostages held in the US Embassy in Tehran in 1980-81?
A: Kathryn Koob & Elizabeth Ann Swift.

Who was the first black guest to be invited to dine at the White House?
A: Booker T Washington.

Who was the first American woman to win Wimbledon?
A: May Sutton.

Who was the first man to die in a US airplane crash?
A: Lieutenant Thomas E Selfridge.

Which millionaire yachtsman perished on the Lusitania in 1915?
A: Alfred Vanderbuilt.

How old was the man who was granted the first divorce in Irish history?
A: 68.

How many years elapsed between DH Lawrence's writing of Lady Chatterley's Lover and the book's publication?
A: 32.

Lindbergh wrote about his New York to Paris flight in which book?
A: Spirit of St. Louis.

Maria Montessori was the first woman in Italy to be awarded a degree in which subject?
A: Medicine.

In which country was Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago first published?
A: Italy.

In what year did Caruso make his first American record?
A: 1903

Child expert Dr. Spock won an Olympic gold medal in what event?
A: Rowing.

Slippery Frank Cline was whose bodyguard?
A: AL Capone.

Who created Popeye?
A: Elzie Segar.

Who was the Lindbergh baby's nanny when he was kidnapped?
A: Betty Gow.

 

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