Fun History Trivia Questions and Answers
What was the first country to recognize
Mexico's independence, in
1836?
A: The U.S.
What encyclopedia's first edition, in 1771, described
California as
"a large country of the West Indies"?
A: Encyclopedia Britannica's.
Who was the only American to become vice president and president
after resignations?
A: Gerald Ford.
Who saw his crew dine on wormy biscuits and rats on his fourth
voyage to the New World?
A: Christopher Columbus.
What disgraced vice president's high school yearbook quote read;
"An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow"?
A: Spiro Agnew.
Who was the youngest man to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
A: Colin Powell.
Which of Henry VIII's wives gave birth to Elizabeth I?
A: Anne Boleyn.
What 19th-century president erroneously noted: "The ballot is
stronger than the bullet"?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
What country led all Arab nations in the number of troops
participating in Operation Desert Storm?
A: Saudi Arabia.
Who did George Bush accuse of being "a card-carrying member" of
the American Civil Liberties Union, in 1988?
A: Michael Dukakis.
What presidential election year saw
Republicans dub
Democrats the
party of "Communism, Corruption and Korea"?
A:1952.
What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a
space shuttle mission?
A: Captain.
What were the Viet Minh called when they crossed into South
Vietnam?
A: The Viet Cong.
What Russian cleric was
poisoned, shot and finally drowned on
December 30, 1916?
A: Rasputin.
Who led the Million Man March on Washington?
A: Louis Farrakhan.
What country suffered the worst two earthquakes in history,
killing 830,000 in 1556 and 750,000 in 1976?
A: China.
What Eastern European city was the last city to be liberated in
World War II?
A: Prague.
What country used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against its Kurdish
minority in the 1990s?
A: Iraq.
What general did GI's nickname "Top
Gun" in the Persian Gulf War?
A: Colin Powell.
What trade union was finally legalized in
Poland in
1989?
A: Solidarity.
What symbol was first linked to the Democratic party in an 1870
cartoon by Thomas Nast?
A: A donkey.
What Harry Callahan line did Ronald Reagan invoke to "tax
increasers"?
A: "Go ahead, make my day".
What explorer of
North Carolina never got to finish his "History
of the World" while banished to the Tower of
London?
A: Sir Walter Raleigh.
Who was president of the U.S. when Uncle Sam first got a beard?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
What structure was 26.5 miles long until 1989?
A: The Berlin Wall.
What sport sparked a war between El Salvador and
Honduras, after
an unpopular referee's call in 1969?
A: Soccer.
