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Historical trivia questions and answers.Historical trivia questions and answers. What Woodward and Bernstein book topped the bestseller listx five
weeks before Nixon Quit in 1974? What dictator is affectionately dubbed El Maximo by fans? What U.S. president installed solar panels on the White House
roof? Who pledged in 1964: "We're not going to send American boys to do
what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves"? What word has appeared on every coin struck in the U.S. since
1792? What condiment did the Agriculture Department allow to count as
"one of the two vegetables required" in school lunch programs in
1981? Where was JFK when he said the U.S. "never had to put up a wall
to keep our people in"? What was Titanic survivor Molly Brown nicknamed? Who was accused of being drunk when sworn in as Abraham Lincoln's
vice president? What two-word phrase to describe an ambitious social program was
coined by LBJ on April 23, 1964? Who was U.S. president when the first edition of the Farmer's
Almanac was published? What assassin put his wedding ring in a demitasse cup before
leaving home for the last time? Who once agreed to head up Chrysler for an annual salary of one
dollar? What city did Napoleon occupy in 1798, sending Pope Pius VI to
the south of France? Who was the longest-serving president in the Americas, through
1995? What color shirts did Nazi SS troops wear? What R-word described a person refused an exit visa by the Soviet
Union? What network did U.S. troops in the Gulf War dub "Scud-a-vision"? Who got out of jail in time to become head of Czechoslovakia in
1989? Who thanked Henry VIII for allowing her to be decapitated bya
sword instead of an ax? What European city lost 4,000 people to a "killer fog" of carbon
dioxide in 1952? What New England state was originally claimed by both New
Hampshire and New York? Who did Iranian militants want returned in exchange for U.S.
hostages in 1979? What two World War I enemies suffered one million casualties in
the Battle of Verdun? What old soldier died in Washington, D.C., on April5, 1964? What Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government
after it became an anthem for black schoolchildren? What were Stanley's first words to David Livingstone? What Wild West legend was fired as sheriff of Wichita for
pocketing fines he'd collected? What country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist
rebellion in 1970? Who made his first known visit to Israel in 1995, to visit
Yitzhak Rabin's widow?
Historical trivia questions and answers.
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