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