Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #139 -  World History Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

History trivia questions and answers for everyone!

World and US History trivia quiz questions with the answers.

1. What British royal spent over $26,000 on underwear in the 1980s?
    
2. What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to appear under subpoena before a grand jury?
    
3. What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to stop fighting, in 1974?
    
4. What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican convention?
    
5. Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named the National Civil Rights Museum?
    
6. What Arab intoned: " I want a homeland even if the devil is the one to liberate it for me"?
    
7. What name was the last word uttered by Napoleon?
    
8. What nation bid adieu to the United Kingdom in 1921?
    
9. What Nazi propagandist said: "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play"?
    
10. What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995?
     
11. What mobster sighed: "I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War"?
     
12. What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in annual earnings, in 1995?
     
13. What Uganda city's airport saw an Israeli commando raid rescue 103 hostages in 1976?
     
14. What 20th-century conflict saw U.S. soldiers "die for a tie"?
     
15. What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in 1930?
     
16. What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in the thirteen British colonies?
     
17. What scandal was the Tower Commission set up to investigate in 1986?
     
18. What Filipino was acquitted of fraud charges in the U.S. in 1990?
     
19. What were the Soviet Union's symbols for work in the factory and on the land?
     
20. Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point to the British?
     
21. What did an official U.S. investigation call " the greatest military and naval disaster in our nation's history"?
     
22. Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lee's note of surrender?
     
23. What did "loose lips" do, according to a popular rhyming World War II slogan?
     
24. What city had North America's first medical school, bank and city-paid police force.
     
25. What Filipino was nicknamed the " iron butterfly".
     
26. What did Jack McCall fall off, seconds after he shot Wild Bill Hickok?
     
27. Who was the longest-serving president in French history?
     
28. What country's rampant political corruption was probed by the Mani Pulite, or "Clean Hands," of the 1990s?
     
29. What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September of 1915, and April of 1918?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes   # 139 -  US and World History

1. Princess Diana.
2. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
3. World War II.
4. Shannen Doherty.
5. Martin Luther King Jr's.
6. Yasir Arafat.
7. Josephine.
8. Ireland.
9. Joseph Goebbels.
10. Pope John Paul II.
11. Al Capone.
12. General Motors.
13. Entebbe's.
14. The Korean War.
15. Unemployment.
16. Boston.
17. The Iran-Contra affair.
18. Imelda Marcos.
19. Hammer and sickle.
20. Benedict Arnold.
21. The attack on Pearl Harbor.
22. Ulysses S. Grant's.
23. "Sink Ships".
24. Philadelphia.
25. Imelda Marcos.
26. His Horse.
27. Francois Mitterrand.
28. Italy's.
29. Manfred von Richthofen, or "The Red Barron".