Free Daily Trivia Quiz #42 -  News Story Trivia - Scopes, Insulin, Microwave ovens, Gold standard & More.

 

Trivia Quiz of the day #42 - Topic: Old news from the past.

News Stories Trivia - John Scopes, Insulin, hostages, Spirit of St. Louis, Ku Klux Klan, Microwave ovens, the Gold standard and more.

1. Who revived the Ku Klux Klan in 1915?
    
2. Which two Canadians discovered insulin taken from pigs could help diabetics?
    
3. Which boat capsized in the 1997 Vendee Globe round the world race?
    
4. Who is credited with inventing the microwave when a chocolate bar melted in his pocket when he was standing in front of a magnetron?
    
5. Rudolf Nureyev took citizenship of which country in 1982?
    
6. Who was President when the USA went formally onto the gold standard?
    
7. In which city were the "Chariots OF Fire" Olympic Games?
    
8. Who took the world land speed record in 1903?
    
9. Why was John Scopes brought to trial in Tennessee in 1925?
    
10. In which two events did Mildred "Babe" Didrikson win gold a the 1932 L A Olympics?
     
11. Who were the two women hostages held in the US Embassy in Tehran in 1980-81?
     
12. Who was the first black guest to be invited to dine at the White House?
     
13. Who was the first American woman to win Wimbledon?
     
14. Who was the first man to die in a US airplane crash?
     
15. Which millionaire yachtsman perished on the Lusitania in 1915?
     
16. How old was the man who was granted the first divorce in Irish history?
     
17. How many years elapsed between DH Lawrence's writing of Lady Chatterley's Lover and the book's publication?
     
18. Lindbergh wrote about his New York to Paris flight in which book?
     
19. Maria Montessori was the first woman in Italy to be awarded a degree in which subject?
     
20. In which country was Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago first published?
     
21. In what year did Caruso make his first American record?
     
22. Child expert Dr. Spock won an Olympic gold medal in what event?
     
23. Slippery Frank Cline was whose bodyguard?
     
24. Who created Popeye?
     
25. Who was the Lindbergh baby's nanny when he was kidnapped?
     

Daily Trivia Quiz #42 - News Trivia Answers

1. William Simmonds.
2. Frederick Banting & Charles Best.
3. Exide Challenger.
4. Percy LeBaron Spencer.
5. Austria.
6. McKinley.
7. Paris.
8. Henry Ford.
9. Teaching about evolution.
10. Hurdles and javelin.
11. Kathryn Koob & Elizabeth Ann Swift.
12. Booker T Washington.
13. May Sutton.
14. Lieutenant Thomas E Selfridge.
15. Alfred Vanderbuilt.
16. 68.
17. 32.
18. Spirit of St. Louis.
19. Medicine.
20. Italy.
21. 1903
22. Rowing.
23. AL Capone.
24. Elzie Segar.
25. Betty Gow.