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.