Random Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers For Seniors About Old News Stories
Who revived the Ku Klux Klan in 1915?
A: William Simmonds.
Which two Canadians discovered insulin taken from
pigs could help diabetics?
A: Frederick Banting & Charles Best.
Which boat capsized in the 1997 Vendee Globe round the
world race?
A: Exide Challenger.
Who is credited with inventing the
microwave when a chocolate bar melted in his
pocket when he was standing in front of a magnetron?
A: Percy LeBaron Spencer.
Rudolf Nureyev took citizenship of which country in 1982?
A: Austria.
Who was President when the USA went formally onto the
gold standard?
A: McKinley.
In which city were the "Chariots OF
Fire" Olympic Games?
A: Paris.
Who took the world land speed record in 1903?
A: Henry Ford.
Why was John Scopes brought to trial in
Tennessee in 1925?
A: Teaching about evolution.
In which two events did Mildred "Babe" Didrikson win gold a the
1932 L A
Olympics?
A: Hurdles and javelin.
Who were the two women hostages held in the US Embassy in Tehran in 1980-81?
A: Kathryn Koob & Elizabeth Ann Swift.
Who was the first black guest to be invited to dine at the White House?
A: Booker T Washington.
Who was the first American woman to win Wimbledon?
A: May Sutton.
Who was the first man to die in a US airplane crash?
A: Lieutenant Thomas E Selfridge.
Which millionaire yachtsman perished on the Lusitania in 1915?
A: Alfred Vanderbuilt.
How old was the man who was granted the first divorce in Irish history?
A: 68.
How many years elapsed between DH Lawrence's writing of Lady Chatterley's Lover
and the book's publication?
A: 32.
Lindbergh wrote about his New York to Paris flight in which book?
A: Spirit of St. Louis.
Maria Montessori was the first woman in Italy to be awarded a degree in which
subject?
A: Medicine.
In which country was Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago first published?
A: Italy.
In what year did Caruso make his first American record?
A: 1903
Child expert Dr. Spock won an Olympic gold medal in what event?
A: Rowing.
Slippery Frank Cline was whose bodyguard?
A: AL Capone.
Who created Popeye?
A: Elzie Segar.
Who was the Lindbergh baby's nanny when he was kidnapped?
A: Betty Gow.