History Trivia Questions
What Romanian dictator banned Scrabble because he deemed it too
intellectual?
A: Nicolae Ceausescu.
Who inspired Communism with the line: "From each according to his
abilities, to each according to his needs"?
A: Karl Marx.
What's the
submachine gun
invented by Mikhail Kalashnikov in
1947
better known as?
A: The AK47.
Whose quips and quotes were collected in a CD-ROM called
Well...There You Go Again?
A: Ronald Reagan's.
What Soviet leader's second wife was also his daughter, according
to Kremlin Wives?
A: Joseph Stalin's.
What former secretary of state noted: "The
illegal we do
immediately. The unconstitutional takes longer"?
A: Henry Kissinger.
What state has hosted the most nuclear tests in the U.S.?
A: Nevada.
What Nicaraguan "freedom fighters" did Ronald Reagan call "the
moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.
A: The Contras.
What country left the League of Nations in
1933?
A: Germany.
What southeastern state was the last to return to the Union after
the Civil War?
A: Georgia.
What trials, beginning in
1945, spawned the phrase "I was only
following orders"?
A: The Nuremberg war crimes trials.
What was the first
war the U.S. took part in that was partially
financed with lottery dollars?
A: The
Revolutionary War.
What Bill Murray Ghostbusters term did Persian Gulf warriors use
to describe being hit by chemical
weapons?
A: Slimed.
What country did ever-prudent
King Farouk I declare war on in
1945?
A: Germany.
What U.S. president did General George McClellan sum up as
"nothing more than a well-meaning baboon"?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
What U.S. war broke out the same year the federal government
first printed paper money?
A: The Civil War.
What opportunistic country declared war on Japan five days before
its surrender in 1945?
A: The Soviet Union.
What U.S. military base was won in the last major battle against
Japan?
W: Okinawa.
What marked the first time since the Revolution that the U.S.
accepted direct financial aid to fight a war?
A: The Persian Gulf War.
What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?
A: Bill Clinton.
Whose assassination was Sam Seymour the last living witness to,
until his death in 1956?
A: Abraham Lincoln's.
What former president was on an African
hunting trip when his
enemy J. P .Morgan quipped: "Let every
lion do his duty"?
A: Theodore Roosevelt.
What three words did George Bush say before "no new taxes" in
1988?
A: "Read my lips".
Who was the first lawyer to become First Lady?
A:
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with
hemorrhoids?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What future president was the only U.S. senator from a
Confederate state to remain in Congress after secession?
A: Andrew Johnson.