HISTORY QUIZ NO.48

[magpie in the 80's]

1 What was the first country to recognize Mexico's independence, in 1836?
THE USA
2 What encyclopedia's first edition, in 1771, described California as "a large country of the West Indies"?
ENCYLOPEDIA BRITANNICAS
3 Who was the only American to become vice president and president after resignations?
GERALD FORD
4 What year did the Dow Jones Industrial Average break both the 4000 and 5000 marks?
1995
5 Who saw his crew dine on wormy biscuits and rats on his fourth voyage to the New World?
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
6 What disgraced vice president's high school yearbook quote read; "An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow"?
SPIRO AGNEW
7 Who was the youngest man to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
COLIN POWELL
8 Which of Henry VIII's wives gave birth to Elizabeth I?
ANNE BOLEYN
9 What 19th-century president erroneously noted: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet"?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
10 What country led all Arab nations in the number of troops participating in Operation Desert Storm?
SAUDI ARABIA
11 Who did George Bush accuse of being "a card-carrying member" of the American Civil Liberties Union, in 1988?
MICHAEL DUKAKIS
12 What presidential election year saw Republicans dub Democrats the party of "Communism, Corruption and Korea"?
1952
13 What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a space shuttle mission?
CAPTAIN
14 What were the Viet Minh called when they crossed into South Vietnam?
THE VIET CONG
15 What Russian cleric was poisoned, shot and finally drowned on December 30, 1916?
RASPUTIN
16 Who led the Million Man March on Washington?
LOUIS FARRAKHAN
17 What country suffered the worst two earthquakes in history, killing 830,000 in 1556 and 750,000 in 1976?
CHINA
18 What Eastern European city was the last city to be liberated in World War II?
PRAGUE
19 What country used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against its Kurdish minority in the 1990s?
IRAQ
20 What general did GI's nickname "Top Gun" in the Persian Gulf War?
COLIN POWELL
21 What trade union was finally legalized in Poland in 1989?
SOLIDARITY
22 What symbol was first linked to the Democratic party in an 1870 cartoon by Thomas Nast?
A DONKEY
23 What Harry Callahan line did Ronald Reagan invoke to "tax increasers"?
GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY
24 What explorer of North Carolina never got to finish his "History of the World" while banished to the Tower of London?
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
25 Who was president of the U.S. when Uncle Sam first got a beard?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

[Hazbeen]

15. Rasputin
19. Iraq

[old moz]

6---spiro agnew
14---viet cong

[magpie in the 80's]

15. Rasputin
19. Iraq

HB

[magpie in the 80's]

6---spiro agnew
14---viet cong

OM

[Turkeywizz]

21 Solidarity??

[magpie in the 80's]

21 Solidarity??

TW

[magpie in the 80's]

last days for this quiz

[godoubleblues]

Q17 - china

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Q17 - china

CORRECT GDB

[magpie in the 80's]

1 What was the first country to recognize Mexico's independence, in 1836?
THE USA
2 What encyclopedia's first edition, in 1771, described California as "a large country of the West Indies"?
ENCYLOPEDIA BRITANNICAS
3 Who was the only American to become vice president and president after resignations?
GERALD FORD
4 What year did the Dow Jones Industrial Average break both the 4000 and 5000 marks?
1995
5 Who saw his crew dine on wormy biscuits and rats on his fourth voyage to the New World?
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
6 What disgraced vice president's high school yearbook quote read; "An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow"?
SPIRO AGNEW
7 Who was the youngest man to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
COLIN POWELL
8 Which of Henry VIII's wives gave birth to Elizabeth I?
ANNE BOLEYN
9 What 19th-century president erroneously noted: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet"?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
10 What country led all Arab nations in the number of troops participating in Operation Desert Storm?
SAUDI ARABIA
11 Who did George Bush accuse of being "a card-carrying member" of the American Civil Liberties Union, in 1988?
MICHAEL DUKAKIS
12 What presidential election year saw Republicans dub Democrats the party of "Communism, Corruption and Korea"?
1952
13 What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a space shuttle mission?
CAPTAIN
14 What were the Viet Minh called when they crossed into South Vietnam?
THE VIET CONG
15 What Russian cleric was poisoned, shot and finally drowned on December 30, 1916?
RASPUTIN
16 Who led the Million Man March on Washington?
LOUIS FARRAKHAN
17 What country suffered the worst two earthquakes in history, killing 830,000 in 1556 and 750,000 in 1976?
CHINA
18 What Eastern European city was the last city to be liberated in World War II?
PRAGUE
19 What country used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against its Kurdish minority in the 1990s?
IRAQ
20 What general did GI's nickname "Top Gun" in the Persian Gulf War?
COLIN POWELL
21 What trade union was finally legalized in Poland in 1989?
SOLIDARITY
22 What symbol was first linked to the Democratic party in an 1870 cartoon by Thomas Nast?
A DONKEY
23 What Harry Callahan line did Ronald Reagan invoke to "tax increasers"?
GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY
24 What explorer of North Carolina never got to finish his "History of the World" while banished to the Tower of London?
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
25 Who was president of the U.S. when Uncle Sam first got a beard?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

QUESTIONS ANSWERED ARE IN RED.
QUESTIONS UNANSWERED ARE IN BLUE.

END OF QUIZ