HISTORY QUIZ NO. 48
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:31 pm1 What amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of religion, speech and the press?
THE 1ST AMENDMENT
2 Who was dubbed "Lenin's left leg" during the early stages of Russia's Marxist movement?
JOSEPH STALIN
3 What doctor came to court dressed as Thomas Jefferson, who ws also thought to favor helping the terminally ill commit suicide?
JACK KEVORKIAN
4 What country was ruled from 827 until 860 by Egbert, Ethelwulf and Ethelbald?
ENGLAND
5 What did Elizabeth I have removed from her palaces when her hair thinned and her cheeks hollowed?
MIRRORS
6 What historic structure was saved from a real estate syndicate by a donation from a Texas cattle heiress?
THE ALAMO
7 Who's letter to Ronald Reagan read: "I'm very sorry...I thank God no one died"?
JOHN HINCKLEY JUNIOR
8 How many people were killed in 1979 at the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster?
ZERO
9 What British prime minister defined a fanatic as "one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"?
WINSTON CHURCHILL
10 What Japanese war cry meant "May you live forever"?
BANZAI
11 Who distanced herself from politics by changing her last name to Davis at 22?
PATTI REAGAN
12 Who piloted the first airplane to suffer a passenger fatality, in 1908?
ORVILLE WRIGHT
13 What river was Hernando De Soto the first white man to see and be buried in?
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
14 Who was known as "Tanya" after a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery?
PATTI HEARST
15 What seventh king of Israel shares his name with a Herman Melville literary character?
AHAB
16 What U.S. president died 79 days after being shot?
JAMES GARFIELD
17 What outfit's National Intelligence Daily has a circulation of about 200?
THE CIA
18 What leader said in 1942: "Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much"?
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
19 What child name's plunge in U.S. popularity was attributed to a famous 1974 scandal?
RICHARD'S
20 What 1970 hit movie was banned on military bases for "reducing the conventions and paraphernalia of war to total idiocy?
M*A*S*H
THE 1ST AMENDMENT
2 Who was dubbed "Lenin's left leg" during the early stages of Russia's Marxist movement?
JOSEPH STALIN
3 What doctor came to court dressed as Thomas Jefferson, who ws also thought to favor helping the terminally ill commit suicide?
JACK KEVORKIAN
4 What country was ruled from 827 until 860 by Egbert, Ethelwulf and Ethelbald?
ENGLAND
5 What did Elizabeth I have removed from her palaces when her hair thinned and her cheeks hollowed?
MIRRORS
6 What historic structure was saved from a real estate syndicate by a donation from a Texas cattle heiress?
THE ALAMO
7 Who's letter to Ronald Reagan read: "I'm very sorry...I thank God no one died"?
JOHN HINCKLEY JUNIOR
8 How many people were killed in 1979 at the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster?
ZERO
9 What British prime minister defined a fanatic as "one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"?
WINSTON CHURCHILL
10 What Japanese war cry meant "May you live forever"?
BANZAI
11 Who distanced herself from politics by changing her last name to Davis at 22?
PATTI REAGAN
12 Who piloted the first airplane to suffer a passenger fatality, in 1908?
ORVILLE WRIGHT
13 What river was Hernando De Soto the first white man to see and be buried in?
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
14 Who was known as "Tanya" after a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery?
PATTI HEARST
15 What seventh king of Israel shares his name with a Herman Melville literary character?
AHAB
16 What U.S. president died 79 days after being shot?
JAMES GARFIELD
17 What outfit's National Intelligence Daily has a circulation of about 200?
THE CIA
18 What leader said in 1942: "Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much"?
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
19 What child name's plunge in U.S. popularity was attributed to a famous 1974 scandal?
RICHARD'S
20 What 1970 hit movie was banned on military bases for "reducing the conventions and paraphernalia of war to total idiocy?
M*A*S*H
