HISTORY QUIZ NO. 51
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:50 pm1 What British royal spent over $26,000 on underwear in the 1980s?
PRINCESS DIANA
2 What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to appear under subpoena before a grand jury?
HILLARY CLINTON
3 What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to stip fighting, in 1974?
WORLD WAR 2
4 What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican convention?
SHANNEN DOHERTY
5 Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named the National Civil Rights Museum?
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
6 What Arab intoned: " I want a homeland even if the devil is the one to liberate it for me"?
YASAR ARAFAT
7 What name was the last word uttered by Napoleon?
JOSEPHINE
8 What nation bid adieu to the United Kingdom in 1921?
IRELAND
9 What Nazi propagandist said: "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play"?
JOSEPH GOEBBELS
10 What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995?
POPE JOHN PAUL 2ND
11 What mobster sighed: "I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War"?
AL CAPONE
12 What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in annual earnings, in 1995?
GENERAL MOTORS
13 What Uganda city's airport saw an Israeli commando raid rescue 103 hostages in 1976?
ENTEBBE
14 What 20th-century conflict saw U.S. soldiers "die for a tie"?
THE KOREAN WAR
15 What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in 1930?
UNEMPLOYMENT
16 What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in the thirteen British colonies?
BOSTON
17 What scandal was the Tower Commission set up to investigate in 1986?
THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR
18 What Filipino was acquitted of fraud charges in the U.S. in 1990?
IMELDA MARCOS
19 What were the Soviet Union's symbols for work in the factory and on the land?
HAMMER AND SICKLE
20 Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point to the British?
BENEDICT ARNOLD
21 What did an official U.S. investigation call " the greatest military and naval disaster in our nation's history"?
ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOUR
22 Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lee's note of surrender?
ULYSSES E GRANT'S
23 What did "loose lips" do, according to a popular rhyming World War II slogan?
SINK SHIPS
24 What city had North America's first medical school, bank and city-paid police force.
PHILADELPHIA
25 What Filipino was nicknamed the " iron butterfly".
IMELDA MARCOS
26 What did Jack McCall fall off, seconds after he shot Wild Bill Hickok?
HIS HORSE
27 Who was the longest-serving president in French history?
FRANCES MITTERRAND
28 What country's rampant political corruption was probed by the Mani pulite, or "Clean Hands," of the 1990s?
ITALY'S
29 What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September of 1915, and April of 1918?
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN (THE RED BARON)
30 In which country is the site of the battle of Waterloo?
BELGIUM
PRINCESS DIANA
2 What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to appear under subpoena before a grand jury?
HILLARY CLINTON
3 What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to stip fighting, in 1974?
WORLD WAR 2
4 What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican convention?
SHANNEN DOHERTY
5 Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named the National Civil Rights Museum?
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
6 What Arab intoned: " I want a homeland even if the devil is the one to liberate it for me"?
YASAR ARAFAT
7 What name was the last word uttered by Napoleon?
JOSEPHINE
8 What nation bid adieu to the United Kingdom in 1921?
IRELAND
9 What Nazi propagandist said: "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play"?
JOSEPH GOEBBELS
10 What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995?
POPE JOHN PAUL 2ND
11 What mobster sighed: "I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War"?
AL CAPONE
12 What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in annual earnings, in 1995?
GENERAL MOTORS
13 What Uganda city's airport saw an Israeli commando raid rescue 103 hostages in 1976?
ENTEBBE
14 What 20th-century conflict saw U.S. soldiers "die for a tie"?
THE KOREAN WAR
15 What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in 1930?
UNEMPLOYMENT
16 What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in the thirteen British colonies?
BOSTON
17 What scandal was the Tower Commission set up to investigate in 1986?
THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR
18 What Filipino was acquitted of fraud charges in the U.S. in 1990?
IMELDA MARCOS
19 What were the Soviet Union's symbols for work in the factory and on the land?
HAMMER AND SICKLE
20 Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point to the British?
BENEDICT ARNOLD
21 What did an official U.S. investigation call " the greatest military and naval disaster in our nation's history"?
ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOUR
22 Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lee's note of surrender?
ULYSSES E GRANT'S
23 What did "loose lips" do, according to a popular rhyming World War II slogan?
SINK SHIPS
24 What city had North America's first medical school, bank and city-paid police force.
PHILADELPHIA
25 What Filipino was nicknamed the " iron butterfly".
IMELDA MARCOS
26 What did Jack McCall fall off, seconds after he shot Wild Bill Hickok?
HIS HORSE
27 Who was the longest-serving president in French history?
FRANCES MITTERRAND
28 What country's rampant political corruption was probed by the Mani pulite, or "Clean Hands," of the 1990s?
ITALY'S
29 What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September of 1915, and April of 1918?
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN (THE RED BARON)
30 In which country is the site of the battle of Waterloo?
BELGIUM
