History Facts of the Day!

Question 1

What helped Lady Murasaki become the world's first novelist before her male counterparts?

Accepted Answer

The alphabet used by women in Japan was easier to write with

Question 2

What vengeful sea creature sunk the Essex?

Accepted Answer

A Sperm Whale

Question 3

Who built that metal band around Mercy Brown's gravestone?

Accepted Answer

Mr. Fulford's father, Doug Fulford

Question 4

What did Peter Freuchen do to Nazis?

Accepted Answer

Claimed to be Jewish when he saw them bullying other people

Question 5

Charles Darwin joined a "Glutton's Club" in college. What food was so bad it ended the club?

Accepted Answer

An awful owl

Question 6

How was Hiro Onada convinced to stop fighting World War II in 1974?

Accepted Answer

His commanding officer went to relieve him in person

Question 7

Who invented Corn Flakes?

Accepted Answer

John Harvey Kellogg

Question 8

What else happened to Peter Freuchen?

Accepted Answer

He appeared in an Oscar-winning movie, He won 64,000 dollars on a TV game show, He wrote several books about his life, He escaped from a Nazi prisoner camp

Question 9

Who inspired this symbol?

Accepted Answer

King Harold Blatand of Denmark

Question 10

Why did the people of Exeter, Rhode Island believe Mercy Brown was a vampire after she died?

Accepted Answer

Her family was sick, and her body still looked healthy

Question 11

What capitol city did the Celtic queen Boudica destroy in AD 60?

Accepted Answer

London

Question 12

How did that metal rod end up in Phineas Gage's head?

Accepted Answer

He was using it to tap a stick of dynamite

Question 13

Which of the following was NOT one of the things Roland the Farter was obligated to perform?

Accepted Answer

One Kick

Question 14

Olga of Kiev became a saint for converting to Christianity. What else is she known for?

Accepted Answer

A massive, 4-stage quest for vengeance.

Question 15

How was the item in the picture used in World War 1?

Accepted Answer

It was dropped on the enemy from airplanes

Question 16

What did Victorian-era Europeans do with mummies?

Accepted Answer

Ground them up to use them as medicine

Question 17

Ching Shih ran a tight ship in her pirate empire. What was her punishment for most offenses?

Accepted Answer

beheading

Question 18

What did Santa Anna do with his original leg?

Accepted Answer

Have it dug up and re-buried with a full state funeral.

Question 19

What weapon did the Australians use against the Emu in the Emu War of 1932?

Accepted Answer

Machine Guns

Question 20

Kellogg invented corn flakes at a special hospital where he tried to get people to do what?

Accepted Answer

Avoid foods and activities that would be too sexy

Question 21

How did Peter Freuchen escape from an ice cavern that one time?

Accepted Answer

He made a knife out of his own feces and dug himself out

Question 22

In addition to the Ichthyosaur, what paleontological discovery did Mary Anning make?

Accepted Answer

She identified coprolites as fossilized poop

Question 23

What was the codename of one of America's first (female) spies?

Accepted Answer

Agent 355

Question 24

Who was in charge of mummifying the Japanese monks who practiced sokushinbutsu?

Accepted Answer

Themselves

Question 25

What did the Marines of the Chosin Reservoir do with Tootsie Rolls (besides eating them)?

Accepted Answer

Used them to repair bullet holes in their vehicles.

History Facts of the Day!

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