Duplicate of History General Trivia

Who was the tallest president?

Who was the president during the so-called "Teapot Dome Scandal" of 1923?

Which Civil War general became president of the United States?

John F. Kennedy, Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis all _______ on the same day.

Who bombed Pearl Harbor?

When was the wheel invented?

Which Presidential successor to Abraham Lincoln had no formal education whatsoever?

Which president freed the slaves?

What Shakespearean play has the line "Et tu, Brute" uttered?

Where is the United States Naval Academy located?

What did the 19th Amendment to the Constitution grant to women?

What year did Ohio become a state?

Which country was Archduke Franz Ferdinand the heir of the throne to?

Green Bay, Wisconsin was founded by which European country?

How many words are in the present day version of the U.S. Constitution? (including signatures)

Which nation's air force is better known as the RAF?

In which city did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I have a dream" speech?

Germany started WWII

The Berlin Wall went down in 1987

Which country was led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the early 2000s?

When did the term "The United States of America" originate?

In the year 79 A.D. the Italian city of Pompeii disappeared after the eruption of THIS volcano

This U.S. President boycotted the '80 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

What year did WWII begin?

Which ally did the US give a $1 billion loan to on Oct. 30th, 1941?

Name the epic poem by Homer about Odysseus and his journey home after the fall of Troy

England’s King George the 1st was actually

How many people were killed by the 1666 Great Fire of London?

What country was Hitler born in

Which American fort did Benedict Arnold plan to hand over to the British?

In 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle to raise money—the prizes were...

The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record. It lasted ...

To fight which global epidemic did U.S. President George W. Bush seek $30billion in 2007?

Which Missouri city was destroyed by a deadly tornado in May, 2011?

Which ancient Egyptian god was the chief judge of the dead?

Which Axis capital city was captured by Gregory Zhukov in 1945?

Which U.S. city was devastated by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake?

Who was called the "Father" of the U.S. Constitution?

The play and film "The Miracle Worker" tells the story of which of these historical figures?

The oldest still acting parliament in the world is located in

What was Ohio's first capital?

The United States was the first country to allow women to vote

Who wrote "The Prairie"?

JFK was assassinated in which city?

Which Andrew Lloyd Webber play won the 1983 Tony for best musical?

During mummification, which body organ was removed and weighed?

"Yankee Doodle Dandy," is the official song of which U.S. state?

What was the battle grounds of Alamo originally intended for?

Who was the first REPUBLICAN president?

What does the "D" stand for in "D-Day"?

Which king created his own religion so that he could divorce his wife?

What was the most common killer of the nearly 2,000 men that died at Valley Forge?

The disease that ravaged and killed a third of Europe's population in the 14th century was

In which modern state was George Washington born?

What New York City mayor was known as "The Little Flower"?

Where was the sitcom "Roseanne" set?

The acronym used for the group of nations that export the vast majority of the world's oil

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence

Who said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"?

Thailand was originally called Siam

Which compact car was manufactured in Communist Yugoslavia during the Cold War?