Weird History

Question 1

How many died during the longest war btw the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands from 1651-1986

Accepted Answer

O

Question 2

Who is credited with inventing the name Jessica?

Accepted Answer

Shakespeare

Question 3

The new American Flag was designed by a student in school. What was his grade on the project?

Accepted Answer

B-

Question 4

Before making video games, Nintendo originally made these...

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Trading Cards

Question 5

Ice Age Britons used these as drinking cups...

Accepted Answer

skulls of the dead

Question 6

Some Pharaohs were sealed inside their tomb with their jewels, money, and...

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pets, living servants

Question 7

Which ancient group would make sacrifices by pulling a still beating heart from someone's chest

Accepted Answer

Mayans

Question 8

Over 10,000 of these were exterminated after Pope Gregory IX assiciated them with devil worship

Accepted Answer

Cats

Question 9

What weird liquid did the Romans used for mouthwash?

Accepted Answer

Urine

Question 10

True or False: Animals were routinely put on trial and sentenced to death in Midieval times.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

From March 2, 1936 to February 19, 1946, this US State was its own independent nation.

Accepted Answer

Texas

Question 12

In Midieval times if you put your hand in this and came out unharmed it meant you were innocent

Accepted Answer

a vat of boiling water

Question 13

Princeton researches once turned this into a working telephone in 1968.

Accepted Answer

a live cat

Question 14

Inventors in the 19th centruy patented a new coffin design because so many people were...

Accepted Answer

mistakenly buried alive

Question 15

Servants in ancient Egypt were often covered in this to keep bug away from the Pharaoh.

Accepted Answer

honey

Question 16

A man from New Orleans hired one of these to rescue Napolean from prison.

Accepted Answer

a pirate

Question 17

Mexican General Santa Anna had an elabrate funeral for what body part that he lost?

Accepted Answer

Arm

Question 18

Ancient Egyptians had at least six different types of...

Accepted Answer

beer

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Day

Question 20

The Roman Emperor Gaius picked this strage thing to be a senator.

Accepted Answer

Horse

Question 21

Dead soldiers teeth were often pulled to make....

Accepted Answer

Dentures

Question 22

Where was England's King George I from?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 23

This is the only panet not named after a God...

Accepted Answer

Earth

Question 24

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup - a cough medicince for kids - included this...

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morphine

Question 25

Which large city once gave a "key to the city" to Saddam Hussein?

Accepted Answer

Detroit

Question 26

Kim Jong II wrote six of these.

Accepted Answer

operas

Question 27

Peter the Great foced his wife to keep this in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.

Accepted Answer

the head of a man she cheated on him with

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