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DDG Trivia History 4
Question | Answer |
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What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president to command a military unit during his term in office? | The War of 1812. |
What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed under his head upon his burial? | The U.S. Constitution. |
What inscription on U.S. coins did Theodore Roosevelt try in vain to have removed? | In God We Trust. |
What former U.S. president showed up on dollar coins in 1971? | Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
What did Ronald Reagan disclose he was suffering from, in 1994? | Alzheimer's disease. |
What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic Church after an infection following spinal surgery in 1954. | John F. Kennedy. |
Who did Abraham Lincoln promote to major general or volunteers after he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson? | Ulysses S. Grant. |
How many U.S. presidents played a role in Vietnam's civil war? | Five. |
Who said: "I'm the president of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli"? | George Bush. |
Who was the first president to appear on a U.S. coin? | Abraham Lincoln. |
What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan? | December 8, 1941. |
What pooch was the only gift Richard Nixon admitted accepting, in a famous 1952 speech? | Checkers. |
Who was assassinated the day after Andy Warhol was shot? | Robert F. Kennedy. |
What Wild West figure is described on his New Mexico tombstone as "The Boy Bandit King"? | Billy the Kid. |
Who was billed as the "Killer of Custer" in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show? | Sitting Bull. |
What conspirator in the Lincoln assassination was pardoned for saving the lives of prison guards during a yellow fever epidemic? | Dr. Samuel Mudd. |
What condition was alleviated by medicine dubbed "liquid cork" by U.S. troops in Vietnam? | Diarrhea. |
What medical condition kept William Blount from traveling to Philadelphia on horseback for the 1787 Constitutional Convention? | Hemorrhoids. |
What physicist called nationalism "the measles of mankind"? | Albert Einstein. |
What was the world's principal Christian city before it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453? | Constantinople. |
Who is credited with creating the model of European fascism in the 20th century? | Benito Mussolini. |
What "revolution" saw almost every Chinese citizen to a copy of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book? | The Cultural Revolution. |
What was closed to traffic after the Six Day War in 1967, and not reopened until 1975? | The Suez Canal. |
Who convinced Jamaicans he'd made the moon disappear during a lunar eclipse in 1504? | Christopher Columbus. |
What group meets in a Pentagon room dubbed "The Tank"? | The Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
What Texan ended up with one delegate after spending $12 million of his own money running for president in 1980? | John Connally. |
What Caribbean nation sent thousands of troops to Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s? | Cuba. |
What military man had a much less famous cousin nicknamed "Mudwall"? | "Stonewall" Jackson. |
What Israeli is known affectionately as "Bibi"? | Benjamin Netanyahu. |
What Roman emperor forbade citizens from laughing or bathing after one of his sister-wives died? | Caligula. |
What weekend retreat saw Menachim Begin and Anwar Sadat hammer out an Israeli-Egyptian peace accord in 1978? | Camp David. |
Who proved his mettle as a pollster in the 1936 presidential elections? | George Gallup. |