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DDG Trivia History 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What part of North America made French its official language in 1976? | Quebec. |
| What group of professionals did U.S. Gulf War troops nicknamed "headaches"? | Journalists. |
| How many U.S. states took part in the development or manufacture of the B-2 bomber? | Fifty. |
| What disastrous World War II retreat prompted Winston Churchill to say: "Wars are not won by evacuations"? | Dunkirk. |
| Who told Winston Churchill "that the French regard him as the reincarnation of Joan of Arc"? | Charles de Gaulle. |
| What candidate told Pat Paulsen that his 100,000 write-in votes probably put Nixon in the White House? | Hubert Humphrey. |
| What controversial form of cheap labor did Alabama return to the work force in 1995, after a 30-year absence? | Chain gangs. |
| What mobster's 1927 earnings would have amounted to $600 million in 1987 dollars? | Al Capone's. |
| What captain did Fletcher Christian lead a mutiny against near Tahiti in 1789? | William Bligh. |
| Who committed suicide two years after taking a stab at Julius Caesar? | Brutus. |
| What lord protector of England was not fond of his nicknames ""Almighty nose" and "Crum-Hell"? | Oliver Cromwell. |
| What type of ads were banned in 1971, costing TV networks $200 million? | Cigarette ads. |
| Who was stuck in the spacecraft while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin moon-walked? | Michael Collins. |
| Who was barefoot in a beach trailer wearing a Ban-Lon shirt when told the House was voting articles of impeachment against him? | Richard Nixon. |
| What archipelago lost an estimated one million of its citizens in the war against Japan from 1941 to 1945? | The Philippines. |
| What was the largest number of living ex-presidents at one time? | Five. |
| What vice president was less than thrilled to learn his adversaries called him :Eggplant"? | Spiro Agnew. |
| Who did Abu Bakr succeed as leader of the Muslims in the year 632? | Muhammad. |
| What nation's Catholics saw the Pope make a triumphant homecoming visit in 1980? | Poland's. |
| What Saudi Arabian city was the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad? | Mecca. |
| What body part was most frequently covered with lard and roasted over a fire as a torture during the Spanish inquisition? | The foot. |
| Whose 1995 novel The Moor's Last Sigh enraged Hindu militants in India? | Salman Rushdie's. |
| What church did Henry VIII create when the Pope refused to give him a divorce in 1534? | The Church of England. |
| What outfit did one of every six members of the American Communist Party really work for, according to a former ACP member? | The FBI. |
| What markswoman did Sitting Bull dub "Little Sure Shot? | Annie Oakley. |
| What Apollo 11 astronaut claimed he was the "first man to wet his pants n the moon"? | Buzz Aldrin. |
| What Mississippi city's residents did not celebrate the Fourth of July until 1945, after losing a Civil War battle in 1863? | Vicksburg's. |
| What was frontierswoman Martha Jane Burk better known as? | Calamity Jane. |
| What tragedy occurred two years to the day after the federal raid on the Branch Davidian complex in Waco? | The Oklahoma City bombing. |
| What current branch of the U.S. military was a corp of only 50 soldiers when World War I broke out? | The U.S. Air Force. |