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DDG Trivia History 6
Question | Answer |
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What Woodward and Bernstein book topped the bestseller list five weeks before Nixon quit in 1974? | All the President's Men. |
What dictator is affectionately dubbed El Maximo by fans? | Fidel Castro. |
What U.S. president installed solar panels on the White House roof? | Jimmy Carter. |
Who pledged in 1964: "We're not going to send American boys to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves"? | Lyndon B. Johnson. |
What word has appeared on every coin struck in the U.S. since 1792? | Liberty. |
What condiment did the Agriculture Department allow to count as "one of the two vegetables required" in school lunch programs in 1981? | Ketchup. |
Where was JFK when he said the U.S. "never had to put up a wall to keep our people in"? | West Berlin. |
What was Titanic survivor Molly Brown nicknamed? | Unsinkable. |
Who was accused of being drunk when sworn in as Abraham Lincoln's vice president? | Andrew Johnson. |
What two-word phrase to describe an ambitious social program was coined by LBJ on April 23, 1964? | Great Society. |
Who was U.S. president when the first edition of the Farmer's Almanac was published? | George Washington. |
What assassin put his wedding ring in a demitasse cup before leaving home for the last time? | Lee Harvey Oswald. |
Who once agreed to head up Chrysler for an annual salary of one dollar? | Lee Iacocca. |
What city did Napoleon occupy in 1798, sending Pope Pius VI to the south of France? | Rome. |
Who was the longest-serving president in the Americas, through 1995? | Fidel Castro. |
What color shirts did Nazi SS troops wear? | Black. |
What R-word described a person refused an exit visa by the Soviet Union? | Refusenik. |
What network did U.S. troops in the Gulf War dub "Scud-a-vision"? | CNN. |
Who got out of jail in time to become head of Czechoslovakia in 1989? | Vaclav Havel. |
Who thanked Henry VIII for allowing her to be decapitated bya sword instead of an ax? | Anne Boleyn. |
What European city lost 4,000 people to a "killer fog" of carbon dioxide in 1952? | London. |
What New England state was originally claimed by both New Hampshire and New York? | Vermont. |
Who did Iranian militants want returned in exchange for U.S. hostages in 1979? | The Shah of Iran. |
What two World War I enemies suffered one million casualties in the Battle of Verdun? | France and Germany. |
What old soldier died in Washington, D.C., on April5, 1964? | Douglas MacArthur. |
What Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government after it became an anthem for black schoolchildren? | Another Brick in the Wall. |
What were Stanley's first words to David Livingstone? | "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" |
What Wild West legend was fired as sheriff of Wichita for pocketing fines he'd collected? | Wyatt Earp. |
What country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in 1970? | Canada. |
Who made his first known visit to Israel in 1995, to visit Yitzhak Rabin's widow? | Yasir Arafat. |