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DDG Trivia History 7
Question | Answer |
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What tree was named for the Native American scholar who created the 85-sylable Cherokee alphabet? | The sequoia. |
What country saw Ion Iliescu take over in 1989, after its previous president was arrested, tried and shot? | Romania. |
What single name is more commonly applied to Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Great? | Charlemagne. |
What anchorman admitted he was wrong to announce Russian capitalists were auctioning off Lenin's preserved corpse? | Peter Jennings. |
What's explorer Fernao de Magelhaes better known as in English? | Ferdinand Magellan. |
What got a new balcony, front portico and two extra chimneys on the back of $20 bills, in 1948? | The White House. |
What city's worker-student protests of 1968 resulted in a 33 percent rise in the national minimum wage? | Paris. |
What's the top-grossing U.S. retail chain owned by one family? | Wal-Mart. |
What nation bartered 30 million barrels of oil for ten Boeing 747s in 1984? | Saudi Arabia. |
What country's civil war was described as a "rehearsal for World War II"? | Spain's. |
Who was turned down by seven people he asked to be his running mate in 1972? | George McGovern. |
What politician agreed to cough up $432,000 in back taxes in April of 1974? | Richard Nixon. |
Who was on the cover of Time most often-Winston Churchill, FDR, or Joseph Stalin? | Joseph Stalin. |
What British leader was once dubbed "Attila the Hen"? | Margaret Thatcher. |
What siblings did the Ontario government build a nursery called Quintland for? | The Dionne quintuplets. |
What chemical's maker coughed up $180 million to pay medical costs for Vietnam vets in 1984? | Agent Orange's. |
What 1962 crisis prevented the Kennedy brothers from negotiating to buy the Philadelphia Eagles? | The Cuban Missile Crisis. |
What assassin's diary reveals that he changed his plans from kidnapping to murder the day before he did the deed? | John Wilkes Booth's. |
What war saw GI's being told over the radio: "Bart Simpson is making love to your wife"? | The Persian Gulf War. |
What nation's flag was referred to in World War II as a "meatball"? | Japan's. |
Who was accused of dancing "with devils" after he announced plans to build a South Dakota casino near sacred Sioux lands? | Kevin Costner. |
Who's been called "the French Stalin" for executing 20,000 during the Reign of Terror? | Maximilien Robespierre. |
Who became Britain's longest continuously serving prime minister of the 20th century? | Margaret Thatcher. |
What Soviet republic's 1988 earthquake marked the first time the USSR embraced international relief after a disaster? | Armenia's. |
What French Louis reigned a record 72 years? | Louis XIV. |
What twin cities in Japan were largely leveled by a 1923 earthquake? | Tokyo and Yokohama. |
What socialist writer's last words were: "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough"? | Karl Marx's. |
What country used weather-borne balloons to drop more than a hundred bombs on North America during World War II? | Japan. |
What 10-year-old began earning his bad reputation by throwing puppies off th Kremlin walls in 1540? | Ivan the Terrible. |