History Trivia Questions XV

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What "Shepherd of the Ocean" has a North Carolina city named for him?

       a. Francis Drake
       b. Walter Raleigh
       c. Christopher Columbus
       d. Martin Frobisher


Operating from his capital at Caesarea, who was the Roman governor of Judea, Samaria and Idumaea from AD 26 to AD 36?

       a. Herod Antipas
       b. Joseph of Arimathea
       c. Pontius Pilate
       d. Titus Andronicus


In 1968, tanks rolled into what city's Wenceslas Square?

       a. Berlin
       b. Budapest
       c. Prague
       d. Warsaw


To get Americans to save energy and to "whip inflation now," what president sent out WIN buttons?

       a. Gerald Ford
       b. Jimmy Carter
       c. Richard Nixon
       d. Ronald Reagan


Which president was murdered by a pro-Grant "Stalwart" named Charles Guiteau, who'd been looking for a patronage job as US consul in Paris?

       a. John Kennedy
       b. William McKinley
       c. James Garfield
       d. Abraham Lincoln


Urging his colleagues to sign the Declaration of Independence, who said, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"?

       a. Thomas Jefferson
       b. Benjamin Franklin
       c. Thomas Paine
       d. John Adams


On October 4, 1992, shortly after take-off from the Schipol Airport, an El Al Boeing 747 crashed in a residential area of what city?

       a. Jerusalem
       b. Amsterdam
       c. Tel Aviv
       d. The Hague


There was a Barbary Coast in San Francisco, but where was the original, pirate-infested Barbary Coast?

       a. South America
       b. North Africa
       c. West Indies
       d. Canada


Isaac Brock, from the Channel Islands, died winning the Battle of Queenston Heights during what war?

       a. War of 1812
       b. English Civil War
       c. American Revolution
       d. War of the Roses


In the 1830s, which president bypassed the official cabinet for a "kitchen cabinet"?

       a. Andrew Jackson
       b. Ulysses Grant
       c. Thomas Jefferson
       d. Warren Harding


On sailing into Manila Bay, who said, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"?

       a. George Dewey
       b. Thomas Dewey
       c. John Dewey
       d. Melvil Dewey


In WWII, who qualified to win Britain's Dickin Medal for Valor?

       a. Coast Guard and Merchant Marine members
       b. Non-British Commonwealth citizens
       c. Animals and birds
       d. Civilians


In 1966, it was revealed that what country's associate minister of defence had had an affair with a hooker and spy named Gerda Munsinger?

       a. Australia
       b. Canada
       c. Austria
       d. West Germany


The owners of the Sampoong Department Store opted to add another floor and a swimming pool, which collapsed on June 30, 1995, in what city?

       a. Taipei
       b. Seoul
       c. Shanghai
       d. Bangkok


The Democrats won the popular vote, but Florida was one of three states with disputed results. Sound familiar? Who won the presidential election ... of 1876?

       a. Rutherford Hayes
       b. William McKinley
       c. James Buchanan
       d. John Quincy Adams




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