History Trivia 9
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1 - What Romanian dictator banned Scrabble because he deemed it too intellectual?
Nicolae Ceausescu
2 - Who inspired Communism with the line: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"?
Karl Marx
3 - What's the submachine gun invented by Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1947 better known as?
The AK47
4 - Whose quips and quotes were collected in a CD-ROM called WellThere You Go Again?
Ronald Reagan's
5 - What Soviet leader's second wife was also his daughter, according to Kremlin Wives?
Joseph Stalin's
6 - What former secretary of state noted: "The illegal we do immediately The unconstitutional takes longer"?
Henry Kissinger
7 - What state has hosted the most nuclear tests in the US?
Nevada
8 - What Nicaraguan "freedom fighters" did Ronald Reagan call "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers
The Contras
9 - What country left the League of Nations in 1933?
Germany
10 - What southeastern state was the last to return to the Union after the Civil War?
Georgia
11 - What trials, beginning in 1945, spawned the phrase "I was only following orders"?
The Nuremberg war crimes trials
12 - What was the first war the US took part in that was partially financed with lottery dollars?
The Revolutionary War
13 - What Bill Murray Ghostbusters term did Persian Gulf warriors use to describe being hit by chemical weapons?
Slimed
14 - What country did ever-prudent King Farouk I declare war on in 1945?
Germany
15 - What US president did General George McClellan sum up as "nothing more than a well-meaning baboon"?
Abraham Lincoln
16 - What US war broke out the same year the federal government first printed paper money?
The Civil War
17 - What opportunistic country declare war on Japan five days before its surrender in 1945?
The Soviet Union
18 - What US military base was won in the last major battle against Japan?
Okinawa
19 - What marked the first time since the Revolution that the US accepted direct financial aid to fight a war?
The Persian Gulf War
20 - What US president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?
Bill Clinton
21 - Whose assassination was Sam Seymour the last living witness to, until his death in 1956?
Abraham Lincoln's
22 - What former president was on an African hunting trip when his enemy J P Morgan quipped: "Let every lion do his duty"?
Theodore Roosevelt
23 - What three words did George Bush say before "no new taxes" in 1988?
"Read my lips"
24 - Who was the first lawyer to become First Lady?
Hillary Rodham Clinton
25 - What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with hemorrhoids?
Jimmy Carter
26 - What future president was the only US senator from a Confederate state to remain in Congress after secession?
Andrew Johnson
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History Trivia 9
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1 - What Romanian dictator banned Scrabble because he deemed it too intellectual?
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2 - Who inspired Communism with the line: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"?
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3 - What's the submachine gun invented by Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1947 better known as?
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4 - Whose quips and quotes were collected in a CD-ROM called WellThere You Go Again?
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5 - What Soviet leader's second wife was also his daughter, according to Kremlin Wives?
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6 - What former secretary of state noted: "The illegal we do immediately The unconstitutional takes longer"?
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7 - What state has hosted the most nuclear tests in the US?
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8 - What Nicaraguan "freedom fighters" did Ronald Reagan call "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers
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9 - What country left the League of Nations in 1933?
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10 - What southeastern state was the last to return to the Union after the Civil War?
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11 - What trials, beginning in 1945, spawned the phrase "I was only following orders"?
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12 - What was the first war the US took part in that was partially financed with lottery dollars?
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13 - What Bill Murray Ghostbusters term did Persian Gulf warriors use to describe being hit by chemical weapons?
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14 - What country did ever-prudent King Farouk I declare war on in 1945?
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15 - What US president did General George McClellan sum up as "nothing more than a well-meaning baboon"?
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16 - What US war broke out the same year the federal government first printed paper money?
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17 - What opportunistic country declare war on Japan five days before its surrender in 1945?
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18 - What US military base was won in the last major battle against Japan?
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19 - What marked the first time since the Revolution that the US accepted direct financial aid to fight a war?
_______________________________________________________________________________
20 - What US president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?
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21 - Whose assassination was Sam Seymour the last living witness to, until his death in 1956?
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22 - What former president was on an African hunting trip when his enemy J P Morgan quipped: "Let every lion do his duty"?
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23 - What three words did George Bush say before "no new taxes" in 1988?
_______________________________________________________________________________
24 - Who was the first lawyer to become First Lady?
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25 - What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with hemorrhoids?
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26 - What future president was the only US senator from a Confederate state to remain in Congress after secession?
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