History Trivia

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This war in 1853 was triggered by a dispute between France, Russia, and Turkey over control of the Holy Places in Palestine, and during this war Florence Nightingale performed her heroic nursing deeds. What was it?

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This German field marshal commanded the African Korps during World War II. After he was implicated in a plot to kill Hitler in 1944, he took his life. He was nicknamed the "desert fox." Who was he?

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to the date Dec. 7, 1941 with an ominous quotation. What happened on that date, and how did FDR refer to it?

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The Pony Express mail service, established in 1860, could carry mail by horseback 2,000 miles in 10 days. What were the easternmost and westernmost states of this rapid mail service?

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According to the opinion of President Lincoln, which best-selling 1852 novel helped bring on the American Civil War?

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When future President of the United States Andrew Jackson established this city in 1819 he named it after an ancient city of Egypt. What is it?

10

In the 1840's thousands of adventurous people took a popular wagon routs from Independence, Missouri to Fort Vancouver in the Pacific northwest. What do we call this travel route?

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In what year did George Washington become President of the United States?

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This 17th century French clergyman and political leader was the chief of government under King Louis XIII who establishied absolute monarchy in France and broke the political power of the Huguenots (French Protestants). Who was he?

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Around 500 B.C., during the golden age of the Greek civilization, what were the three most important city-states of Greece?

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In 1839, a Scottish inventor named Kirkpatrick Macmillan created a product which helps people get from point A to point B. Millions of this product have been sold. What was it?

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Born in Paris in 1694 with the name Francois Marie Arouet, he was a philosopher, poet, essayist, and author of Candide. Who was he?

11

Which Spanish explorer, in 1513, was the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean?

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In 1838, the US government forcibly moved 15,000 members of this Indian tribe from their peaceful homes in Georgia to the Oklahoma territory. Four thousand of them died along this "Trail of Tears." Which Indian tribe was displaced in this manner?

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The earliest account of European travel to the far east was provided by what Venetian traveler who explored Asia from 1271 to 1295?