History Trivia

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A couple of questions about Dr. Martin Luther King: a. Martin Luther King was minister of what church in what city? b. In what city was he assassinated?

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The Magna Carta was signed by King John at Runnymede in June of what year?

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His history of the invasion of Greece by the Persian Empire was the beginning of all Western history writing. What ancient Greek historian is often called the father of history?

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One of the most evil rulers of all time lived in Romania around 1460, and was known for killing thousands of his enemies in a cold blooded manner. His name was Vlad, sometimes known as Vlad the Impaler, but the people called him by the Romanian name for t

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In 1986, in the largest covert CIA operation since the Vietnam War, the U.S. sent $400 million worth of weapons to support a rebel group fighting in which country?

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The British leaders Robert Walpole, Earl Grey, and Lord Melbourne, and the Americans Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Wm. Henry Harrison, and Millard Fillmore were all associated with which political party?

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June 6, 1944 is known as D-Day, when in the early daylight at low tide about 5,000 Allied ships invaded the coastline in what part of France?

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In 1981, after more than 300 years of colonial presence in Central America, the British granted self-government to what country?

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An English colonist in Virginia, John Rolfe, introduced and planted tobacco in the colonies. In 1614, he married the daughter of a local indian chief and went to England to live with her. What was her name?

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From 1859 to 1869, the Suez Canal was designed, engineered, and constructed by a company from which country?

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In both 1978 the Nobel Peace Prize was shared by two former political adversaries. Who were they?

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The Scots were a Gaelic tribe that migrated in the 6th century AD to the northern part of Britain, from where? Ireland, Belgium, or Holland?

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Around 1790 Spanish explorers, and later Captain George Vancouver, discovered the San Juan Islands, located today in which state?

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In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail towards the west, looking for India, (or Asia), but didn't find it. However, five years later this Portuguese navigator set sail towards the East, and reached India in 1498. Who was he?

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Which automobile pioneer is credited in 1886 as manufacturing the first vehicle powered with an internal-combustion engine?