What famous document begins: "When in the course of human events..."?
A: The Declaration of Independence.
What current branch of the U.S. military was a corps of only 50 soldiers when World War I broke out?
A: The U.S. Air Force.
Who said: "I'm the president of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli"?
A: George Bush.
What so-called "war" spawned the dueling slogans "Better Dead Than RED" and "Better Red Than Dead" in the 1950's?
A: The Cold War.
What president was shot while walking to California Governor Jerry Brown' office?
A: Gerald Ford.
Who earned infamy for noting: "A billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be"?
A: J. Paul Getty.
What ethnic group was largely responsible for building most of the early railways in the U.S. West?
A: The Chinese.
Lots of fun free trivia questions.
What former speaker of the U.S. House has a chair in peace studies named for him at the University of Ulster?
A: Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.
What was a gladiator armed with, in addition to a dagger and spear?
A: A net.
What future Soviet dictator was training to be a priest when he got turned on to Marxism?
A: Joseph Stalin.
What election year saw bumper stickers reading "Wallace, Wallace, Uber Alles"?
A: 1968.
What 20th-century conflict was dubbed the "forgotten war" despite 54,246 U.S. deaths?
A: The Korean War.
What single name is more commonly applied to Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Great?
A: Charlemagne.
Who was the last president of the Soviet Union?
A: Mikail Gorbachev.
What had Pliny the Younger seen erupt when he wrote: "We were terrified to see everything changed, buried in ashes like snowdrifts"?
A: Mount Vesuvius.
Who saw the turtleneck he wore at cease-fire talks in Bosnia fetch $5,000 at auction?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What Alabama city saw state troopers attack Civil Rights marchers on Edmund Pettis Bridge?
A: Selma.
What Texan ended up with one delegate after spending $12 million of his own money running for president in 1980?
A: John Connally.
What congressional award was Dr. Mary Edwards Walker the first woman to receive?
A: Medal of Honor.
What modern vehicle was invented to circumvent trench warfare?
A: The Tank
What California city did the last Pony Express ride end in?
A: Sacramento.
Who was the first U.S. president to adopt the informal version of his first name?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What civil rights leader did Dorothy Parker leave the bulk of her estate to?
A: Martin Luther King Jr.
What did Republicans call the platform they hyped in the 1994 Congressional elections?
A: The Contract With America.
What brave-hearted Scottish patriot led soldiers to a defeat of the English at the Battle of Cambuskenneth in 1297?
A: William Wallace.
What nation issued the five-dollar bill found in Abraham Lincoln's pocket when he was shot?
A: The Confederate States of America.
What political system was gradually dismantled in South Africa, starting in 1989?
A: Apartheid.
What was 11th-century Spanish military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better know as?
A: El Cid.
How many U.S. states border the Gulf of Mexico?
A: Five.
What's the ballet term for a 360-degree turn on one foot?
A: Pirouette.
What did blind bank robber David Worrell use as a weapon when trying to rob a London bank?
A: His cane.
What Great Lake state has more shoreline than the entire U.S. Atlantic seaboard?
A: Michigan.
What model appeared topless on the self-penned 1993 novel Pirate?
A: Fabio.
Trivia questions and answers.
Which country has more tractors per capita, Canada, Iceland or Japan?
A: Iceland.
Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life?
A: Thomas Edison.
What Elton John album became the first album to enter the charts at Number One, in 1975?
A: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
What laundry detergent got lots of mileage out of the ad line, "ring around the collar"?
A: Wisk.
Who, after anchoring off Hawaii in 1779, was mistaken for the god Lono?
A: Captain James Cook.
What continent is cut into two fairly equal halves by the Tropic of Capricorn?
A: Australia.
What explorer introduced pigs to North America?
A: Christopher Columbus.
What magazine boasts the slogan: "Test, Inform, Protect"?
A: Consumer Reports.
Who was billed as the "Killer of Custer" in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?
A: Sitting Bull.
What railway linked Moscow and Irkutsk in 1900?
A: The Trans-Siberian Railway.
What is the minimum number of musicians a band must have to be considered a "big band"?
A: Ten.
What's a water moccasin often called, due to the white inside its mouth?
A: A cottonmouth.
What nation was bounced from the Organization of American States in 1962?
A: Cuba.
What continent has the fewest flowering plants?
A: Antartica.
What element begins with the letter "K"?
A: Krypton.
What country saw a world record 315 million voters turn out for elections on May 20, 1991?
A: India.
What Lewis Carroll book was banned in China afer censors decided: "Animals should not use human language"?
A: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
What is the least popular month for U.S. weddings?
A: January.
What spot once registered 134 degrees, the highest temperature ever in the U.S.?
A: Death Valley.
What was the first organ successfully transplanted from a cadaver to a live person?
A: A kidney.
What surname means "son of Nick"?
A: Nixon.
What duo survived a 1909 shootout with Bolivia's cavalry, according to historians?
A: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
What F-word is defined in physics as a "nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei"?
A: Fusion.
What's the largest and densest of the four rocky planets?
A: Earth.
What ingredient in fresh milk is eventually devoured by bacteria, causing the sour taste?
A: Lactose.
Who offered insurance against an accidental death caused by a falling Sputnik?
A: Lloyds of London.
How many months per year do residents of Tromoso, Norway go without seeing a sunset?
A: Three.
What Beatrix Potter tale is the top-selling children's book of all time?
A: The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
What national holiday in Mexico has picnickers munching chocolate coffins and sugar skulls?
A: The Day of the Dead.
What nation's military attached dynamite packs to Dobermans before sending them into Palestinian guerilla hideouts?
A: Israel.
What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope, in 1781?
A: Uranus.
How many days does a cat usually stay in heat?
A: Five.
Is Scandinavia in the north or south of Europe?
A: North
Which Arctic country's Finnish name is Lapin Li?
A: Lapland
The Straight of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic Ocean with which Sea?
A: Mediterranean
Which country is also called the Hellenic Republic?
A: Greece
What is Europe's most mountainous country?
A: Switzerland
In Norway, a fjord is made up largely of what?
A: Water
Fun travel trivia questions, and answers.
The island of Rhodes belongs to which Mediterranean country?
A: Greece
Euro tunnel links which two countries?
A: England and France
The Left Bank generally refers to the Left Bank of the Seine in which city?
A: Paris
Okinawa is a volcano in which country?
A: Japan
What is the largest country in South America?
A: Brazil
What was the ancient city, carved out of red rock in Jordan, that was forgotten by Europeans until the 19th century?
A: Petra.
Which of the Seven Wonders of the World was a Ephesus?
A: The Temple of Artemis
What was the original purpose of the leaning tower of Pisa?
A: Bell Tower
What island in San Francisco Bay was the site of an almost escape-proof prison?
A: Alcatraz.
What was the former site of the two temples celcbrating Ramses II and Nefertari, before they were moved because of flooding by the waters of the Aswan High Dam?
A: Abu Simbel
Where is the Valley of the Kings, the scene of a terrorist attack in 1997?
A: Egypt.
What was Ho Chi Minh City before it was called Ho Chi Minh City?
A: Saigon
To the nearest thousand, how many islands does Indonesia have?
A: 13
Which country contains the Biblical rivers of the Tigris and the EUPHRATES?
A: Iraq
What was St. Petersburg called for most of the 20th century?
A: Leningrad.
Which country lies to the north of Austria and to the south of Poland?
A: Czech Republic
What name is given to the popular holiday area between Marseille and La Spezia?
A: Riviera
How tall is the Eiffel Tower?
A: 984 feet.
Archaeologists believe they have located the burial site of Boudicca, the British queen who led a bloody revolt against Roman rule in the first century A.D. Where is it?
A: Under Platform 8 of the King's Cross Railway Station in London.
What Middle Eastern country's name includes the name of it's first ruler?
A: Saudi Arabia. Ruler Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud unified his dual kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd and their dependencies under the name Saudi Arabia in 1932.
What is the name of Moscow's largest department store?
A: GUM
What country has more volcanoes than any other?
A: Indonesia. It has 167 of the 850 active volcanoes known in the world.
What U.S. president's State of the Union address lasted a record 81 minutes?
A: Bill Clinton's.
What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?
A: Bill Clinton.
What 1970's president openly discussed his battle with hemorrhoids?
A: Jimmy Carter. Presidential trivia questions and answers.
What U.S. president had the shortest life?
A: John F. Kennedy.
What former president was on an African hunting trip when his enemy J. P. Morgan quipped: "Let every lion do his duty"?
A: Theodore Roosevelt.
What conspirator in the Lincoln assassination was pardoned for saving the lives of prison guards during a yellow fever epidemic?
A: Dr. Samuel Mudd.
What president opined: "Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out"?
A: Richard Nixon.
Who was the first president to utter "We shall overcome" before a joint session of Congress?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson.
What future president was the only U.S. senator from a Confederate state to remain in Congress after secession?
A: Andrew Jackson.
What president's mug graces a $100,000 bill?
A: Woodrow Wilson.
What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic Church after an infection following spinal surgery in 1954?
A: John F. Kennedy.
What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president to command a military unit during his term in office?
A: The war of 1812.
What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed under his head upon his burial?
A: The U.S. Constitution.
Who was the first daughter of a U.S. president to pose nude for a Playboy video?
A: Patti Davis.
How many U.S. states are named after a president?
A: One.
Who is the only president to have survived two assassination attempts by women?
A: Gerald Ford.
What portly U.S. president was the first to be a golf nut?
A: William Howard Taft.
What future president's Texas classmates ran a shot of a jackass under his yearbook photo?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson's.
What day does the U.S. president traditionally deliver a weekly radio address?
A: Saturday.
What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join the cavalry reserves in the 1930's?
A: Ronald Regan.
What U.S. president threw out the most Opening Day baseballs?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What card game did Dwight D. Eisenhower play fanatically while planning for D-Day?
A: Bridge.
What White House lawyer first revealed the existence of an "enemies list" and "hush money" at the Watergate hearings?
A: John Dean.
What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.
What U.S. president installed solar panels on the White House roof?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What First Lady of the 1980s was shocked to find "a tremendous rat" swimming with her in the White House Pool?
A: Barbara Bush.
What future anchor was the only female reporter to tag along with Richard Nixon on his historic trip to China?
A: Barbara Walters.
Who revealed that the U.S. had a hydrogen bomb in his last State of the Union speech?
A: Harry S. Truman
What sport used the term "home run" ling before baseball?
Answer: Cricket.
Who was the first U.S. volleyball player to win three Olympic gold medals?
Answer: Karch Kiraly.
What was the only team to win two World Series in the 1980's?
Answer: The Los Angeles Dodgers.
What NFL team is known as the "ain'ts" when on a losing streak?
Answer: The New Orleans Saints.
What's an NBA player deemed to be if he's received the Maurice Podoloff Trophy?
Answer: The most valuable player.
What Washington Capitals goalie earned the nicknames "Ace" and "Net Detective"?
Answer: Jim Carey. Sports trivia questions answers.
What NBA team plays home games in the Alamo dome?
Answer: The San Antonio Spurs.
Who graciously switched to number 77 so Phil Esposito's number 7 could be retired in Boston Garden?
Answer: Raymond Bourque
What company's logo is called the "swoosh"?
Answer: Nike's
What Red Sox catcher's erect posture earned him the clubhouse nickname "Frankenstein"?
Answer: Carlton Fisk's
What sport did Herve Filion top with a record of 14,084 wins?
Answer: Harness racing.
What team hired the NFL's first professional cheerleading squad, in 1972?
Answer: The Dallas Cowboys.
What Native American language was Super Bowl XXX the first to be broadcast in?
Answer: Navajo.
What nickname do boxing fans call 300-pound Eric Esch, King of the Four-Rounders?
Answer: Butterbean.
What 1995 World Series teams were both picketed by the American Indian Movement?
Answer: The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians.
What diet drink was hyped by Coca-Cola for having only only calorie, in 1963?
Answer: Tab.
What comic actor scored huge sales with his Bad Golf Made Easy instructional videos?
Answer: Leslie Nielsen
What country fielded 1996 Olympic women's teams that won gold in basketball, soccer and softball?
Answer: The U.S.
What Grand Slam golf tournament has the most clubhousers sipping mint juleps?
Answer: The Masters.
Who is the only tennis player to have won each of the four grand slam events at least four times?
Answer: Steffi Graf.
What decade saw names first appear on the backs of NFL jerseys?
Answer: The 1960's.
Who was able to set NFL rushing records because of his "big but" according to Chicago Bears trainer Frank Caito?
Answer: Walter Payton.
What position must college footballers play to receive the Davey O'Brien Award?
Answer: Quarterback.
What disorder did Muhammad Ali develop after years of catching blows?
Answer: Parkinson's syndrome.
What are the only three European countries to have won soccer's World Cup?
Answer: England, Italy, West Germany.
What is the common term for the tennis ailment "lateral humeral epicondylitis"?
Answer: Tennis Elbow.
What racing competition became a best-of-nine series in 1995?
Answer: The America's Cup.
Who was the first athlete to rap at a Pro Bowl musical gala in 1995?
Answer: Deion Sanders.
What woman won five U.S. figure skating titls from 6 to 173, but never an Olympic gold medal?
Answer: Janet Lynn.
Who was the first female jockey to win five races in one day at a New York track?
Answer: Julie Krone
What teams played in the first all-California Super Bowl?
Answer: The San Francisco 49ers and the San Diego Chargers.
What two players are tied for second behind Ty Cobb in total career runs?
Answer: Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.
Q: Who beat Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 40 minutes to win a sixth Wimbledon singles title?
A: Billie Jean King.
Q: What did Goran Ivanisevic refrain from doing at Wimbledon in 1994, to win a $2,000 bet?
A: Throwing his racket.
Q: What Nevada-born tennis star had a ball and racquet to stare at above his crib?
A: Andre Agassi.
Q: What gonzo tennis brothers threw autographed potatoes into the crowd at an Idaho match?
A: Luke and Murphy Jensen.
Q: What's Billie Jean King's maiden name?
A: Moffitt.
Q: What tennis player's last name means "she who returns" in Czech?
A: Martina Navratilova's.
Q: What 19-year-old became the youngest man to win the U.S. Open tennis title, in 1990?
A: Pete Sampras.
Q: Who emerged from segregated Virginia courts to win the 1968 U.S. Open tennis title?
A: Arthur Ashe.
Q: What Grand Slam tennis tournament is held every January?
A: The Australian Open.
Q: Who was the first Russian tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles title, in 1996?
A: Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
Q: What Dutchman became, in 1996, the first unseeded player since Boris Becker to win Wimbledon?
A: Richard Krajicek .
Q: What two players won all the U.S. Open men's singles tennis titles from 1978 through 1984?
A: Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe.
Q: Who was the first American male to win three straight Wimbledon titles?
A: Pete Sampras.
Q: What tennis star won 129 of 130 matches during one stretch in the 1980s?
A: Martina Navratilova.
Q: Who broke Martina Navratilova's record of 331 weeks at number one?
A: Steffi Graf.
Q: What tennis star says "Express yourself" in camera commercials?
A: Andre Agassi.
Q: What racketeer was the first female named Athlete of the year by Sports illustrated, in 1972?
A: Billie Jean King.
Q: What tennis star was born in Montréal, raised in Florida and played for France in the Federation Cup?
A: Mary Pierce.
Q: What 17-year old tennis phenomenon beat Kevin Curren to win his first Wimbledon title?
A: Boris Becker.
Q: What U.S. tennis star's father boxed for the Iranian Olympic team?
A:Andre Agassi's.
Q: What's the last Grand Slam tennis tournament played in a calendar year?
A: The U.S. Open.
Q: What's the common term for the tennis ailment "lateral humeral epicondylitis"?
A: Tennis elbow.
Q: What senior golfer explained his respite from cigarettes by quipping:" I could run nine holes, I just couldn't play them:?
A: Chi Chi Rodriguez.
Q: How many tennis players are needed for a game of Canadian doubles?
A: Three.
What Nation's treasures include the Sistine Chapel?
A: Vatican City's.
Which extends further North- Japan, North Korea or turkey?
A: Japan.
What country can an Afghani escape to on the Khyber Pass?
A: Pakistan.
What two countries sandwich the dead sea?
A: Israel and Jordan.
What U.S. state is said to have as many cows as people?
A: Wisconsin.
What continent boasts the most telephone lines?
A: Europe.
What future Soviet republic produced one-half of the world's oil in 1901?
A: Azerbaijan.
What African country is bordered by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique?
A: South Africa.
What's the only Central American country without a coastline on the Caribbean?
A: El Salvador.
What North American mountain range is an apt anagram for "o, man--ski country"?
A: Rocky Moutntians.
What city is headquarters for Zero Population Growth and the Impotence Institution of America?
A:Washington, DC.
What city boasts a Board of Trade that buy and sells half the world's wheat and corn?
A: Chicago.
What island boasts Mount Fuji?
A: Honshu.
What European country's most common last name is De Vries?
A: The Netherlands'.
What desert do Botswana, Namibia and South Africa have in common?
A: The Kalahari.
What U.S. state has the highest percentage of residents born in other countries?
A: California.
How many U.S. states are named after a president>?
A: One.
What's the world's highest island mountain?
A: Mauna Kea.
What was the only country still building steam locomotives in 1990?
A: China.
Which two European countries lead the world n wine consumption pr capita?
A: France and Italy.
What was the world's highest man-made structure for 4,000 years before being passed by the central tower of Lincoln Cathedral?
A: The Great Pyramid of Cheops.
What western state is less than thrilled to be known as the "Vermin State"?
A: New Mexico.
What's the only South American country that has both a Pacific and a Caribbean coast?
A: Colombia.
What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?
A: I-90.
What state boasts all or part of the ten largest American Indian reservations?
A: Arizona.
What Canadian city's name means "muddy water"?
A: Winnipeg's.
What desert did David Livingstone have to cross to reach Lake Ngami?
A: The Kalahari.
What country sent out 15,000 census workers to count its homeless population, in 1990?
A: The U.S.
What do Americans call the Huang Ho, China's second-longest river?
A: The Yellow River.
What Russian republic has its capital in Grozny?
A: Chechnya.
What state made the U.S. the fourth largest country in land mass in 1959?
A: Alaska.
What state does the Yellowstone River rise in?
A: Wyoming.
What island has endured Mount Etna's wrath over 140 times?
A: Sicily.
How many months per year do residents of Tromso, Norway go without seeing a sunset?
A: Three.
Over which country did Pan Am flight 103 crash in December 88?
A: Scotland.
Which 1980s US president survived an assassination attempt?
A: Ronald Reagan.
Which Bob who founded Band Aid received an honorary knighthood in 1986?
A: Mick Jagger.
In which 80s film did Meryl Streep play a Polish holocaust survivor?
A: Sophie's Choice.
Up Where We Belong was the theme music to which 80s film with Richard Gere and Debra Winger?
A: An Officer and a Gentleman.
Which 1982 Spielberg classic was about a little boy and his pet alien?
A: E.T.
Who sang about his Prerogative in the 1980s?
A: Bobby Brown.
Which TV evangelist did George Bush defeat to win the Republican nomination in 1988?
A: Pat Robertson.
Which Spaniard won two US Masters in the 80s?
A: Seve Ballesteros.
Which movie star appeared in General Hospital form 1981 to 1983?
A: Demi Moore.
Which all-girl group had 80s No 1s with Walk Like An Egyptian and Eternal Flame?
A: Bangles.
In which state did 80s chart-toppers Alabama form?
A: Alabama.
Who had a 1980 No 1 hit with Woman in Love?
A: Barbara Streisand.
Who was elected Senator for Tennessee in 1985?
A: Al Gore.
Which sitcom, premiered in 1988, featured Dr. Harry Weston?
A: Empty Nest.
Which spin-off from The Cosby Show premiered in 1987?
A: A Different World.
The 1980 Olympics were boycotted because of the USSR's invasion of which country?
A: Afghanistan.
Where were the 1980 Olympics held which were boycotted by American athletes?
A: Moscow.
Who beat Carl Lewis in 1988 in Seoul but was later disqualified?
A: Ben Johnson.
Which 80s medical drama had the same production company as Hill Street Blues?
A: St. Elsewhere.
What kind of Boys had an 80s No 1 with West End Girls?
A: Pet Shop Boys.
In 1989, who had her first of many No 1s with Straight Up?
A: Paula Abdul.
Who was Addicted To Love in the 80s?
A: Robert Palmer.
Which volcano in Washington sate erupted in 1980?
A: Mount St. Helens.
Which 80s leader had a wife called Raisa?
A: Mikhail Gorbachev.
Who released an album called Thriller in 1982?
A: Michael Jackson.
Who won the ladies singles most times at Wimbledon in the 80s?
A: Martina Navratilova.
Anwar Sadat was President of which country when he died in 1981?
A: Egypt.
What kind of disaster claimed some 100,000 lives in Armenia in 1988?
A: Earthquake.
Where in the Ukraine was there a nuclear explosion in 1986?
A: Chernobyl.
What island was the home of Bob Marley, who died in 1981?
A: Jamaica.
Which city was devastated by an earthquake in 1985 and then hosted the World Cup in 1986?
A: Mexico.
Which President of the Philippines was deposed in 1986?
A: Marcos.
The increasing scarcity of elephants and rhinos led to a 1989 ban on which substance?
A: Ivory.
Who attempted to assassinate ?Ronald Reagan in 1981?
A: John Hinckley.
In 1987 Madonna filed for divorce from which husband?
A: Sean Penn.
What was an official language in 87 nations and territories, by 1994?
A: English.
What's the third-largest continent in square miles?
A: North America.
What is the capital of Kuwait?
A: Kuwait City. World trivia questions.
"What town name did residents of a Florida retirement community switch to because they found Sunset Depressing?
A: Sunrise.
What's the second most populous continent?
A: Europe.
What finally went out of fashion in ancient Rome, prompting people to begin wearing short pants called feminalia?
A: The Toga.
What southwestern U.S. state has the highest percentage of non-English speakers?
A: New Mexico.
What M-word did Texas citizens choose as a town name that would "attract" folks?
A: Magnet.
What state leads the U.S. with 15 tons of solid waste per citizen each year?
A: California.
Which is further from the equator, Tasmania, Tanzania, or Transylvania?
A: Transylvania.
What eastern town is home for a service academy and the U.S. Sliver Depository?
A: West Point.
What's the University of Paris more commonly called?
A: The Sorbonne.
What two French cities are connected by the planet's fastest passenger train?
A: Paris and Lyons.
What religion has the most adherent, Buddhism, Christianity or Islam?
A; Christianity.
What U.S. state boasts a town called Captain Cook?
A: Hawaii.
What's the Greek name for hell?
A: Hades.
What European country does Aruba maintain the strongest ties to?
A: The Netherlands.
What do the Chinese call kwai-tsze, or "quick little fellows"?
A: Chopsticks.
What European country uses its Latin name, Helvetia, on its stamps?
A: Switzerland.
What British university boasts and endowment called the Jackie Mason Lectureship in Contemporary Judaism?
A: Oxford.
What country did Greek historian Herodotus dub "the gift of the Nile"?
A: Egypt.
What country is only bordered by Spain?
A: Portugal.
What's the flattest U.S. state?
A: Florida.
What U.S. state, after much debate, made the bizcochito the official state cookie?
A: New Mexico.
What Australian city boasts the largest Greek population in the world outside of Greece?
A: Melbourne.
What U.S. state boasts the towns of Gulf Stream, Lakebreeze and Frostproof?
A: Florida.
What country has bee the planet's largest aid donor since 1991?
A: Japan.
What island nation is a must for anyone wishing to see 40 species of lemours?
A: Madagascar.
What country is almost twice as large as either the U.S. or China?
A: Russia.
What South Asian city is the planet's biggest feature film producer?
A: Bombay.
How many Great Lakes do not border Michigan?
A: One.
What cowboy tune is the official song of Kansas?
A: Home on the Range.
What continent boasts the most telephone lines?
A: Europe.
What do Texas beef partisans call "wool on a stick"?
A: Lamb.
What South American country was home to the early human 'Patagnian giants"?
A: Argentina.
What Western Hemisphere people spoke Nahuatl?
A: The Aztecs.
What New Orleans soup has a name derived from the Bantu word for okra?
A: Gumbo.
What Pacific atoll got its name from its location between the Americas and Asia?
A: The Midway Islands.
What state volunteered to drop the moniker Hog and Hominy State?
A: Tennessee.
What regional accent did Americans deem sexiest, most liked and most recognizable?
A: Southern.
What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?
A: I-90.
What was the first country to recognize Mexico's independence, in 1836?
A: The U.S.
What encyclopedia's first edition, in 1771, described California as "a large country of the West Indies"?
A: Encyclopedia Britannica's.
Who was the only American to become vice president and president after resignations?
A: Gerald Ford.
What year did the Dow Jones Industrial Average break both the 4000 and 5000 marks?
A: 1995.
Who saw his crew dine on wormy biscuits and rats on his fourth voyage to the New World?
A: Christopher Columbus.
What disgraced vice president's high school yearbook quote read; "An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow"?
A: Spiro Agnew.
Who was the youngest man to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
A: Colin Powell.
Which of Henry VIII's wives gave birth to Elizabeth I?
A: Anne Boleyn.
What 19th-century president erroneously noted: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet"?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
What country led all Arab nations in the number of troops participating in Operation Desert Storm?
A: Saudi Arabia.
Who did George Bush accuse of being "a card-carrying member" of the American Civil Liberties Union, in 1988?
A: Michael Dukakis.
Fun history trivia questions and answers.
What presidential election year saw Republicans dub Democrats the party of "Communism, Corruption and Korea"?
A:1952.
What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a space shuttle mission?
A: Captain.
What were the Viet Minh called when they crossed into South Vietnam?
A: The Viet Cong.
What Russian cleric was poisoned, shot and finally drowned on December 30, 1916?
A: Rasputin.
Who led the Million Man March on Washington?
A: Louis Farrakhan.
What country suffered the worst two earthquakes in history, killing 830,000 in 1556 and 750,000 in 1976?
A: China.
What Eastern European city was the last city to be liberated in World War II?
A: Prague.
What country used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against its Kurdish minority in the 1990s?
A: Iraq.
What general did GI's nickname "Top Gun" in the Persian Gulf War?
A: Colin Powell.
What trade union was finally legalized in Poland in 1989?
A: Solidarity.
What symbol was first linked to the Democratic party in an 1870 cartoon by Thomas Nast?
A: A donkey.
What Harry Callahan line did Ronald Reagan invoke to "tax increasers"?
A: "Go ahead, make my day".
What explorer of North Carolina never got to finish his "History of the World" while banished to the Tower of London?
A: Sir Walter Raleigh.
Who was president of the U.S. when Uncle Sam first got a beard?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
Who did Adolf Hitler dictate Mein Kampf to while in prison?
A: Rudolf Hess.
What structure was 26.5 miles long until 1989?
A: The Berlin Wall.
What sport sparked a war between El Salvador and Honduras, after an unpopular referee's call in 1969?
A: Soccer.