History Trivia Questions XII

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Who managed to lose the "Mother of all battles"?

       a. Manuel Noriega
       b. Saddam Hussein
       c. Ho Chi Minh
       d. Darth Vader


Jeopardy writer Kathy Easterling was known for writing questions about which "darn" people from the area around Florence?

       a. Etruscans
       b. Gauls
       c. Goths
       d. Lombards


Merry Christmas! What dictator was executed by his own people on December 25, 1989?

       a. Manuel Noriega
       b. Nicolae Ceausescu
       c. Augusto Pinochet
       d. Wojciech Jaruzelski


What 20th-century leader was nicknamed Attila the Hen?

       a. Richard Nixon
       b. Margaret Thatcher
       c. Saddam Hussein
       d. Charles de Gaulle


Catherine of Aragon's lady in waiting replaced her in her bed and on her throne. Who was she?

       a. Jane Seymour
       b. Anne Boleyn
       c. Lady Jane Grey
       d. Mary, Queen of Scots


The second of the "five good emperors", this Spaniard was also the first non-Italian to make it to the top of the Roman rat race. Who was he?

       a. Trajan
       b. Nero
       c. Claudius
       d. Mark Antony


The French state was founded by which Germanic people, who apparently were quite "candid and above-board" in doing so?

       a. Franks
       b. Goths
       c. Vandals
       d. Moors


The last king of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel I went on to become the first king of what country?

       a. Italy
       b. Greece
       c. Spain
       d. France


Henry VIII went through all that uxorial turmoil, just to get a son. Who was the only one of his six wives to do so, dying 12 days after giving birth to Edward VI?

       a. Lady Jane Grey
       b. Catherine of Aragon
       c. Jane Seymour
       d. Mary, Queen of Scots


In 1774, Peyton Randolph of Virginia became the first president of what body?

       a. House of Burgess
       b. US Congress
       c. Continental Congress
       d. French House of Assembly


During the Civil War, where was the southernmost point of the United States, after all those Confederate states left?

       a. Tennessee
       b. California
       c. Missouri
       d. West Virginia


Which two countries fought the Pastry War (aka, La guerra de los pasteles) in 1838?

       a. Spain and Portugal
       b. Italy and Libya
       c. Mexico and France
       d. France and Algeria


Progressive Conservative may be a contradiction in terms, but what country had a powerful Progressive Conservative Party?

       a. Canada
       b. Ireland
       c. Italy
       d. France


What future Canadian province was called "the 14th colony", but didn't join the other 13 in their Revolution?

       a. Ontario
       b. Nova Scotia
       c. New Brunswick
       d. Newfoundland


Aside from the city-state of Dubrovnik, what was the first country to recognize the independence of the US?

       a. France
       b. Great Britain
       c. Afghanistan
       d. Serbia




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