History Trivia Questions XVIII

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Prince Charles may have had matrimonial problems, but Henry VIII created his own church so he could divorce which wife?

       a. Catherine Parr
       b. Catherine Howard
       c. Catherine of Aragon
       d. Catherine de' Medici


Long after overrunning the Alamo, this Mexican ended up exiled to Staten Island, where he is credited with introducing chewing gum to the US. Who is he?

       a. Sancho Panza
       b. Simon Bolivar
       c. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
       d. Che Guevara


Yuri Andropov was put in charge of the USSR. And dropped off. Who replaced him?

       a. Boris Yeltsin
       b. Mikhail Gorbachev
       c. Constantin Chernenko
       d. Vladimir Putin


When told that saying, "Half the Cabinet are asses" was unparliamentary, what UK politician recanted and instead said, "Half the Cabinet are not asses"?

       a. Benjamin Disraeli
       b. John Howard
       c. Paul Martin
       d. Edward Seaga


What ship landed at Plymouth Rock rather than Virginia, in large part because their supplies were "much spent, especially our beer"?

       a. Mayflower
       b. Constitution
       c. Santa Maria
       d. Pinta


What state did the Green Mountain Boys break off from New York and then declare to be an independent republic?

       a. Vermont
       b. Maine
       c. New Hampshire
       d. Connecticut


Francisco Pizarro captured Atahualpa, the leader of these people, had him pay a ransom of $100 million, then killed him anyway. Whom did Atahualpa lead?

       a. Aztecs
       b. Incas
       c. Mayas
       d. Apaches


Named for the local word for "mountainous", what was the world's first black republic?

       a. Haiti
       b. Ethiopia
       c. Jamaica
       d. Ghana


What was the last European power to leave Africa, when it finally gave independence to such colonies as Angola and Mozambique in the mid-1970s?

       a. Spain
       b. Germany
       c. Portugal
       d. France


Blaise Pascal once speculated that if Cleopatra had not been so pretty, what Roman general might not have lost the Battle of Actium?

       a. Julius Caesar
       b. Pompey
       c. Mark Antony
       d. Ptolemy


In the first US census, in 1790, what was the only US state to record zero slaves?

       a. Massachusetts
       b. Vermont
       c. Rhode Island
       d. Connecticut


Known as the Rubber People, what Mexican civilization venerated the were-jaguar?

       a. Toltecs
       b. Olmecs
       c. Aztecs
       d. Mixtecs


A minor "war" erupted in 1859 between Britain and the United States on disputed San Juan Island. What set the war off?

       a. A dead pig
       b. A sliced-off ear
       c. An unpaid tavern bill
       d. A Fenian fugitive




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