History
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Which state celebrates its centenary of joining the Union in 2012?
Which airline owned the plane which crashed off Nova Scotia in 1998 killing over 200 including UN officials?
Which of the seven wonders of the ancient world was demolished by an earthquake in 224 B.C.?
How many miles per gallon did the 22-horsepower, 4-cylinder Model T Ford get when it was introduced in 1908?
Who declared he had ‘ a dream’ where all Americans would live as equals?
Who was president of the USSR from 1985-91?
What decade did Bonnie and Clyde turn to crime together? A) 1910s B) 1920s C) 1930s D) 1940s
What famous couple appeared in the 1958 television play A Turkey for the president?
Who advised Bill Clinton to be wise but brief in his Sidwell Friends high school graduation speech?
Andrea Hollen was the first woman in US to do what?
Britain, Ireland and what country joined the EEC simultaneously?
What presidential hopeful was once dubbed the first “welfare billionaire,” after he snagged the data processing contract for Medicare and Medicaid?
What was first crossed by tightrope by Charles Blondin in 1859?
What president’s mug graces a $100,000 bill?
Which European country left the Commonwealth and declared itself a republic in 1949?
John George Diefenbaker was once Prime Minister of where?
What controversial crime fighter did Elvis Presley call “the greatest living American”?
Ronald Reagan used a famous line from one of his movies as the title of his 1965 autobiography, What’s the line?
What were UK’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip given as a present for baby Prince Andrew while on a visit to the Gambia?
Which mountain was first climbed by Edward Whymper in 1865?
What Russian said that all modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organization is to exploit the working class?
How many inmates were liberated from the Bastille after it was stormed by an angry mob on July14, 1789, at the start of the French Revolution?
Which year marked the bi-centenary of Kentucky joining the Union?
Who ended 27 years of exile when his caravan of cars zoomed into the Gaza Strip on July 1, 1995?
Jack Ketch 1663 to 1686 had what public executional job?
In which country were the Mau-Mau a secret guerrilla movement?
Who’s letter to Ronald Reagan read: “I’m very sorry…I thank God no one died”?
Who was the first American congressman to don a uniform following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
Which newspaper did Jackie Kennedy work for just before her marriage?
Scottish clan were traitors and caused the Glencoe massacre?
Which country had The Dauphin as a ruler?
John Flynn invented what service in Australia?
John F. Kennedy was one of how many children?
What kind of car did Communist leader Nikolai Lenin equip with skis and half-tracks in order ot overcome Russia’s heavy snows?
Which English cathedral was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666?
Who was the target of the failed “Bomb Plot” of 1944?
What kind of stepped brick pyramid was built in ancient Babylonia and Assyria as the base for a shrine?
What is Hillary Clinton’s daughter called?
Who thanked Henry VIII for allowing her to be decapitated bya sword instead of an ax?
What was ceded to Britain in 1713 as part of the settlement of the War of Spanish Succession?
From 1922 to 1926, in the Russian revolution to eliminate religions, how many priests were killed? A) 1,200 B) 12,000 C) 120,000
Who became the world’s first billionaire in 1916?
How was Kublai Khan related to Genghis Khan?
How many people died in the Iraq/Gulf war between 1980 and 1988? A) 1 million B) 2 million C) 3 million
What happened to Captain William Bligh when he was governor of New South Wales in 1808 – almost 20 years after he was set adrift in the famous mutiny on the Bounty?
Who was captain of Darwin’s ship HMS Beagle, and subsequently became governor of New Zealand.
Among hundreds of animal paintings, the only figure of a human being appears in an engraving called Shaft of the Dead Man at what World Heritage location?
What was the former name of Iran?
How old was Dodi Fayed at the time of his death in 1997?
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