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DDG Trivia History 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What Romanian dictator banned Scrabble because he deemed it too intellectual? | Nicolae Ceausescu. |
| Who inspired Communism with the line: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"? | Karl Marx. |
| What's the submachine gun invented by Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1947 better known as? | The AK47. |
| Whose quips and quotes were collected in a CD-ROM called Well...There You Go Again? | Ronald Reagan's. |
| What Soviet leader's second wife was also his daughter, according to Kremlin Wives? | Joseph Stalin's. |
| What former secretary of state noted: "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes longer"? | Henry Kissinger. |
| What state has hosted the most nuclear tests in the U.S.? | Nevada. |
| What Nicaraguan "freedom fighters" did Ronald Reagan call "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers. | The Contras. |
| What country left the League of Nations in 1933? | Germany. |
| What southeastern state was the last to return to the Union after the Civil War? | Georgia. |
| What trials, beginning in 1945, spawned the phrase "I was only following orders"? | The Nuremberg war crimes trials. |
| What was the first war the U.S. took part in that was partially financed withl lottery dollars? | The Revolutionary War. |
| What Bill Murray Ghostbusters term did Persian Gulf warriors use to describe being hit by chemical weapons? | Slimed. |
| What country did ever-prudent King Farouk I declare war on in 1945? | Germany. |
| What U.S. president did General George McClellan sum up as "nothing more than a well-meaning baboon"? | Abraham Lincoln. |
| What U.S. war broke out the same year the federal government first printed paper money? | The Civil War. |
| What opportunistic country declare war on Japan five days before its surrender in 1945? | The Soviet Union. |
| What U.S. military base was won in the last major battle against Japan?W: | Okinawa. |
| What marked the first time since the Revolution that the U.S. accepted direct financial aid to fight a war? | The Persian Gulf War. |
| What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV? | Bill Clinton. |
| Whose assassination was Sam Seymour the last living witness to, until his death in 1956? | Abraham Lincoln's. |
| What former president was on an African hunting trip when his enemy J.P.Morgan quipped: "Let every lion do his duty"? | Theodore Roosevelt. |
| What three words did George Bush say before "no new taxes" in 1988? | "Read my lips". |
| Who was the first lawyer to become First Lady? | Hillary Rodham Clinton. |
| What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with hemorrhoids? | Jimmy Carter. |
| What future president was the only U.S. senator from a Confederate state to remain in Congress after secession? | Andrew Johnson. |
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