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DDG Trivia Hist 11
DDG Trivia History 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What British royal spent over $26,000 on underwear in the 1980s? | Princess Diana. |
| What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to appear under subpoena before a grand jury? | Hillary Rodham Clinton. |
| What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to stip fighting, in 1974? | World War II. |
| What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican convention? | Shannen Doherty. |
| Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named the National Civil Rights Museum? | Martin Luther King Jr's. |
| What Arab intoned: " I want a homeland even if the devil is the one to liberate it for me"? | Yasir Arafat. |
| What name was the last word uttered by Napoleon? | Josephine. |
| What nation bid adieu to the United Kingdom in 1921? | Ireland. |
| What Nazi propagandist said: "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play"? | Joseph Goebbels. |
| What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995? | Pope John Paul II. |
| What mobster sighed: "I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War"? | Al Capone. |
| What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in annual earnings, in 1995? | General Motors. |
| What Uganda city's airport saw an Israeli commando raid rescue 103 hostages in 1976? | Entebbe's. |
| What 20th-century conflict saw U.S. soldiers "die for a tie"? | The Korean War. |
| What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in 1930? | Unemployment. |
| What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in the thirteen British colonies? | Boston. |
| What scandal was the Tower Commission set up to investigate in 1986? | The Iran-Contra affair. |
| What Filipino was acquitted of fraud charges in the U.S. in 1990? | Imelda Marcos. |
| What were the Soviet Union's symbols for work in the factory and on the land? | Hammer and sickle. |
| Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point to the British? | Benedict Arnold. |
| What did an official U.S. investigation call " the greatest military and naval disaster in our nation's history"? | The attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lee's note of surrender? | Ulysses S. Grant's. |
| What did "loose lips" do, according to a popular rhyming World War II slogan? | "Sink Ships". |
| What city had North America's first medical school, bank and city-paid police force. | Philadelphia. |
| What Filipino was nicknamed the " iron butterfly". | Imelda Marcos. |
| What did Jack McCall fall off, seconds after he shot Wild Bill Hickok? | His Horse. |
| Who was the longest-serving president in French history? | Francois Mitterrand. |
| What country's rampant political corruption was probed by the Mani pulite, or "Clean Hands," of the 1990s? | Italy's. |
| What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September of 1915, and April of 1918? | Manfred von Richthofen, or "The Red Baron". |
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