Trivia Quiz?

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Which is the name of Al Gore's Oscar-winning 2006 documentary on climate change?

Fahrenheit 9/11 Planet Earth An Inconvenient Truth The Party's Over

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22 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which organization kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst in 1974?

A. Palestinian Liberation Army
B. Black Panther Party
C. Symbionese Liberation Army
D. Al Qaeda

 

C

C. Symbionese Liberation Army

The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Hearst in 1974 and held her for more than a year.

Source: various web sites.

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22 hours ago, phkrause said:

Who hosted the popular game show "Deal or No Deal"?

Regis Philbin Howie Mandel Ben Stein William Shatner

Ben Stein is my guess

Answer: Deal or No Deal was a game show hosted by Howie Mandel, and premiered on December 19, 2005, on NBC. The hour-long show typically aired at least twice a week during its run, and included special extended or theme episodes. A daily syndicated half-hour version of the show debuted on September 8, 2008 and continued for two seasons. Originally, Arsenio Hall was intended to host (and taped the pilot), but was ultimately passed over. Since it became a regular series, Deal or No Deal consistently placed within the 20 most popular programs on television.

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22 hours ago, phkrause said:

When Confronted by a Police Officer, What Did Susan B. Anthony Demand of Him?

A couple of weeks after the election, U.S. Marshals came for Anthony and several other women who voted in the election. When the Marshal asked Anthony to please come down to the precinct later on today so they could arrest her, she challenged him, but not in the way you might think. Anthony recounted saying, "Is that the way you arrest men?" When the Marshal admitted that no, they usually didn't ask men to come down for booking whenever they had the chance, but he was being polite because she was a lady, Anthony demand that she "should be arrested properly."

The Marshal was so unprepared that he ended up having to pay for a streetcar to send her to the commissioner's office. While in jail, she refused to post bail, so her lawyer posted it for her against her will. Anthony was furious because being let out meant she couldn't bring the case to the Supreme Court as she had intended.

 

22 hours ago, phkrause said:

Why Did They Have to Move Anthony's Trial?

If Anthony couldn't go to the Supreme Court, she would do her damage on the local level. Leading up to her trial, she gave speeches in every single Monroe County town, arguing that women should have the right to vote. The speeches were, by all accounts, amazing; thoroughly researched, well-articulated and passionate. In fact, listeners loved them so much that the trial was moved to Ontario County because she was garnering so much support in Monroe. So what did she do? She gave speeches all over Ontario County too.

 

22 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Did the Judge Instruct the Jury to Do with Anthony's Case?

When Anthony finally got her day in court, the judge blocked her from testifying, afraid her speech might turn the crowd. But it got worse. Justice Ward Hunt instructed the jury to find Anthony guilty. Literally. He read the counts against Anthony and then said, "upon this evidence I suppose there is no question for the jury and that the jury should be directed to find a verdict of guilty." A juror later said that he and the others would have found Anthony not guilty, but it never came up. The judge decided to just find Anthony guilty without even consulting the jury. Said Anthony, "Not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government."

 

22 hours ago, phkrause said:

Did Anthony Ever Pay That $100 Fine?

Come on, what kind of question is that? Have you been reading this piece at all? Of course she didn't pay that fine. She's Susan B. Anthony.

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17 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which is the name of Al Gore's Oscar-winning 2006 documentary on climate change?

Fahrenheit 9/11 Planet Earth An Inconvenient Truth The Party's Over

An Inconvenient Truth would be my guess

Answer: An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming. The documentary was a critical and box-office success, winning two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. The film grossed $24 million in the U.S. becoming the tenth highest grossing documentary film to date in the United States. Since the film's release, An Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising international public awareness of global warming and reenergizing the environmental movement.

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Which singer had his assets seized by the IRS in 1990 for owing $32 million in back taxes?

A. George Strait
B. Willie Nelson
C. Garth Brooks
D. Johnny Mathis

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Which day was Abraham Lincoln assassinated on?

Mother's Day Valentine's Day Good Friday Christmas Eve

Some how I never thought about that before. I'm gonna guess Good Friday!!

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Can You Honestly Answer These 4 Trivia Questions about Honest Abe?

On November 6th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president. See how much you know about Honest Abe with some trivia questions...

Hours Before Dying, Abraham Lincoln Signed Legislation Creating What Agency?

What Agency Was Key in Preventing Lincoln's Body from Being Stolen in 1876?

Lincoln Came Under Fire at Fort Stevens. What Future Supreme Court Justice Was a Colonel Serving There When It Happened?

Fill in the Blank: On September 22nd, 1842, Abraham Lincoln Nearly Got Involved in a _______.

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Born on this day in 1861, James A. Naismith invented which popular game?

Checkers Basketball Monopoly Tic-tac-toe

Basketball of course!!

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21 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which singer had his assets seized by the IRS in 1990 for owing $32 million in back taxes?

A. George Strait
B. Willie Nelson
C. Garth Brooks
D. Johnny Mathis

B. Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson released the aptly titled The IRS Tapes: Who Will Buy My Memories? after the IRS took just about everything. He was in back in the black the following year.

Source: various web sites.

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21 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which day was Abraham Lincoln assassinated on?

Mother's Day Valentine's Day Good Friday Christmas Eve

Some how I never thought about that before. I'm gonna guess Good Friday!!

Answer: Seven score and eleven years have passed since Good Friday 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a play at Ford's Theatre. In the time of mourning, a large number of Christians, especially in the North, had some type of recognition to the Good Friday connection. Lincoln became the first of four sitting American president to be assassinated: Abraham Lincoln (16th President), James A. Garfield (20th President), William McKinley (25th President) and John F. Kennedy (35th President).

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Hours Before Dying, Abraham Lincoln Signed Legislation Creating What Agency?

A few hours before President Lincoln died, he signed legislation creating the Secret Service. But if you're thinking that passing the bill a little earlier would have done anything, think again.

Back then, the agency had nothing to do with protecting the commander-in-chief; they were instead created to fix the problem that about a third of American money in circulation was counterfeit. After Lincoln was shot, people argued there should be some agency charged with keeping our nation's leader alive, but nothing came of it. In 1881, President James Garfield was assassinated, and still nothing. It was only after William McKinley was killed in 1901 that the Secret Service adopted its role for which it is now most known.

 

20 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Agency Was Key in Preventing Lincoln's Body from Being Stolen in 1876?

But the Secret Service did protect Abraham Lincoln's body once. In 1876, a gang of criminals had a plan: they would steal Abraham Lincoln's corpse, hold him ransom in exchange for money and the release of their top counterfeiting agent from prison. And as we now know, the Secret Service didn't protect presidents back then, but they did go after counterfeiters. They moved the body to a safe location, infiltrated the gang and stopped the entire operation. Nowadays, it's a lot harder to steal Lincoln's body. It's in a steel cage, under 10 feet of concrete.

 

20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Lincoln Came Under Fire at Fort Stevens. What Future Supreme Court Justice Was a Colonel Serving There When It Happened?

During the Civil War, Lincoln visited the troops while they were fighting at Fort Stevens. When the South opened fire at one point, a bullet could have easily hit Lincoln. According to legend, a colonel shouted to the president, "Get down, you fool!" That was future Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was just getting started on a career of serving his country.

 

20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Fill in the Blank: On September 22nd, 1842, Abraham Lincoln Nearly Got Involved in a _______.

Shields became State Auditor and did some things Lincoln disagreed with. Their argument escalated, and Lincoln mocked Shields in the papers.

Feeling his honor was at stake, Shields challenged Honest Abe to a duel. Lincoln thought it was all pretty ridiculous, but hey, you can't back down from a duel. Lincoln got to set the rules for the duel, so he went with cavalry broadsword on an island in a 12-foot-deep pit with a plank of wood having to stay between them at all times because, again, he thought the whole thing was ridiculous.

Figuring Shields would think better of battling a man nine inches taller than him by sword when the rules required they keep a certain distance between them at all times, Lincoln must have been pretty shocked when Shields showed up, ready to fight. Eventually, some mutual friends stepped in and brokered a truce. Then, as a prank, they sent back a log in a red shirt to all the spectators waiting on the other side of the river to fool them into thinking one of the men had died in the duel. And that's something else you should know about Lincoln: He served at one of the most grave times in our nation's history, but he was always up for a good joke.

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Born on this day in 1861, James A. Naismith invented which popular game?

Checkers Basketball Monopoly Tic-tac-toe

Basketball of course!!

Answer: Born on November 6, 1861, James A. Naismith was a physical education teacher by profession, and the man who invented basketball in 1891. It was one day at his training school when he took a soccer ball and a basket and invented the game. He wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Naismith is also often credited with introducing the first football helmet.

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John Heisman, for whom college football's Heisman trophy is named, coached which team in the early 1900s?

A. University of Virginia
B. Texas A&M
C. University of Alabama
D. Georgia Tech

Wow, I don't even know this one!!

I'm gonna guess Texas A&M

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Just now, phkrause said:

John Heisman, for whom college football's Heisman trophy is named, coached which team in the early 1900s?

A. University of Virginia
B. Texas A&M
C. University of Alabama
D. Georgia Tech

Wow, I don't even know this one!!

I'm gonna guess Texas A&M

 

Early 1900's...hmm...University of Alabama?

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Which fast food chain used the advertising slogan, “Where's the beef”?

Burger King McDonald's Wendy's Arby's

I don't believe its Arby's. Not sure about Wendy's! Probably either Burger King or McDonalds??

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Trivia: The First Woman Elected to the U.S. Congress

On November 7, 1916, the voters of Montana elected suffragist Jeannette Rankin to the U.S. House of Representatives, making her the first woman to take a seat in the U.S. Congress. To commemorate this important date in U.S. political history, we've put together these trivia questions for you. 

How Did Rankin's Childhood Shape Her Political Philosophy?

How Did Rankin Get Involved in the Suffrage Movement?

How Did Rankin React to the Call for War on Germany?

What Role Did Rankin Play in Winning Women's Suffrage?

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Which government position was Janet Reno the first woman to ever hold?

Secretary of Defense Attorney General Secretary of State Secretary of the Treasury

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

John Heisman, for whom college football's Heisman trophy is named, coached which team in the early 1900s?

A. University of Virginia
B. Texas A&M
C. University of Alabama
D. Georgia Tech

Wow, I don't even know this one!!

I'm gonna guess Texas A&M

 

20 hours ago, Aubrey said:

Early 1900's...hmm...University of Alabama?

D. Georgia Tech

The iconic trophy is named after Georgia Tech's coach, who in 1916 coached the team to the highest-scoring game in history - 222-0 against Cumberland College. Ouch.

Source: various web sites.

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which fast food chain used the advertising slogan, “Where's the beef”?

Burger King McDonald's Wendy's Arby's

I don't believe its Arby's. Not sure about Wendy's! Probably either Burger King or McDonalds??

Answer: "Where's the beef?" was a catchphrase originated by the fast food chain Wendy's. The phrase first came to public attention as a television commercial for the Wendy's chain of hamburger restaurants in 1984. In the ad, actress Clara Peller receives a burger with a massive bun from a fictional competitor which uses the slogan "Home of the Big Bun". The small patty prompts Peller to angrily exclaim, "Where's the beef?" Since then it has become an all-purpose phrase questioning the substance of an idea, event, or product.

LOL, I should've guessed. Wendy's was always my favorite burgers, when I was eating hamburgers! Second was BK. I rarely ate Big Macs.

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18 hours ago, phkrause said:

How Did Rankin's Childhood Shape Her Political Philosophy?

The eldest of six children, Jeannette Rankin was born on June 11, 1880, to schoolteacher Olive Pickering Rankin and rancher John Rankin in western Montana near Missoula. Growing up, she helped care for her younger siblings and also did her fair share of ranch chores, working side by side with her father and male ranch hands. Years later, looking back on her life on the western frontier, Rankin said that while women worked alongside males as equals, they were far from equals in the eyes of the law and didn't even have the right to vote. Early on, she decided she would fight to change that.

 

18 hours ago, phkrause said:

How Did Rankin Get Involved in the Suffrage Movement?

After graduating from the University of Montana in 1902 with a bachelor of science degree in biology, Rankin worked briefly as a dressmaker in Missoula and later moved to Boston, where her brother was attending Harvard, and worked in furniture design. Neither occupation seemed a good fit for her, but in 1908 she moved to San Francisco where she became involved in social work, which she soon realized was her true calling. While working as a social worker in Spokane, Washington, Rankin got involved in the suffrage movement, joining the National American Woman Suffrage Association and fighting for women's right to vote in Washington State. After women won the vote in Washington, Rankin in 1911 turned her attention to her home state, laying out the case for women's suffrage in an appearance before the state legislature. In November 1914, Montana's legislature passed an amendment granted unrestricted voting rights to women.

 

18 hours ago, phkrause said:

How Did Rankin React to the Call for War on Germany?

A lifelong pacificist, Rankin faced an early challenge to her anti-war principles on April 2, 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of Congress to call for a declaration of war against Germany. Rankin cast one of 50 votes against the call to war, saying, "I wish to stand for my country, but I cannot vote for war."

 

18 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Role Did Rankin Play in Winning Women's Suffrage?

As she had at the state level in Washington and Montana, Rankin worked within Congress to win approval for a constitutional amendment giving women throughout America the right to vote. In January 1918 she opened congressional debate on the women's suffrage amendment, which was passed in the House but defeated in the Senate. The following year, the amendment passed both the House and Senate and was sent to the states for ratification. After ratification by three-fourths of the states, the 19th Amendment became law on August 18, 1920.

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18 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which government position was Janet Reno the first woman to ever hold?

Secretary of Defense Attorney General Secretary of State Secretary of the Treasury

Answer: Janet Reno, former US attorney general under President Bill Clinton, died this morning following a long battle with Parkinson's disease at the age of 78. In 1993, she was appointed U.S. Attorney General by President Bill Clinton, becoming the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General. She soon became one of the most respected members of the Clinton administration. Reno remained Attorney General for the rest of Clinton's presidency, making her the longest-serving Attorney General since William Wirt in 1829.

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Besides the U.S., which of the following countries have not adopted the metric system as the standard of measurement?

A. Ivory Coast and South Africa
B. Indonesia and Vietnam
C. Burma (Myanmar) and Liberia
D. Malaysia and Sudan

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What U.S. President had the most electoral votes ever?

John F. Kennedy Bill Clinton Abraham Lincoln Ronald Reagan

My vote goes to Kennedy! But I think Reagan won by a landslide, so maybe he did??

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Trivia Questions about JFK's Election as President

On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy, a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts, was elected America's 35th president, defeating Republican opponent Richard M. Nixon. Test your knowledge of Kennedy's background and election to the highest office in the land by trying your luck with the trivia questions...

How Close Was the Election?

What Set Kennedy Apart from Previous Presidents?

How Did Kennedy Fare in His Debates Against Nixon?

Who Were the Candidates' Running Mates?