1.
Which naval battle was considered the turning point of the Pacific Ocean Theater
during World War 2?
a. !Battle of Midway
b. Attack on Pearl Harbor
c. Attack on Truk Island
d. Battle of the Coral Sea
2. In the year 1900, what were the most popular first names given to boy and girl
babies born in the United States?
a. !John and Mary
b. Joseph and Catherine
c. George and Anne
d. William and Elizabeth
3. The first televised presidential debate was between Jimmy Carter and Gerald
Ford.
a. True
b. !False
4. In 1967, a magazine published a story about extracting hallucinogenic chemicals
from bananas to raise moral questions about banning drugs.
a. !True
b. False
5. When was Google founded?
a. December 12, 1989
b. October 9, 1997
c. !September 4, 1998
d. Feburary 7th, 2000
6. The minigun was designed in 1960 by which manufacturer.
a. Heckler amp; Koch
b. !General Electric
c. Colt Firearms
d. Sig Sauer
7. Which of the following is not in the IndoEuropean language family?
a. Hindi
b. !Finnish
c. Russian
d. English
8. Who assassinated President James A. Garfield?
a. Leon Czolgosz
b. Sirhan Sirhan
c. John Wilkes Booth
d. !Charles Guiteau
9. In what year did the Great Northern War, between Russia and Sweden, end?
a. 1727
b. 1726
c. !1721
d. 1724
1. Who discovered Penicillin?
a. Marie Curie
b. Louis Pasteur
c. Alfred Nobel
d. !Alexander Flemming
2. What was the capital of South Vietnam before the Vietnam War?
a. Hue
b. Ho Chi Minh City
c. Hanoi
d. !Saigon
3. Which of the following Assyrian kings did NOT rule during the NeoAssyrian
Empire?
a. Shalmaneser V
b. Ashurnasirpal II
c. !ShamshiAdad III
d. Esharhaddon
4. Who invented the quot;Flying Shuttlequot; in 1738; one of the key developments
in the industrialization of weaving?
a. !John Kay
b. Richard Arkwright
c. John Deere
d. James Hargreaves
5. Which WWII tank ace is credited with having destroyed the most tanks?
a. Michael Wittmann
b. Otto Carius
c. !Kurt Knispel
d. Walter Kniep
6. What was Napoleon Bonaparte039;s name before he changed it?
a. Naapolion van Bonijpaart
b. Napoleatilde;o do Boaparte
c. Napoleona de Buenoparte
d. !Napoleone di Buonaparte
7. What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on August
15th, 1944?
a. Operation Torch
b. !Operation Dragoon
c. Operation Market Garden
d. Operation Overlord
8. How old was Adolf Hitler when he died?
a. 43
b. 47
c. 65
d. !56
9. What did the abbreviation quot;RMSquot; stand for in the RMS Titanic in 1912?
a. Royal Majesty Service
b. Regulated Maelstrom Sensor
c. !Royal Mail Ship
d. Regular Maritime Schedule
10. What year did Skoal, a smokeless Tobacco company, release their first line of
Pouches, known as quot;Skoal Banditsquot;?
a. 1934
b. !1983
c. 1984
d. 1822
11. The pantheon in Rome was used to worship what god?
a. !Any god they wanted
b. Both Athena and Zeus
c. Athena
d. Zeus
12. Who was the last Roman emperor in the Year of Four Emperors 69 AD?
a. !Vespasian
b. Galba
c. Otho
d. Vitellius
1. Which president erased the national debt of the United States?
a. !Andrew Jackson
b. Franklin Roosevelt
c. Ronald Reagan
d. John F. Kennedy
2. The 2014 movie quot;The Raid 2: Berandalquot; was mainly filmed in which Asian
country?
a. Brunei
b. Thailand
c. Malaysia
d. !Indonesia
3. Who was the 45th President of the United States?
a. Barack Obama
b. George Bush
c. Bill Clinton
d. !Donald Trump
4. The State of Queensland, Australia voted NO to a referendum for daylight savings
in 1992.
a. False
b. !True
5. Donald Trump won the popular vote in the 2016 United States presidential
election.
a. True
b. !False
6. Who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in July 2016?
a. David Cameron
b. Boris Johnson
c. !Theresa May
d. Tony Blair
7. George Clinton, Vice President of the United States 18051812, is an ancestor of
President Bill Clinton.
a. !False
b. True
8. Former United States President Bill Clinton famously played which instrument?
a. Baritone horn
b. !Saxophone
c. Piano
d. Violin
9. What was the personal nickname of the 40th Governor of the US State Louisiana,
Huey Long?
a. The Champ
b. The Oracle
c. The Hoot Owl
d. !The Kingfish
