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A: Ninoy Aquino
A: Blue
A: Sampaguita
A: Lupang Hinirang
A: Bagumbayan
A: Manuel L. Quezon
What are the provinces that consist the acronym CALABARZON (Name them)
A: Princess Diana.
What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to appear under subpoena before a
grand jury?
What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to stip fighting, in 1974?
What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican convention?
A: Shannen Doherty.
Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named the National Civil Rights
Museum?
What Arab intoned: ” I want a homeland even if the devil is the one to liberate it for me”?
A: Yasir Arafat.
A: Josephine.
A: Ireland.
History trivia questions and answers.
What Nazi propagandist said: “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government
can play”?
A: Joseph Goebbels.
What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese in
1995?
What mobster sighed: “I’ve been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World
War”?
A: Al Capone.
What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in annual earnings, in 1995?
A: General Motors.
What Uganda city’s airport saw an Israeli commando raid rescue 103 hostages in 1976?
A: Entebbe’s.
What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in 1930?
A: Unemployment.
What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in the thirteen British colonies?
A: Boston.
A: Imelda Marcos.
What were the Soviet Union’s symbols for work in the factory and on the land?
Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point to the British?
A: Benedict Arnold.
What did an official U.S. investigation call ” the greatest military and naval disaster in our
nation’s history”?
Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lee’s note of surrender?
A: Ulysses S. Grant’s.
What did “loose lips” do, according to a popular rhyming World War II slogan?
A: “Sink Ships”.
What city had North America’s first medical school, bank and city-paid police force.
A: Philadelphia.
A: Imelda Marcos.
What did Jack McCall fall off, seconds after he shot Wild Bill Hickok?
A: His Horse.
A: Francois Mitterrand.
What country’s rampant political corruption was probed by the Mani pulite, or “Clean Hands,”
of the 1990s?
A: Italy’s.
What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September of 1915, and April of 1918?
Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a
transcendental number in 1882?
A: Pi.
Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
A: Obtuse.
A: The numerator.
Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the
same, in 530 B.C.?
A: Pythagoras.
A: A quadrilateral.
A: A hologram.
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A: One billion.
Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
A: Zero.
A: Binary.
A: Twenty.
A: An octagon.
Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as “a straight line that touches a curve but continues on
with crossing it”?
A: Tangent.
Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
A: The hexagon.
A: One.
A: K and M.
Q: What’s short for “binary digit”?
A: Bit.
Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.
Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in
1940?
A: Googol.
Q: What handy mathematical instrument’s days were numbered when the pocket calculator
made the scene in the 1970s?
Q: How many of Carl Lewis’ Olympic gold medals were won in long jump competitions?
A: Three.
Q: What legendary strongman laid out the 600-foot race course for the only event in the earl
years of the ancient Olympics?
A: Hercules.
Q: What U.S. athlete was “about a week” pregnant when she broke the world 200-meter record
at the 1984 Olympics?
A: Evelyn Ashford
Q: What woman was the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
A: Peggy Fleming.
Q: What former IOC president wanted to eliminate team sports and the Winter Games?
A: Avery Brundage.
Q: What U.S. team did 59 percent of American viewers root against during the 1996 Olympics,
according to an ESPN poll?
Q: What grueling Olympic event saw Josia Thugwane become the first black man from South
Africa to win a gold medal, in 1996?
A: The Marathon.
Q: What sport did Margaret Abbott play to become the first U.S. woman to win Olympic gold, in
1900?
A: Golf.
Q: What future screen star was the first person to swim 100 meters in under a minute, in
1922?
A: Johnny Weissmuller.
Q: What Olympic champ played an HIV-infected chorus boy in the play “Jeffery” in 1993?
A: Greg Louganis.
Q: What did members of the Canadian swim team swear to give u during the 1996 Olympics?
A: Sex.
Q: What alpine city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and 1976?
A: Insbruck.
Q: What country had a swim team that swore off drinking and Big Macs for the 1996 Olympics?
A: The U.S..
Q: What L.A. Laker star’s height was listed as two meters in 1996 Olympic programs?
A: Sahquille O’Neals’s.
Q: What Soviet gymnast performed the first back somersault on a balance beam?
A: Olga Korbut.
Q: What 37-year-old middle distance runner qualified for her fourth Olympic team in 1996?
A: Mary Slaney.
A: Curling.
Q: What contest of team strength was an official Olympic event from 1900 to 1920?
A: Tug of War.
Q: What Olympic aquatic event includes such positions as the Flamingo, crane and fishtail?
A: Synchronized swimming
Q: How many athletes competed for Israel in the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A: One
Q: What 1960 Olympic champion lit the torch to start Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic festivities?
A: Muhammad Ali.
Q: What event earned Norway’s Johann Olay Koss three golds at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A: Speed skating.
Q: What new women’s team sport was played on sand at the 1996 summer Olympics?
A: Beach Volleyball.
Q: Who passed Eric Heiden to become the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian ever?
A: Bonnie Blair.
Q: What was the only thing Brianna Scurry wore during her Gold Medal celebration lap through
the late night streets of Atlanta?
Q: What decathlon champ was the first black student body president at UCLA?
A: Rafer Johnson
A: Vatican City’s.
A: Japan.
A: Pakistan.
A: Wisconsin.
What continent boasts the most telephone lines?
A: Europe.
What future Soviet republic produced one-half of the world’s oil in 1901?
A: Azerbaijan.
A: South Africa.
What’s the only Central American country without a coastline on the Caribbean?
A: El Salvador.
What North American mountain range is an apt anagram for “o, man–ski country”?
A: Rocky Moutntians.
What city is headquarters for Zero Population Growth and the Impotence Institution of
America?
A:Washington, DC.
What city boasts a Board of Trade that buy and sells half the world’s wheat and corn?
A: Chicago.
A: Honshu.
What European country’s most common last name is De Vries?
A: The Netherlands’.
A: The Kalahari.
What U.S. state has the highest percentage of residents born in other countries?
A: California.
A: One.
A: Mauna Kea.
What was the only country still building steam locomotives in 1990?
A: China.
Which two European countries lead the world n wine consumption pr capita?
What was the world’s highest man-made structure for 4,000 years before being passed by the
central tower of Lincoln Cathedral?
A: New Mexico.
What’s the only South American country that has both a Pacific and a Caribbean coast?
A: Colombia.
A: I-90.
What state boasts all or part of the ten largest American Indian reservations?
A: Arizona.
A: Winnipeg’s.
What desert did David Livingstone have to cross to reach Lake Ngami?
A: The Kalahari.
What country sent out 15,000 census workers to count its homeless population, in 1990?
A: The U.S.
A: Chechnya.
What state made the U.S. the fourth largest country in land mass in 1959?
A: Alaska.
A: Wyoming.
What island has endured Mount Etna’s wrath over 140 times?
A: Sicily.
How many months per year do residents of Tromso, Norway go without seeing a sunset?
A: Three.
What U.S. president’s State of the Union address lasted a record 81 minutes?
A: Bill Clinton’s.
A: Bill Clinton.
A: John F. Kennedy.
What former president was on an African hunting trip when his enemy J. P. Morgan quipped:
“Let every lion do his duty”?
A: Theodore Roosevelt.
What conspirator in the Lincoln assassination was pardoned for saving the lives of prison guards
during a yellow fever epidemic?
What president opined: “Once you get into this great stream of history you can’t get out”?
A: Richard Nixon.
Who was the first president to utter “We shall overcome” before a joint session of Congress?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson.
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What future president was the only U.S. senator from a Confederate state to remain in
Congress after secession?
A: Andrew Jackson.
What president’s mug graces a $100,000 bill?
A: Woodrow Wilson.
What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic Church after an infection
following spinal surgery in 1954?
A: John F. Kennedy.
What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president to command a military unit
during his term in office?
What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed under his head upon his
burial?
Who was the first daughter of a U.S. president to pose nude for a Playboy video?
A: Patti Davis.
A: One.
Who is the only president to have survived two assassination attempts by women?
A: Gerald Ford.
What future president’s Texas classmates ran a shot of a jackass under his yearbook photo?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson’s.
What day does the U.S. president traditionally deliver a weekly radio address?
A: Saturday.
What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join the cavalry reserves in the
1930’s?
A: Ronald Regan.
What U.S. president threw out the most Opening Day baseballs?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What card game did Dwight D. Eisenhower play fanatically while planning for D-Day?
A: Bridge.
What White House lawyer first revealed the existence of an “enemies list” and “hush money” at
the Watergate hearings?
A: John Dean.
What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.
What U.S. president installed solar panels on the White House roof?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What First Lady of the 1980s was shocked to find “a tremendous rat” swimming with her in the
White House Pool?
A: Barbara Bush.
What future anchor was the only female reporter to tag along with Richard Nixon on his historic
trip to China?
A: Barbara Walters.
Who revealed that the U.S. had a hydrogen bomb in his last State of the Union speech?
A: Harry S. Truman
A: U2.
A: Police.
A: Usher.
Money For Nothing was an 80s NO 1 for which band?
A: Dire Straits
A: 5th Dimension.
A: Tommy James.
A: Two.
A: Tom Petty.
Which heavy metal group took the name of Dutch-born members guitarist Eddie and drummer
Alex?
A: Van Halen
Which 60s icon was backed by The Band?
A: Bob Dylan.
A: Genesis.
A: The Monkees.
A: Illinois.
A: Pink Floyd
A: The Eagles.
A: Time.
A: Blondie.
Which band sang I want to Know What Love Is?
A: Foreigner.
How many brothers were in the original Jackson family line up?
A: Five.
A: Fleetwood Mac.
A: Orchestra.
A: The Beatles.
A: Feather weight.
Q: What nickname do boxing fans call 300 pound Eric Esch, King of the Fouro-Rounders?
A: “Butter Bean”.
Q: Who beat Michael Moorer in a 1994 heavyweight title fight hyped as ” One for the Ages”?
A: George Foreman.
A: George Foreman.
Q: Who did Joe Frazier say he wanted “like a hog wants slop”?
A: Muhammad Ali
A: Zero.
A: Pernell Whitaker
A: Evander Holyfield
Q: Who received a reported $25 million for a 1995 boxing match that lasted 89 seconds?
A: Mike Tyson.
Q: How old was George Foreman when he became the oldest heavyweight champ in history?
A: Forty-five.
Q: What pro sport gives its participants an 87 percent chance of suffering brain damage?
A: Boxing.
A: Cruiserweight.
Q: What Mexican boxing champ lost for the first time to little known Frankie Randall?
Q: What had to occur for a round to end when John L. Sullivan beat Jake Killrain in 75 rounds, in
1889?
A: A knockdown.
Q: Who was the first sports announcer to address Muhammad Ali by his Muslim name?
A: Howard Cosell.
Q: What year in the 1970s was Muhammad Ali’s last as heavyweight champ?
A:1979.
Q: What boxing promoter was indicted for filing a false insurance claim with Lloyds of London?
A: Don King.
Q: What boxer successfully defended his title against George Foreman and Larry Holmes?
A: Evander Holyfield.
A: Idi Amin.
A: Azumah Nelson.
A: Don King’s.