history-easy Trivia Quiz # 14

While flying on a chartered airplane from Greenville, South Carolina to Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the aircraft crashed near McComb, Mississippi. The group's lead singer and primary song writer, Ronnie Van Zant, its guitarist, Steve Gaines, one of its back-up vocalist, Cassie Gaines, its assistant manager, Dean Kilpatrick, the aircraft pilot, Walter McCreary, and the co-pilot, William Gray, were all killed. Several other members of the band were seriously injured during the crash.

The Boer War (sometimes referred to as the Second Anglo-Boer War), which lasted from 1899 to 1902, was a conflict in southern Africa between Britain and the two Afrikaner ("Boer") Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, in what is now South Africa. In the course of the Boer War, British losses totaled about 28,000 men. African losses were about 4,000 men, plus more than 27,000 civilians who died, mainly from disease, in concentration camps.

Just shortly after the Civil War ended.

Approximately 120 delegates, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Francis Lightfoot Lee, assembled in Richmond to discuss the colony's readiness for its opposition to King George III. In his speech on March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry urged the delegates to establish Virginia's defenses, and stressed the need for a well regulated militia. He was named the first governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia a year later, and was a staunch supporter of the Bill of Rights, fearing the Constitution, if left as originally written, gave too much power to the federal government. St. John's Church, built in 1741, and its grounds are open for tours and it remains an active Episcopalian church. Beginning in 1976, re-enactments of Patrick Henry's famous speech have been performed each Sunday during the summer months.

Buddy Holly ("Oh, Boy!"), the Big Bopper ("Chantilly Lace"), and Richie Valens ("La Bamba") died in a plane crash somewhere between Clear Lake, Iowa, and Fargo, North Dakota on February 3, 1959. It was a cold and snowy night, and rumor is the pilot couldn't tell which was ground or sky.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was born in 1889 and became the prime minister of India in 1947 and remained so till his death in 1964.

He wrote books, including "Glimpses of World History" and "The Discovery of India".

The Vietcong were our enemies fighting in South Vietnam. The North was already fully under Vietcong control.

Queen Isabella of Spain recruited Columbus to find a shorter route to India where spices, jewels, and silk could be found in abundance. Columbus, believing that the world was round, set off in a westerly direction and landed on an island in the Bahamas.

Francis Scott Key wrote the 'Star Spangled Banner'. He was watching a battle where despite the British attack, the American flag stayed flying.