history-easy Trivia Quiz # 9
This is History Easy Quiz # 9; the link to the answers is at the bottom of this page, hope you enjoy! You can return to the main History Easy Trivia Quiz index, or try your luck at a random History Easy Trivia Quiz.History Easy Trivia Question 1
The Cold War - The blockade of what European city in 1948 caused an emergency airlift of supplies?
The correct answer is 'Berlin'
History Easy Trivia Question 2
U.S. History - A Miscellany - Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?
The correct answer is 'Francis Scott Key'
Francis Scott Key was originally a blacksmith from the small Maryland town of Weedsboro. He was born in 1780, and died in 1832.
History Easy Trivia Question 3
Civil War : Volume 4 - Who was Lincoln's Vice President in 1865?
The correct answer is 'Andrew Johnson'
Johnson took the office of President in April 1865, after Lincoln was shot in Fords Theater.
History Easy Trivia Question 4
The Most Controversial War of All - Protestors against war were shot and killed by the National Guard at which university?
The correct answer is 'Kent State University'
Kent State tried to change its name to Kent University afterward so people would forget what happened there.
History Easy Trivia Question 5
WW2 History - The Nazis - What Nazi party member saved 1,100 Jewish people by giving them work in his factory, named D.E.F.?
The correct answer is 'Oskar Schindler'
This story was not widely known until after the book and movie 'Schindler's List' revealed the truth.
History Easy Trivia Question 6
Ninth grade U.S. History: Part 2 - Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly an airplane solo across the Atlantic Ocean alone. How long did it take him to do this?
The correct answer is 'About thirty three hours'
Lindbergh took off from a field at Long Island, New York armed only with some sandwiches and a bottle of coffee that his wife had given him. He landed in Paris, France on May 21, 1927. Later he said that on occasion he had dozed off at the controls of the plane and awoke to see that he was about to crash into the ocean.
History Easy Trivia Question 7
Flower Power Daze (American) - How did the Hippies travel?
The correct answer is 'All of these are possible'
My favorite was the microbus!
History Easy Trivia Question 8
The Most Controversial War of All - America's main purpose for being in Vietnam was to make sure that Vietnam did not fall to what?
The correct answer is 'Communism'
The fear that if one country fell to communism, then one country after another in South East Asia would follow. It was assumed there there would be such a "domino effect".
History Easy Trivia Question 9
Wars and Conflicts of the 20th Century - This military conflict started very late in the 19th century and lasted until the early 20th century. It was fought between Britain and part of the population of South Africa. What is the name of the conflict?
The correct answer is 'The Boer War'
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.
History Easy Trivia Question 10
General World War II Trivia - On what ship was the final surrender of Japan signed?
The correct answer is 'USS Missouri'
The Missouri class battleships were the largest ever built for the United States.