Wednesday, January 9, 2008

A History Quiz if your Interested

Here is a little quiz for those of you who who might be interested just for fun. Listed below are 25 questions about events that have taken place in history. See how many you can answer without looking them up first. If you get stumped along the way the answers to all the questions can be found in the articles on this blog that date all the way back to last November. Good luck:

1. What is the name of America's first official "Baby Boomer"?

2. How many executions have been carried out in the state of Georgia between 1976-2006?

3. What do officials in Nevada suspect caused a levee break that flooded hundreds of homes on January 5th of this year?

4. How many more years after the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 did Wilbur Wright live?

5. How old was Martin Luthur King Jr. when he was ordained a baptist minister?

6. How long was the Gettysburg Address?

7. In what year was Senator Huey Long Killed?

8. How did Hannibal die?

9. How many casualties did the U.S. suffer in The Gulf War in 1991?

10. What year did Galileo invent the telescope?

11. In 2000, how much did Ben and Jerry sell their Ice Cream Company for?

12. In what year did Spain launch it's Naval Armada against Queen Elizabeth I of England?

13. How old was Alexander Hamilton when he was shot?

14. What is the population of China?

15. What did Edwin Howard Armstrong invent that you have in your home?

16. what is the name of Brad Pitt's organization that is rebuilding homes in New Orleans?

17. How much money did Wal-Mart make in sales in 2006?

18. What did Stephanie Kwolek invent that made the world a safer place?

19. What year was Alfred Nobel born?

20. What was the Pentagon originally called?

21. What year was Mother Teresa born?

22. How many Christians are there estimated to be in the world?

23. How many years has Hugo Chavez been president in Venezuela?

24. When Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon who were the other two astronauts on the mission with him?

25. According to the Health Foundation study what is the healthiest state in the U.S. to live in?

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