Trivia

Weekly Trivia- comment your answers and answers announced on Sundays (hopefully)

 

1.What current branch of the U.S. military was a corps of only 50 soldiers when World War I broke out?

2. What ethnic group was largely responsible for building most of the early railways in the U.S. West?

3. What was a gladiator armed with, in addition to a dagger and spear?

4. Who saw the turtleneck he wore at cease-fire talks in Bosnia fetch $5,000 at auction?

5. What political system was gradually dismantled in South Africa, starting in 1989?

Last weeks ANSWERS and Question

 

1. What was 11th-century Spanish military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better know as?

A: El Cid.

2. What nation issued the five-dollar bill found in Abraham Lincoln’s pocket when he was shot?

A: The Confederate States of America.

3. Who was the first U.S. president to adopt the informal version of his first name?

A: Jimmy Carter.

4. Who said: “I’m the president of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli”?

A: George Bush

5. What famous document begins: “When in the course of human events…”?

A: The Declaration of Independence

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