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Who was both the king of the Franks and emperor of the Romans? | Charlemagne |
Who was the prime minister of Italy as well as an ally of the Axis Powers during World War II? | Benito Mussolini |
Who is the WW II era Soviet leader that was born to a poor family in Gori? | Joseph Stalin |
Who is the businessman that acted as the brand ambassador and symbol of a famous chicken restaurant? | Colonel Sanders |
What country was a member of the Axis Powers in WW II and the home of the ancient Roman Empire? | Italy |
Who was a well known member of the British monarchy and died in a car crash in the 1990's? | Princess Diana |
What country invaded Kuwait in the 1990s and fought a war with the United States during the same time period? | Iraq |
What country fought in the Falkland Islands war and is European? | United Kingdom |
Who was the husband to Catherine the Great and the son of Charles Frederick? | Peter III of Russia |
Who was a queen of France and the daughter of Maria Theresa? | Marie Antoinette |
What country was part of the Allied Powers and got attacked at Pearl Harbor? | The United States |
Who was a queen of Naples and Sicily and wife of Ferdinand I? | Maria Carolina of Austria |
Who was a signee of the Declaration of Independence and first ambassador to France? | Benjamin Franklin |
Who was a military leader and took power in France in 1799? | Napoleon |
Who was the 16th president and issued the Emancipation Proclamation? | Abraham Lincoln |
Who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States? | Thomas Jefferson |
Who was the author of Das Kapital and formed the belief of Marxism? | Karl Marx |
Who was the queen of Spain and funded Christopher Columbus' voyage? | Isabella I |
Who was the first person in the world to land on the moon and was from the United States? | Neil Armstrong |
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth? | Abraham Lincoln |
Who was the first wife of King Henry VIII and the daughter to Isabella I of Castile? | Catherine of Aragon |
Which Portuguese explorer achieved the first European navigation from the Atlantic to Asia and was killed in the Battle of Mactan? | Ferdinand Magellan |
Who was president during the Vietnam War and the Bay of Pigs? | John F. Kennedy |
What country had Fat Man and Little Boy bombs explode in major cities? | Japan |
What American political building was build in 1792 and was rebuild in 1814 because of a fire? | The White House |
What states accepted slavery, but are not a part of today's South? | Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri |
What State was the first to secede from the Union and the home state of James Brown? | South Carolina |
Which West Point graduate, class of 1861, was commissioned a Brigadier General at the age of 23? | George A. Custer |
Who was a West Point graduate and coach of Duke University's Men's basketball team? | Michael W. Krzyzewski |
Who was the famous poet and author who was in the West Point class of 1834, but never graduated? | Edgar Allen Poe |
Which politician served as a U.S. president while also being a licensed bartender? | Abraham Lincoln |
What U.S. president has his bust on Mountain Rushmore while also being the principle author of the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
Who was a president of France's Fifth Republic and the husband of an Italian singer and model? | Nicolas Sarkozy |
Who was a Union Civil War general and a best-selling Christian novelist? | Lew Wallace |
Who was a founder of Virginia Colony and a long-time prisoner in the Tower of London? | Walter Raleigh |
Who was a relative of Napoleon Bonaparte and a failed military commander against the Prussians? | Napoleon III |
What city was home to a school of classical music composers and the site of a 16th century Ottoman siege? | Vienna |
Who was a member of the Second Triumvirate and a romantic interest of Queen Cleopatra? | Mark Antony |
Who was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, and the daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes? | Cleopatra |
Who was the son of Queen Dowager Zhao and went on to become the first emperor of a unified China? | Qin Shi Huang |
Who was the last emperor of the Qing dynasty and died on October 17, 1967? | Pu Yi |
What disease did First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's husband have? | polio |
To what political party did the first prime minister of Canada belong? | Conservative |
What was the nickname of the great-grandfather of France's Louis XV? | The Sun King |
In what year did the oldest member of the Roman Republic's First Triumvirate die? | 53 BCE |
Who was the father of the losing commander at the Battle of Hastings? | Godwin of Wessex |
Who is the wife of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest child? | Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall |
Who is the son of Queen Elizabeth II's only daughter? | Peter Phillips |
Who was the wife of the president during the Civil War? | Mary Todd Lincoln |
Which state was the first American president born in? | Virginia |
Who is the wife of the second oldest child of Prince Charles of England? | Meghan Markle |
What is the capital of the country where the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations was born? | Cairo |
What was the name of the Virginia home belonging to the third president of the United States? | Monticello |
What type of cancer did the inventor of the cotton gin die from? | prostate cancer |
How old was the first ruler of Greece when he died? | 52 |
How old was the first queen of England when she took the throne? | 37 |
How old was the first queen of Egypt when she died? | 50 |
How old was the fourth king of England when he took the throne? | 19 |
How old was the second queen of Scotland when she got married? | 17 |
Who was the second child of the second U.S. president? | John Quincy Adams |
Who was the military leader of the country that attacked the United States in 1941? | Hideki Tojo |
How old was the 35th president of the United States when they died? | 46 |
How old was the first prime minister of Canada when they died? | 76 |
Who was the president of the US when the Korean War started? | Harry S. Truman |
Which son of Charlemagne received Italy as inheritance? | Pippin |
Which wives of US presidents were also mothers of US presidents? | Abagail Adams, Barbara Bush |
Who was the first First Lady of the US to also have a college degree? | Grace Coolidge |
Who was the successor to the successor of George III? | William IV |
What is the name of the dog owned by the 37th president of the United States? | Checkers |
Who was the leader of the country that conquered the Persian Empire? | Alexander the Great |
Who was the leader of the country that defeated the Spanish Armada? | Queen Elizabeth I |
What region was returned to the rule of the world's most populous country in 1997? | Hong Kong |
Who was the leader of the country that invaded Ethiopia in October 1935? | Benito Mussolini |
How old was the youngest female British monarch at the time of her marriage? | 15 years, 188 days |
What was the profession of the man that assassinated a president in a theater? | Actor |
How old was the youngest US president to be assassinated? | 46 years, 177 days |
What state seceded from another state in 1863? | West Virginia |
Where did the first US president give his first inaugural address? | New York City |
Who was the leader of the country that invaded Iran in 1980? | Saddam Hussein |
Who was a leader of the Progressive movement that proclaimed American entrance into World War I? | Woodrow Wilson |
How old was the current queen of England when she became queen? | 27 years old |
Who was the son of King Henry VIII's third wife? | Edward VI |
In what year was the third president of the United States born? | 1743 |
How old was the first US president when he died? | 67 |
How old was the president of the US during the bulk of World War II when he died? | 63 |
Who's the daughter of Donald Trump's first wife? | Ivanka Trump |
Who was the leader of the country that invaded Finland in 1939? | Joseph Stalin |
Who was the president of the country that decided to use nuclear weapons on Japan during World War 2? | Truman |
Who was the country leader that fought against the US from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975? | Ho Chi Minh |
Who was the second child of the king of England from 9 November 1841 to 6 May 1910 to die? | Albert Victor |
How old was the French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution when he became emperor of France? | 35 |
Who is the once politically elected son of the 52nd governor of New York? | Andrew Cuomo |
What country in North America co-led an alliance to eventually win the global conflict beginning in 1939? | United States |
What country in Asia co-led an alliance to eventually win the global conflict beginning in 1939? | China |
What country that's an island co-led an alliance to eventually win the global conflict beginning in 1939? | United Kingdom |
What country spanning Europe and Asia co-led an alliance to eventually win the global conflict beginning in 1939? | Soviet Union |
Who was the leader of the North American country that co-led an alliance to combat the Axis powers during World War II? | Franklin D. Rooseveltr |
How old was the third president of the US when he was sworn into office? | 57 |
What was the start date of the longest war ever? | 711 AD |
How old was the 48th vice president when he was sworn into office? | 58 |
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