History Quiz

[KarlMarx]

Question:
This US President was the only one to earn a PhD.

Wilson?

 

[USViking]

Wilson?

Precisely.

 

[KarlMarx]

Precisely.

Name the one president who served two non-consecutive terms.

 

[5stringJeff]

Garfield.

 

[KarlMarx]

Garfield.

no

 

[USViking]

Name the one president who served two non-consecutive terms.

Cleveland.


Only President-VP combo who belonged to different political parties.

 

[KarlMarx]

Cleveland.


Only President-VP combo who belonged to different political parties.

Washington/Adams?

 

[5stringJeff]

Cleveland.


Only President-VP combo who belonged to different political parties.

Adams-Jefferson

 

[Said1]

Adams-Jefferson

Hey, what about the doghnut house? True or False?

 

[USViking]

Adams-Jefferson

You know, I forgot completely about them.

I was thinking of Lincoln-Johnson, but your answer is equally correct.

One Attaboy for the gentleman, and one BS for me.

 

[USViking]

Washington/Adams?

These two were both Federalists, according to what I have always read.

 

[5stringJeff]

So...

Which of Christ's apostle, according to legend, died in India?

 

[5stringJeff]

Hey, what about the doghnut house? True or False?

False. Can't do it.

 

[USViking]

So...

Which of Christ's apostle, according to legend, died in India?

Thomas.

 

[5stringJeff]

Yup!

 

[USViking]

Peer and relative of the royal family who oversaw UK withdrawal from the Indian subcontinent, and its partition in the late 1940s.

He was assasinated by the IRA decades later.

 

[Blashyrkh]

Question:
What Western-European country was the only one to have a communist regime from 1978 to 1983?

 

[USViking]

Question:
What Western-European country was the only one to have a communist regime from 1978 to 1983?

I did not know there was one, although the communists may have been part of ruling coalitions, perhaps in Italy and elsewhere.

You can post as you wish on this thread, anyone may, but the idea of the game is that you should be the first to answer a question correctly before asking a question of your own.

 

[freeandfun1]

Peer and relative of the royal family who oversaw UK withdrawal from the Indian subcontinent, and its partition in the late 1940s.

He was assassinated by the IRA decades later.

Lord Mountbatten?

Reminds me of a joke when I was a kid....

You know how we know Lord Mountbatten had dandruff?












His Head & Shoulders were found on the beach!

 

[Said1]

I did not know there was one, although the communists may have been part of ruling coalitions, perhaps in Italy and elsewhere.

You can post as you wish on this thread, anyone may, but the idea of the game is that you should be the first to answer a question correctly before asking a question of your own.

I didn't know either, but I would guess Spain if my life depended on it.