People trivia questions
2356 multiple-choice People trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- This U.S. president married his girlfriend just 3 months after meeting her.
- Which U.S. president was related to 11 former presidents by blood or marriage?
- He was the first Roman Catholic US President and his father was a prominent businessman.
- In his 1916 presidential campaign for reelection, his supporters said he kept us out of war, but in his second term he led the US into World War One. He was only the second Democrat elected to the Presidency since the American Civil War.
- He was a peanut farmer from Plains Georgia, a governor of Georgia and a graduate of the US Naval Academy.
- He will be remembered for positive accomplishments in foreign affairs, especially for improving relations between the United States and China. But he will also be remembered for the scandal that forced him to be the first President to resign from office.
- He had to make some tough decisions, such as whether or not to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. But he seldom shied away from decisions or defending his policies. He was reelected in one of the biggest political upsets in US presidential history.
- He was the first Vice-President in the twentieth century to become President after the death of a President. Later he was reelected for a four-year term on his own and proved to be one of the most progressive Republican Presidents in the 20th century.
- He first became famous in Hollywood. As President he sometimes got his speech lines a little confused, but he went a long way with his friend Gorbachev toward ending the Cold War.
- Who was the only 20th century US President who was not elected as President or Vice-President by the people of the United States?
- Who was the only US President in the 20th century who served as a US Army general before he became President?
- Which US President was elected to four presidential terms?
- Which of the following US Presidents was NOT the governor of a state before becoming President?
- Which US President was largely responsible for forming the international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait in the Gulf War in the early 1990s?
- This man was a famous inventor and an American founding father.
- This man wrote pamphlets such as Common Sense and the Rights of Man.
- This man was a Confederate general but his loyalties almost always lied with the United States. He distinguished himself in the Mexican-American War and in the American Civil War.
- This man, who was a key figure in the Reagan administration, was involved in the Iran-Contra Affair.
- This World War 2 general rushed to Belgium to rescue the 101st airborn.
- This Civil War general led the march from Atlanta to Savannah.
- This man served as U.S. President and was the primary writer of the Constitution.
- This first lady saved a portrait of George Washington while the British burned the White House during the War of 1812.
- This woman, born into slavery, worked on the underground railroad and was a Union spy during the U.S. Civil War.
- Who was the first person to set foot on the moon?
- The term Pharaoh derives from the Egyptian words Pr-Aa meaning this.
- This pharaoh ruled Egypt for more than 66 years and had many wives and children (according to some sources, he had as many as 200 sons and 200 daughters). The most famous of his wives was Nefertari.
- Queen Cleopatra the Seventh was an ancient Egyptian ruler of what nationality?
- Khufu was a pharaoh of Ancient Egypts Old Kingdom from approximately 2589 BC to 2566 BC. He is most famous for building this monument.
- Ancient Egypt was actually divided into two kingdoms- Upper and Lower Egypt. The cobra was one of the symbols of Upper Egypt. What kind of animal was the symbol of Lower Egypt?
- There is evidence that incestuous marriage was widespread at some point of Egyptian history. For example, Maatkare Hatshepsut, regarded as the earliest known queen regnant in history, married Thutmose II. What was her relationship to Thutmose II?