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Bits of History Questions & Answers for 2004
    
There were 3 multiple answer questions and 2
single answer questions. Thirteen answers in all. Here they are. How many did you get?
Questions one and two.
Location |
Question |
Answer |
Michigan sheet
single answer |
Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty
whacks: When she saw what she had done, She gave
her father forty-one. This rhyme refers to what true
murder mystery in 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts? |
The murder of her step
mother and father. She was aquitted of the murder. The event became a legend. |
Florida sheet
multiple answer |
What state includes eight islands, one of which has
the
same name as the state? What is unique about this
island? |
Hawaii. The island Hawaii has the largest volcano in
the world and the most active volcano in the world. Mauna Loa
and Kilauea. Kilauea has been erupting since 1983. |
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Bits of History Questions & Answers for 2004
Questions three, four, and five.
Location |
Question |
Answer |
Texas sheet
multiple answer |
The United States has had 43 Presidents since its
inception. Can you name the last seven in reverse order? What is significant about the
second and seventh to last Presidents? |
George W Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, George H. W.
Bush, Ronald Regan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Richard Milhouse Nixion. The second
President, William Jefferson Clinton was impeached in 1999 and Richard Nixon
resigned in 1974 rather than be impeached. |
Iowa sheet
single answer |
Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando, Johnny Carson, Henry
Fonda, Dorothy McGuire, and Nick Nolte are well known for past achievements in the
entertainment field. What do they all have in common? |
They all were born in Omaha, Nebraska. |
Wisconsin sheet
multiple answer |
Three Rivers Stadium was a famous baseball park. In
what city was it located and what three rivers joined together there? |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Alleghenny, Ohio, and Monongahela. |
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