FunTrivia History Mix: Vol 7 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Iwo Jima

Five U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945. Joe Rosenthal took the historic photograph. His photo won a Pulitzer Prize for Photography. Marine Felix de Weldon used this photo in 1954 to sculpt the Marine Corps War Memorial which was placed near the Arlington National Cemetery.

The Battle of Iwo Jima resulted in 26,000 American casualties which included 6,800 dead. This bloody battle was a strategic win which allowed the United States to island hop to mainland Japan.

Question by player MtnGuy1954

Answer: Suit of armour

These were all pieces of the suit of armour. These suits, made to keep the wearer safe, were worn until the advent of firearms, at which time they became heavy, archaic, and useless as protection from firearm ammunition. A burgonet, and a morion were types of armour helmets. Gauntlets were the metal gloves that covered the hands.



Question by player dcpddc478

Answer: First long-distance telephone line

Only a year or so after Alexander Graham Bell was issued a patent for the telephone, the Ridge Telephone Company connected the termini in Nevada County with 60 miles of wire to service local mining companies. The line was replaced in 1903 with a heavier duty system.

Question by player serpa

Answer: Daylight Saving Time

In the fall of 1920, Salvatore "Sam" Cardinella was sentenced to death for murdering a saloon keeper. When his execution was scheduled for April 1921, he appealed to a judge to allow him to be executed one hour later than the initially scheduled time.

He argued that Daylight Saving Time would unfairly rob him of an hour of his rapidly shortening life. The judge agreed and allowed Sam the extra hour before the execution was carried out.

Question by player Trivia_Fan54

Answer: Charles DeGaulle

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin were the "Big Three" Allied leaders in World War II who arranged to meet in February 1945 in Yalta, a city on the coast of the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula.

The purpose of he meeting was to figure out the fate of Germany after being defeated by the Allies. They decided that Germany would be divided into four zones, controlled by American, British, French and Soviet military forces.

Although France's leader, Charles de Gaulle, wasn't invited to the Yalta Conference, Stalin agreed to include France in the post-war governing of Germany with the stipulation that France's occupation zone be an area ceded to them by the American and British zones.

Question by player Billkozy

Answer: Canada

Did the English and French names, respectively, of the combatants give you a clue that this question was about the Nation of the Two Solitudes? The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec, was the turning point of the North American portion of the Seven Years War.

The extremely short battle - some reports say it only took 15 minutes - led to the British capture of Quebec, and, eventually, the Treaty of Paris. The guarantees in that treaty of religious and language freedom to the residents of Quebec contributed greatly to the character of the future development of Canada. Both Wolfe and Montcalm died on the battlefield.

Question by player agony

Answer: A reflector for lasers.

A laser on Earth is aimed at the reflector, bounced back and is received back on Earth. The time delay is accurately measured allowing scientists to determine the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Question by player littlekid1

Answer: His hand

A gauntlet was a glove that was made of chainmail and/or articulated metal armor. When a medieval knight made a challenge he threw his gauntlet on the ground, the act of picking it up meant that the person who picked it up had accepted the challenge. This is the origin of the phrase "To throw down the gauntlet".

Question by player dcpddc478

Answer: metes and bounds

When the United States was being populated and land was granted or sold, descriptions often were the metes and bounds system. An example is this 1774 deed "...does convey to the said planter one messorage or tack of land setuate lying and being in Pitt County on the South side of Tarr River ... more or less beginning at a Chestnut Oak runing out S 30 degrees at 160 poles to a pine thence to a stake at the outside of a pine ..." Properties described by metes and bounds may be irregularly shaped.

Question by player asm1

Answer: John Cabot

John Cabot or Giovanni Caboto in Italian, was the explorer who rediscovered Newfoundland in 1497. He is thought to have landed at Cape Bonavista.

Question by player devon241