History Repeated Trivia Quiz

Answer: Aegean

Poseidon protected the island of Atlantis from destruction until one day the god of the sea found the islanders worshiping other gods. As their punishment, Poseidon caused the city of Atlantis to disappear over night. When studying how a city could disappear overnight, as Atlantis did, vulcanologists found an explosion that occurred 3500 years ago on the island of Kalliste (Santorini).

This explosion had so much force behind it that caused large tidal waves that destroyed most of the ports in the town of Crete.

These tidal waves could be the explanation for the disappearance of one island.

Answer: Richard Nixon

On August 9, 1974 Richard Milhous Nixon resigned as president of the United States two years after the Watergate Scandal first began.

Answer: To oppose tax increases

Lady Godiva was married to Earl Leofric, who worked for Edward the Confessor. One day, Edward decided he wanted Leofric to increase taxes on the citizens of Coventry. Godiva heard of the news from some friends of hers and begged her husband not to raise the taxes. Leofric told her he wouldn't increase the citizen's taxes if she rode naked through the streets of Coventry. Godiva did just that. Leofric had to go along with the deal he made his wife and the taxes did not increase.

Answer: Marines

Lee Harvey Oswald was only seventeen when he joined the Marines. His first posting was to Atsugi Air Base in Japan. At the age of twenty, Oswald left the Marines and moved to the Soviet Union. Lee Harvey Oswald was killed by nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, while being transferred to the county jail on November 24, 1963.

Answer: George Mallory

George Mallory took his assistant, Sandy Irvine, with him on his climb up Mount Everest. When they reached 29,000 feet, Irvine and Mallory disappeared. In 1999, Eric Simonson led a team up Mount Everest to find the bodies of Mallory and Irvine. Mallory's body was discovered on the trip. His remains were cremated on the mountain.

Sir Edmund Hillary survived his climb up Mount Everest. In 1975 Junko Tabei became the first woman to climb Mount Everest.

Answer: Marcus Reno

Major Marcus Reno was the highest ranking officer under General Custer. Acting on General Custer's orders, Major Reno took 140 men and held them at the southern end of the Sioux camp. They remained in place for a day and a half after General Custer and his men were killed. Several officers who respected Custer tried to pin the blame for the bloodbath at Little Big Horn on Reno, in order to show General Custer in a good light. Major Reno was exonerated of any wrongdoing.

Answer: April

Close to 1,500 people died on the night of April 14, 1912, when the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship, which was described as a ship "God Himself could not sink", was 880 feet long and had a carrying capacity of about 46,000 tons. It has been estimated that the ship, when loaded, displaced about 52,000 tons of water.

The Titanic was supposed to have 32 lifeboats, but failed to meet that requirement. Those who survived the Titanic" sinking were picked up by the ship Carpathia.

Answer: Leif Eriksson

Leif Eriksson landed in North America approximately five hundred years before Christopher Columbus. Leif was born in Iceland to Eric the Red. On his way to Greenland to teach the Vikings about Christianity, Leif's ship was blown off course and he landed in North America.

Answer: Nicholas II

Nicholas II was born on May 8, 1868 to Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna. Nicholas was twenty-seven when he became the tsar of Russia and was quoted as saying he never wanted to become tsar. He married Princess Alix of Hesse when he was 34 and together they had five children. On July 7, 1918, Nicholas, his wife, and five children were murdered by revolutionaries.

Answer: 1932

On March 1, 1932, Charles "Buster" Lindbergh, Jr. was taken from his nursery at his parent's vacation home. Two months later, "Buster" was found lying by the side of the road near the vacation home his family had. A carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was tried, convicted, and executed for the murder of the Lindbergh baby.