My Daughter's Birthday, May 26 Quiz

Answer: Montana

Appropriately named for the Spanish word for 'mountain', Montana is represented partly by the northern part of the Rocky Mountains. Upon visiting Montana you will find entrances to Yellowstone National Park, and the Little Bighorn National Monument. Montana's capital is Helena.

Answer: Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson was accused of violating the "Tenure of Office Act" and was brought before the Senate for impeachment in 1868. It was actually the second attempt at impeachment as a corps of Republican senators attempted to bring him up before the Senate with a whole range of complaints.

The first failed miserably. The second attempt, while not successful, certainly put him in a position of less power as he was never able to stick his neck out for anything outside his normal duties.

Answer: Al Jolson

As far as history goes, Al Jolson is most connected with being in "The Jazz Singer", the first full-length talking movie. He also performed often in "blackface", the act of putting on makeup to perform as an African-American. Today the process is condemned as it is deemed as racist, but Al Jolson was one of the few who looked upon it as an honor, and portrayed the African Americans not as the stereotypical types previously portrayed by such directors as D.W. Griffith in "Birth of a Nation", but as a way to promote the race by exposing all-white audiences to music and theater they would not have normally seen.

Answer: Nicholas II

Czar Nicholas II's son, Alexei, had haemophilia. His injuries allowed for the rise of Grigor Rasputin, a "mystic" who predicted in a vision that Alexei would recover from injuries he had recently suffered, contrary to what doctors were saying. When Alexei did recover, Rasputin was given considerable power for the rest of Nicholas II's reign.

Answer: Dracula

Bram Stoker's "Dracula" has been described as the most famous horror novel ever written, and the title character is the most portrayed character in cinema, with over 170 depictions on film. Stoker never achieved this level of quality again, but one wouldn't expect to produce at that level consistently.

Answer: Tonto

Jay Silverheels played Tonto for nine years on ABC, and continue off screen embodying the character for many years after. Many descriptions of Tonto's "past" don't jive with the actual Native American history. One example is that Tonto was a member of the Potawotami tribe, a tribe that had no business in the area of the Southwest, as they primarily stayed in the Upper Midwest and Canada.

The Michigan-born director simply knew about their history and without research dubbed Tonto a member of Potawatomi.

Answer: Peter Cushing

Actor Peter Cushing was born an Englishman in Surrey, England in 1913. Jazz great Miles Davis was born in Alton, Illinois in 1926. Actor and Gunsmoke star James Arness was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1923. Euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian was born in Pontiac, Michigan in 1928. Arness and Kevorkian shared the same birthday, and strangely enough they also dieD the same day, June 3, 2011.

Answer: Apollo X

Apollo X (the only Apollo mission to be noted with a Roman numeral) was used simply as a dry run for the next Apollo 11 mission that would land on the Moon. Headed up by Thomas Stafford, he and his fellow astronauts also achieved a Guinness World record during Apollo X as the fastest manned vessel in history at 24,291 mph (39,897 km/h) during their descent back to Earth. Both of Stafford's crew, John Young and Eugene Cernan, would later get their chance to walk on the moon during the Apollo 16 (Young) and Apollo 17 (Cernan)missions. John Young would also have the privilege of helming first Space Shuttle voyage into space in 1981.

Answer: 2 World Trade Center

Amateur mountain climber and New York City resident George Willig spent a year planning out his climbing exploits of the South Building of the World Trade Center. He climbed it as a true mountain climber, hooking on to the window washing tracks already built into the Tower with clamps he designed himself. His only problem was as that as he had not announced his plan to climb, police suspected he was a suicide threat and tried to stop him. When the negotiators realized he knew what he was doing they stopped their hindrance of the climb and began encouraging him to the top. The mayor put a drastic fine upon him when he reached the top...$1.10 total for the 110 stories he climbed.

Dan Goodwin was the only man to successfully climb the North Tower of the World Trade Center, but he did so with the use of suction cups and climbed it Spiderman-style. Sadly these two men would be the only ones to climb the original World Trade Center buildings as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 would send both 1360-ft. high buildings crashing to the ground in the single most deadly act of terrorism in history.

Answer: Terry Nichols

Terry Nichols met Timothy McVeigh in the United States Army in 1989. McVeigh was displeased with the handling of the U.S. Government's attempts to break up the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, so they decided the Oklahoma City bombing would occur two years to the day of the Waco incident. Terry Nichols is serving 161 life sentences in a maximum security prison in Colorado alongside Ted "Unabomber" Kaczynski and Ramzi Yousef, a conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. This wing in the prison has been dubbed "Bomber's Row". Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death, which took place in 2001.

The other three choices were also involved in murdering a group of people, but Nichols was the one involved in the Oklahoma City bombing.