A Little More Easy Trivia

I'm still getting back up to speed on the writing thing. Here's a little easy trivia until I can come up with something more challenging.

1. What is the only remaining absolute monarchy in Europe?

2. Who was the first President of the United States to lose in the popular vote count but win the office in the Electoral College?

3. Who was Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili?

4. In Dante's Inferno, how many circles of Hell are there? (Extra Credit: What sin gets you sent to the lowest circle of Hell?)

5. After the Vatican, what is the smallest country in Europe?

6. Charles Joseph Bonaparte was the grand-nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. What was his other claim to fame?

7. Who was the first ex-President of the United States to write a best seller?

8. Adolph Hitler was a Corporal in the German Army during World War I. What was fellow dictator Benito Mussolini's rank in the Italian Army?

9. Other than the Bible, what book is estimated to be the all-time best seller worldwide?

10. Why don't polar bears eat penguins?

Answers

1. The Vatican

2. Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1876 (Hayes lost to Samuel Tilden by 264,000 votes in the popular vote count but beat Tilden by a single vote in the Electoral College).

3. Josef Stalin

4. Nine (Treason)

5. Monaco. With an area of 0.7 square miles, it's three times the size of the Vatican.

6. He was Attorney-General of the United States during Theodore Roosevelt's second term.

7. Ulysses S. Grant (Memoirs and Selected Letters)

8. Il Duce was a Private

9. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx

10. Polar bears are found only at the North Pole. Penguins live at the South Pole.