Another Round of History Trivia

1. What do the following words have in common: Aventine; Caelian; Capitoline; Esquiline; Palatine; Quirinal, and Viminal?

2. Although British General Charles Lord Cornwallis is best remembered for surrendering to the Americans at Yorktown, what is his other claim to fame?

3. Woodrow Wilson refused to meet with what future leader at the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919?

4. What was Mohandas Gandhi's profession before he became a leader of the Indian Independence movement?

5. What writer's only completed novel was entitled The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket?

6. Who was Daniel Buckley?

7. When was the last mounted cavalry charge by a unit of the U. S. Army?

8. What Nobel Laureate wrote a book of poems, Old Possum's Book ofPractical Cats, for the children of his friends?

9. Who was Ehrich Weiss better known as?

10. On June 17, 1932 Douglas MacArthur, the Army's Chief of Staff ordered that the Washington DC camp of the "Bonus Army" be destroyed. What two officers were his "on scene" commanders who carried out his order?

Answers

1. They are the names of the Seven Hills of Rome.

2. He was the only British officer to have commanded troops fighting against both George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte.

3. Nguyen Sinh Cung, who would later become much better known as Ho Chi Minh

4. He was an attorney.

5. Edgar Allan Poe

6. He was the only man known to have survived the sinking of the Titanic and subsequently to be killed in World War I.

7. On the morning of January 16, 1942 (26th Cavalry Regiment of the Philippine Scouts, near the village of Morong, Philippine Islands).

8. T. S. Eliot

9. Harry Houdini

10. Majors Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton