FunTrivia History Mix: Vol 25 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Three Mile Island

Operator error and equipment failure caused the disaster. An estimated $2 billion in damage was the result, but no deaths were reported. Three Mile Island is located in Pennsylvania.

Question by player colavs33

Answer: Iran

Situated in the northeastern part of the Iranian plateau, Parthia roughly corresponds to the modern Iranian province of Khorasan and plus parts of Golestan. The Parthian Empire, existed from approximately 247 BC to AD 224, became a major political and cultural power in ancient Iran and the Hellenistic world after it overthrew the Seleucid Empire.

At its height, the Parthian Empire controlled territories from the Euphrates River to the Indus River. In warfare, the Parthians were famed for their skilled cavalry and for the "Parthian shot," a tactic where mounted archers, while in retreat, would shoot arrows at their pursuers. Weakened by the third century from internal strife, economic difficulties, and external pressures, the Parthians were ultimately defeated by Ardashir I, who founded the Sassanid Empire in AD 224.

Question by player gracious1

Answer: Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein, the ousted leader of Iraq, was found hiding in a spider hole outside his hometown of Tikrit on 13 December, 2003. Elements of the 4th Infantry Division, with US Air Force air cover and troops from a special operations task force participated in the raid of Objectives Wolverine I, II, and III in Operation Red Dawn.

He was later tried by an Iraqi court, found guilty of multiple charges, and executed in 2006.

Question by player evil44

Answer: Last WWII Japanese officer to surrender

Sent to a small island in the Philippines in 1944, army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda hid in the jungle and continued a guerrilla campaign until 1974. He did not accept that the war was over, believing that information leaflets he found were false propaganda, until the Japanese government located his former commanding officer who ordered Onoda to surrender.

Other "forgotten" Japanese soldiers were located elsewhere shortly afterwards, but they were not officers.

Question by player highfells

Answer: President Paul von Hindenburg

The airship Hindenburg, whose crash ended the era of commercial airship travel, was named after the former German President Paul von Hindenburg.

Question by player wildmatz

Answer: The Mason-Dixon Line

Two Englishmen, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, were commissioned to mark the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland and solve the dispute. Mason, the astronomer and Dixon, the surveyor, incorporated celestial readings to achieve an accurate 233-mile-long line between Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as the 83 mile-long border between Maryland and Delaware.

It took almost five years to accomplish this. The Mason-Dixon Line was used during the Civil War as a symbolic boundary between the North and the South.

When the line was resurveyed in 1902, it was found to be surprisingly accurate.

Question by player oldstuff28

Answer: British North America

The Invasion of Canada in June of 1775 was a large American military offensive aimed at the British territory of Quebec. Led by American generals Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery, the latter killed in the campaign, the Continental Army was successful in taking over and occupying Montreal. During the sixteen month occupation, several American delegates, including Benjamin Franklin, were sent there in attempt to convince the French speaking Quebecois to rebel against Britain and join the other colonies in the revolution.

They were unsuccessful in doing so before the Americans were defeated in October 1776 and driven out of Canada. Franklin, at the Paris Peace Talks at the conclusion of the war, was also unsuccessful in demanding Quebec from the British as spoils of war in the forming of the Treaty of Paris.

Question by player mcdubb

Answer: Setting up a weather station

Weather Station Kurt was established so that the German Navy could monitor weather in the North Atlantic.

Question by player wkbrown

Answer: Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek was settled when gold was discovered in the area in 1890. At its peak, the town was the fourth largest city in Colorado. Between 1890 and 1910, the mines produced 22 million ounces of gold. The town declined when the mines began closing, and the population in 2020 was just over 1100 people.

The other three places were settled during the Gold Rush of 1859.

Question by player parrotman2006

Answer: 1937

In February 1937, a patent for nylon was granted to American chemist Wallace Carothers, the leader of the organic chemistry group at DuPont.
The City of Aden, now in modern-day Yemen, had been administered by the British East India Company since 1839. In 1937, it was detached from British India and designated a Crown colony. Britain relinquished control of the city in 1967.
Born in New York City in 1882, Eamon de Valera had been at the forefront of Irish politics since WWI. In December 1937, he became the first person to hold the post of Taoiseach of the Irish Republic, a position he would retain with two short breaks until he became the country's third President in 1959. He eventually left office in 1973 at the age of 90.


Question by player EnglishJedi