History Interview Questions And Answers

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History Job Interview Questions and Answers

1 :: What country was Adolf Hitler born in?

Austria.

2 :: What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?

Dayton.

3 :: What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join the cavalry reserves in the 1930s?

Ronald Reagan.

4 :: What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in charge of combat operations Jedi Knights?

Norman Schwarzkopf.

5 :: What president opined: Once you get into this great stream of history you can not get out?

Richard Nixon.

6 :: What name has been shared by the most popes?

John

7 :: What leader ruled an area that stretched from the North Sea to central Italy at the onset of the ninth century?

Charlemagne.

8 :: What did Hirohito refer to as a tragic interlude, during a 1975 U.S. visit?

World War II.

9 :: What nationality was Gavrilo Princip, who set off World War I by assassinating Archduke Ferdinand?

Serbian.

10 :: What 17th century English Lord Protectors severed head was finally buried after 300 years?

Oliver Cromwell's.

11 :: What country did the U.S. invade in 1989 in what George Will dubbed an act of hemispheric hygiene?

Panama.

12 :: What U.S. state did Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky threaten to reclaim, in 1995?

Alaska.

13 :: What 1964 coin did many Americans tend to save rather than spend?

The Kennedy half-dollar.

14 :: What British prime minister shared breakfast in bed with a parrot named Toby?

Winston Churchill.

15 :: What war was raging when isolationists adopted the motto America first?

World War I.

16 :: Who did Henry VIII have beheaded for witchcraft and adultery, along with her wolfhound?

Anne Boleyn.

17 :: What airline started out as the first crop-dusting outfit to battle boll weevils?

Delta Airlines.

18 :: Who wrote a 35,000-word manifesto the New York Times and Washington Post published on September 18, 1995?

The Unabomber.

19 :: What civil rights leader was near death after being stabbed in Harlem with a seven-inch letter opener in 1958?

Martin Luther King Jr.

20 :: What future saint ws originally taken to Ireland as a slave in 405 A.D.?

St. Patrick.

21 :: What Nantucket shipwreck killed more divers exploring it than the 52 people it sank with?

The Andrea Doria.

22 :: What do an average of 20 people do each year while staring at a Goodyear blimp?

Shoot at it.

23 :: Who was the first U.N. secretary general to have both African and Arab roots?

Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

24 :: Who did former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski defeat in a 1995 Eastern European presidential election?

Lech Walesa.

25 :: Who told the House Un-American Activities Committee that communist cartoonists might be using Mickey Mouse to spread propaganda?

Walt Disney.