Trivia - all subjects

The hanging gardens of Babylon.

Q What was the ethnic background of famed mobster Dutch Schultz?

German Jewish

Name the largest freshwater lake in the world?

Lake Superior.

Who was executed for providing atomic bomb designs to the USSR?

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Who was born Issur Danielovich Demsky and wrote The Ragman’s Son?

Kirk Douglas

Who was the last person convicted of treason in the U.S.?

Tomoya Kawakita (I hadda look it up.)

Who is credited with inventing the modern flush toilet (held nine toilet-related patents)?

Philip Haas

Who did Adolf Hitler dictate Mein Kampf to while in prison?

Actually I was looking for Thomas Crapper, (sic) but your answer is equally valid.

Mein Kampf was dictated to Rudolph Hess.

Q. Who was the first person to thru hike the Appalachian Trail?

Earl V. Shaffer

Whom did England’s King Edward VIII marry?

How many Wednesdays are in a week?

“That’s three e’s, not all in a row”.

Wallis Simpson.

Who is the first man credited with flying over Australian soil?

Harry Houdini

Which US president had been an executioner?

Grover Cleveland, while serving as sheriff of Erie County, NY.

Since 1962, a coal fire has continuously burned beneath what Pennylvania town? (name the town.)

scranton
ten

ok
centralia

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