TRIVIA

  • Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Peace? (American statesman and United Nations official Ralph Bunche, in 1950, for his mediation of the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli War. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birth we celebrate today, won the coveted award in 1964)

  • Which American colony was the first to enact anti-slavery legislation? (Massachusetts, in 1641, in its "Body of Liberties")

  • To what amount did Congress vote to raise the minimum wage on October 26, 1949? (They raised it to 75 cents an hour; it had been 40 cents)

  • What American institution did Napoleon's grandnephew Charles Bonaparte found in 1908? (The F.B.I. He was attorney general of the U.S. at the time)

  • Who was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized as a saint? (Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, in 1946)

  • Which state was the first to pass a right-to-die law? (California , in 1976)

  • The U.S. bought the Virgin Islands for $25 million in 1917 -- from what country? (Denmark, which had established its first settlement there in 1672)

  • John Davidson Rockefeller got rich in what industry? (Oil)

  • What state has the highest divorce rate? (Arkansas)

  • Who was the first honorary American citizen? (Winston Churchill)

  • What is the largest of America's states? (Alaska)

  • What is Delaware's nickname? (The Diamond State)

  • Barry Allen was the alter ego of what super hero? (The Flash)

  • What do Buddy Holly, Lyndon Johnston, and Janice Joplin all have in common? (They come from the State of Texas)

  • Which states name translates to long river in Indian? (Connecticut)

  • What was the Mayflower's cargo before it was chartered to carry the pilgrims to America in 1620? (Wine. Just prior to its Atlantic crossing, the Mayflower transported 153) tons and 16 hogsheads (39,564 gallons) of wine from Bordeaux to London.

  • What speed limit was set by Connecticut in 1901 in the first statewide automobile legislation passed in the U.S.? (On country highways, 15 mph; on highways within city limits, 12 mph)

  • What state was the first to proclaim Christmas as a holiday? (Alabama)

  • What famous early American once boasted: "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days"? (Frontiersman Daniel Boone)

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