Random Facts

Question 1

“Iron Lady” of Israel

Answer 1

Golda Meir (PM 1969-74)

Question 2

First Israeli PM

Answer 2

David Ben-Gurion

Question 3

Where did Golda Meir attend college?

Answer 3

Milwaukee State Normal School

Question 4

Who played Golda Meir on screen?

Answer 4

Ingrid Bergman (“A Woman Called Golda” 1982)

Question 5

Battle of Lepanto

Answer 5

1571 naval battle off Greece. Coalition of Catholic nations beat the Ottoman Empire

Question 6

Which Spanish author fought at Battle of Lepanto?

Answer 6

Cervantes

Question 7

Treaty that formally ended the Austro-Hungarian empire

Answer 7

Treaty of St Germain (1920)

Question 8

This agreement, that sounds like elderflower liqueur, is what formally resulted in the states of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia

Answer 8

Treaty of St Germain

Question 9

“Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!”

Answer 9

-Dom Perignon (attributed, but apocryphal)

Question 10

Blind French monk who invented champagne

Answer 10

Dom Perignon. (Though he was not blind, nor did he invent champagne)

Question 11

Polish astronomer

Answer 11

Copernicus

Question 12

Astronomer who discovered Uranus

Answer 12

William Herschel

Question 13

Uranus moons are named after

Answer 13

Shakespeare Midsummer Nights Dream (Titania and Oberon)
Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock (Ariel and Umbriel)

Question 15

First woman elected President

Answer 15

Vigdis Finbigadottir (Iceland 1980)

Question 16

First woman elected PM

Answer 16

Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1960

Question 18

Patron saint of the Americas. First person canonized in the New World

Answer 18

St Rose of Lima

Question 19

Patron saint of physicians

Answer 19

St Luke