Which international honor was first awarded in 1901?

History Trivia / January 06, 2026

Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prizes, established in 1901, are awarded annually in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.

Who was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital?

History Trivia / January 06, 2026

Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter lost his re-election bid for President.

Which writer/journalist left her estate to Martin Luther King, Jr. upon her death in 1967?

History Trivia / January 05, 2026

Dorothy Parker. Writer Dorothy Parker is perhaps best known for this line: "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses".

Who administered the oath of office to Calvin Coolidge upon Warren Harding's death?

History Trivia / January 05, 2026

His Father. Calvin Coolidge's father was a Justice of the Peace in his village in Vermont.

The Three Mile Island near melt down at the nuclear power station was in which U.S. state?

History Trivia / January 04, 2026

Pennsylvania. President and Mrs. Carter toured the Three Mile Island facility while the belief that an explosion was still possible.

In 1922, the U.S. Post Office destroyed 500 copies of which James Joyce novel?

History Trivia / January 04, 2026

Ulysses. Due to obscenity provisions in the U.S. Postal Code, the publication of James Joyce's "Ulysses" was banned in the U.S. until 1933.