VICE PRESIDENTS
He was the youngest vice president ever elected, inaugurated at age 40 in 1969.
Who is Spiro Agnew?
This U.S. president survived an assassination attempt in 1912 while campaigning as a third-party candidate in Milwaukee.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under this famous pen name, known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Who is Mark Twain?
Born in Vienna, this French queen was called, contemptuously, L'Autrichienne, "The Austrian"
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Legend says the volcano goddess known as Madame Pele is sometimes seen on this "Big Island" of the "Aloha State"
What is Hawaii?
The 25th Amendment provides for vice presidential succession and filling VP vacancies. He was the first vice president appointed under this process.
Who is Gerald R. Ford?
This famous British Prime Minister survived an assassination attempt by the IRA in Brighton in 1984.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
Eric Arthur Blair was known by this pseudonym before & after 1984
Who is (George) Orwell?
His nicknames include "The Father of Protestantism" & "The Father of the Reformation"
Who is Martin Luther?
Many Yucatecos, natives of this peninsula, are descended from the Maya Indians
What is the Yucatan?
This Carter VP's wife was nicknamed "Joan of Art" for her interest in that subject
Who is Mondale?
This Russian revolutionary leader survived multiple attempts on his life before being assassinated by an anarchist in 1918.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This Russian author wrote War and Peace under his real name, but published Anna Karenina under this pseudonym to avoid aristocratic scandal.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
This first Secretary of the Treasury was known as "The King of the Feds"
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Itzhak Ben-Zvi was the only person chosen president of this country 3 times–in 1952, 1957 & 1962
What is Israel?
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In 1968 he won the Democratic presidential nomination without entering a single primary
This French revolutionary leader escaped an assassination attempt known as the “Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise” in 1800, which involved an exploding cart.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This prolific 19th-century English novelist, famous for Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, was born Charles John Huffam — what pseudonym did he use?
Who is Charles Dickens?
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Otto von Bismarck was "The Man of Blood and Iron" & this WWII general was "Old Blood and Guts"
This city was known as Serdica in ancient times, long before it became Bulgaria's capital
What is Sofia?
He went to Europe after his 1807 treason trial & still attempted to gain a North American empire.
Who is Aaron Burr?
This Byzantine emperor narrowly escaped assassination during the Nika riots in 532 CE, when a violent faction sought to overthrow him.
Who is Justinian I?
This American writer, famous for The Great Gatsby, published under his real name, but his pen name was actually his initials, F. Scott — what’s his full name?
Who is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald?
It was the nickname of Robert Stroud, who wrote a 1942 "Digest of the Diseases of Birds"
Who is The Birdman of Alcatraz?
You can rent princess Margaret's villa on Mustique, an island in this sea, for about $6,000 a week
What is the Caribbean?