General Knowledge

This is just a random knowledge test that I came up with because, yes, I'm bored and didn't have anything else to do. It has a lot of random history questions because I made it and I like history. Don't like it then make your own you naysayer.

Can you actually pass this without cheating on most, if not all of it? I doubt it but give it a shot. And when you actually find out the right answers you can quiz other people and shame them for knowing so little.

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1. When the great Martin Luther King Jr was shot in Memphis, he was there supporting what group?
Woman's rights
Sanitation workers
School Bus drivers
Civil Rights marchers
2. Four US Presidents have been Assassinated, but how many have survived an assassination attempt?
6
zero
4
5
3. Approximitaly how long does it take energy from the core of the sun to reach it's surface and be emitted as light?
30 days
8 minutes
90 years
170,000 years
4. Long time FBI director J Edgar Hoover was rumored to be...?
A Communists
Behind the JFK Assassination
A cross dresser
Secretly trying to take over the US Government
5. How many states seceded during the Civil War?
11
12
7
9
6. The Confederate Battle flag has two more stars then there were confederate states, because at the time it was thought that these two states would follow the rest of the dirty south into treason.
Mayland and Kentucky
Alabama and Missouri
Kentucky and Missouri
Rhode Island and West Virginia
7. The treasonous Jefferson Davis was actually Sec. of War for which President?
Zachary Taylor
Franklin Pierce
James K. Polk
James Buchanan
8. What President had the shortest tenure in office?
John Adams
William Henry Harrison
Milllard Fillmore
Herbert Hoover
9. When he was shot Robert Kennedy was leaving a?
church
hotel
home
park
10. For bonus points: Who shot him?
Charles J. Guiteau
Abner Doubleday
Leon Czolgosz
Sirhan Sirhan
11. Robert Lincoln has a odious distinction in history because he was present at his fathers death and the assassination of what other President?
James Garfield
William McKinley
Benjamin Harrison
Ulysses S Grant
12. Scientists believe that on this moon of Jupiter there is a ocean of liquid water beneath the ice shell of its surface.
Ganymede
Io
Callisto
Europa
13. Who shot Alexander Hamilton?
George Washington
Aaron Burr
Mrs. Hamilton
Ben Franklin
14. For more bonus points: What post did the person who shot and killed him hold?
Vice President
Sec. of State
Minister
Ambassador
15. What two elements power our sun and are believed to be responsible for the creation of all the other elements?
Carbon and Oxygen
Helium and Oxygen
Hydrogen and Helium
Hydrogen and Argon

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