History in the Month of May
Check out our newest trivia game series featuring historical and cultural events from a particular month of the year.
15 questions · Published April 24, 2023
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. How many floors are in the Empire State Building, opened May 1, 1931?
When it opened in 1931, the 102-story Art Deco Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world.
- Multiple Choice
2. What "Good Girls" actress, born May 3, 1975, also starred on television's "Mad Men"?
FUN FACT
In a 2010 Esquire magazine poll, female readers voted Christina Hendricks "the sexiest woman in the world."
- Multiple Choice
3. Who was president of the United States when construction began on the Panama Canal, May 4, 1904?
Though some politicians argued for a canal through Nicaragua instead, Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet voted to purchase and reconstruct an existing project that had been started by the French several years earlier.
- Drag and Drop Reorder
4. Starting with the first death, plan the funerals for these historical figures who departed this world in the month of May.
- 1.Leonardo da Vinci
- 2.Napoleon Bonaparte
- 3.Voltaire
- 4.Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus ended his journey of life on May 20, 1506.
Italian Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2, 1519.
Known by his nom de plume Voltaire, French writer François-Marie Arouet gave up the ghost on May 30, 1778.
French political leader Napoleon Bonaparte met his end on May 5, 1821.
- Multiple Choice
5. What U.S. state was the site of the Hindenburg airship disaster on May 6, 1937?
The German passenger airship collided with a mooring mast at a naval station in New Jersey.
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