Interesting Facts Multiple Choice #1

1. Technically, Manila is not the most populous city in the Philippines. What neighboring municipality is?

2. Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize. Who did?

3. The only U.S. presidents to run unopposed were George Washington and who?

4. What is both the deepest and the oldest lake in the world?

5. The largest island in the United States is Hawaii, also known as what?

6. Who was rated the #1 guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine?

7. What squid is thought to be even larger than the giant squid?

8. What does that squid have the largest of any mammal?

9. How many prisoners were inside the Bastille when it was stormed during the French Revolution?

10. Fortune cookies were invented in the United States by a person who was born in what country?

11. Mark Twain was born two weeks after the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835 and died one day after it returned how many years later?

12. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on what day in 1826?

13. Who was both the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person of any gender to win twice?

14. What city is not named for a figure from Greek mythology, but for an ancient Celtic tribe?

15. The United States is older than Germany. Germany did not become a unified country until what year?