Extreme Trivia #36
October 25, 2006 at 3:55 pm
First, the answer to last week’s question. When the last time the same hometown featured two presidential candidates?
Peter Roff was first to answer correctly: 1996. Bob Dole and Arlen Specter. Russell, Kansas.
Now, the next Extreme Trivia question. How many U.S. ambassadors have been killed by terrorists? (for tie breaking purposes, name the countries they were stationed in).
Peter Roff said,
October 27, 2006 @ 9:57 am
I believe the correct answer is five:
John Gordon Mein, in Guatemala, on August 28, 1968
Cleo A. Noel, Jr., in Sudan, on March 1, l973
Rodger P. Davies, in Cyprus, on August 19, 1974
Francis E. Meloy, Jr., in Lebanon, on June 16, 1976
Adolph Dubs, Afghanistan, on February 14, 1979