Happy Birthday, Mr. President

Happy Birthday, Mr. President.
Robert F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy.
Image Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

Five questions which in some way are connected to today, May 19th.


One

The world’s first national park service was established in 1911 in which country?


Two

Colin Chapman, an English engineer born in 1928, founded which sports car company, and Formula One team?


Three

In 1959, the North Vietnamese Army’s Group 559 was established to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam. The supply route to fulfil this brief became known as what? And what countries, other than North and South Vietnam, did the route traverse?


Four

Charlotte, the future queen consort of George III, was born in 1744 in the small duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. This duchy was part of what empire?


Five

On this day Marilyn Monroe famously sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President at a gala to mark John F. Kennedy’s birthday. The gala, a Democratic Party fundraiser, was held ten days before the president’s birthday. What age would the president become on that birthday, and where was the gala held?


Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.


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