James Monroe
My favorite, meanwhile, is a political one:
Who was the only man to serve in the United States Senate from three different states?
James Shields, who spent about a term (1849-1855) representing Illinois, a little under a year (1858-1859) as one of Minnesota’s first Senators, and a little over a month in 1879 representing Missouri.
Nope, it’s November 5, 1955. October 25th is the day in the present (1985) when Marty meets Doc in the mall parking lot and goes back in time.
Scroll down do the Plot heading, halfway through the second paragraph.
That’s a good one. I can think of 3…
Wahington, Canberra, Brasilia.
Are those your 3 too?
On edit: Belmopan, Belize is in there too.
Well, now we are up to 5… (I wasn’t thinking of Canberra and Belmopan)
Every single one of them, except for little island possessions like the Galopagos. South America is a lot further east than you think.
None of those five were ever actually elected Prime Minister as the leader of a party that won a general election; they all were designated to the job when the previosu officeholder croaked or quit.
IIRC, that would be Vida Blue… the trick being that he was a pitcher, which no one would think of in the AL, but he won the MVP in '71 when there was not yet a DH.
David Tennant (#10 and current Dr. Who) also played Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
No, Quebec City is much smaller than Montreal.
At any rate, it may or may not be Montreal depending on your definition. Kinshasa has around 7 million people, about twice as many as the Montreal metropolitan area, but a large proportion of them speak Lingala. (Of course, nearly half of Montrealers don’t have French as their first language, but 70% speak French as their main language at home.)
I did not know that. I made my first visit to California in July of 1985. Took the Universal Studio tour, and recall seeing promo billboards for Back to the Future.
Although I did not see the movie until it was released on cable a couple years afterwards. I can absolutely verify that the Doc Brown sets the flux capacitor for November 5, 1955- the day I was born.
I “knew” Mickey Mouse’s middle name was Aloicius. I was going to pose it here but wanted to check my facts (and spelling) first so I checked the net… couldn’t find it.
Curious…
I took this astronomy class in college where an extra credit question on the midterm exam was, “12 people have walked on the Moon. Name them.”
I hadn’t studied this in anticipation for the test, but I put down 12 names.
When we got the tests back, I found that I had gotten 11 of them right.
I spent the rest of the day sulking about in nerd remorse for missing #12 (“Charlie Duke! How could I forget about Charlie Duke?! Boy do I suck!”, etc.) Naturally, sympathy was slow in coming. Very slow.
For the French-speaking city, Montreal is the answer I was going for, based on native-language French speakers. (I’d’ve added more details originally if I were not reading the question verbally in a bar.)
10 most populous: NYC and Philly are correct.
African country that’s not part of the African Union: Morocco
Arizona Territory is correct for Mesilla.
NYC was founded (as New Amsterdam) before that Duke of York was born. Houston’s what I was going for.
Longest river: the Yukon.
And the largest of the four is the Sahara.
That was so bad on all levels I laughed for five minutes 
Exactamundo!
Well done!
A few “geographic” ones I like. . .
What state borders only one other state? (easy)
Name a state whose name contains 4 consecutive consonants that don’t span two different words. (not so much trivia as parsing it out).
There was recent Final Jeopardy clue that was similar: 1 of the 2 South American countries whose mainland you’ll fly over when heading due south from Miami, Florida.
Joe who? 
A few of my favorites:
In the classic 1931 film version of Frankenstein (starring Boris Karloff, directed by James Whale, etc etc), what is the name of the doctor’s hunchbacked assistant?Neither Igor nor Eyegor. His name was Fritz
Name the seven hills of Rome.Palatine, Aventine, Capitoline, Esquiline, Quirinal, Viminal, Caelian
While we’re in the neighborhood, who were the only two Roman emperors directly descended from Augustus?Gaius Julius Caesar, better known as Caligula, and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, better known as Nero.
In The Pirates of Penzance, young Fredric discovers (much to his horror) that, due to a legal technicality, he is bound to serve the pirate crew for much longer than he had originally thought. On what date will Frederic (according to his own calculations in Act II) be freed from his indentures?February 29th, 1940
In any case, the other one I was thinking of was
Austin, Texas
In 1986, Leonard Nimoy made a claim that no one else could make. What was it?
What member of Pink Floyd can make a similar claim?