What do these riddles in history mean?

Question

1.Not a midevil day soldier
2.military invention that sounds like it holds water
3. a boot you cant wear
4. sain that blew their top in the 80's
5.rodent food of peru
6. a civil war machine gun
7.goodenburg's innovation
8.that all time best selling book
9.evil symbol that once meant good luck
10.painting of an execution in his last meal
11.the U.S. king in the 50s and 60s
12.person who might pay a dollar for corn
13.tools the U.S. fought against in the cold war
14.a flat civil war ship
15.an artistic high pitched voice
16. a historical golden spike
17.a country's blue print
18.a mechanical zero
19 4heads of rock
20 island that will never unlock a door
21 a type of stinging insect that launched planes in WWII
22 ancient nascar vehicle
23 not quite a dried up parent
24 a king with an arrow through his eye
25New England brewing celebration

Answer 1

1. Knight
2. Tank
3. Wellington
4. Mount St. Helens
5. Guinea Pig
6. Gatling gun
7. Gutenberg's Printing Press
8. Bible
9. Swastika
10. The last supper?
11. Martin Luther King jr.
12. A Buccaneer (Buck an ear)
13. Hammer & Sickle
14. Monitor
15. Soprano
16. Joined two railroads at Promontory Point
17. Constitution
18. Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Japanese fighter plane)
19. Mount Rushmore
20. Florida Keys
21. USS Hornet
22. Chariot
23. Mummy
24. Harold
25. Oktoberfest

A bit too America-centric for this Brit, but not bad.

Answer 2

2. Tank
6. Gatling Gun
7. Printing Press
8. Bible
9. Swastika
11. "King Cotton?"
13. Sickle and Hammer
14. Ironclad
15. Soprano?
16. Joined the railroad that crossed the US
19. Mt. Rushmore
21. USS Hornet (aircraft carrier)
22. Chariot

All of these are done without looking them up.

Answer 3

6- Gatling machine gun
14- USS Monitor
18- ZERO fighter. Japanese
19- 4 US presidents carved in a mountain somewhere
21- Mosquito? that was a plane, not a launching device
25- "Boston Tea Party"

22- Chariot

Answer 4

1) Knight
5) ginea pig
10) last supper
17) Consitution
20) one of the Florida Keys
23) wet nurse
24) harold

Answer 5

WHAT IS THAT? its my first time to encounter those riddles. my IQ is low, can't help you.