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History

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Journey through time with history! Test your knowledge of historical events, famous historical figures, ancient civilizations, world wars, historical timelines, and the events that shaped our world.

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Easy Questions

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Question 1easy

Which of the following countries was not an axis power during World War II?

Question 2easy

What country joined the EU in 2013?

Question 3easy

What was the name commonly given to the ancient trade routes that connected the East and West of Eurasia?

Question 4easy

Which of the following African countries was most successful in resisting colonization?

Question 5easy

To what political party did Abraham Lincoln belong when elected POTUS?

Question 6easy

In what year did the Wall Street Crash take place?

Question 7easy

Which of these countries remained neutral during World War II?

Question 8easy

The collapse of the Soviet Union took place in which year?

Question 9easy

Who led the Communist Revolution of Russia?

Question 10easy

Abolitionist John Brown raided the arsenal in which Virginia Town?

Question 11easy

Which modern country is known as "The Graveyard of Empires"?

Question 12easy

What was Manfred von Richthofen's nickname?

Question 13easy

What is the historical name of Sri Lanka?

Question 14easy

Which of the following was Brazil was a former colony under?

Question 15easy

Which one of these tanks was designed and operated by the United Kingdom?

Question 16easy

What does the United States of America celebrate during the 4th of July?

Question 17easy

Who discovered Penicillin?

Question 18easy

When did the Battle of the Somme begin?

Question 19easy

In 1453, which important city fell?

Question 20easy

Which one of these was not a beach landing site in the Invasion of Normandy?

Question 21easy

The Ottoman Empire was dissolved after their loss in which war?

Question 22easy

Which of the following ancient peoples was NOT classified as Hellenic (Greek)?

Question 23easy

In 1720, England was in massive debt and became involved in the South Sea Bubble. Who was the main mastermind behind it?

Question 24easy

The "Trail of Tears" was a result of which United States President's Indian Removal Policy?

Question 25easy

These two countries held a commonwealth from the 16th to 18th century.

Question 26easy

When was Google founded?

Question 27easy

The idea of Socialism was articulated and advanced by whom?

Question 28easy

How many manned moon landings have there been?

Question 29easy

How old was Adolf Hitler when he died?

Question 30easy

Who rode on horseback to warn the Minutemen that the British were coming during the U.S. Revolutionary War?

Question 31easy

In what year did the Great Northern War, between Russia and Sweden, end?

Question 32easy

Which famous military commander marched an army, which included war elephants, over the Alps during the Second Punic War?

Question 33easy

The original Roman alphabet lacked the following letters EXCEPT:

Question 34easy

During WWII, in 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and what other city?

Question 35easy

In what year was the M1911 pistol designed?

Question 36easy

In which year did the Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq occur?

Question 37easy

Who was the first president of the United States?

Question 38easy

King Henry VIII was the second monarch of which European royal house?

Question 39easy

Who was the first prime minister of Canada?

Question 40easy

How was Socrates executed?

Question 41easy

Which German field marshal was known as the `Desert Fox`?

Question 42easy

What was William Frederick Cody better known as?

Question 43easy

In 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany after it invaded which country?

Question 44easy

Who was the first American in space?

Question 45easy

What was the first sport to have been played on the moon?

Question 46easy

Which country was Josef Stalin born in?

Question 47easy

What year did World War I begin?

Question 48easy

How long did World War II last?

Question 49easy

Who was among those killed in the 2010 Smolensk, Russia plane crash tragedy?

Question 50easy

On what street did the 1666 Great Fire of London start?

Question 51easy

Which modern day country is the region that was known as Phrygia in ancient times?

Question 52easy

Which famous world leader is famed for the saying, "Let them eat cake", yet is rumored that he/she never said it at all?

Question 53easy

Who was the Prime Minister of Japan when Japan declared war on the US?

Medium Questions

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Question 1medium

What were the first states to break away from Yugoslavia?

Question 2medium

John Moses Browning, the designer of the M1918 BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) was a part of which religion?

Question 3medium

What was Genghis Khan's real name?

Question 4medium

In what year was the video game company Electronic Arts founded?

Question 5medium

When did construction of the Suez Canal finish?

Question 6medium

Which of the following battles is often considered as marking the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire?

Question 7medium

Joseph Smith was the founder of what religion?

Question 8medium

When did Norway become free from Sweden?

Question 9medium

In what year did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon?

Question 10medium

The creator of the Enigma Cypher and Machine was of what nationality?

Question 11medium

Which of his six wives was Henry VIII married to the longest?

Question 12medium

The seed drill was invented by which British inventor?

Question 13medium

The Herero genocide was perpetrated in Africa by which of the following colonial nations?

Question 14medium

On which day did the attempted coup d'etat of 1991 in the Soviet Union begin?

Question 15medium

In what year did the North American Video Game Crash occur?

Question 16medium

What is the name of the US Navy spy ship which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces in 1968?

Question 17medium

On what day did Germany invade Poland?

Question 18medium

What date was the first flight of the P-40 Warhawk?

Question 19medium

When did the British hand-over sovereignty of Hong Kong back to China?

Question 20medium

What was the name of the planned invasion of Japan towards the end of World War II?

Question 21medium

Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States of America?

Question 22medium

What was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in WW2?

Question 23medium

When was the United States National Security Agency established?

Question 24medium

The crown of the Empire State Building was originally built for what purpose?

Question 25medium

Which country had an "Orange Revolution" between 2004 and 2005?

Question 26medium

What was the unofficial name for Germany between 1919 and 1933?

Question 27medium

In what prison was Adolf Hitler held in 1924?

Question 28medium

Which historical conflict killed the most people?

Question 29medium

How many years did the Hundred Years' War last?

Question 30medium

In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?

Question 31medium

During which American Civil War campaign did Union troops dig a tunnel beneath Confederate troops to detonate explosives underneath them?

Question 32medium

Who was the only US President to be elected four times?

Question 33medium

Which of the following Assyrian kings did NOT rule during the Neo-Assyrian Empire?

Question 34medium

Which of the following is NOT classified as a Semetic language?

Question 35medium

Which Roman Emperor led the Roman Empire to reach its maximum territorial extent?

Question 36medium

When did O, Canada officially become the national anthem?

Question 37medium

What is the mnemonic device for remembering the fates of the wives of Henry VIII?

Question 38medium

Under which name was Rodrigo Borgia made Pope?

Question 39medium

What was the transfer of disease, crops, and people across the Atlantic shortly after the discovery of the Americas called?

Question 40medium

The fraudelent doctor John R. Brinkley acummulated great fame and wealth in the early 1900s offering what service?

Question 41medium

In what year did Texas secede from Mexico?

Question 42medium

Who was the first explorer to sail to North America?

Question 43medium

America's Strategic Defense System during the Cold War was nicknamed after this famous movie.

Question 44medium

All of the following are names of the Seven Warring States EXCEPT:

Question 45medium

Which infamous European traitor was known as "the last person to enter Parliament with honest intentions"?

Question 46medium

What number does the Roman numeral "D" stand for?

Question 47medium

What year did Skoal, a smokeless Tobacco company, release their first line of Pouches, known as "Skoal Bandits"?

Question 48medium

Who was the last Roman emperor in the Year of Four Emperors (69 AD)?

Question 49medium

When did Jamaica recieve its independence from England?

Question 50medium

Which of the following Presidents of the United States was assassinated?

Question 51medium

Which of these countries was NOT a part of the Soviet Union?

Question 52medium

Which of these founding fathers of the United States of America later became president?

Question 53medium

The Korean War started in what year?

Question 54medium

Who tutored Alexander the Great?

Question 55medium

Which of the following countries was the first to send an object into space?

Question 56medium

What is the name of the ship which was only a few miles away from the RMS Titanic when it struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912?

Question 57medium

What year is considered to be the year that the British Empire ended?

Question 58medium

When was the People's Republic of China founded?

Question 59medium

When did the United States formally declare war on Japan, entering World War II?

Question 60medium

Which Nation DID NOT have a Colony in Modern-day America?

Question 61medium

Which of the following snipers has the highest amount of confirmed kills?

Question 62medium

In relation to the British Occupation in Ireland, what does the IRA stand for.

Question 63medium

What was the total length of the Titanic?

Question 64medium

According to scholarly estimates, what percentage of the world population at the time died due to Tamerlane's conquests?

Question 65medium

Which king was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485?

Question 66medium

When did Norway get its constitution?

Question 67medium

How old was Lyndon B. Johnson when he assumed the role of President of the United States?

Question 68medium

Who is attributed credit for recording the epic poem The Odyssey?

Question 69medium

Which of these facilities was not present on the Titanic?

Question 70medium

When Christopher Columbus sailed to America, what was the first region he arrived in?

Question 71medium

When was "The Gadget", the first nuclear device to be detonated, tested?

Question 72medium

The Panama Canal was finished under the administration of which U.S. president?

Question 73medium

Which American civilization is the source of the belief that the world would end or drastically change on December 21st, 2012?

Question 74medium

Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Question 75medium

Which U.S. President was famously 'attacked' by a swimming rabbit?

Question 76medium

When did the Crisis of the Third Century begin?

Question 77medium

What was the name of one of the surviving palaces of Henry VIII located near Richmond, London?

Question 78medium

What nationality was sultan Saladin?

Question 79medium

Who was the first president born in the independent United States?

Question 80medium

Which building was set aflame on August 24th, 1812?

Question 81medium

In what year did the First World War end?

Question 82medium

Which Louis was known as 'The Sun King of France'?

Question 83medium

Which Las Vegas casino was originally constructed and operated by mobster Bugsy Siegel?

Question 84medium

Against which country did the Dutch Republic fight the Eighty Years' War?

Question 85medium

Which of these countries was sea charted in 1500 by the Portuguese maritime explorations?

Question 86medium

The Battle of the Somme in World War I took place in which country?

Question 87medium

Which Apollo mission was the last one in NASA's Apollo program?

Question 88medium

Which WWII tank ace is credited with having destroyed the most tanks?

Question 89medium

Joseph Stalin had a criminal past doing what?

Question 90medium

Which U.S. President was in office when the Gulf War began?

Question 91medium

The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested, had a yield of 50 megatons but theoretically had a maximum yield of how much?

Question 92medium

In the War of the Pacific (1879 - 1883), Bolivia lost its access to the Pacific Ocean after being defeated by which South American country?

Question 93medium

How many times was Albert Einstein married in his lifetime?

Question 94medium

During the Mongolian invasions of Japan, what were the Mongol boats mostly stopped by?

Question 95medium

In what year was the famous 45 foot tall Hollywood sign first erected?

Question 96medium

Where and when was the first cardboard box made for industrial use?

Question 97medium

Adolf Hitler was born on which date?

Question 98medium

What happened on June 6, 1944?

Question 99medium

What historical event was Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture referencing?

Question 100medium

In what year was the last natural case of smallpox documented?

Question 101medium

The Spitfire L.F. Mk IX had what engine?

Question 102medium

Which Greek god was the god of the Sun?

Question 103medium

What year did the Battle of Agincourt take place?

Question 104medium

In which years did the Battle of Gallipoli take place?

Question 105medium

What was the capital of South Vietnam before the Vietnam War?

Question 106medium

Which U.S. president took part in the Potsdam Conference, where the Allies reached a peace settlement with Germany?

Question 107medium

Which of the following is not in the Indo-European language family?

Question 108medium

What is the oldest US state?

Question 109medium

What disease crippled President Franklin D. Roosevelt and led him to help the nation find a cure?

Question 110medium

What event marked the start of World War II?

Question 111medium

When did L. L. Zamenhof first publish "Unua Libro", the first publication describing his international language Esperanto?

Question 112medium

Who crowned Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800?

Question 113medium

One of the deadliest pandemics, the "Spanish Flu", killed off what percentage of the human world population at the time?

Question 114medium

What Russian automatic gas-operated assault rifle was developed in the Soviet Union in 1947, and is still popularly used today?

Question 115medium

In 1961, an American B-52 aircraft crashed and nearly detonated two 4mt nuclear bombs over which US city?

Question 116medium

Who was the first Chancellor of a united Germany in 1871?

Question 117medium

Which country was an allied power in World War II?

Question 118medium

Who was the leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ?

Question 119medium

Which Nazi General was known as the "Desert Fox"?

Question 120medium

Which dictator killed the most people?

Question 121medium

In what dialogue did Socrates defend himself to the court of Athens?

Question 122medium

What year did Australia become a federation?

Question 123medium

What is the bloodiest event in United States history, in terms of casualties?

Question 124medium

What year did the Boxing Day earthquake & tsunami occur in the Indian Ocean?

Question 125medium

What year did the Vietnam War end?

Question 126medium

What was the name of the chemical that was dropped on Vietnam during the Vietnam war?

Question 127medium

On which aircraft carrier did the Doolitte Raid launch from on April 18, 1942 during World War II?

Question 128medium

In which year did the First World War begin?

Question 129medium

What was the bloodiest single-day battle during the American Civil War?

Question 130medium

After his loss at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to which island?

Question 131medium

Which of these 1900s tanks were designed and built BEFORE the others?

Question 132medium

When did the Battle of the Bulge end?

Question 133medium

The United States Army Air Corps became the United States Air Force on what date?

Question 134medium

The Fallingwater House, located in Pennsylvania, was designed by which architect?

Question 135medium

The minigun was designed in 1960 by which manufacturer.

Question 136medium

Which of the following ancient Near Eastern peoples still exists as a modern ethnic group?

Question 137medium

Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for most of World War II?

Question 138medium

The Thirty Years War ended with which treaty?

Question 139medium

In which year was Constantinople conquered by the Turks?

Question 140medium

What year were the Marian Reforms instituted in the Roman Republic?

Question 141medium

On which day did construction start on "The Pentagon", the headquarters for the United States Department of Defense?

Question 142medium

In 1845, a series of wars named after which indigenous people began in New Zealand?

Question 143medium

In what year did Kentucky become the 15th state to join the union?

Question 144medium

When was the Grand Patriotic War in the USSR concluded?

Question 145medium

In World War I, what was the name of the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria?

Question 146medium

During what war did the "Cuban Missile Crisis" occur?

Hard Questions

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Question 1hard

From 1940 to 1942, what was the capital-in-exile of Free France ?

Question 2hard

The pantheon in Rome was used to worship what god?

Question 3hard

The Second Boer War in 1899 was fought where?

Question 4hard

What was the last colony the UK ceded marking the end of the British Empire?

Question 5hard

How long did the Warsaw Uprising during World War II last?

Question 6hard

In addition to his career as an astrologer and "prophet", Nostradamus published a 1555 treatise that included a section on what?

Question 7hard

What did the abbreviation "RMS" stand for in the RMS Titanic in 1912?

Question 8hard

The ontological argument for the proof of God's existence is first attributed to whom?

Question 9hard

Who is the creator of the soft drink, Dr. Pepper?

Question 10hard

What was Napoleon Bonaparte's name before he changed it?

Question 11hard

How many women joined the United States Armed Services during World War II?

Question 12hard

Which one of these rulers did not belong to the Habsburg dynasty?

Question 13hard

When did Lithuania declare independence from the Soviet Union?

Question 14hard

The Hagia Sophia was commissioned by which emperor of the Byzantine Empire?

Question 15hard

When did Spanish Peninsular War start?

Question 16hard

Who was the first man to travel into outer space twice?

Question 17hard

List the following Iranic empires in chronological order:

Question 18hard

When did Canada leave the confederation to become their own nation?

Question 19hard

What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on August 15th, 1944?

Question 20hard

What did the first vending machines in the early 1880's dispense?

Question 21hard

Which U.S. president was said to have been too honest to lie to his father about chopping down a cherry tree?

Question 22hard

Bohdan Khmelnytsky was which of the following?

Question 23hard

Which English king was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?

Question 24hard

Which is the hull NO. of the Fletcher class destroyer Fletcher?

Question 25hard

Which country did the Eureka Rebellion, an 1856 battle against colonial rule, take place in?

Question 26hard

Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt in which country?

Question 27hard

Which countries participated in the Lobster War?

Question 28hard

The Bohemian Revolt (1618-1620) started after Protestants in Prague did what to their Catholic Lords Regents?

Question 29hard

When was Adolf Hitler appointed as Chancellor of Germany?

Question 30hard

After the 1516 Battle of Marj Dabiq, the Ottoman Empire took control of Jerusalem from which sultanate?

Question 31hard

What was the real name of the Albanian national leader Skanderbeg?

Question 32hard

Which of the following was not one of Joseph Stalin's ten blows during World War II?

Question 33hard

The Battle of Hastings was fought in which year?

Question 34hard

Which of the following physicists did NOT work on the Manhattan project?

Question 35hard

During the Wars of the Roses (1455 - 1487) which Englishman was dubbed "the Kingmaker"?

Question 36hard

What was the name of the spy ring that helped the United States win the Revolutionary War?

Question 37hard

In the year 1900, what were the most popular first names given to boy and girl babies born in the United States?

Question 38hard

What is the name of the Boeing B-29 that dropped the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

Question 39hard

When was the SS or Schutzstaffel established?

Question 40hard

What age was King Henry V when he died?

Question 41hard

The ancient city of Chichén Itzá was built by which civilization?

Question 42hard

On which day did ARPANET suffer a 4 hour long network crash?

Question 43hard

Who was the President of the United States during the signing of the Gadsden Purchase?

Question 44hard

What year was Canada founded in?

Question 45hard

The main objective of the German operation "Case Blue" during World War II was originally to capture what?

Question 46hard

Who assassinated President James A. Garfield?

Question 47hard

With which Greek philosopher would you associate the phrase, "I know that I know nothing"?

Question 48hard

The son of which pope supposedly held a lecherous fête involving 50 courtesans in the papal palace?

Question 49hard

In which year did the Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack occur?

Question 50hard

Which day did World War I begin?

Question 51hard

Which of these positions did the astronomer and physicist Isaac Newton not hold?

Question 52hard

What year was the United States Declaration of Independence signed?

Question 53hard

When did the French Revolution begin?

Question 54hard

Spain was formed in 1469 with the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of what other Iberian kingdom?

Question 55hard

What was the name of the German offensive operation in October 1941 to take Moscow before winter?

Question 56hard

When was the "Siege of Leningrad" lifted during World War II?

Question 57hard

Which of these theoretical phycisists first predicted the existence of antimatter?

Question 58hard

The coat of arms of the King of Spain contains the arms from the monarchs of Castille, Leon, Aragon and which other former Iberian kingdom?

Question 59hard

Which naval battle was considered the turning point of the Pacific Ocean Theater during World War 2?

Question 60hard

During the Roman Triumvirate of 42 BCE, what region of the Roman Republic was given to Lepidus?

Question 61hard

What was the aim of the "Umbrella Revolution" in Hong Kong in 2014?

Question 62hard

Which of the following Physicists aided Nazi Germany in their production of a nuclear weapon?

Question 63hard

What was found in 1946 by two young shepards near a cave?

Question 64hard

Who invented the "Flying Shuttle" in 1738; one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving?

Question 65hard

Pianist Frédéric Chopin was a composer of which musical era?

Question 66hard

During the Spanish Civil War (1936), Francisco Franco fought for which political faction?

Question 67hard

Which King of England was faced with the Peasants' Revolt in 1381?

Question 68hard

How many sonatas did Ludwig van Beethoven write?

Question 69hard

What was the original name of New York City?

Question 70hard

When was the city of Rome, Italy founded?

Question 71hard

Before the American colonies switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1752, on what date did their new year start?

Question 72hard

During World War I, which nation's monarchs were blood related?

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