Medium History Questions
146 questionsTest your knowledge with 146 medium history trivia questions. Each question includes multiple choice options and the correct answer.
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What were the first states to break away from Yugoslavia?
The correct answer is C. Slovenia, Croatia
John Moses Browning, the designer of the M1918 BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) was a part of which religion?
The correct answer is D. Mormon
What was Genghis Khan's real name?
The correct answer is C. Temüjin
In what year was the video game company Electronic Arts founded?
The correct answer is B. 1982
When did construction of the Suez Canal finish?
The correct answer is D. 1869
Which of the following battles is often considered as marking the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
The correct answer is A. Battle of Adrianople
Joseph Smith was the founder of what religion?
The correct answer is D. Mormonism
When did Norway become free from Sweden?
The correct answer is C. 1905
In what year did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon?
The correct answer is C. 1969
The creator of the Enigma Cypher and Machine was of what nationality?
The correct answer is C. German
Which of his six wives was Henry VIII married to the longest?
The correct answer is B. Catherine of Aragon
The seed drill was invented by which British inventor?
The correct answer is D. Jethro Tull
The Herero genocide was perpetrated in Africa by which of the following colonial nations?
The correct answer is D. Germany
On which day did the attempted coup d'etat of 1991 in the Soviet Union begin?
The correct answer is A. August 19
In what year did the North American Video Game Crash occur?
The correct answer is C. 1983
What is the name of the US Navy spy ship which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces in 1968?
The correct answer is D. USS Pueblo
On what day did Germany invade Poland?
The correct answer is D. September 1, 1939
What date was the first flight of the P-40 Warhawk?
The correct answer is D. October 14 1938
When did the British hand-over sovereignty of Hong Kong back to China?
The correct answer is C. 1997
What was the name of the planned invasion of Japan towards the end of World War II?
The correct answer is C. Operation Downfall
Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States of America?
The correct answer is B. France
What was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in WW2?
The correct answer is A. Operation Barbarossa
When was the United States National Security Agency established?
The correct answer is D. November 4, 1952
The crown of the Empire State Building was originally built for what purpose?
The correct answer is A. Airship Dock
Which country had an "Orange Revolution" between 2004 and 2005?
The correct answer is D. Ukraine
What was the unofficial name for Germany between 1919 and 1933?
The correct answer is D. Weimar Republic
In what prison was Adolf Hitler held in 1924?
The correct answer is C. Landsberg Prison
Which historical conflict killed the most people?
The correct answer is D. World War II
How many years did the Hundred Years' War last?
The correct answer is C. 116
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?
The correct answer is B. 1989
During which American Civil War campaign did Union troops dig a tunnel beneath Confederate troops to detonate explosives underneath them?
The correct answer is C. Siege of Petersburg
Who was the only US President to be elected four times?
The correct answer is B. Franklin Roosevelt
Which of the following Assyrian kings did NOT rule during the Neo-Assyrian Empire?
The correct answer is D. Shamshi-Adad III
Which of the following is NOT classified as a Semetic language?
The correct answer is D. Sumerian
Which Roman Emperor led the Roman Empire to reach its maximum territorial extent?
The correct answer is D. Trajan
When did O, Canada officially become the national anthem?
The correct answer is D. 1980
What is the mnemonic device for remembering the fates of the wives of Henry VIII?
The correct answer is C. Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
Under which name was Rodrigo Borgia made Pope?
The correct answer is A. Alexander VI
What was the transfer of disease, crops, and people across the Atlantic shortly after the discovery of the Americas called?
The correct answer is A. The Columbian Exchange
The fraudelent doctor John R. Brinkley acummulated great fame and wealth in the early 1900s offering what service?
The correct answer is B. Goat testicles transplant
In what year did Texas secede from Mexico?
The correct answer is A. 1836
Who was the first explorer to sail to North America?
The correct answer is D. Leif Erikson
America's Strategic Defense System during the Cold War was nicknamed after this famous movie.
The correct answer is D. Star Wars
All of the following are names of the Seven Warring States EXCEPT:
The correct answer is C. Zhai (翟)
Which infamous European traitor was known as "the last person to enter Parliament with honest intentions"?
The correct answer is C. Guy Fawkes
What number does the Roman numeral "D" stand for?
The correct answer is D. 500
What year did Skoal, a smokeless Tobacco company, release their first line of Pouches, known as "Skoal Bandits"?
The correct answer is C. 1983
Who was the last Roman emperor in the Year of Four Emperors (69 AD)?
The correct answer is C. Vespasian
When did Jamaica recieve its independence from England?
The correct answer is B. 1962
Which of the following Presidents of the United States was assassinated?
The correct answer is D. William McKinley