Medium History Questions
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The Spitfire L.F. Mk IX had what engine?
The correct answer is C. Merlin 66
Which Greek god was the god of the Sun?
The correct answer is B. Helios
What year did the Battle of Agincourt take place?
The correct answer is B. 1415
In which years did the Battle of Gallipoli take place?
The correct answer is C. 1915 - 1916
What was the capital of South Vietnam before the Vietnam War?
The correct answer is D. Saigon
Which U.S. president took part in the Potsdam Conference, where the Allies reached a peace settlement with Germany?
The correct answer is C. Harry S. Truman
Which of the following is not in the Indo-European language family?
The correct answer is B. Finnish
What is the oldest US state?
The correct answer is A. Delaware
What disease crippled President Franklin D. Roosevelt and led him to help the nation find a cure?
The correct answer is D. Polio
What event marked the start of World War II?
The correct answer is C. Invasion of Poland (1939)
When did L. L. Zamenhof first publish "Unua Libro", the first publication describing his international language Esperanto?
The correct answer is A. 1887
Who crowned Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800?
The correct answer is A. Pope Leo III
One of the deadliest pandemics, the "Spanish Flu", killed off what percentage of the human world population at the time?
The correct answer is B. 3 to 6 percent
What Russian automatic gas-operated assault rifle was developed in the Soviet Union in 1947, and is still popularly used today?
The correct answer is A. AK-47
In 1961, an American B-52 aircraft crashed and nearly detonated two 4mt nuclear bombs over which US city?
The correct answer is B. Goldsboro, North Carolina
Who was the first Chancellor of a united Germany in 1871?
The correct answer is C. Otto Von Bismark
Which country was an allied power in World War II?
The correct answer is D. Soviet Union
Who was the leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ?
The correct answer is B. Josip Broz Tito
Which Nazi General was known as the "Desert Fox"?
The correct answer is A. Erwin Rommel
Which dictator killed the most people?
The correct answer is D. Mao Zedong
In what dialogue did Socrates defend himself to the court of Athens?
The correct answer is A. The Apology
What year did Australia become a federation?
The correct answer is B. 1901
What is the bloodiest event in United States history, in terms of casualties?
The correct answer is A. Battle of Antietam
What year did the Boxing Day earthquake & tsunami occur in the Indian Ocean?
The correct answer is B. 2004
What year did the Vietnam War end?
The correct answer is C. 1975
What was the name of the chemical that was dropped on Vietnam during the Vietnam war?
The correct answer is A. Agent Orange
On which aircraft carrier did the Doolitte Raid launch from on April 18, 1942 during World War II?
The correct answer is B. USS Hornet
In which year did the First World War begin?
The correct answer is A. 1914
What was the bloodiest single-day battle during the American Civil War?
The correct answer is A. The Battle of Antietam
After his loss at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to which island?
The correct answer is D. St. Helena
Which of these 1900s tanks were designed and built BEFORE the others?
The correct answer is D. Renault FT
When did the Battle of the Bulge end?
The correct answer is D. January 25, 1945
The United States Army Air Corps became the United States Air Force on what date?
The correct answer is D. September 18, 1947
The Fallingwater House, located in Pennsylvania, was designed by which architect?
The correct answer is C. Frank Lloyd Wright
The minigun was designed in 1960 by which manufacturer.
The correct answer is B. General Electric
Which of the following ancient Near Eastern peoples still exists as a modern ethnic group?
The correct answer is A. Assyrians
Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for most of World War II?
The correct answer is D. Winston Churchill
The Thirty Years War ended with which treaty?
The correct answer is B. Peace of Westphalia
In which year was Constantinople conquered by the Turks?
The correct answer is C. 1453
What year were the Marian Reforms instituted in the Roman Republic?
The correct answer is B. 107 BCE
On which day did construction start on "The Pentagon", the headquarters for the United States Department of Defense?
The correct answer is C. September 11, 1941
In 1845, a series of wars named after which indigenous people began in New Zealand?
The correct answer is B. Māori
In what year did Kentucky become the 15th state to join the union?
The correct answer is C. 1792
When was the Grand Patriotic War in the USSR concluded?
The correct answer is C. May 9th, 1945
In World War I, what was the name of the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria?
The correct answer is C. The Central Powers
During what war did the "Cuban Missile Crisis" occur?
The correct answer is A. Cold War