Those who fail to do well on history trivia are doom to be feeble .
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it,” or so the saying goes. So, let’s brush up on your historical knowledge, shall we? This world history trivia should be no trouble for ya.
1.What word was found carved into a tree on Roanoke Island in 1590?
Croatoan
2.Who assassinated John F. Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
3.What were the names of Christopher Columbus’s ships?
The Niña , the Pinta , and the Santa Maria
4.What disease was also called “the Black Death”?
The bubonic pestilence
5.What was the first nation to send an astronaut to space?
6.Which two rivers defined the Mesopotamian region?
The Tigris and the Euphrates
7.Who said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall?”
President Ronald Reagan
8.In what year did the Vietnam War end?
1975
9.Which two languages were featured on the Rosetta Stone?
10.Which nations made up the Axis Powers during World War II?
Germany , Italy , and Japan
11.Which Mesoamerican civilization built Chichén Itzá?
Chichén Itzá
12.The Congress of Vienna assembled after which wars?
The Napoleonic Wars
13.Who is the only US president to have been a former prisoner of war?
14.The slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” was used by which political party in 1840?
The Whig Party
15.Who drew the famous illustration known as “Vitruvian Man”?
Leonardo da Vinci
16.Which war did Operation: Desert Storm kick off in January 1991?
The Persian Gulf War
17.Which lesser-known painting by Michelangelo appears on the wall of the Sistine Chapel, below the ceiling he painted?
18.Which Filipino leader who lobbied for the country’s independence was the president in office when the Philippines became a commonwealth?
Manuel Quezon
19.At which battle did Admiral Horatio Nelson lose his life, but defeat the French?
The Battle of Trafalgar
20.Who wroteThe Republic?
Plato
21.Which African country did the French try to block from gaining independence under their secret force, the O.A.S.?
Algeria
22.Which Hun leader received 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans each year as part of a treaty?
23.Which English king was beheaded during the English Civil War?
Charles I
24.How many sacraments are in the Catholic Church?
Seven sacrament
25.When did WWI officially end?
November 11 , 1918
26.What year was the Battle of Yorktown?
1781
27.Mary Antoinette was married to which French king?
Louis XVI
28.What is the name of the period of starvation lasting from 1845 to 1852 in Ireland?
The Irish Potato Famine
29.Who were the main combatants in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens and Sparta
30.What is Amerigo Vespucci famous for?
revolutionize the term " America "
31.Who were Henry VIII’s six wives?
Catharine of Aragon , Anne Boleyn , Jane Seymour , Katherine Howard , Anne of Cleves , and Katherine Parr
32.Where was William Shakespeare born?
33.Who wrote theIllyad?
Homer
34.What leader came to power in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution?
Fidel Castro
35.Who was England’s longest-ruling monarch?
Queen ElizabethII
36.What political party was Mao Zedong the leader of?
The Chinese Communist Party
37.Who was the last Queen of Hawai’i before it was annexed by the US?
Queen Lili’uokalani
38.What year did Australia stop being a penal colony?
1868
39.What year did Constantinople become Istanbul?
1930
40.Which two wives did Henry VIII have beheaded?
41.Who is often called “the father of the atomic bomb”?
J. RobertOppenheimer
42.What war ended dynastic rule in China in 1912?
The Xinhai Revolution
43.When did India win independence from the United Kingdom?
1947
44.What is the real name of the founder of Buddhism, commonly known as the Buddha?
Siddartha Gautama
45.Who was the first democratically elected president of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
46.Who were the main combatants of the First Kashmir War?
India and Pakistan
47.What country was ruled by Pol Pot until he was overthrown by the Vietnamese army in 1979?
Cambodia
48.How many US vice presidents have gone on to become president?
49.What modern-day countries make up the land once known as the Babylonian Empire?
Iraq and Iran
50.How many rules are contained in the Code of Hammurabi?
282
51.What does the term Khmer Rouge refer to?
The Khmer Rouge was the basal Communist movement that violently come to power and ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 .
52.What are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt , the Hanging Gardens of Babylon , the Statue of Zeus at Olympia , the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus , the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus , the Colossus of Rhodes , and the Lighthouse of Alexandria
53.Who is the most decorated Olympian athlete of all time?
Michael Phelpswith 28 Olympic medals
54.Who was the final ruler of Assyria?
Assur - uballit II
55.What was the original name of the Caribbean island that eventually became Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
Quisqueya
56.Which religion has the following deities: Krishna, Ganesh, Lakshmi, and Shiva?
57.Who founded Sikhism?
Guru Nanak
58.Which ancient civilization built the city of Carthage?
The Phoenicians of Tyre
59.Who is the current president of China?
Xi Jinping
60.What year was Saigon renamed Ho Chi Minh City?
61.What Babylonian king is widely believed to have ordered the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his wife, Amytis of Media?
Nebuchadnezzar II
62.What year did theTitanicsink?
1912
63.Who is credited with patenting the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
64.Who was Laika?
65.Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote?
New Zealand , on September 19 , 1893
66.Which Greek goddess was the Parthenon dedicated to?
Athena
67.When was the last eruption of Mount St. Helens?
1980
68.What was the first country to use paper currency?
China
69.What did the Treaty of Versailles achieve?
It led to the end of World War I and placed most of the blame on Germany and other Central Powers .
70.Which of the following men did NOT sign the Declaration of Independence: John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, or Benjamin Franklin?
Alexander Hamilton
71.The first ten amendments of the US Constitution are known by what other name?
The Bill of Rights
72.What is the connection between Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel?
73.What country did Haiti gain its independence from in 1804?
France
74.Which Caribbean nation removed Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state to become a fully independent republic in November 2021?
Barbados
75.Who were the main combatants in the War of 1812?
The United States and the United Kingdom
76.How long did the Great Depression last?
12 years , from 1929 to1941
77.What was the shortest war in human history?
The Anglo - Zanzibar warfare , which last between 38 and 45 minutes .
78.What was the purpose of the Trinity test?
To test the winner of the Manhattan Project , the function of which was to make an mote dud .
79.How did Adolf Hitler die?
A ego - inflicted gunshot
80.Who was the monarch of Greenland until she abdicated the Danish throne in January 2024?
81.What was the name of the first successful English colony in North America, established in 1607?
Jamestown
82.Who has been the youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize?
Malala Yousafzai at age 17
83.Which continents were involved in the Triangular Trade?
North and South America , Europe , and Africa
84.How many months were in the Roman calendar?
10
85.When did the seven day week start?
In 321 EC , as decreed by Roman Emperor Constantine
86.Who founded the Sons of Liberty?
Samuel Adams and John Hancock
87.Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize of any kind?
Marie Curie
88.What were the first names of the Wright brothers?
89.What was the name of the family that ruled Russia until they were overthrown and killed in 1917?
The Romanovs
90.What was the document that President Abraham Lincoln issued in 1863 to abolish slavery in the Confederate states?
The Emancipation Proclamation
91.How many years after the Emancipation Proclamation were the last enslaved people freed?
Just under two and a one-half years later on , on June 19 , 1965
92.Which world leader is famous for his “Little Red Book”?
Mao Zedong
93.Who was Helen Keller’s teacher and lifelong companion?
Anne Sullivan
94.Who was the first woman in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
95.Which US Supreme Court case ruled on the constitutionality of Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law (a law that prohibits interracial marriage)?
Loving v. Virginia
96.What was the significance of the scarab beetle in Ancient Egypt?
97.What do John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray have in common?
They all assassinate influential political figures ( Abraham Lincoln , JFK , and Martin Luther King , Jr. , respectively ) .
98.Which mountaineer and his Sherpa guide became the first men to climb to the top of Mount Everest?
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
99.What event led to the United States entering World War II?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
100.The Han Dynasty lasted around 426 years in which country?
101.Which US President gave the order to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II?
Harry S. Truman
102.Who nailed (or mailed) his 95 theses to the Catholic Church in 1517?
Martin Luther
103.Who wrote the words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal”?
Thomas Jefferson
104.How did Joan of Arc die?
105.How many US states were once part of Mexico?
Ten — California , Nevada , Utah , New Mexico , and region of Arizona , Colorado , Oklahoma , Kansas , and Wyoming
106.Where does the Mona Lisa currently reside?
At the Louvre Museum in France .
107.Eva Perón was the first lady of which country?
Argentina
108.What is the shortest presidential term in US history?
32 days , belong to to William Henry Harrison
109.How many US presidents have been assassinated?
Four — Abraham Lincoln , James A. Garfield , William McKinley , and John F. Kennedy
110.Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
111.Who was the emperor of Rome when it fell in 476 AD?
Romulus Augustulus
112.Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
113.When was Berlin reunified?
October 3 , 1990
114.The Incan Empire was located in which modern-day country?
Peru
115.What is the relationship between the Rubicon and Julius Caesar?
The Rubicon is a river that Julius Caesar crossed with his legion in 49 BC .
116.What 14th-century disease decimated a third of Europe’s population?
The Bubonic Plague
117.Where was JFK assassinated?
Dallas , Texas
118.What Indigenous group inhabited Puerto Rico when Christopher Columbus arrived there in 1492?
The Tainos
119.What is the only known disease to have been completely eradicated, according to the World Health Organization?
Smallpox
120.What scandal forced Richard Nixon to resign from the presidency in 1974?
121.Who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in United States history in 1831?
Nat Turner
122.What was Attila the Hun’s nickname?
" The scourge of God "
123.Who was known as the “Virgin Queen”?
Elizabeth I
124.How many years did the Hundred Years War last?
116
125.Which ancient civilization was centered around the city of Tenochtitlan?
The Aztecs
126.Was Cleopatra real?
Yes
127.Which event incited World War I?
The blackwash of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
128.What movie star famously married the Prince of Monaco?
129.Where was Che Guevara from?
130.Which country was the first to legalize same-sex marriage?
The Netherlands , on April 1 , 2001 .
131.Who wroteDon Quixote?
Miguel de Cervantes
132.When did the construction of the Great Wall of China begin?
7th one C BC
133.What was the capital city of the Inca Empire?
Cusco
134.In which country was the Battle of Culloden fought in 1746?
Scotland
135.How old was Queen Elizabeth II when she was crowned the Queen of England?
27
136.What year was the first iPhone released?
137.Which cities have hosted the last five Summer Olympics?
Paris , Tokyo , Rio de Janeiro , London , and Beijing .
138.What two Roman cities were decimated with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
Pompeii and Herculaneum
139.Who was the first Roman emperor?
Augustus
140.What is the name of the empire founded by Genghis Khan?
The Mongol Empire
141.What ancient civilization built the city of Uruk?
The Sumerians
142.Who was the first person to set foot on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
143.How did Jesus of Nazareth die?
He was blast .
144.What famous Dutch painter cut off his ear during a heated argument with a fellow artist?
145.Who wroteLes Miserables?
Victor Hugo
146.Who was the first person to be tried and executed during the Salem witch trials?
Bridget Bishop
147.What was the name of Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco’s political ideology?
Fascism
148.Which two African countries avoided colonial rule?
Ethiopia and Liberia
149.In what country did the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and subsequent massacre take place?
150.What did the Treaty of Paris achieve?
It terminate the American Revolution and granted independency to the United States .
151.Who overthrew Chilean leader Salvador Allende in a coup d’etat?
Augusto Pinochet
152.Who is King Tutankhamun?
153.What painting movement was founded by Claude Monet?
Impressionism
154.Where is the Pyramid of the Sun located?
Teotihuacán , Mexico
155.Who was the first woman to be elected Vice President of the United States?
Kamala Harris
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