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World History Trivia Quiz Questions

1. Americans founded what African country?

A: Liberia
2. The Opening of the Suez canal was marked by what opera
commissioned in 1869 for the event?
A: Aida
3. Three Scottish kings and eight Popes have what same name?
A: Alexander
4. Oslo, Sweden was called what until 1925?
A: Christiana
5. Whose name translates as Emperor of all?
A: Genghis Khan
6. In ancient Rome, the name Coliseum means Place for a what?
A: Giant
7. The Blur Max medal was named after Max who?
A: Max Immelmann
8. In Holland, who was the first licensed female watchmaker ?
A: Corie Ten Boom
9. Before it was called Britain, what was it called?
A: Albion
10. Which Italian tractor maker started manufacturing cars
in 1960s?
A: Ferruchio Lamborghini
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12. Russian October revolution took place in what month?
A: November
13. What profession did Socrates have?
A: Stonecutter
14. Which English King had the armor with the biggest
codpiece?
A: Henry 8
15. German mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller named
America after who?
A: Amerigo Vespucci
16. What country is the world's oldest functioning
democracy?
A: Iceland
17. What was the name of the last person in England to be
judicially beheaded?
A: Lord Lovat
18. In 1989, Carlos Menim was elected president of what
country?
A: Argentina
19. What was a hoplite in ancient Greece?
A: A Soldier
20. Atahualpa was the last ruler of what people?
A: Incas
21. What 6th century Greek poet is considered the father of
drama?
A: Thespis
22. What famous document begins: "When in the course of
human events..."?
A: The Declaration of Independence.
23. What current branch of the U.S. military was a corps of
only 50 soldiers when World War I broke out?
A: The U.S. Air Force.
24. What game was created by French mathematician Blaise
Pascal, which he discovered when doing experiments into
perpetual motion?
A: The Game of Roulette.
25. Who said: "I'm the president of the United States and I'm
not going to eat any more broccoli"?
A: George Bush.
26. What so-called "war" spawned the dueling slogans
"Better Dead Than RED" and "Better Red Than Dead" in
the 1950's?
A: The Cold War.
27. What president was shot while walking to California
Governor Jerry Brown' office?
A: Gerald Ford.
28. Who earned infamy for noting: "A billion dollars isn't
worth what it used to be"?
A: J. Paul Getty.
29. What ethnic group was largely responsible for building
most of the early railways in the U.S. West?
A: The Chinese.
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31. What former speaker of the U.S. House has a chair in
peace studies named for him at the University of Ulster?
A: Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.
32. What was a gladiator armed with, in addition to a dagger
and spear?
A: A net.
33. What future Soviet dictator was training to be a priest
when he got turned on to Marxism?
A: Joseph Stalin.
34. What election year saw bumper stickers reading
"Wallace, Wallace, Uber Alles"?
A: 1968.
35. What 20th-century conflict was dubbed the "forgotten
war" despite 54,246 U.S. deaths?
A: The Korean War.
36. What single name is more commonly applied to Holy
Roman Emperor Charles the Great?
A: Charlemagne.
37. Who was the last president of the Soviet Union?
A: Mikail Gorbachev.
38. What had Pliny the Younger seen erupt when he wrote:
"We were terrified to see everything changed, buried in ashes
like snowdrifts"?
A: Mount Vesuvius.
39. Who saw the turtleneck he wore at cease-fire talks in
Bosnia fetch $5,000 at auction?
A: Jimmy Carter.

What Alabama city saw state troopers attack Civil Rights

marchers on Edmund Pettis Bridge?
A: Selma.
40. What Texan ended up with one delegate after spending
$12 million of his own money running for president in 1980?
A: John Connally.
41. What congressional award was Dr. Mary Edwards
Walker the first woman to receive?
A: Medal of Honor.
42. What modern vehicle was invented to circumvent trench
warfare?
A: The Tank
43. What California city did the last Pony Express ride end
in?
A: Sacramento.
44. Who was the first U.S. president to adopt the informal
version of his first name?
A: Jimmy Carter.
45. What civil rights leader did Dorothy Parker leave the
bulk of her estate to?
A: Martin Luther King Jr.
46. What did Republicans call the platform they hyped in the
1994 Congressional elections?
A: The Contract With America.
47. What brave-hearted Scottish patriot led soldiers to a
defeat of the English at the Battle of Cambuskenneth in 1297?
A: William Wallace.
48. What nation issued the five-dollar bill found in Abraham
Lincoln's pocket when he was shot?
A: The Confederate States of America.
49. What political system was gradually dismantled in South
Africa, starting in 1989?
A: Apartheid.
50. What was 11th-century Spanish military leader Rodrigo
Diaz de Vivar better know as?
A: El Cid.
51. Who was Timothy Leary?
A: Timothy Leary was a psychologist and writer known for
advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of
psychedelic drugs.
52. Where was Alexander Hamilton born?
A: In Charlestown, the capital of the island of Nevis in the
Leeward Islands.
53. When and where did Amelia Earhart have her first flying
lesson?
A: On January 3, 1921, at Kinner Field near Long Beach.
54. Where did Earhart become the first woman to fly solo ?
A: Across the North American continent and back.
55. What kind of meat is Bacon typically prepared from?
A: Pork belly or back cuts, which have less fat than the belly.
56. How is bacon cured?
A: Through either a process of injecting with or soaking
brine.
57. For safety, bacon can be treated to prevent what disease?
A: Trichinosis, caused by Trichinella, a parasitic roundworm.
58. With the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg became the senior member of what is
sometimes referred to as what?
A: The court's "liberal wing".
59. Ginsburg is believed to be the first Supreme Court justice
to officiate at what?
A: A same-sex wedding.
60. Ginsburg's profile began to rise after O'Connor's
retirement in 2006 left Ginsburg as what?
A: The only serving female justice.
61. What was “The Outer Limits"?
A: The Outer Limits was a television series broadcast on
ABC from 1963 to 1965 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time on
Mondays.
62. The Outer Limits is an anthology of what?
A: Self-contained episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the
end.
63. What was the first television game show ever?
A: Spelling Bee.
64. Daytime game shows would be played for lower stakes to
target whom?
A: Stay-at-home housewives.
65. During the late 1950s games such as Twenty-One and The
$64,000 Question began a what?
A: A rapid rise in popularity.
66. What happened in 1959 regarding game shows?
A: Many of the higher stakes game shows were discovered to
be rigged.
67. When did Let's Make a Deal first air?
A: In 1963.
68. Who was J. Edgar Hoover?
A: J. Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States.
69. Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a
controversial figure as evidence of what, began to appear?
A: Secret abuse of power.
70. Who was Dr Seuss?
A: Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) was a children's author,
 political cartoonist, poet, animator, screenwriter, filmmaker,
and artist.
71. When did Geisel take the pen name "Dr. Seuss"?
A: As an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and as a
graduate student at the University of Oxford.
72. What is the Eiffel Tower?
A: The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the
Champ de Mars in Paris, France.
73. How tall is the Eiffel Tower?
A: It is 324 meters (1,063 ft) tall.
74. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the
Washington Monument to become what?
A: The tallest man-made structure in the world.
75. Where is Mount Rushmore?
A: In the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota.
76. The Mount Rushmore sculptures feature what past US
presidents?
A: Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson ,
Theodore Roosevelt , and Abraham Lincoln.
77. What was the first country to recognize Mexico's
independence, in 1836?
A: The U.S.
78. What encyclopedia's first edition, in 1771, described
California as "a large country of the West Indies"?
A: Encyclopedia Britannica's.
79. Who was the only American to become vice president and
president after resignations?
A: Gerald Ford.
80. There is one in Las Vegas for every how many
inhabitants?
A: Eight.
81. What year did the Dow Jones Industrial Average break
both the 4000 and 5000 marks?
A: 1995.
82. Who saw his crew dine on wormy biscuits and rats on his
fourth voyage to the New World?
A: Christopher Columbus.
83. What disgraced vice president's high school yearbook
quote read; "An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow"?
A: Spiro Agnew.
84. Who was the youngest man to chair the Joint Chiefs of
Staff?
A: Colin Powell.
85. Which of Henry VIII's wives gave birth to Elizabeth I?
A: Anne Boleyn.
86. What 19th-century president erroneously noted: "The
ballot is stronger than the bullet"?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
87. What country led all Arab nations in the number of
troops participating in Operation Desert Storm?
A: Saudi Arabia.
88. Who did George Bush accuse of being "a card-carrying
member" of the American Civil Liberties Union, in 1988?
A: Michael Dukakis.
89. What presidential election year saw Republicans dub
Democrats the party of "Communism, Corruption and
Korea"?
A:1952.
90. What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold
on a space shuttle mission?
A: Captain.
91. What were the Viet Minh called when they crossed into
South Vietnam?
A: The Viet Cong.
92. What Russian cleric was poisoned, shot and finally
drowned on December 30, 1916?
A: Rasputin.
93. Who led the Million Man March on Washington?
A: Louis Farrakhan.
94. What country suffered the worst two earthquakes in
history, killing 830,000 in 1556 and 750,000 in 1976?
A: China.
95. What Eastern European city was the last city to be
liberated in World War II?
A: Prague.
96. What country used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against its
Kurdish minority in the 1990s?
A: Iraq.
97. What general did GI's nickname "Top Gun" in the
Persian Gulf War?
A: Colin Powell.
98. What trade union was finally legalized in Poland in 1989?
A: Solidarity.
99. What symbol was first linked to the Democratic party in
an 1870 cartoon by Thomas Nast?
A: A donkey.
100. What Harry Callahan line did Ronald Reagan invoke to
"tax increasers"?
A: "Go ahead, make my day".
101. What explorer of North Carolina never got to finish his
"History of the World" while banished to the Tower of
London?
A: Sir Walter Raleigh.
102. Who was president of the U.S. when Uncle Sam first got a
beard?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
103. Who did Adolf Hitler dictate Mein Kampf to while in
prison?
A: Rudolf Hess.
104. What structure was 26.5 miles long until 1989?
A: The Berlin Wall.
105. What sport sparked a war between El Salvador and
Honduras, after an unpopular referee's call in 1969?
A: Soccer.
 Fun History trivia questions and answers.

1. What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president
to command a military unit during his term in office?
A: The War of 1812.

2. What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of

placed under his head upon his burial?
A: The U.S. Constitution.

3. What inscription on U.S. coins did Theodore Roosevelt try in

vain to have removed?
A: In God We Trust.

4. What former U.S. president showed up on dollar coins in

1971?
A: Dwight D. Eisenhower.

5. What did Ronald Reagan disclose he was suffering from, in

1994?
A: Alzheimer's disease.

6. What future U.S. president received the last rites of the

Catholic Church after an infection following spinal surgery in 1954.
A: John F. Kennedy.

7. Who did Abraham Lincoln promote to major general or

volunteers after he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?
A: Ulysses S. Grant.
 8. How many U.S. presidents played a role in Vietnam's civil
war?
A: Five.

9. Who said: "I'm the president of the United States, and I'm not
going to eat any more broccoli"?
A: George Bush.

10. Who was the first president to appear on a U.S. coin?

A: Abraham Lincoln.

11. What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against
Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.

12. What pooch was the only gift Richard Nixon admitted
accepting, in a famous 1952 speech?
A: Checkers.

13. Who was assassinated the day after Andy Warhol was shot?
A: Robert F. Kennedy.

14. What Wild West figure is described on his New Mexico

tombstone as "The Boy Bandit King"?
A: Billy the Kid.

15. Who was billed as the "Killer of Custer" in Buffalo Bill's

Wild West Show?
A: Sitting Bull.
 16. What conspirator in the Lincoln assassination was pardoned
for saving the lives of prison guards during a yellow fever epidemic?
A: Dr. Samuel Mudd.

17. What condition was alleviated by medicine dubbed "liquid

cork" by U.S. troops in Vietnam?
A: Diarrhea.

18. What medical condition kept William Blount from traveling

to Philadelphia on horseback for the 1787 Constitutional
Convention?
A: Hemorrhoids.

19. What physicist called nationalism "the measles of mankind"?

A: Albert Einstein.

20. What was the world's principal Christian city before it fell to
the Ottoman Turks in 1453?
A: Constantinople.

21. Who is credited with creating the model of European fascism

in the 20th century?
A: Benito Mussolini.

22. What "revolution" saw almost every Chinese citizen to a

copy of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book?
A: The Cultural Revolution.

23. What was closed to traffic after the Six Day War in 1967, and
not reopened until 1975?
A: The Suez Canal.
 24. Who convinced Jamaicans he'd made the moon disappear
during a lunar eclipse in 1504?
A: Christopher Columbus.

25. What group meets in a Pentagon room dubbed "The Tank"?

A: The Joint Chiefs of Staff.

26. What Texan ended up with one delegate after spending $12
million of his own money running for president in 1980?
A: John Connally.

27. What Caribbean nation sent thousands of troops to Angola

and Ethiopia in the 1970s?
A: Cuba.

28. What military man had a much less famous cousin

nicknamed "Mudwall"?
A: "Stonewall" Jackson.

29. What Israeli is known affectionately as "Bibi"?

A: Benjamin Netanyahu.

30. What Roman emperor forbade citizens from laughing or

bathing after one of his sister-wives died?
A: Caligula.

31. What weekend retreat saw Menachim Begin and Anwar

Sadat hammer out an Israeli-Egyptian peace accord in 1978?
A: Camp David.

32. Who proved his mettle as a pollster in the 1936 presidential

elections?
A: George Gallup.