Those who fail to do well on history trivia are doomed to be lame.
So, let’s brush up on your historical knowledge, shall we?
This world history trivia should be no trouble for ya.
1.Which war did Operation: Desert Storm kick off in January 1991?
Manuel Quezon
4.At which battle did Admiral Horatio Nelson lose his life, but defeat the French?
8.Which English king was beheaded during the English Civil War?
Charles I
9.How many sacraments are in the Catholic Church?
Seven Sacraments
10.When did WWI officially end?
November 11, 1918
11.What year was the Battle of Yorktown?
1781
12.Mary Antoinette was married to which French king?
The Irish Potato Famine
14.Who were the main combatants in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens and Sparta
15.What is Amerigo Vespucci famous for?
Inspiring the term “America”
16.Who were Henry VIII’s six wives?
18.Who wrote theIllyad?
Homer
19.What leader came to power in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution?
Fidel Castro
20.Who was England’s longest-ruling monarch?
Queen ElizabethII
21.What political party was Mao Zedong the leader of?
Queen Lili’uokalani
23.What year did Australia stop being a penal colony?
1868
24.What year did Constantinople become Istanbul?
1930
25.Which two wives did Henry VIII have beheaded?
26.Who is often called “the father of the atomic bomb”?
J. RobertOppenheimer
27.What war ended dynastic rule in China in 1912?
The Xinhai Revolution
28.When did India win independence from the United Kingdom?
1947
29.What is the real name of the founder of Buddhism, commonly known as the Buddha?
Siddartha Gautama
30.Who was the first democratically elected president of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
31.Who were the main combatants of the First Kashmir War?
Cambodia
33.How many US vice presidents have gone on to become president?
34.What modern-day countries make up the land once known as the Babylonian Empire?
Iraq and Iran
35.How many rules are contained in the Code of Hammurabi?
282
36.What does the term Khmer Rouge refer to?
37.What are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Michael Phelpswith 28 Olympic medals
39.Who was the final ruler of Assyria?
Quisqueya
41.Which religion has the following deities: Krishna, Ganesh, Lakshmi, and Shiva?
42.Who founded Sikhism?
Guru Nanak
43.Which ancient civilization built the city of Carthage?
The Phoenicians of Tyre
44.Who is the current president of China?
Xi Jinping
45.What year was Saigon renamed Ho Chi Minh City?
Nebuchadnezzar II
47.What year did theTitanicsink?
1912
48.Who is credited with patenting the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
49.Who was Laika?
50.Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote?
New Zealand, on September 19, 1893
51.Which Greek goddess was the Parthenon dedicated to?
Athena
52.When was the last eruption of Mount St. Helens?
1980
53.What was the first country to use paper currency?
China
54.What did the Treaty of Versailles achieve?
Alexander Hamilton
56.The first ten amendments of the US Constitution are known by what other name?
The Bill of Rights
57.What is the connection between Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel?
58.What country did Haiti gain its independence from in 1804?
Barbados
60.Who were the main combatants in the War of 1812?
The United States and the United Kingdom
61.How long did the Great Depression last?
12 years, from 1929 to1941
62.What was the shortest war in human history?
The Anglo-Zanzibar war, which lasted between 38 and 45 minutes.
63.What was the purpose of the Trinity test?
To test the success of the Manhattan Project, the purpose of which was to create an atom bomb.
64.How did Adolf Hitler die?
66.What was the name of the first successful English colony in North America, established in 1607?
Jamestown
67.Who has been the youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize?
Malala Yousafzai at age 17
68.Which continents were involved in the Triangular Trade?
North and South America, Europe, and Africa
69.How many months were in the Roman calendar?
10
70.When did the seven day week start?
In 321 EC, as decreed by Roman Emperor Constantine
71.Who founded the Sons of Liberty?
Marie Curie
73.What were the first names of the Wright brothers?
The Emancipation Proclamation
76.How many years after the Emancipation Proclamation were the last enslaved people freed?
Mao Zedong
78.Who was Helen Keller’s teacher and lifelong companion?
Anne Sullivan
79.Who was the first woman in space?
Loving v. Virginia
81.What was the significance of the scarab beetle in Ancient Egypt?
82.What do John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray have in common?
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
84.What event led to the United States entering World War II?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
85.The Han Dynasty lasted around 426 years in which country?
Thomas Jefferson
89.How did Joan of Arc die?
90.How many US states were once part of Mexico?
At the Louvre Museum in France.
92.Eva Peron was the first lady of which country?
Argentina
93.What is the shortest presidential term in US history?
32 days, belonging to William Henry Harrison
94.How many US presidents have been assassinated?
Eli Whitney
96.Who was the emperor of Rome when it fell in 476 AD?
Romulus Augustulus
97.Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
98.When was Berlin reunified?
October 3, 1990
99.The Incan Empire was located in which modern-day country?
Peru
100.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.
101.What 14th-century disease decimated a third of Europes population?
The Bubonic Plague
102.Where was JFK assassinated?
Dallas, Texas
103.What Indigenous group inhabited Puerto Rico when Christopher Columbus arrived there in 1492?
Smallpox
105.What scandal forced Richard Nixon to resign from the presidency in 1974?
106.Who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in United States history in 1831?
Nat Turner
107.What was Attila the Hun’s nickname?
“The scourge of God”
108.Who was known as the “Virgin Queen”?
Elizabeth I
109.How many years did the Hundred Years War last?
116
110.Which ancient civilization was centered around the city of Tenochtitlan?
The Aztecs
111.Was Cleopatra real?
Yes
112.Which event incited World War I?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
113.What movie star famously married the Prince of Monaco?
114.Where was Che Guevara from?
115.Which country was the first to legalize same-sex marriage?
The Netherlands, on April 1, 2001.
116.Who wroteDon Quixote?
Miguel de Cervantes
117.When did the construction of the Great Wall of China begin?
7th century BC
118.What was the capital city of the Inca Empire?
Cusco
119.In which country was the Battle of Culloden fought in 1746?
Scotland
120.How old was Queen Elizabeth II when she was crowned the Queen of England?
27
121.What year was the first iPhone released?
122.Which cities have hosted the last five Summer Olympics?
Paris, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, London, and Beijing.
123.What two Roman cities were decimated with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
Pompeii and Herculaneum
124.Who was the first Roman emperor?
Augustus
125.What is the name of the empire founded by Genghis Khan?
The Mongol Empire
126.What ancient civilization built the city of Uruk?
The Sumerians
127.Who was the first person to set foot on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
128.How did Jesus of Nazareth die?
129.What famous Dutch painter cut off his ear during a heated argument with a fellow artist?
130.Who wroteLes Miserables?
Victor Hugo
131.Who was the first person to be tried and executed during the Salem witch trials?
Bridget Bishop
132.What was the name of Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco’s political ideology?
Fascism
133.Which two African countries avoided colonial rule?
Ethiopia and Liberia
134.In what country did the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and subsequent massacre take place?
135.What did the Treaty of Paris achieve?
It ended the American Revolution and granted independence to the United States.
136.Who overthrew Chilean leader Salvador Allende in a coup detat?
Augusto Pinochet
137.Who is King Tutankhamun?
138.What painting movement was founded by Claude Monet?
Impressionism
139.Where is the Pyramid of the Sun located?
Teotihuacan, Mexico
140.Who was the first woman to be elected Vice President of the United States?
Kamala Harris
This post has been edited by Kaitlin Stevens.
