1,500+ History Trivia Questions and Answers

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Put your knowledge of the past to the test with 1,500+ history trivia questions. Make your guess, reveal the options and check each correct answer without leaving the page.

1,500+ History Trivia Questions and Answers

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  1. Miguel de Cervantes, was wounded and lost the mobility of his left hand, which earned him the nickname of one-armed Lepanto, in the _____.
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    • Battle of Salamina
    • Battle of Lepanto
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  2. Military project, devised by Winfield Scott, which consisted of the naval blockade of the states of the Confederation:
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    • Anaconda Plan
    • Bald Eagle Plan
    • Boa constrictor plan
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  3. Min's Egyptian name is:
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    • Mina
    • Menu
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  4. Moctezuma's plume is a headdress made of quetzal feathers set in gold: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  5. Modern Olympic Games have been hosted only once in Germany: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  6. "Most people fail in life because they major in minor things"
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    • Harry Truman
    • Tony Robbins
    • Salvador Dali
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  7. Muslims Worship Muhammad: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  8. Nagasaki was the first city in which an atomic bomb fell: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  9. Name given to prehistoric paintings.
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    • Lithics
    • Rupestrian
    • Archaic
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  10. Name of Hitler's secret police in Germany.
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    • Schutzstaffel
    • Gestapo
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  11. Name of the Catholic nun who escapes from the convent and later marries Martin Luther:
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    • Catherine of Bora
    • Catherine of Aragon
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  12. Name of the first album of the British band The Beatles, released in 1963:
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    • Abbey Road.
    • Please Please Me.
    • Let It Be.
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  13. Name of the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, from who gets divorced because she can’t give him an heir:
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    • Beauharnais Hydrangea
    • Josefina de Beauharnais
    • Catherine de Beauharnais
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  14. Name of the plane that carried the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
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    • Enola Gay
    • Fat Man
    • Bocksrun
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  15. Name of the thief that the people decided to let go instead of Jesus.
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    • Caiaphas.
    • Pontius Pilate.
    • Barabbas.
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  16. Name of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor:
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    • K-25
    • X-10 Pile
    • Chicago Pile-1
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  17. Name the famous military tactic used by the Germans to invade Poland
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    • Blitzkrieg
    • Ein Ganz
    • Schurrle
    • None of the above
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  18. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island___.
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    • San Pedro
    • Margarita
    • Corsica
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  19. Napoleon died on St. Helena Island: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  20. Napoleon's coup d'état is considered the beginning of the French Revolution: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  21. Nicholas Copernicus was a:
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    • Engineer
    • Astronomer
    • Mathematician
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  22. Nicholas II, czar of Russia, was murdered along with his family in 1918 during the Bolshevik Revolution. What imperial dynasty did they belong to?
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    • Romanov
    • Rurik
    • Godunov
    • Vasa
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  23. Nicolas Copernicus was burned to death at a stake: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, he died of a stroke.
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  24. Nike is the goddess of:
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    • Justice.
    • Victory.
    • Discord.
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  25. Nike is the goddess of:
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    • Justice
    • Victory
    • Discord
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  26. "No man is good enough to rule others without their consent." Who pronounced the phrase?
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    • Simon Bolivar.
    • Abraham Lincoln.
    • Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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  27. North Korea was founded before World War II: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  28. Not all muslim women wear hijab: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  29. Now select who was the first president of the U.S.
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    • Thomas Jefferson
    • George Washington
    • Abraham Lincoln
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  30. Odin sacrificed one of his eyes at Mimir's well in order to gain access to infinite wisdom.
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    • Correct
    • Incorrect
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  31. Of all the gods, Ares had the worst relationship with Athena, to whom he professed great hostility: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  32. Olaf II Haraldsson was the King of which country (1015-1028)?
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    • Norway
    • Sweden
    • Finland
    • Denmark
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  33. On 26/11/ 1095 the Pope called on all Christian warriors to assume their responsibility towards the Turks, thus starting the crusades: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  34. On January 2, 1945, World War II officially ended: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  35. On June 20th 1792, a mob broke into Tuileries and did what to show the king’s loyalty to the Republic?
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    • Made the king wear the bonnet rouge
    • Signed the Brunswick Manifesto
    • Imprisoned the King and queen
    • Made the king use the non-royal Capet family name
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  36. On March 20, 2016, President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to visit Cuba: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  37. On May 14, 1991, Pope John Paul II suffered an assassination attempt: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, it was in the year 1981.
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  38. On what island were Daedalus and his son Icarus held?
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    • Milos
    • Corfu
    • Crete
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  39. On which of his trips does Columbus arrive on the islands of Jamaica and Puerto Rico?
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    • First trip
    • Second trip
    • Third trip
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  40. On which side did China fight?
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    • Axis Powers
    • Allies
    • Remained neutral
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  41. One from the war in the Pacific… Which American general in WWII pronounced the famous phrase “I shall return” during his escape from a Philippines island surrounded by the Japanese?
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    • George Patton
    • Dwight Einsenhower
    • Douglas MacArthur
    • Chester Nimitz
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  42. One of the main reasons for the decline of the Ancient Empire was:
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    • Famine, caused by the drought of the Nile
    • War, in which more than half the population died
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  43. One of the main recreational cities in the Roman Empire, it was destroyed in 79 by the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano, killing thousands of people and burying the city, which remained intact for 17 centuries:
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    • Pompeii
    • Tarraco
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  44. One of the reasons why the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic materialized was to have allowed the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera: True or false?
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    • True
    • False, it was the death of Alfonso XIII de Borbón.
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  45. One of the Roman emperors of the Flavian dynasty was commonly known as:
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    • Tute
    • Titus
    • Lolo
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  46. Only 706 of the 2,223 passengers and crew members survived the sinking of the Titanic: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  47. Only president of the United States to win four elections:
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    • Theodore Roosevelt.
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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  48. Operation Chastise is the code name for a series of bombings over the German city of Hamburg during World War II: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  49. Originally, most of the Bible's Old Testament was written in:
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    • Hebrew
    • Latin
    • Aramaic
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  50. Orion
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    • A Demigod
    • A Human Hunter
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