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

Start with any question below. Make your guess, reveal the available options, then check which answer is correct. You can work through a few questions at a time or choose a longer set for a history trivia session.

  1. The capital of the Persian Empire during the Achaemenid era, Persepolis, is in what today is:
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    • Iran
    • Iraq
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  2. The capture of Atahualpa was a surprise attack on the monarch of the Inca Empire carried out by:
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    • Hernán Cortés
    • Francisco Pizarro
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  3. The Catholic Church never retracted of having condemned Galileo almost 400 years ago for his theory of the universe: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  4. The city in U.S. hit by the most tornadoes is Oklahoma City: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  5. The Colossi of Memnon represent the pharaoh Amenhotep III: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  6. “The Communist Manifesto” was written by two German pilosophers. Who were they?
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    • Georg Friedrich Hegel and Arthur Schopenhauer
    • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
    • Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Schelling
    • Wilhelm Dilthey and Ludwig Feuerbach
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  7. The Condor Legion was the intervention force that the Third Reich sent to help Franco's forces to fight in the Spanish civil war: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  8. The Constitution of the United States was written in 1787: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  9. The construction of Segovia's aqueduct dates back to the century:
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    • II A.D.
    • V A.C.
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  10. The Cossacks inhabited the western part of Europe: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  11. The country with the highest number of casualties was ___________ with more than 21 million deaths
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    • Russia
    • Austria
    • Germany
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  12. The Cullinan is the largest diamond ever found in history: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  13. The Dayton Accords put an end to the war in Bosnia: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  14. The Declaration of Independence of Argentina was on Tuesday, July 9, 1816: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  15. The deer and the cypress were consecrated to the goddess:
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    • Athena
    • Aphrodite
    • Artemisa
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  16. The destruction of the Twin Towers in 2001 was in New York: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  17. The dinar was an ancient Greek coin: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  18. The discoverer of oxygen in 1775 was Joseph Priestley: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  19. The Dutch were the first European explorers to discover Australia in 1606: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  20. The Egyptian alphabet contained only 33 hieroglyphs: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  21. The Egyptians believe the moon gets its glare because it beat the sun in a game of chess: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  22. The Egyptians extracted the brain from the corpse through the nasal cavity: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  23. The Eiffel tower was made as the entrance to the World’s Fair for which anniversary of “the Storming of Bastille”?
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    • 100th anniversary
    • 75th anniversary
    • 50th anniversary
    • 150th anniversary
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  24. The Eighty Years' War pitted the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands against their sovereign, who was also King of England: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  25. The Emperor Caligula made consul his:
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    • Eagle
    • Horse
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  26. The Empire of Brazil (1822-1889) preceded the United States of Brazil: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  27. The English Civil War resulted in how many estimated deaths?
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    • 200,000
    • 500,000
    • 100,000
    • 850,000
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  28. The equitable distribution of land was the goal of the Civil War in the United States: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, it was the union of the United States and the abolition of slavery.
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  29. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 destroyed the Greek polis of Syracuse and Cyrene: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  30. The escudo was the former monetary unit of Spain prior to the adoption of the euro: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  31. The expression "atomic age" was used during the:
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    • 1940
    • 1950
    • 1960
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  32. The February Revolution (1917) was centered around:
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    • Petrograd
    • Volgograd
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  33. The February Revolution and the October Revolution were within the framework of the Russian Revolution: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  34. The film The Lion King (1994) was made during a period known as the Disney Renaissance: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  35. The first emperor of the Roman Empire was:
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    • Julius Caesar
    • Caesar Augustus
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  36. The first episode of The Simpsons was broadcast on December 17, 1989: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  37. The first expedition to sail around the world was led by the Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  38. The first human is considered to have originated in:
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    • Asia
    • Europe
    • Africa
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  39. The first humans conquered the climb on top of Mt. Everest in -
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    • 20th Century
    • 21st Century
    • 19th Century
    • 18th Century
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  40. The first man to set foot on the Moon was Neil Armstrong: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  41. The first man to set foot on the Moon was Neil Armstrong?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  42. The first man who arrived in space, Yuri Gagarin, died on March 27, 1968, when the jet he was flying with his instructor crashed: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  43. The first metal used by man was:
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    • Copper
    • Iron
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  44. The first modern game of Olympics held in Athens, Greece was in the -
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    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 3rd Century
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  45. The first one executed with the electric chair was William Kemmler (1890): True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  46. The first person chosen by Time Magazine as Man of the Year was Owen D. Young: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  47. The first person who circumnavigated the globe was Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  48. The first place in the New World where Christopher Columbus set foot in 1492 was actually the Bahamas: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  49. The first place in the New World where Christopher Columbus set foot in 1492 was actually the Bahamas: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  50. The first Queen of England was:
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    • Elizabeth I
    • Victoria
    • Mary I
    • Anne
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