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 phrase "The wise man never says everything he thinks, but always thinks everything he says" belongs to:
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    • Aristotle
    • Archimedes
    • Alexander the Great
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  2. The Poem of Gilgamesh is a narrative in verse about the vicissitudes of King Gilgamesh: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  3. The previous name of the island of Singapore was Temasek: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  4. The process by which man goes from nomadic to sedentary.
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    • Neolithic evolution.
    • Neolithic Revolution.
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  5. The Profumo Case (1963) was a political scandal that took place in:
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    • France
    • The United Kingdom
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  6. The Punic Wars pitted Rome against
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    • Greece
    • Carthage
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  7. The Republic is the best known and most influential work of the Greek philosopher Aristotle: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  8. The Roman Empire was sacked by Germanic tribes, one of the main ones being the:
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    • Huns
    • Heruli
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  9. The Roman Empire was the:
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    • Third period of Roman civilization
    • Second period of Roman civilization
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  10. The Roman numeral “CD” stands for 40: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  11. The Romans had the Greeks as their role model: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  12. The Russian Revolution, in what year did it occur?
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    • 1917
    • 1916
    • 1914
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  13. The Sad Night is the defeat of Hernán Cortés at the hands of the Aztecs in the early morning of June 30 to July 1, 1520: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  14. The second atomic bomb ever used in war-time was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  15. The second atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki: True or false?
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    • True
    • False, it was Hiroshima.
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  16. The Second Sudanese Civil War is considered the longest in Africa: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  17. The shortest presidency in American history lasted:
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    • 15 days.
    • 27 days.
    • 32 days.
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  18. The siege of Leningrad by the German Army in the II World War lasted from 1941 to 1942: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  19. The Sinai War (1956) is also known as the Suez Crisis: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  20. The sinking of the RMS Lusitania was one of the major naval disasters of World War II: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  21. The Six Day War took place in ...
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    • Asia.
    • America.
    • Europe.
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  22. The Slave Trade Act of 1807 completely removed slavery from the British Kingdom. True or False?
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    • True
    • False
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  23. The so-called Silk Route was a series of trade roads that for centuries connected which points?
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    • Arabia to Russia
    • Turkey to Spain
    • China to Europe
    • Ehiopia to Greece
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  24. The Sopwith Camel was a single-seater biplane fighter used during the:
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    • WWI
    • WWII
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  25. The Soviet Union was officially dissolved on December 26, 1991 after the signing of the Belavezha Treaty: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  26. The Spanish Civil War ended in 1939: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  27. The Spanish poet Federico García Lorca was shot in August 1936: True or false?
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    • True
    • False, he died of a stroke.
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  28. The sportswear brand "Nike" has that name after the Greek Goddess of
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    • Victory
    • Engagement
    • Love
    • Strength
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  29. The spy Mata Hari was:
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    • French
    • Dutch
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  30. The State of Israel was founded in the year 1946: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  31. The Story of Sinuhé, the pinnacle of Egyptian literature, was inspired and tells the facts about:
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    • Intef, the first pharaoh of the 11th century
    • Amenemhat I (at first a high Egyptian official) and his son Sesostris I, the first pharaohs of the XIIth Dynasty
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  32. The storyteller, playwright and poet Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) was born in:
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    • Uruguay
    • Argentina
    • Nicaragua
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  33. The Suez Canal is an artificial waterway located in Egypt that links the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  34. The swastika is an ancient religious symbol. It is derived from the Sanskrit name of a hooked cross, which was used by ancient civilizations as a symbol of:
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    • Wealth and prosperity
    • Fertility and good luck.
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  35. The Syrian civil war began on March 15, 2011: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  36. The Taille was a tax imposed on the non-noble people of France for what?
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    • For the amount of land owned
    • For national tariffs like wine
    • For military expenditures
    • For entering a city
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  37. The Tainos inhabited the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the northern Lesser Antilles before the arrival of Christopher Columbus: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  38. The Temple of Kukulkan is located at:
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    • Mexico
    • Guatemala
    • Honduras
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  39. The Temple of the Great Jaguar is located at:
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    • Guatemala
    • Mexico
    • Honduras
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  40. The Ten Day War is also known as:
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    • Croatian War.
    • Slovenian War.
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  41. The terrorist organization that was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington was:
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    • Islamic State
    • Ku Klux Klan
    • Al Qaeda
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  42. The Thirteen Colonies were on the west coast of North America: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  43. The Thousand Day War was a civil conflict in Mexico: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  44. The three Graeae were sisters of three other monsters, the Gorgons, called Esteno, Euríala and Medusa: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  45. The Titan Rea was strongly associated with:
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    • The goddess Phrygia Cibeles
    • Japanese goddess Ama no Uzume
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  46. The Titan whose offspring are of greatest importance is:
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    • Cronus
    • Helios
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  47. The Titanic was built in:
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    • Belfast, Northern Ireland
    • Southampton, England
    • Clydebank, Scotland
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  48. The Treaty of Bucharest put an end to the Balkan Wars: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  49. The Treaty of Tordesillas helped divide newly discovered lands in America between the Portuguese Empire and the Crown of Castile: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  50. The Treaty of Tordesillas was the one that put an end to the Thirty Years' War: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, it was the Treaty of Westphalia.
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