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. The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, it was in 1915.
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  2. The tsunami caused by the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 could go as far as Cornwall in the southern English coast: True or false?
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    • True
    • False, Portugal was too far away.
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  3. The UN was founded on October 24, 1919: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  4. The underworld was known to have five rivers, which was one of them?
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    • Cocite.
    • Flegeton.
    • All of the above.
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  5. The United Arab Emirates was made up of how many independent Emirates?
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    • 5
    • 6
    • 7
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  6. The United Nations (UN) was founded at the end of World War I: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  7. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created in -
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    • 20th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 21st Century
    • 18th Century
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  8. The use of ___ in World War I was an important military innovation.
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    • mustard gas
    • white phosphorus bullets
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  9. The USSR was the country with the most victims: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  10. The Valkyries not only accompanied the dead on their journey, they also looked after them during their stay in Valhalla: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  11. The Vasa, the famous Swedish 17th-century battleship, sank during a naval battle: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  12. The Vikings were Scandinavian warriors: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  13. The War of Reform (1858-1861) was a civil war that took place in Chile: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  14. The war of the currents was fought between the end of the 1910s and the beginning of the 1920s: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  15. The War of the Roses was an agrarian reform: True or false?
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    • True
    • False, it was a civil war.
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  16. The war of the Trenches took place on the Marne River, near the city of...
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    • Berlin
    • Paris
    • Saint Petersburg
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  17. The Watergate scandal forced US President Richard Nixon to resign: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  18. The Western Schism, a split within the Roman Catholic Church in which two or three men claimed to be the Pope, started in 1054: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  19. The White House in Washington was designed in 1792 by whom?
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    • Henry Flitcroft (Britain)
    • Charles Percier (France)
    • James Hoban (Ireland)
    • Robert Adam (Britain)
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  20. The word "Islam" refers to
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    • Submission/ humbling oneself
    • The name of a tribe from the time when the holy Koran was revealed
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  21. The workers in the engine room were known as the black brigade: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  22. "The world is beautiful, but it has a flaw called man." To whom is this quote attributed?
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    • Martin Heidegger.
    • Friedrich Nietzsche.
    • Arthur Schopenhauer.
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  23. The Yalta Conference is famous for the agreement to divide Germany: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  24. The year in which the Nazi program of extermination of Jews officially began.
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    • 1935
    • 1941
    • 1946
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  25. Theodore Roosevelt is the longest-running president in US history: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  26. There are Mayan pyramids that are built on top of each other: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  27. There is no official version, but it's said that Vincent Van Gogh cut his ear after having a dispute with Paul Gauguin: True or false?
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    • True
    • False, the most current hypothesis is that Gauguin cut off part of Van Gogh's earlobe with a sabre.
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  28. These characters are from which Opera? Krusina, Hata, Marenka, Micha, Ludmila, Kecal, Jenik, Vasek and Esmeralda
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    • The Queen of Spades
    • The Bartered Bride
    • War and Peace
    • Orpheus in the Underworld
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  29. Theseus was king of:
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    • Minos
    • Athens
    • Sparta
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  30. Thesis was the primordial goddess of:
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    • Water.
    • The night.
    • The creation.
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  31. Thesis was the primordial goddess of:
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    • Water.
    • The night.
    • Creation.
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  32. "They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring." Who does the phrase belong to?
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    • Ruben Dario.
    • Pablo Neruda.
    • Gabriela Mistral.
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  33. They had bronze beaks, wings and claws, whose poisonous excrements ruined the crops and were also carnivorous.
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    • Stucco birds.
    • Birds of Hestia.
    • Birds of Stephalus.
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  34. They had one eye and one tooth for all, which they shared and used in turns.
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    • The Graeae
    • The Grey Sisters
    • The daughters of Phorcys
    • All three options are valid.
    • None of the options are valid.
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  35. They were also considered 'children of the god Ra' from the dynasty onwards:
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    • III
    • V
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  36. This british inventor created the reflective telescope:
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    • Isaac Newton
    • Thomas Savery
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  37. This mathematician, physicist, engineer and astronomer determined the value of the PI:
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    • Tales de Mileto
    • Arquímedes
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  38. This triad of gods was formed by:
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    • Jupiter, Mars and Janus (who was replaced by Quirino)
    • Jupiter, Liber and Jano (who was replaced by Quirino)
    • Jupiter, Minerva and Jano (who was replaced by Quirino)
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  39. Throughout which conflict did the Battle of the Bulge take place?
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    • World War I.
    • World War II.
    • Vietnam War.
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  40. To what philosopher was water the first element of all things that exist?
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    • Thales of Miletus.
    • Xenophanes of Colophon.
    • Empedocles of Agrigentum.
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  41. To which Greek goddess is the temple "The Parthenon" dedicated?
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    • Aphrodite
    • Athena
    • Cyclops
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  42. To which movement belonged the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-1870)?
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    • Modernism
    • Romanticism
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  43. "True leaders must be willing to sacrifice everything for the freedom of their people." Who said this?
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    • Nelson Mandela.
    • John F. Kennedy.
    • Teresa of Calcutta.
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  44. Tulips came originally from what country in the 16th century?
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    • Turkey
    • Hungary
    • Netherlands
    • India
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  45. Túpac Amaru was the first inca emperor to be held captive by the Spanish conquerors: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  46. Tutankhamun became the pharaoh of Egypt at what age?
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    • 9
    • 16
    • 14
    • 23
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  47. Ukraine was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union (1922-1991): True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  48. Under the motto: "Everything for the people, but without the people" was attempted:
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    • To increase real power.
    • To suppress the real power.
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  49. Under which monarch was the Act of Union passed and the Kingdoms of England and Scotland United?
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    • George I
    • James II
    • William III
    • Queen Anne
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  50. Unless they were members of royalty, the inhabitants of ancient England could not have sex without first asking the King's permission: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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