1,500+ History Trivia Questions and Answers

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1,500+ History Trivia Questions and Answers

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  1. What was the main purpose of the colonial Committees of Correspondence before independence?
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    • To coordinate political communication among colonies
    • To select officers for the Continental Army
    • To write state constitutions
    • To negotiate directly with France
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  2. What was the maximum amount of US soldiers fighting in Vietnamese territory?
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    • 300.000
    • 450.000
    • 275.000
    • 543.000
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  3. What was the most revered animal of the Mayans?
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    • Deer
    • Jaguar
    • Scorpion
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  4. What was the name of Alexander the Great’s horse?
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    • Chetak
    • Bucephalus
    • Marengo
    • Kasztanka
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  5. What was the name of Queen Victoria before she changed it while ascending the throne?
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    • Alexandrina
    • Katherine
    • Phillipa
    • Georgette
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  6. What was the name of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan?
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    • Bockscar
    • Enola Gay
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  7. What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in what became the United States?
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    • Plymouth
    • Boston
    • Jamestown
    • Philadelphia
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  8. What was the name of the prison where queen Marie Antoinette spent her final days before her execution?
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    • The Conciergerie
    • The Bastille
    • La Santé
    • The Tower of London
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  9. What was the name of the ship where Charles Darwin made his famous voyage to South America and around the world as a naturalist?
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    • Indomitable
    • Beagle
    • Neptune
    • Centurion
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  10. What was the name of the underworld ferryman?
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    • Cerberus
    • Cyclops
    • Charon
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  11. What was the name of the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany (1935-1945)?
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    • Reichswehr
    • Wehrmacht
    • Schutzstaffel
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  12. What was the name Saddam Hussein gave to "The Gulf War"?
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    • The mother of fights.
    • The greatest fight of all time.
    • The mother of all battles.
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  13. What was the nickname given to the then queen of France Marie Antoinette?
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    • Madame Deficit
    • The Last Queen
    • Lady Antoinette
    • Madame Panache
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  14. What was the season of inundation, i.e. the season when the Nile River flooded called?
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    • Akhet
    • Peret
    • Shemu
    • Kemet
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  15. What was the symbol of the House of York during the war of Roses?
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    • Red Rose
    • Golden Rose
    • White Rose
    • Tudor Rose
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  16. What was the third work of heracles?
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    • To kill the Hydra of Lerna.
    • Capture the Bull of Crete.
    • Capture the Hind of Cerinea.
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  17. What was the trigger for the Civil War?
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    • The attack of Fort Sumter.
    • The murder of Abraham Lincoln.
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  18. What was the Viet Cong?
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    • The Vietnamese Guerrilla Forces
    • A Mass Political Organization
    • The Cambodian Guerrilla Forces
    • All of the above
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  19. What was Thebes' main rival city during the first interim period and also Pharaoh Mentuhotep's first target?
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    • Abido
    • Heracleópolis
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  20. What weapon did the Cyclops give to Hades?
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    • A trident
    • The lightning
    • A helmet
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  21. What were the agreed upon reparations that Germany had to pay France and UK according to treaty of Versailles?
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    • US $ 23 Billion
    • US$ 33 Billion
    • US$ 45 Billion
    • US$ 56 Billion
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  22. What were the broad wine-drinking cups called?
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    • Kylix
    • Krater
    • Oenochoe
    • Rhyton
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  23. What were the common citizen-soldiers who usually used a spear and shield called?
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    • Psilos
    • Hoplites
    • Hippeis
    • Phalanx
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  24. What were the mandatory meals kept by social or religious groups called?
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    • Symposium
    • Kottabos
    • Syssitia
    • Akratos
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  25. What were the Mirabal sisters called? Fervent opponents of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo Molina.
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    • Patria, Minerva and María Teresa
    • Dulce, Paloma and Ana María
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  26. What were the monarchs of the Egyptian civilization called?
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    • Pharaoh
    • Deshret
    • Hedjet
    • Pschent
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  27. What were the names of the first human beings created by the gods?
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    • Ask and Embla
    • Ymir and Frigg
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  28. What were the origins of Antonio José de Sucre, the politician and military officer who founded the Republic of Bolivia in South America, in 19th century?
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    • Peru
    • Venezuela
    • Bolivia
    • Colombia
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  29. What Western country was the first to replace royal rule for institutions based on popular sovereignty in history?
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    • Germany
    • United States
    • France
    • Switzerland
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  30. What word is used to refer to the ancient Greek city-states?
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    • Asty
    • Agora
    • Polis
    • Caput
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  31. What work was written first: The Iliad or The Odyssey?
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    • The Iliad
    • The Odyssey
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  32. What year did actress Marilyn Monroe die?
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    • 1957
    • 1962
    • 1966
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  33. What year did Canada become a country?
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    • 1820
    • 1795
    • 1847
    • 1867
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  34. What year did Diana of Wales die?
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    • 1994
    • 1997
    • 2000
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  35. What year did take place Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the New World?
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    • 1490
    • 1492
    • 1496
    • 1498
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  36. What year did the French insurrectional movement called “The Paris Commune” take place?
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    • 1888
    • 1848
    • 1917
    • 1871
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  37. What year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
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    • 1942
    • 1945
    • 1944
    • 1941
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  38. What year did the Mexican Revolution start?
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    • 1910
    • 1905
    • 1918
    • 1920
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  39. What year did the monarchy begin in Ancient Roman Civilization?
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    • 703 B.C.
    • 753 B.C.
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  40. What year did the Titanic sink?
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    • 1912
    • 1921
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  41. What year does England ban the slave trade?
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    • 1811
    • 1807
    • 1812
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  42. What year does it end?
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    • 1849
    • 1865
    • 1869
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  43. What year does it start?
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    • 1845
    • 1853
    • 1861
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  44. What year was known as the year of the four emperors?
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    • 70 A.D.
    • 69 A.D.
    • 72 A.D.
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  45. What year was Nelson Mandela president?
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    • 1990
    • 1994
    • 1996
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  46. What year was the bombing of Guernica?
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    • 1935
    • 1937
    • 1945
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  47. What year was the Panama Canal opened?
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    • 1914
    • 1900
    • 1889
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  48. What year was the US Declaration of Independence signed?
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    • 1802
    • 1750
    • 1776
    • 1812
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  49. What year was the Vietnam War?
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    • 1955
    • 1960
    • 1969
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  50. What's Marie Curie's birth name?
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    • Maria Salomea Skłodowska.
    • Maria Bronisława Kozlowski.
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