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. Which one of these characters died of heart failure?
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    • Simon Bolivar.
    • Christopher Columbus.
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  2. Which pamphlet writer argued for American independence in early 1776 and helped shift public opinion toward separation?
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    • John Trumbull
    • James Otis
    • Richard Henry Lee
    • Thomas Paine
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  3. Which party did Ronald Reagan belong to?
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    • Democrat
    • Republican
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  4. Which pharaoh built the Great Pyramid of Giza?
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    • Kephren
    • Mycerinus
    • Cheops
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  5. Which pharaoh defeated the Hyksos?
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    • Seqenenre
    • Kamose
    • Amosis I
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  6. Which pharaoh was married to Nefertiti?
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    • Ramses I.
    • Osorkon I.
    • Akhenaten.
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  7. Which pharaoh was ruling when the first pyramid was built?
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    • Menes
    • Huny
    • Zoser
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  8. Which president has been the only one to be a veteran of World War I?
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    • Harry Truman.
    • Herbert Hoover.
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  9. Which president has been the only one to resign from office?
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    • Richard Nixon.
    • Lyndon B. Johnson.
    • Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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  10. Which president was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803?
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    • Andrew Jackson
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • James Monroe
    • John Adams
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  11. Which Prince has been Heir apparent for the longest time?
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    • Prince George, Prince of Wales
    • Prince Albert, Prince of York
    • Charles, Prince of Wales
    • Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh
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  12. Which Prussian officer is especially associated with drilling and professionalizing the Continental Army at Valley Forge?
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    • Casimir Pulaski
    • Baron von Steuben
    • Tadeusz Kościuszko
    • Johann de Kalb
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  13. Which purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803?
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    • The Alaska Purchase
    • The Gadsden Purchase
    • The Louisiana Purchase
    • The Oregon Treaty
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  14. Which resolution declared that the colonies “are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States” before the final Declaration was adopted?
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    • The Suffolk Resolves
    • The Lee Resolution
    • The Fairfax Resolves
    • The Olive Branch Petition
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  15. Which Roman emperor built a giant wall across Northern England?
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    • Hadrian
    • Tiberius
    • Vespasian
    • Trajan
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  16. Which side was the United States on at the start of the war?
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    • Russia
    • Serbia
    • Italy
    • US was neutral at the start
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  17. Which side was victorious?
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    • The Union
    • The Confederation
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  18. Which Spanish president was assassinated in 1912?
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    • Antonio Maura.
    • Jose Canalejas.
    • Eduardo Dato.
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  19. Which state was the first to secede from the Union before the start of the Civil War?
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    • Kansas
    • Nebraska
    • Mississippi
    • South Carolina
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  20. Which Stone Age period lasted the longest?
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    • Paleolithic
    • Mesolithic
    • Neolithic
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  21. Which tax measure of 1765 required many printed materials in the colonies to carry an official revenue stamp?
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    • The Sugar Act
    • The Tea Act
    • The Stamp Act
    • The Declaratory Act
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  22. Which treaty puts an end to the War of the Spanish Succession?
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    • Treaty of Utrecht
    • Treaty of Zaragoza
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  23. Which two lovers represent the sky and the earth?
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    • Isis and Osiris.
    • Geb and Nut.
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  24. Which U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
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    • Abraham Lincoln
    • George Washington
    • Woodrow Wilson
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt
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  25. Which Virginia royal governor issued a 1775 proclamation offering freedom to enslaved people of Patriot owners who joined British forces?
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    • Lord Dunmore
    • Thomas Gage
    • Guy Carleton
    • William Howe
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  26. Which war included the attack on Pearl Harbor and the D-Day landings?
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    • World War I
    • The Korean War
    • World War II
    • The Vietnam War
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  27. Which war was fought between the Union and the Confederacy?
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    • The American Revolutionary War
    • The War of 1812
    • The Mexican-American War
    • The American Civil War
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  28. Which was the capital city of Brazil before the construction of Brasilia in the middle of 20th century?
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    • Belo Horizonte
    • Rio de Janeiro
    • Curitiba
    • São Paulo
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  29. Which weapon was first used at the Battle of the Somme in World War I?
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    • Submarine
    • Tank
    • Jet
    • Chariot
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  30. Which were the first two countries to declare war?
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    • Austria and Germany
    • Austria and Russia
    • Austria and Denmark
    • Austria and Serbia
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  31. Which were the Universities capable of transmitting a message to each other through the Arpanet network? Germ of what we now know as the Internet.
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    • The American universities of UCLA and Standford.
    • Standford and Oxford universities.
    • The Cambridge and Harvard universities.
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  32. Which winter encampment became a symbol of hardship and training for Washington’s army in 1777–1778?
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    • Valley Forge
    • Morristown
    • Newburgh
    • Fort Ticonderoga
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  33. Which writer of the periodical L'Ami du peuple (Friend of the people) was an important radical voice during the French revolution?
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    • Jean-Paul Marat
    • Maximilien Robespierre
    • Élie Lacoste
    • Georges Danton
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  34. While Europe was living in the stone age, Egypt was building pyramids: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  35. Who are Odin's brothers?
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    • Thor and Ve
    • Ymir and Frigg
    • Vili and Ve
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  36. Who assassinated Jean-Paul Marat in his medicinal bath on 13th July 1793?
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    • Charlotte Corday
    • Jacques Pierre Brissot
    • Simone Evrard
    • Marie Antoinette
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  37. Who built the Crete Labyrinth?
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    • Hephaestus
    • Faun
    • Daedalus
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  38. Who came up with the famous description, "the war to end all wars"?
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    • Harry Truman
    • Kaiser Wilhelm
    • Woodrow Wilson
    • Joseph Stalin
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  39. Who carried out the attack of July 20, 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler?
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    • Wehrmacht officers.
    • Officers of the Schutzstaffel.
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  40. Who coined the phrase “paper tiger” to mock US imperialism in Eastern Asia?
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    • Hirohito
    • Mao Zedong
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  41. Who created the first all-electronic television?
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    • Philo Farnsworth.
    • Charles Francis Jenkins
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  42. Who designed the labyrinth of King Minos?
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    • Perseus
    • Daedelus
    • Odysseus
    • King Minos himself
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  43. Who designed the mythical Alexandria Lighthouse?
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    • Chares of Lindos.
    • Sostratus of Cnidus.
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  44. Who did Constantine (306 AD) worship before Christ?
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    • Saturn
    • Sun invictus
    • Ares
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  45. Who did Leonidas fight to in the Battle of Thermopylae?
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    • Darius
    • Themistocles
    • Xerxes
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  46. Who did not belong to the committee that wrote US Declaration of Independence in 1776?
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    • Benjamin Franklin
    • Thomas Paine
    • Thomas Jefferson
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  47. Who discovered the penicillin?
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    • Alfred Nobel.
    • Alexander Fleming.
    • Louis Pasteur.
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  48. Who does Athena compete against to be the protective deity of Athens?
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    • Ares
    • Apollo
    • Poseidon
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  49. Who faced each other at the battle of Peleliu?
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    • Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
    • The United States and the Empire of Japan.
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  50. Who fought during the battle of Stalingrad?
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    • French and Russian empires.
    • The Red Army and the Wehrmacht.
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