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. Who fought in the Punic Wars?
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    • Rome and Carthage.
    • Achaemenid Empire of Persia and the city-states of Greece.
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  2. Who founded eBay?
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    • Jeff Bezos.
    • Jerry Yang.
    • Pierre Omidyar.
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  3. Who founded the Mongolian Empire?
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    • Attila
    • Genghis Khan
    • Qin Shi Huang
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  4. Who gave the box to Pandora?
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    • Zeus
    • Hades
    • Poseidon
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  5. Who holds the record for most climbs to the top of Mount Everest?
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    • Edmund Hillary.
    • Kami Rita Sherpa.
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  6. Who invented the cinematograph?
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    • Montgolfier brothers.
    • Lumiere brothers.
    • Wright brothers.
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  7. Who is considered as the “Father of modern medicine”?
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    • Socrates
    • Asclepius
    • Hippocrates
    • Galen
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  8. Who is considered the "father of gods and men"?
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    • Zeus
    • Cronus
    • Uranus
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  9. Who is considered the most eminent opera singer of the twentieth century?
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    • Grace Kelly
    • Maria Callas
    • Renata Tebaldi
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  10. Who is credited with the quote "These are my principles and if you don't like them, I have others"?
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    • Woody Allen.
    • Groucho Marx.
    • Charles Chaplin.
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  11. Who is kidnapped by Hades and forced to marry him?
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    • Ceres
    • Demeter
    • Persephone
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  12. Who is known as the "Father of the Constitution" in U.S. history?
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    • George Washington
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • James Madison
    • Alexander Hamilton
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  13. Who is known as the Warrior Pope?
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    • Pius IV
    • Julio II
    • Calixto III
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  14. Who is the author of the "Treatise of Human Nature" (1738-40)?
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    • David Hume.
    • Ludwig Wittgenstein.
    • Arthur Schopenhauer.
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  15. Who is the creator god?
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    • Ra
    • Nun
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  16. Who is the first deity of the Egyptians, the first of all?
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    • Nun
    • Amon
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  17. Who is the founder of psychoanalysis?
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    • Burrhus Frederic Skinner
    • Sigmund Freud
    • Melanie Klein
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  18. Who is the god of blacksmiths, craftsmen and sculptors?
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    • Apollo
    • Hermes
    • Hephaestus
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  19. Who is the god of writing?
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    • Anubis
    • Thot
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  20. Who is the mother of Hades, Poseidon and Zeus?
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    • Gaia
    • Rhea
    • Hera
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  21. Who is the Mother of the Homeland of Argentina?
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    • María Remedios del Valle
    • Micaela Bastidas
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  22. Who is the only British Monarch to be executed?
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    • Edward II
    • Charles I
    • Charles II
    • Richard III
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  23. Who is the Trojan hero who was given immortality and appointed cup-bearer to the gods?
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    • Orpheus
    • Ganymede
    • Oedipus
    • Aeneas
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  24. Who is the youngest of Cronus and Rhea's descendants?
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    • Zeus
    • Hades
    • Poseidon
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  25. Who kidnapped Persephone?
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    • Hephaestus
    • Hades
    • Hercules
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  26. Who killed Achilles?
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    • Hector
    • Menelaus
    • Paris
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  27. Who killed the beast known as "The Minotaur"?
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    • Hercules
    • Perseus
    • Theseus
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  28. Who killed the creature Chimera?
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    • Sarpedon
    • Bellerophon
    • Patroclus
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  29. Who killed the giant Goliath with a slingshot and a stone?
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    • Jesus
    • Solomon
    • David
    • Joseph
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  30. Who killed the Hydra of Lerna?
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    • Achilles
    • Hercules
    • Perseus
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  31. Who killed the Minotaur?
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    • Aegean
    • Theseus
    • Perseus
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  32. Who led the Bolsheviks in Communist Russia?
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    • Lósif Stalin.
    • Vladimir Lenin.
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  33. Who led the British forces in the Battle of Waterloo(1815)?
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    • Duke of Wellington
    • Horatio Nelson
    • Michael Ney
    • Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
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  34. Who made Narcissus fall in love with his own image?
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    • Niké
    • Nix
    • Nemesis
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  35. Who murdered Julius Caesar on the Ides of March?
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    • Mark Antony.
    • Pompey.
    • The Senate.
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  36. Who of the following characters fell in love with his own image?
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    • Achilles
    • Eros
    • Asclepius
    • Narcissus
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  37. Who of the following completed the 12 impossible labours?
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    • Heracles
    • Kratos
    • Odysseus
    • None of the above
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  38. Who opened the Volkswagen factory to produce cars for the people?
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    • Henry Ford.
    • Adolf Hitler.
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  39. Who presides over the US when “The Great Depression of 29” took place?
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    • Herbert Hoover
    • Harry Truman
    • Dwight Eisenhower
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  40. Who promoted Perestroika, the economic reform of the Soviet Union?
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    • Nikita Khrushchev.
    • Mikhail Gorbachev.
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  41. Who ruled Roman Empire the time Jesus was born?
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    • Julius Cesar
    • Tiberius
    • Nero
    • Augustus
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  42. Who ruled the Carolingian Empire from 768 to 814?
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    • Louis IX
    • Charlemagne
    • Clovis I
    • Lothair
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  43. Who said "Never break the silence except to make it better"?
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    • Luciano Pavarotti.
    • Ludwig van Beethoven.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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  44. Who said "No person deserves your tears, and whoever deserves them will not make you cry"?
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    • Pablo Neruda.
    • Mario Benedetti.
    • Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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  45. Who sailed with the Argonauts and killed the Calydonian Boar?
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    • Hector
    • Perseus
    • Meleager
    • Theseus
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  46. Who started the Korean War by invading on June 25, 1950?
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    • North Korea.
    • South Korea.
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  47. Who used the phrase paper tiger to refer to U.S. imperialism?
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    • Hirohito
    • Mao Zedong
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  48. Who was Ana Bolena married to?
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    • Henry V
    • Henry VIII
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  49. Who was Apollo's twin sister?
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    • Artemis
    • Helena
    • Athena
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  50. Who was appointed to rule France after the execution of Robespierre?
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    • The Directory
    • Napoleon Bonaparte
    • Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
    • Pierre Joseph Cambon
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