History trivia questions
1731 multiple-choice History trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- In the historic Battle of Thermopylae, who is Ephialtes?
- When was this headline breaking news: Two people found murdered outside a condominium on South Bundy Drive in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles.?
- Who created the concept of the Dark Ages in the 1330s?
- What Renaissance humanist historian coined the term Middle Age?
- When did the West Roman Empire cease to exist?
- Which of these was the legal successor to the classical Roman Empire?
- What was the language of science in the ancient world?
- What period in the Middle Ages marked a renewed interest in Classical Antiquity?
- When did the Christianisation of Germanic tribes begin?
- When did the great migration of the Slavs begin?
- When did Boniface III, the first Bishop of Rome, begin to bear the title Pope?
- When did a pandemic, known as the Plague of Justinian, afflict the Byzantine Empire?
- What does the term “Paleozoic” mean?
- What term refers to the raise in biodiversity that occurred during the early Paleozoic era?
- Which of the following is not a period of the Paleozoic era?
- The oldest confirmed fossil of a reptile belonged to what animal?
- The first terrestrial plants evolved during the Silurian period. Which of the following is an example of these primitive floras?
- What event signaled the end of the Paleozoic?
- In which country did the name Gustav originate?
- Which ancient nation is the name Gustav related to?
- Gustav has been a common name for Swedish monarchs since the reign of Gustav Vasa or Gustav I. He became king in 1521, after leading the rebellion against King Christian II of this country who controlled most of the Sweden.
- This Swedish city was founded by Gustav II Adolf, who was known by the Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus and was King of Sweden from 1611 until his death.
- Charles X Gustav (Karl X Gustaf) was a descendant of the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken. On July 10, 1655, he left Sweden to engage in the Second Northern War (1655-1660) which started with the occupation of Dünaburg by the Swedes on July 1, 1655. Eventually his armies occupied most of this European country.
- Gustav III of Sweden, a member of a House of Holstein-Gottorp, was assassinated at a midnight masquerade at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm on March 16, 1792. This became the basis of Eugene Scribes libretto for the opera Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball). Who composed the opera?
- Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden voluntarily abdicated in the winter of 1808 when Russia invaded Sweden and Denmark declared war. By early 1809 Sweden lost almost a third of the Swedish realm and a quarter of its population to the Russians. The territory which the Russians occupied is in this modern country.
- Gustaf V of Sweden, the last Swedish king to intervene directly in the politics of the country, was also a devoted sportsman, playing in tournaments under the pseudonym Mr G. In 1980, King Gustaf was elected into the International Hall of Fame of this sport.
- Most of the powers of the Swedish monarchy died with Gustaf VI Adolf who had two major interests in life besides his country: archeology and this science.
- King Carl XVI Gustaf ascended to the throne on September 15, 1973, after the death of his grandfather, King Gustaf VI Adolf. Carl XVI Gustaf, who is probably best known as the presenter of the Nobel Prizes, publicly admitted to suffer from this condition.
- Which of these are not characteristic of Gothic architecture?
- In which of the following present-day countries was Gothic language spoken?