History trivia questions
1731 multiple-choice History trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Which of these artists did not participate in the Woodstock festival, an event regarded as the high point of the hippie movement?
- In this 1979 movie, Claude Bukowski, a boy from Oklahoma, visits New York City and befriends a group of hippies before being sent to an Army training camp.
- Which American novelist, held Acid Tests in the 1960s, together with his circle of friends, known as the Merry Pranksters?
- The Free Speech Movement was a student protest that began in 1964 on the campus of which university?
- Which British band released the hit single Hippy Hippy Shake in 1963?
- Which of these 1960s famous hippie gatherings did not take place in San Francisco?
- Which 1970 book includes advice on such topics as growing marijuana, starting a pirate radio station and stealing food?
- In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two, week-long Bed-Ins for Peace. In which city was their first Bed-In?
- The Vietnam War is viewed not just as a conflict between South Vietnam and North Vietnam, but as a conflict of ideology between the communist block and western values. Which of these countries did not belong to the coalition of forces that supported the western-oriented, South Vietnam?
- This Academy Award-winning film, directed by Oliver Stone, is based on the autobiographical book of Ron Kovic, a Vietnam War veteran, who became an anti-war activist.
- This is the code name of the bombing operation in North Vietnam, carried out by the US armed forces, which lasted between 1965 and 1968.
- This US President introduced his policy of ‘vietnamization’- enabling the South Vietnamese to take more responsibility for fighting the war on their own.
- This communist offensive, launched on January 30, 1968, which comprised attacks on major cities and military bases throughout South Vietnam, was named after an important Vietnamese public holiday.
- Shooting at anti-war demonstrators at this university on May 4, 1970, triggered a nationwide student strike across America.
- Name the route running from South Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into North Vietnam, used by North Vietnamese for sending soldiers to the south and for supplying the NLF (National Liberation Front ).
- This American diplomat and statesman served as a National Security Advisor and later as a Secretary of State. He was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating a ceasefire and US withdrawal from the war in Vietnam.
- This American was sentenced to life in prison, because in 1968 he led the My Lai massacre of Vietnamese civilians, including women, children and elderly men.
- In this film, set during the Vietnam war, the following words are delivered by Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore: You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
- What Union General in charge was defeated during the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the American Civil War?
- During the American Civil War, in April 1862, Union Flag Officer David Farragut, who was in command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, took control of which vital port of the South?
- After the death of this Confederate general on on May 10, 1863, General Lee remarked, I have lost my right arm.
- What African American Regiment helped to assault Fort Wagner in South Carolina during the American Civil War?
- Which general commanded the Confederate forces at the Battle of Gettysburg, that started on July 1, 1863?
- Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee served together in which military conflict, regarded as a prelude to the American Civil War?
- What play was President Lincoln watching at Fords Theatre, when he was assassinated by a Southern sympathizer from Maryland?
- The Battle of Worcester, the Battle of Hopton Heath, and the Battle of Winceby are just three of the battles during this civil war.
- The Battle of Grunwald, the Battle of Chojnice, and the Battle of Swiecin are three battles fought during this war.
- The Battle of Ludford Bridge, the First Battle of St Albans, and the Battle of Blore Heath are three battles fought during this war.
- The Battle of Sandepu, the Battle of Mukden, and the Battle of Dairen are just three of the battles fought during this war.
- The Battle of Passchendaele, the Battle of Cer, and the Battle of the Frontiers were fought during this war.