History trivia questions
1731 multiple-choice History trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- The term Luddite originally applied to disgruntled workers in which industry?
- The assassination of which royal led to the start of World War I?
- From 1940 to 1942, what was the capital-in-exile of Free France ?
- What was the aim of the "Umbrella Revolution" in Hong Kong in 2014?
- What was the last colony the UK ceded marking the end of the British Empire?
- When did Canada leave the confederation to become their own nation?
- What year was Canada founded in?
- Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939?
- Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt in which country?
- When did Lithuania declare independence from the Soviet Union?
- Which of these positions did the astronomer and physicist Isaac Newton not hold?
- What was the real name of the Albanian national leader Skanderbeg?
- Which countries participated in the Lobster War?
- What was the name of the spy ring that helped the United States win the Revolutionary War?
- Which country were potatoes originally grown?
- After the 1516 Battle of Marj Dabiq, the Ottoman Empire took control of Jerusalem from which sultanate?
- Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born?
- The pantheon in Rome was used to worship what god?
- When was the Gregorian Calendar first adopted?
- Who was the first man to travel into outer space twice?
- Which of the following physicists did NOT work on the Manhattan project?
- During the Spanish Civil War (1936), Francisco Franco fought for which political faction?
- What year was the United States Declaration of Independence signed?
- What was the Canada's first capital?
- What micro-state is considered to have the oldest constitution still in effect?
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky was which of the following?
- During World War I, which nation's monarchs were blood related?
- Who assassinated President James A. Garfield?
- What did the abbreviation "RMS" stand for in the RMS Titanic in 1912?
- The Second Boer War in 1899 was fought where?