History trivia questions
1731 multiple-choice History trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- The coat of arms of the King of Spain contains the arms from the monarchs of Castille, Leon, Aragon and which other former Iberian kingdom?
- Which country did the Eureka Rebellion, an 1856 battle against colonial rule, take place in?
- How long did the Warsaw Uprising during World War II last?
- What year was the first Pizza Hut restaurant opened?
- What was found in 1946 by two young shepards near a cave?
- Which of the following was not one of Joseph Stalin's ten blows during World War II?
- How many women joined the United States Armed Services during World War II?
- Which is the hull NO. of the Fletcher class destroyer Fletcher?
- Who invented the "Flying Shuttle" in 1738; one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving?
- Before the American colonies switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1752, on what date did their new year start?
- The first Legoland park was opened in 1968 in which of these cities?
- Who was the last emperor of Mexico?
- The ontological argument for the proof of God's existence is first attributed to whom?
- In the year 1900, what were the most popular first names given to boy and girl babies born in the United States?
- When was the SS or Schutzstaffel established?
- What did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize for in 1921?
- Which U.S. president was said to have been too honest to lie to his father about chopping down a cherry tree?
- Which English king was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?
- The Hagia Sophia was commissioned by which emperor of the Byzantine Empire?
- The son of which pope supposedly held a lecherous fête involving 50 courtesans in the papal palace?
- In the Seven Wonders of the World, which wonder is the only that has survived to this day?
- Which one of these rulers did not belong to the Habsburg dynasty?
- Which Irish village in County Mayo built a tourism industry on the back of an alleged appearance by the Virgin Mary in 1879?
- When was Adolf Hitler appointed as Chancellor of Germany?
- The Arab Spring was a series of protests and rebellions that began in which of these Arab nations?
- During the Roman Triumvirate of 42 BCE, what region of the Roman Republic was given to Lepidus?
- What was the first recorded object to ever reach space?
- The Bohemian Revolt (1618-1620) started after Protestants in Prague did what to their Catholic Lords Regents?
- What is the name of the Boeing B-29 that dropped the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
- What was the original name of New York City?