History trivia questions
1731 multiple-choice History trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- The seed drill was invented by which British inventor?
- What was the name of the planned invasion of Japan towards the end of World War II?
- What date was the first flight of the P-40 Warhawk?
- When was "The Gadget", the first nuclear device to be detonated, tested?
- Where was Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan killed in 1521?
- Which U.S. President was in office when the Gulf War began?
- Against which country did the Dutch Republic fight the Eighty Years' War?
- In which one of these cities did the Great Stink of 1858 occur?
- Which infamous European traitor was known as "the last person to enter Parliament with honest intentions"?
- The fraudelent doctor John R. Brinkley acummulated great fame and wealth in the early 1900s offering what service?
- The Fallingwater House, located in Pennsylvania, was designed by which architect?
- John Moses Browning, the designer of the M1918 BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) was a part of which religion?
- Who was a military strategist in the Eastern Zhou period?
- In what year did the First World War end?
- What was the name of one of the surviving palaces of Henry VIII located near Richmond, London?
- Which of these countries was sea charted in 1500 by the Portuguese maritime explorations?
- When was Napoleon Bonaparte crowned emperor of the French?
- What is the name of the famous Apache leader who died in 1909 at the age of 70?
- When was the Grand Patriotic War in the USSR concluded?
- When did the United States formally declare war on Japan, entering World War II?
- The Herero genocide was perpetrated in Africa by which of the following colonial nations?
- Who is believed to have been the first European to 'discover' the land of New Zealand?
- The crown of the Empire State Building was originally built for what purpose?
- In relation to the British Occupation in Ireland, what does the IRA stand for.
- The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested, had a yield of 50 megatons but theoretically had a maximum yield of how much?
- The Battle of the Somme in World War I took place in which country?
- Hong Kong was a part of which country's territory before Britain regained it in 1945?
- Which of these facilities was not present on the Titanic?
- In what year was the last natural case of smallpox documented?
- The catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred in Ukraine in 1986 occurred at which power plant?