History trivia questions
1731 multiple-choice History trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Who directed the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket?
- For his role as Pvt. Pyle in Full Metal Jacket, Vincent DOnofrio, had to gain 70 pounds. This broke the previous record for weight gained by a featured actor for a role. Who had held this record?
- This 1989 movie was about an injured Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war protester.
- Which of these movies did not feature R. Lee Ermey?
- Who directed the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now?
- The Orient Express, a long-distance passenger train that has become a synonym with luxury travel, made its first run on October 4, 1883. This was the final destination of its first route.
- On October 7, 1982, this show made its debut in Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. It eventually closed after nearly 18 years on September 10, 2000.
- The Great Chicago Fire, one of the worst disasters of the nineteenth century, started on October 8, 1871. The fire destroyed approximately 17,450 buildings, killed 250 people and left another 90,000 homeless, before it was extinguished on this date.
- On October 16, 1978, the Papal Conclave elected Karol Józef Wojtyła, who became known as Pope John Paul II. How old was he when this happened?
- On October 18, 1968, a police raid on John Lennon and Yoko Onos apartment revealed 168 grams of marijuana. This is what happened to Lennon and Ono as a result.
- What year did the Holocaust begin?
- Who is widely recognized as the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during WW II?
- Which of the following was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity in 313 AD?
- Which writer witnessed the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD?
- Which Roman Emperor wrote The Meditations that was actually a sort of personal diary?
- In Ancient Rome, who were the Lares?
- Which of these poets wrote many poems of love and manners widely read by Ancient Romans?
- This invention (named by Edward Jenner) is not an object, but a process of administering live, albeit weakened, microbes to people.
- The optical telegraph (a collective term) preceded the electrical telegraph. It was much faster than riding couriers in to deliver messages over long distances. One of these is not an optical telegraph.
- According to some theories, the parachute was invented in 1783 by Sebastien Lenormand in France. Two years later, Jean-Pierre Blanchard demonstrated it as a means of safely getting down on earth from this.
- The first military submarine (Turtle) could accommodate this number of people.
- In 1807, Robert Fulton used a steam engine to power the first commercially successful one of these.
- The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel invented in 1764 in this country.
- Charlie Chaplins movie The Gold Rush, which took in more than $4,250,000 at the box office in 1925, was set in his city.
- Most gold rushes began with the discovery of placer gold by a single man or a party of people. Which one of these statements about placer mining is wrong?
- Which one of these famous writers took part in the Klondike Gold Rush?
- One man who made a fortune out of gold rushes was Levi Strauss. He developed the concept of this.
- This technique for extracting gold was discovered by chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1783, and was later developed in 1887 by John Seward MacArthur.
- Many people seeking an easy fortune emigrated to California, USA during the California Gold Rush (1848-1858). The gold rush was sparked by the discovery of gold near this city.
- One of the earliest gold rushes was probably the Spanish search for the mythical city of El Dorado. According to early legends, the King of the Muiscas would do this as part of a religious ceremony.