World trivia questions
4036 multiple-choice World trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- This great scientist was able to show the equivalence of electricity, magnetism and light via a set of equations that carry his name.
- This Oxford scholar is the author of a series of books about a teddy bear .
- He was a great British mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. His attempt to give mathematics a complete axiomatic basis was foiled. In 1950 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- This Oxford scholar and Indian Prime Minister was assassinated in 1984.
- He was, arguably, the greatest architect in British history. He designed St. Pauls Cathedral in London.
- He was a great British explorer, an orientalist, and, probably, the first non-Muslim to visit Mecca and Medina.
- Who wrote The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Constant Gardener?
- This Oxford scholar is given credit for developing the World Wide Web.
- Ah, beauty and brains! This British beauty attended Oxford but left before graduation to become an actress. She was seen in Pearl Harbor, Laural Canyon, and Serendipidy.
- This English author depicts an Oxford scholar (Clerk) as one of the pilgrims in his most famous work.
- On June 5 in 1661 Issac Newton was admitted to which college?
- On June 5 in the year 70, the Romans first broke through the walls of Jerusalem. Who was their leader?
- Denmark became a constitutional monarchy on June 5 in what year?
- On June 5 in 1851 The Natonal Era began publishing a serial that took ten months to finish. The serial which treated slavery was made into a very popular book. Who was the author?
- On June 5 in 1833 the first person acknowledged to be a computer programmer met the person considered the father of modern computing. Who met whom?
- The USA began a program of Army registration day for World War I, on June 5 in what year?
- The first fax across the Atlantic to Europe was sent on June 5 in what year?
- On June 5 during World War II, Rome was liberated from the Fascists. In what year did this happen?
- The Unknown Rebel halted an entire column of Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square on June 5 in what year?
- On June 5 in 1956 young Elvis Presley introduced his version of Hound Dog during his third appearance on a TV show. What was the show?
- Which of these events did not occur on a June 5?
- On October 12th, 1998, this University of Wyoming student was robbed, tortured and left for dead by two attackers outside of Laramie, Wyoming.
- On 12 October in 1810, the first Oktoberfest was held to celebrate the marriage of then Bavarian Crown Prince Louis (Ludwig) and his bride, Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. Near what city were the festivities held?
- What did children attending American public schools do for the first time on October 12, 1892?
- On 12 October, 1960, Nikita Khrushchev pounded this on a desk at the United Nations General Assembly meeting.
- The Communications Act of 1912 forced amateur operators to take lengthy tests before a Department of Commerce examiner and issued commercial ship-to-shore call signs to early broadcasting stations. Name the Secretary of Commerce that oversaw this first step toward communication regulation in the United States.
- Where is the headquarters of NATO?
- What are the two countries referenced in the title of the Two Plus Four Treaty, which resulted in the first expansion of NATO after the Cold War?
- Where was the North Atlantic Treaty signed on April 4, 1949?
- The International Security Assistance Force (10), that started on 20 December 2001, is a NATO-led mission for security and development in what country?