History related trivia quiz questions
complete with the
answers.
Which country first tried unsuccessfully to build the Panama Canal?
A: France.
Which family ruled Florence for three centuries from 1434?
A: Medici.
Who were the Celtic-speaking peoples living in France and Belgium
during Roman times?
A: Gauls.
Which king of England had a mother and a son who were both beheaded?
A: James I.
Which battle of 1746 ended the Jacobite revolution?
A: Culloden.
What Soviet "man of steel" was educated for the priesthood but was
expelled from the seminary?
A: Joseph Stalin.
In which year did Brunei gain independence fro Britain?
A: 1984.
What country sold land including the present-day states of Louisiana,
Arkansas, and Oklahoma to the USA in 1803?
A: France.
Which British monarch married Anne of Denmark?
A: James I.
In which year did Dublin's Easter Rising take place?
A: 1816.
Which US president was shot five days after the end of the American
Civil War?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
In which battle did Harold II, the last Saxon king, lose his life?
A: Battle of Hastings.
"What was the name of the Austrian-born dictator who succeeded
Hindenburg as Germany's head of state?
A: Adolf Hitler.
Who was the black educationist who was born a slave but became a
leader in the search for civil rights in the early 1900s?
A: Booker T. Washington.
Which French revolutionary was nicknamed "the Incorruptible"?
A: Robespierre.
Where did Florence Nightingale establish a hospital to treat
casualties of the Crimean War?
A: Scutari.
Which rebellion was effectively ended by the Battle of Culloden?
A: Jacobite rebellion.
What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World, now
in ruins?
A: Jamestown.
Who was the first president of independent Kenya?|
A: Jomo Kenyatta.
Who proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949?
A: Mao Zedong.
Which country was ruled by the Romanov dynasty 1613-1917?
A: Russia.
Which country's liberalization program was halted by the invasion of
600,000 Soviet troops in 1968?
A: Czechoslovakia.
Which Axis Power changed sides during World War II, declaring war on
Germany in October 1943?
A: Italy.
Who was the first democratically elected Marxist head of state?
A: Salvador Allende.
What was the name of the basalt slab that became the key for
deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics?
A: Rosetta Stone.
What title did Charlemagne, already king of the Franks, acquire in
800?
A: Holy Roman Emperor.
In which industrial process was the inventor Joseph Arkwright
responsible for an important breakthrough in 1768?
A: Spinning Cotton.
What is the name of the British political regime 1649-60 established
by Oliver Cromwell?
A: The Commonwealth.
Which wife of Henry VIII had already married twice before she became
queen, and married for a fourth time after Henry's death?
A: Catherine Parr.
What was the name of the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, fought
in 1485?
A: Battle of Bosworth.
Who was the prime minister of South Africa who was assassinated in
1966?
A: Hendrik Verwoerd.
Which 17th-century king of Sweden was known as the "Lion of the
North"?
A: Gustavus Adolphus.
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