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Set 1 · History
- EasyHow many manned moon landings have there been?
Answer: 6
- EasyWhen did the Byzantine Empire collapse?
Answer: 1453
- EasyWhat is the historical name of Sri Lanka?
Answer: Ceylon
- EasyWhen was Google founded?
Answer: September 4, 1998
- EasyWhat was William Frederick Cody better known as?
Answer: Buffalo Bill
- MediumWhich country had an "Orange Revolution" between 2004 and 2005?
Answer: Ukraine
- MediumWhen did the British hand-over sovereignty of Hong Kong back to China?
Answer: 1997
- MediumIn 1845, a series of wars named after which indigenous people began in New Zealand?
Answer: Māori
- MediumWhat was the name of the first permanent English settlement in America?
Answer: Jamestown
- MediumWhich of these countries was sea charted in 1500 by the Portuguese maritime explorations?
Answer: Brazil
- HardWhich of these founding fathers of the United States of America later became president?
Answer: James Monroe
- HardWhat year did the Vietnam War end?
Answer: 1975
- HardJohn Moses Browning, the designer of the M1918 BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) was a part of which religion?
Answer: Mormon
- HardWhich infamous European traitor was known as "the last person to enter Parliament with honest intentions"?
Answer: Guy Fawkes
- HardWhich of the following Assyrian kings did NOT rule during the Neo-Assyrian Empire?
Answer: Shamshi-Adad III
- Very hardWhat is the name of the ship which was only a few miles away from the RMS Titanic when it struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912?
Answer: Californian
- Very hardHow did Cleopatra present herself to Julius Caesar when he seized the Egyptian capital in 48 BC ?
Answer: rolled into a Persian carpet
- Very hardPresident Roosevelt met with other Allied leaders several times at several places during WWII. Which is the only leader he met in the White House in Washington?
Answer: Winston Churchill
- Very hardWhat did people do in medieval times to make their skin appear more translucent?
Answer: They painted blood vessels on their skin.
- Very hardWhich U.S. president was said to have been too honest to lie to his father about chopping down a cherry tree?
Answer: George Washington
Set 2 · History
- EasyWhich one of these countries was NOT in the Central Powers during WWI?
Answer: Spain
- EasyWhich one of these tanks was designed and operated by the United Kingdom?
Answer: Tog II
- EasyWhich German field marshal was known as the `Desert Fox`?
Answer: Erwin Rommel
- EasyWhich one of these was not a beach landing site in the Invasion of Normandy?
Answer: Silver
- EasyIn 1453, which important city fell?
Answer: Constantinople
- MediumWhich Apollo mission was the last one in NASA's Apollo program?
Answer: Apollo 17
- MediumWhat disease crippled President Franklin D. Roosevelt and led him to help the nation find a cure?
Answer: Polio
- MediumWhen was the People's Republic of China founded?
Answer: October 1, 1949
- MediumWho was the first explorer to sail to North America?
Answer: Leif Erikson
- MediumThe Panama Canal was finished under the administration of which U.S. president?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson
- HardWhat is the name of the famous Apache leader who died in 1909 at the age of 70?
Answer: Geronimo
- HardWhich of his six wives was Henry VIII married to the longest?
Answer: Catherine of Aragon
- HardWhat was the predominating religion in the Achaemenid Empire, one of the first Persian empires?
Answer: Zoroastrianism
- HardOn which aircraft carrier did the Doolitte Raid launch from on April 18, 1942 during World War II?
Answer: USS Hornet
- HardWhich American civilization is the source of the belief that the world would end or drastically change on December 21st, 2012?
Answer: The Mayans
- Very hardWhat was the name of the chemical that was dropped on Vietnam during the Vietnam war?
Answer: Agent Orange
- Very hardWhat year were the Marian Reforms instituted in the Roman Republic?
Answer: 107 BCE
- Very hardOn which day did ARPANET suffer a 4 hour long network crash?
Answer: October 27, 1980
- Very hardWhen was the city of Rome, Italy founded?
Answer: 753 BCE
- Very hardWhat was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on August 15th, 1944?
Answer: Operation Dragoon
Set 3 · History
- EasyWhich famous military commander marched an army, which included war elephants, over the Alps during the Second Punic War?
Answer: Hannibal
- EasyWho was among those killed in the 2010 Smolensk, Russia plane crash tragedy?
Answer: The Polish President
- EasyIn what year did the Great Northern War, between Russia and Sweden, end?
Answer: 1721
- EasyWhich of the following ancient peoples was NOT classified as Hellenic (Greek)?
Answer: Illyrians
- EasyDuring WWII, in 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and what other city?
Answer: Nagasaki
- MediumHow were Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleon III related?
Answer: Uncle and nephew
- MediumWhich of these facilities was not present on the Titanic?
Answer: Fainting room
- MediumWhich of these 1900s tanks were designed and built BEFORE the others?
Answer: Renault FT
- MediumWhich of the following countries was the first to send an object into space?
Answer: Germany
- MediumWhat date was the first flight of the P-40 Warhawk?
Answer: October 14 1938
- HardWhat year did the Boxing Day earthquake & tsunami occur in the Indian Ocean?
Answer: 2004
- HardIn what year did the North American Video Game Crash occur?
Answer: 1983
- HardThe United States Army Air Corps became the United States Air Force on what date?
Answer: September 18, 1947
- HardWhat period of time during the Eighty Years War (1568- 1648) is referred to as the Twelve Years Truce?
Answer: 1609 to 1621
- HardWhen and where did the Velvet Revolution take place?
Answer: 1989 ; Prague ; Czechoslovakia
- Very hardWhen was Finland's 100th year of being independent?
Answer: 2017
- Very hardToussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt in which country?
Answer: Haiti
- Very hardWho assassinated President James A. Garfield?
Answer: Charles Guiteau
- Very hardWhat was the original name of New York City?
Answer: New Amsterdam
- Very hardWho was the first man to travel into outer space twice?
Answer: Gus Grissom
Set 4 · History
- EasyWhich country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States of America?
Answer: France
- EasyIn what year did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon?
Answer: 1969
- EasyWhat nationality was sultan Saladin?
Answer: Kurdish
- EasyWho tutored Alexander the Great?
Answer: Aristotle
- EasyThe creator of the Enigma Cypher and Machine was of what nationality?
Answer: German
- MediumIn what dialogue did Socrates defend himself to the court of Athens?
Answer: The Apology
- MediumWhat was the most contested (captured, recaptured) town in the U.S. Civil War?
Answer: Winchester
- MediumWhich country was an allied power in World War II?
Answer: Soviet Union
- MediumAmerica's Strategic Defense System during the Cold War was nicknamed after this famous movie.
Answer: Star Wars
- MediumWho or what was a medieval fief?
Answer: Land held by a vassal
- HardWhat is the name of the US Navy spy ship which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces in 1968?
Answer: USS Pueblo
- HardIn what year did Kentucky become the 15th state to join the union?
Answer: 1792
- HardIn 1961, an American B-52 aircraft crashed and nearly detonated two 4mt nuclear bombs over which US city?
Answer: Goldsboro, North Carolina
- HardWhat warrior king and his 300 Spartans held back the Persian army for two days in one of historys most heroic last stands?
Answer: Leonidas
- HardWhat event marked the start of World War II?
Answer: Invasion of Poland (1939)
- Very hardWhen did Lithuania declare independence from the Soviet Union?
Answer: March 11th, 1990
- Very hardWhat was the last colony the UK ceded marking the end of the British Empire?
Answer: Hong Kong
- Very hardWhat was the real name of the Albanian national leader Skanderbeg?
Answer: Gjergj Kastrioti
- Very hardWho invented the "Flying Shuttle" in 1738; one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving?
Answer: John Kay
- Very hardThe Battle of Hastings was fought in which year?
Answer: 1066
Set 5 · History
- EasyWhat happened on June 6, 1944?
Answer: D-Day
- EasyHow many distinct kingdoms were there in Ancient Egypt?
Answer: three
- EasyHow many years did the Hundred Years' War last?
Answer: 116
- EasyJoseph Smith was the founder of what religion?
Answer: Mormonism
- EasyWho assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Answer: Gavrilo Princip
- MediumWhere and when was the first cardboard box made for industrial use?
Answer: England, 1817
- MediumWhat was the unofficial name for Germany between 1919 and 1933?
Answer: Weimar Republic
- MediumThe minigun was designed in 1960 by which manufacturer.
Answer: General Electric
- MediumWhen was "The Gadget", the first nuclear device to be detonated, tested?
Answer: July 16, 1945
- MediumWho was the first Chancellor of a united Germany in 1871?
Answer: Otto Von Bismark
- HardWhat is the bloodiest event in United States history, in terms of casualties?
Answer: Battle of Antietam
- HardIn World War II, the Axis and the Allies were the two main rival powers. Which of these countries was not a member of the Axis?
Answer: Greece
- HardAt the time of the Battle of Trenton, the Hessian garrison numbered some 1500 men. Twenty soldiers were killed and eighty wounded. About how many soldiers were taken prisoner?
Answer: 900
- HardIn World War I, what was the name of the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria?
Answer: The Central Powers
- HardWhat was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in WW2?
Answer: Operation Barbarossa
- Very hardIn which year did the Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack occur?
Answer: 1995
- Very hardWhat is the name of the Boeing B-29 that dropped the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Answer: Enola Gay
- Very hardWhat was the aim of the "Umbrella Revolution" in Hong Kong in 2014?
Answer: Genuine universal suffrage
- Very hardList the following Iranic empires in chronological order:
Answer: Median, Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid
- Very hardIn addition to his career as an astrologer and "prophet", Nostradamus published a 1555 treatise that included a section on what?
Answer: Making jams and jellies
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