1. In which year did World War II end?
Answer: 1945
2. Who was the first President of the United States?
Answer: George Washington
3. The Great Wall was built primarily in which country?
Answer: China
4. Who was the Egyptian queen famously involved with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?
Answer: Cleopatra
5. In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer: 1989
6. Which treaty officially ended World War I?
Answer: Treaty of Versailles
7. The Titanic sank in which year?
Answer: 1912
8. Who was the British Prime Minister during most of WWII?
Answer: Winston Churchill
9. Which empire was ruled by Genghis Khan?
Answer: Mongol
10. In what year did the American Civil War begin?
Answer: 1861
11. Who wrote 'Das Kapital'?
Answer: Karl Marx
12. Which civilization built Machu Picchu?
Answer: Inca
13. Who was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914, triggering WWI?
Answer: Franz Ferdinand
14. The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the US from which country?
Answer: France
15. Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
16. In which Italian city did the Renaissance largely begin?
Answer: Florence
17. Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
18. In what year did Christopher Columbus first reach the Americas?
Answer: 1492
19. Which ancient wonder stood at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes?
Answer: Colossus of Rhodes
20. Who led India to independence in 1947?
Answer: Gandhi
21. In what year did the Soviet Union dissolve?
Answer: 1991
22. Which English king signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
Answer: King John
23. The French Revolution began in which year?
Answer: 1789
24. Who was the last Tsar of Russia?
Answer: Nicholas II
25. In what year was the Suez Canal opened?
Answer: 1869
26. Which US president resigned over the Watergate scandal?
Answer: Richard Nixon
27. The Hundred Years' War was between England and which country?
Answer: France
28. Which Roman emperor made Christianity the empire's favored religion?
Answer: Constantine
29. Who discovered penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
30. In which year did the Chernobyl disaster occur?
Answer: 1986