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30 History trivia questions

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

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