Top 363 Advanced History Questions and Answers
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Advanced History Questions and Answers
Question 1
Who was the monarch of The United Kingdom during the time period 1936-1936?
Answer: Edward VIII
Question 2
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1327-1377?
Answer: Edward III
Question 3
Who was the 39th president of the USA, in term during the period 1977–1981?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Question 4
Who was the 29th president of the USA, in term during the period 1921–1923?
Answer: Warren Harding
Question 5
Who was the 28th president of the USA, in term during the period 1913–1921?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson
Question 6
Who was the 19th president of the USA, in term during the period 1877–1881?
Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes
Question 7
Who was the 13th president of the USA, in term during the period 1850–1853?
Answer: Millard Fillmore
Question 8
Who Wrote A Famous Diary Between 1660 & 1669?
Answer: Samuel Pepys
Question 9
Who was the last British Viceroy of India?
Answer: Lord Louis Mountbatten
Question 10
Who Was The First US President To Take Up Residence In The Whitehouse?
Answer: John Adams
Question 11
Who was the father of Elizabeth I?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question 12
Who Was The 3rd Wife Of Henry VIII?
Answer: Jane Seymour
Question 13
Who Was The 2nd Wife Of Henry VIII?
Answer: Anne Boleyn
Question 14
Who Was Known As "Coeur De Lion"?
Answer: Richard I
Question 15
Who was Canada's first Prime Minister?
Answer: John Macdonald
Question 16
Who shot President James Garfield?
Answer: Charles Guiteau
Question 17
Who Shot Lee Harvey Oswald, The Assassin Of John F Kennedy?
Answer: Jack Ruby
Question 18
Who led 900 followers in a mass suicide in 1979?
Answer: Jim Jones
Question 19
Who banned Christmas in Britain in 1647?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell
Question 20
Which US state in 1907 was the last to declare Christmas a legal holiday?
Answer: Oklahoma
Question 21
Which London building was gutted by fire in November 1936?
Answer: The Crystal Palace
Question 22
Which King Wore Two Shirts At His Execution So As Not To Shiver And Appear Frightened?
Answer: Charles I
Question 23
When Cook Discovered The Hawaiian Islands What Did He Name Them?
Answer: Sandwich Islands
Question 24
What Was The 9th Century Tax Levied To Fight The Vikings?
Answer: Dane Geld
Question 25
What planet was 'ALF' from?
Answer: Melmac
Question 26
Who was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965?
Answer: Malcolm X
Question 27
The St. Valentine's Day massacre took place in this which city?
Answer: Chicago
Question 28
Spain ceded Florida to Britain in exchange for this territory.
Answer: Cuba
Question 29
The charge of the light brigade occured during which war?
Answer: The Crimean War
Question 30
In which century was The Black Death?
Answer: Fourteenth
Question 31
In What Year Was Queen Elizabeth The I Born?
Answer: 1533
Question 32
In what country did "Sepoy Mutiny" occur?
Answer: India
Question 33
In 1962, for what did Britain and France sign an agreement to build together?
Answer: Concorde
Question 34
In 1893, which country was the first to give women the vote?
Answer: New Zealand
Question 35
How Long Was The American Civil War?
Answer: Four Years
Question 36
Formed in 1955, with which island was the organisation known by the acronym EOKA associated?
Answer: Cyprus
Question 37
What was the first Chinese dynasty?
Answer: Shang
Question 38
Which English king was given the title 'Defender Of The Faith' by Pope Leo X?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question 39
What was the name of the vehicle in which Sir Malcom Campbell broke the 300mph barrier in 1935?
Answer: Bluebird
Question 40
What name was given to the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942?
Answer: Operation Torch
Question 41
What do historians call the military retreat made by Mao to evade the Kuomintang army?
Answer: The Long March
Question 42
What did the Romans call Scotland?
Answer: Caledonia
Question 43
What Apollo 13 astronaut contacted Mission Control with the words, "Houston, we've had a problem"?
Answer: Jack Swigert
Question 44
What amendment to the u.s. constitution ended prohibition
Answer: The twenty first
Question 45
Which Roman killed himself after his defeat at Actium?
Answer: Marc Antony
Question 46
What was the name of Jacques Cousteau's research ship?
Answer: Calypso
Question 47
Which country did Mussolini's Italy invade in 1935?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question 48
King Abdullah was assassinated in 1951. Of which country was he king?
Answer: Jordan
Question 49
In Which Year Did A Soviet Cosmonaut Make The First Spacewalk?
Answer: 1965
Question 50
In What Year Did The Vietnam War Begin?
Answer: 1954
Question 51
In 1956, Tunisia gained independence from which country?
Answer: France
Question 52
How was the 1839-42 Anglo-Chinese war better known ?
Answer: The Opium War
Question 53
How many witches were burned at the stake in Salem, Massachusetts?
Answer: 0
Question 54
How Many Children Did Queen Victoria Have?
Answer: Nine
Question 55
Who Had a wife named Roxana and a horse named Bacephalus?
Answer: Alexander the Great
Question 56
At which battle was the Charge Of The Light Brigade?
Answer: Battle of Balaclava
Question 57
As what was Winchester known by the Romans?
Answer: Venta Bulgarum
Question 58
Which of these was an empire on the Indian subcontinent?
Answer: Maurya Empire
Question 59
Who renamed the South Sea as the Pacific Ocean in 1520?
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
Question 60
In which year did the Korean War begin?
Answer: 1950
Question 61
In which year did Ghana gain independence?
Answer: 1957
Question 62
When the penicillin first successfully used to treat a patient for septicaemia?
Answer: 1942
Question 63
In which year was the first defibrillator used?
Answer: 1947
Question 64
In which year was the the contraceptive pill first approved for use?
Answer: 1960
Question 65
When was the first MRI scan of a human being?
Answer: 1977
Question 66
When did Martin Luther King give his “I Have a Dream” speech?
Answer: 1963
Question 67
In which year were the first photographs sent from Mars?
Answer: 1976
Question 68
In which year was a mammal first cloned?
Answer: 1996
Question 69
In which year was the digital camera invented?
Answer: 1975
Question 70
When did Roald Amundsen first reach the North Pole?
Answer: 1926
Question 71
In which year was the Compact Disc invented?
Answer: 1980
Question 72
When was the Live Aid concert?
Answer: 1985
Question 73
What was the code name of the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944?
Answer: Operation Overlord
Question 74
What was the name of the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943?
Answer: Operation Husky
Question 75
What is the name of the Aztec god of death?
Answer: Mictlantecuhtli
Question 76
In which year did the Gulf War begin?
Answer: 1990
Question 77
In which US State was the site of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Question 78
Which British monarch reigned during the American War of Independence (1775-1783)?
Answer: George III
Question 79
What treaties ended the Napoleonic wars?
Answer: Treaties of Paris
Question 80
Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel?
Answer: David Ben-Gurion
Question 81
Who led the Wild Bunch and conducted the first major train robbery near Wilcox, Wyoming, on June 2nd, 1899?
Answer: Butch Cassidy
Question 82
Where did the Wright Brothers found a firm to manufacture airplanes in 1909?
Answer: Dayton, Ohio
Question 83
Which international waterway was designated as a neutral zone by The Neutrality Treaty of 1977?
Answer: The Panama Canal
Question 84
What is the name of the calendar first used in 1582, in which January is the first month of the year?
Answer: The Gregorian calendar
Question 85
What was the name of the commission that was appointed to investigate the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy?
Answer: The Warren Commission
Question 86
Which empire of the past had the "Peacock Throne"?
Answer: The Mughal Empire
Question 87
Who is the only US President to have served in non-consecutive terms?
Answer: Grover Cleveland
Question 88
In the short story by Washington Irving, what war occurred while Rip Van Winkle was asleep?
Answer: American Revolutionary War
Question 89
In which century did Rembrandt live?
Answer: The 17th century
Question 90
In 1942, from which Native American tribe did the US Military recruit 29 men from to develop a code that the Japanese never broke?
Answer: Navajo
Question 91
Who was the first European to sight New Zealand in 1642?
Answer: Abel Tasman
Question 92
In 1991, there was outrage after the LAPD's notorious encounter with which man was caught on video?
Answer: Rodney King
Question 93
What event began on April 12, 1861?
Answer: American Civil War
Question 94
In which battle was Horatio Nelson fatally wounded?
Answer: Battle of Trafalgar
Question 95
What civilization built the ancient city of Chichen Itza?
Answer: Maya
Question 96
To which political party did UK prime minister Tony Blair belong?
Answer: Labour Party
Question 97
Who was the monarch of The United Kingdom during the time period 1760-1820?
Answer: George III
Question 98
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1625-1649?
Answer: Charles I
Question 99
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1685-1688?
Answer: James II
Question 100
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1485-1509?
Answer: Henry VII
Question 101
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1399-1413?
Answer: Henry IV
Question 102
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1154-1189?
Answer: Henry II
Question 103
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1100-1135?
Answer: Henry I
Question 104
Who was the 36th president of the USA, in term during the period 1963–1969?
Answer: Lyndon Johnson
Question 105
Who was the 38th president of the USA, in term during the period 1974–1977?
Answer: Gerald Ford
Question 106
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1199-1216?
Answer: John
Question 107
Who was the 22nd president of the USA, in term during the period 1885–1889?
Answer: Grover Cleveland
Question 108
Who was the 15th president of the USA, in term during the period 1857–1861?
Answer: James Buchanan
Question 109
Who was the 30th president of the USA, in term during the period 1923–1929?
Answer: Calvin Coolidge
Question 110
Who was the 4th president of the USA, in term during the period 1809–1817?
Answer: James Madison
Question 111
Who was the 10th president of the USA, in term during the period 1841–1845?
Answer: John Tyler
Question 112
Who Accidently Sailed Around The Cape Of Good Hope In 1488?
Answer: Bartolomeu Dias
Question 113
Which Viking Chief, Banished From Iceland, Founded The Norse Colonies On Greenland?
Answer: Erik The Red
Question 114
Which chicken dish is named after a battle in the Napoleonic wars?
Answer: Chicken Marengo
Question 115
With Which War Is Florence Nightingale Associated?
Answer: Crimean
Question 116
With Which Ship Did Francis Drake Circumnavigate The World?
Answer: The Golden Hind
Question 117
Which Scary Movie Character Has The real name Charles Lee Ray?
Answer: Chucky
Question 118
Who, in 1909, became the first man to fly across the English Channel?
Answer: Louis Bleriot
Question 119
Who Was The Youngest British Prime Minister?
Answer: William Pitt
Question 120
Who was the Taj Mahal built in memory of?
Answer: Mumtaj Mahal
Question 121
Who was the mountaineer who in 1953, together with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, became the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
Answer: Edmund Hillary
Question 122
Who was the mother of James I of England?
Answer: Mary Queen Of Scots
Question 123
Who was the President of Egypt in 1956 who nationalized the Suez Canal, causing British and French troops to invade the region?
Answer: Gamal Abdul Nasser
Question 124
Who was the mother of Elizabeth I?
Answer: Anne Boleyn
Question 125
Who was the first woman elected to lead a European democracy?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question 126
Who was the first Windsor monarch of the UK?
Answer: George V
Question 127
Who was the first female American astronaut?
Answer: Sally Ride
Question 128
Who Was The First Christian Emperor Of Rome?
Answer: Constantine
Question 129
Who was the first chancellor of West Germany after WWII?
Answer: Konrad Adenauer
Question 130
Who was the last of the Apache warrior chiefs
Answer: Geronimo
Question 131
Who Was The 4th Wife Of Henry VIII?
Answer: Anne Of Cleeves
Question 132
Who was President of the USA from 1953 till 1961?
Answer: Dwight Eisenhower
Question 133
Who Was President Of The USA In 1952?
Answer: Harry Truman
Question 134
Who Was Prime Minister When King Edward VIII Abdicated?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin
Question 135
Which WWII general was nicknamed 'The Desert Fox'?
Answer: Rommel
Question 136
Who was known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park"?
Answer: Thomas Edison
Question 137
Who was Henry VIII's second wife?
Answer: Anne Boleyn
Question 138
Who Was Henry VIII's Third Wife?
Answer: Jane Seymour
Question 139
Who was forced into the Black Hole of Calcutta?
Answer: British Officers
Question 140
Who Was Ousted As President of the Philippines By Corazon Aquino In 1986?
Answer: Ferdinand Marcos
Question 141
Who was Cary Grant's female lead in the movie 'To catch a thief?
Answer: Grace Kelly
Question 142
Who was assassinated on December 8, 1980 in New York City?
Answer: John Lennon
Question 143
Who succeeded Winston Churchill when he resigned in 1955?
Answer: Anthony Eden
Question 144
Who Was Marie Antoinette's Husband?
Answer: Louis XVI
Question 145
Who ruled England at the time of Shakespeare?
Answer: Elizabeth I
Question 146
Who ruled Rome when Christ was born?
Answer: Augustus Caesar
Question 147
Who Said "Will No-One Rid Me Of This Turbulent Priest"?
Answer: Henry II
Question 148
Who Released The 70's Album Entitled 'Transformer'?
Answer: Lou Reed
Question 149
Who Brought Back Tobacco And Potatoes From The Americas?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh
Question 150
Which famous Arab / Israeli war took place in 1973?
Answer: Yom Kippur war
Question 151
Which country did Idi Amin invade in 1979?
Answer: Tanzania
Question 152
Which country blew up a Greenpeace ship in New Zealand?
Answer: France
Question 153
Where did the battle of Waterloo take place?
Answer: Belgium
Question 154
What was the third country to get the atomic bomb?
Answer: Britain
Question 155
What was The Eldest Son Of Edward III Better Known As?
Answer: The Black Prince
Question 156
What was Alexander The Great's wife's name?
Answer: Roxana
Question 157
What country did the allies invade in World War II's Operation Avalanche?
Answer: Italy
Question 158
Of which ship was Miles Standish captain?
Answer: The Mayflower
Question 159
Of What Tribe Was Boadicea The Head?
Answer: Iceni
Question 160
Where in England was William Shakespeare born?
Answer: Stratford-Upon-Avon
Question 161
In Which Year Did The Falklands Conflict Begin?
Answer: 1982
Question 162
In March 1979, where did a major nuclear accident occur?
Answer: Three Mile Island
Question 163
If You Were Born On Christmas Day What Star Sign Would You Be?
Answer: Capricorn
Question 164
If you were born on Christmas Day, what would your star sign be?
Answer: Capricorn
Question 165
In 1969 Richard Cawston Made A Documentary For The BBC About Which Famous Family?
Answer: The Royal Family
Question 166
How Many Crusades Were There?
Answer: Nine
Question 167
Famed as a member of the Rat Pack, who died on Christmas day 1995?
Answer: Dean Martin
Question 168
During Which King's Reign Did The Great Fire Of London Occur?
Answer: Charles II
Question 169
Designed By Robert Fulton, Which Weapon Was Tested In The Seine In 1801?
Answer: The Submarine
Question 170
Approximately how many children did pharaoh Ramses II father?
Answer: 160
Question 171
Who built the Taj Mahal?
Answer: Shah Jahan
Question 172
Which Roman emperor followed Claudius?
Answer: Nero
Question 173
Which shipbuilding company constructed the Titanic?
Answer: Harland & Wolff
Question 174
Which president was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase?
Answer: Jefferson
Question 175
Which great ocean liner sailed its maiden voyage in 1934?
Answer: The Queen Mary
Question 176
Which best selling American writer wrote and directed the sci-fi film Westworld?
Answer: Michael Crichton
Question 177
Where In Egypt Is The Tomb Of Tutankhamen?
Answer: Luxor
Question 178
Where did the real St. Nicholas live?
Answer: Turkey
Question 179
What was the sister ship of The Olympic?
Answer: The Titanic
Question 180
What Was Formerly Called Stingray Harbour?
Answer: Botany Bay
Question 181
What treaty, signed in 1713, ended the War of the Spanish Succession?
Answer: Treaty of Utrecht
Question 182
What started in 1849 when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill?
Answer: The California Gold Rush
Question 183
What Happened To The Apollo I Spacecraft On 27 January 1967?
Answer: It caught fire on its launch pad
Question 184
What did Sir Howard Carter discover in 1922?
Answer: Tutankhamen's Tomb
Question 185
What did President James Buchanan not have?
Answer: A wife
Question 186
To which island was Napoleon exiled, after his loss at Waterloo?
Answer: St Helena
Question 187
Which U.S. president was fatally shot in 1881?
Answer: James Garfield
Question 188
The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were fought between which two houses of England?
Answer: York and Lancaster
Question 189
The Gold Coast gained its independence from Great Britain in 1957 and formed part of which new country?
Answer: Ghana
Question 190
The Devonian Period is also known as the Age of what?
Answer: Fish
Question 191
The Colosseum received its name not for its size, but for a colossal statue of which Emperor that stood close by?
Answer: Nero
Question 192
The 14th July 1789 marked the start of what?
Answer: French Revolution
Question 193
Who was Queen Elizabeth I's Mother?
Answer: Anne Boleyn
Question 194
'Moondance' was a hit for which male singer?
Answer: Van Morrison
Question 195
London's Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is traditionally given by which country?
Answer: Norway
Question 196
In which war was Bunker Hill a major battle?
Answer: The American War Of Independence
Question 197
In which battle was George A. Custer defeated?
Answer: Battle of Little Bighorn
Question 198
In What Year Was The French Declaration Of The Rights Of Man?
Answer: 1789
Question 199
In what year of WW II did Russia declare war on Japan?
Answer: 1945
Question 200
In What Year Did The Spanish Civil War Begin?
Answer: 1936
Question 201
In What Year Did The French Revolution Begin?
Answer: 1789
Question 202
In What Century Were The War Of The Roses Fought?
Answer: 15th Century
Question 203
In what war did jet fighters first battle each other?
Answer: The Korean War
Question 204
How old was Alexander the Great when he died ?
Answer: 32
Question 205
How Did UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjoeld Die In September 1961?
Answer: In an air crash
Question 206
How is the stockmarket collapse of the 24th October 1929 better known?
Answer: Black Thursday
Question 207
Who was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Answer: General Custer
Question 208
Who ruled Rome when Christ was born?
Answer: Augustus
Question 209
Who said 'I have nothing to offer but blood, tears, toil and sweat'?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question 210
Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI created which principality in 1719?
Answer: Lichtenstein
Question 211
Which Roman Emperor is said to have fiddled while Rome burned?
Answer: Nero
Question 212
In which WWII battle were four Japanese carriers destroyed?
Answer: Midway
Question 213
From what country did the U.S. buy the Virgin Islands?
Answer: Denmark
Question 214
For how long did the 30 Years War last?
Answer: 30 Years
Question 215
Don Mintoff became which countries first Prime Minister after it became a republic in 1974?
Answer: Malta
Question 216
Between which countries was the shortest war in history, lasting 38 minutes?
Answer: Zanzibar and England
Question 217
21 October 1805 Is The Date Of Which Famous Battle?
Answer: Trafalgar
Question 218
1970 Saw Which Treaty Between USSR & West Germany
Answer: The Moscow Treaty
Question 219
What was the former name of Thailand?
Answer: Siam
Question 220
In which year was the first successful organ transplant?
Answer: 1954
Question 221
In which year did Sirimavo Bandaranaike make history as the first woman elected head of a government?
Answer: 1960
Question 222
When was the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
Answer: 1989
Question 223
When was the first chemotherapy treatment?
Answer: 1956
Question 224
In which year was the discovery of treatment for AIDS?
Answer: 1987
Question 225
When was laser eye surgery first used for vision correction?
Answer: 1983
Question 226
When was the first dialysis machine created?
Answer: 1943
Question 227
In which year was the first “test tube baby” conceived using IVF?
Answer: 1978
Question 228
When was the first mobile phone conversation?
Answer: 1973
Question 229
When was the first email sent?
Answer: 1971
Question 230
In which year was Nelson Mandela released from prison?
Answer: 1990
Question 231
When was the first SMS message sent?
Answer: 1992
Question 232
When was the first movie with sound?
Answer: 1927
Question 233
Who invented the postage stamp, and is seen as the inventor of the modern postal system?
Answer: Sir Rowland Hill
Question 234
In what year did the Treaty of Paris mark the end of the American Revolutionary War?
Answer: 1783
Question 235
What was the name of the Soviet Union's counter-attack on Germany in 1944?
Answer: Operation Bagration
Question 236
What was the name of the Viking settlement that was established in Newfoundland, Canada?
Answer: L'Anse aux Meadows
Question 237
What is the name of the Viking practice of sacrificing prisoners to their gods?
Answer: Blót
Question 238
What is the name of the Aztec capital city?
Answer: Tenochtitlan
Question 239
What is the name of the Aztec writing system?
Answer: Nahuatl
Question 240
What was the primary language of the Aztecs?
Answer: Nahuatl
Question 241
What was another name for the Aztec Empire?
Answer: The Triple Alliance
Question 242
What did the Aztecs use as a form of writing?
Answer: Pictographs
Question 243
What is the name of the Aztec feathered serpent god?
Answer: Quetzalcoatl
Question 244
What was the name of the Aztec creation myth?
Answer: The Legend of the Fifth Sun
Question 245
What was the term used for the Aztec ruler?
Answer: The Tlatoani
Question 246
What was the name of the Aztec god of the wind?
Answer: Ehecatl
Question 247
Which of these battles marked the end of the American Revolution?
Answer: Yorktown
Question 248
Which English king was executed in 1649?
Answer: Charles I
Question 249
What was the name of the stock market crash that began the Great Depression in 1929?
Answer: Black Thursday
Question 250
Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Answer: Robert Walpole
Question 251
Who was the first president to be impeached?
Answer: Andrew Johnson
Question 252
Which country declared war on France first in the Napoleonic wars?
Answer: Great Britain
Question 253
Which battle did Napoleon win that proved his military genius?
Answer: Battle of Austerlitz
Question 254
Which of the following was NOT one of the Ottoman Empire's major allies during World War I?
Answer: France
Question 255
Who was the first president of Brazil?
Answer: Deodoro da Fonseca
Question 256
What type of government did the Holy Roman Empire have?
Answer: Elective monarchy
Question 257
Who was the great czar who led Russia to victory against Charles XII of Sweden in The Great Northern War of 1700-1721?
Answer: Peter The Great
Question 258
Who was the first king of Hungary?
Answer: St. Stephen
Question 259
Which country's troops were defeated by Mexico's army at Puebla in 1862, leading to the celebration of Cinco de Mayo?
Answer: France
Question 260
In what state did black sit-ins at segregated lunch counters first start in 1960?
Answer: North Carolina
Question 261
Which country was Kurt Waldheim, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, from?
Answer: Austria
Question 262
Which Venezuelan wrote the "Cartagena Manifesto", a famous essay on independence, in December 1812?
Answer: Simon Bolivar
Question 263
What ancient city is also known as Ilium?
Answer: Troy
Question 264
Starting in February 1942, Canada began moving 21,000 people of what background to internment camps?
Answer: Japanese-Canadians
Question 265
Which US president was once the police commissioner of New York City?
Answer: Teddy Roosevelt
Question 266
Which king of England, who died in 1547, was survived by his wife Catherine?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question 267
Which ancient ruler was known as the "Scourge of God"?
Answer: Attila the Huns
Question 268
Which Greek city-state, led by Lysander, defeated Athens in 404 B.C. and established the government of the 30 tyrants over it?
Answer: Sparta
Question 269
Which event led John F Kennedy to announce a naval blockade on October 22, 1962?
Answer: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Question 270
Ceylon officially became which country on May 22, 1972?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question 271
What term refers to a metal-plated wooden warship?
Answer: Ironclad
Question 272
During which conflict did the Abu Ghraib scandal occur?
Answer: Iraq War
Question 273
Who was the first US vice president to assume the presidency upon the death of a president?
Answer: John Tyler
Question 274
Godfrey of Bouillon was a leader of the First Crusade and was elected ruler of what city after its capture?
Answer: Jerusalem
Question 275
Used by the Roman military, what was a Scutum?
Answer: A shield
Question 276
Which decade saw the Stonewall Riots in New York City, which helped to initiate the gay rights movement?
Answer: The 1960s
Question 277
Which German city served as the capital of West Germany from 1949 until reunification in 1990?
Answer: Bonn
Question 278
Which war did the UK fight in South Africa between 1899 and 1902?
Answer: The Boer War
Question 279
Which of these people was a leader of the Hunnic empire?
Answer: Attila
Question 280
What medieval social system was based on the holding of land in exchange for labor?
Answer: Feudalism
Question 281
Which explorer was killed on the Hawaiian Islands?
Answer: James Cook
Question 282
Which Palestinian leader received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994?
Answer: Yasser Arafat
Question 283
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1509-1547?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question 284
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1553-1558?
Answer: Mary I
Question 285
Who was the monarch of England during the time period 1413-1422?
Answer: Henry V
Question 286
Who was the 16th president of the USA, in term during the period 1861–1865?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question 287
Who was the 14th president of the USA, in term during the period 1853–1857?
Answer: Franklin Pierce
Question 288
Who is regarded as the most influential monarch of Russian Romanov Dynasty?
Answer: Peter I
Question 289
In what country is the Waterloo battlefield?
Answer: Belgium
Question 290
Who Was The Last British Monarch Born Abroad?
Answer: George II
Question 291
Who was the first person to reach the North Pole?
Answer: Rober Peary
Question 292
Who Was The British Prime Minister Between 1964 & 1969?
Answer: Harold Wilson
Question 293
Who Was The 1st wife of henry VIII?
Answer: Catherine Of Aragon
Question 294
Who Was Ptolemy Dionysius Related To As Both Brother And Husband?
Answer: Cleopatra
Question 295
Who Was Henry VIII's Last Wife?
Answer: Catherine Parr
Question 296
Who was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Answer: George A. Custer
Question 297
Who tried to create the 'Great Society'?
Answer: Lyndon Johnson
Question 298
Who Was Shot Dead In Dallas On 24th November 1963?
Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald
Question 299
Who Released The 70's Album Entitled 'Out of the Blue'?
Answer: ELO
Question 300
Who Played Bowls Before Engaging The Spanish Armada?
Answer: Sir Francis Drake
Question 301
Which country was first to operate an old age pension scheme?
Answer: Germany
Question 302
Where Did The Mayflower Set Sail From In 1620?
Answer: Southampton
Question 303
What did Temujin change his name to?
Answer: Genghis Khan
Question 304
Which Chinese dynasty lasted from 1368 to 1644?
Answer: Ming
Question 305
In Which Year Was The Battle Of Trafalgar Fought?
Answer: 1805
Question 306
In Which Year Was Joan Of Arc Burned At The Stake?
Answer: 1431
Question 307
In the harbour of which city was the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior sunk in 1985?
Answer: Auckland
Question 308
Roughly How Many Men Were There In A Roman Legion?
Answer: 5000
Question 309
The war in Vietnam ended with the fall of Saigon in what year?
Answer: 1975
Question 310
Which Spanish King sent an armada against England in 1588
Answer: Philip II
Question 311
Which plant was Socrates given to drink to carry out his death sentence?
Answer: Hemlock
Question 312
What did Peter Minuit buy in 1626?
Answer: Manhattan Island
Question 313
Through the streets of what town did Lady Godiva ride naked?
Answer: Coventry
Question 314
What was the most famous relocation by the Cherokee native Americans known as?
Answer: The Trail of Tears
Question 315
The Monument in the City Of London is a monument to which event?
Answer: The Great Fire
Question 316
Of which country did Robert Menzies become Prime Minister in April 1939?
Answer: Australia
Question 317
In Which Country Was The Auschwitz Concentration Camp Located?
Answer: Poland
Question 318
In which city was President Kennedy killed?
Answer: Dallas
Question 319
In What Year Did The Great Fire Of London Occur?
Answer: 1666
Question 320
In the period 978-1016 England was ruled by which 'Unready' King?
Answer: Ethelred
Question 321
In the 17th century which country started taxing beards?
Answer: Russia
Question 322
How many times was Franklin Roosevelt elected president of the USA?
Answer: 4
Question 323
Who was aboard the H.M.S. Beagle?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question 324
Which cult leader led 900 followers in a mass suicide in 1979?
Answer: Jim Jones
Question 325
Which city was burned by General Sherman in 1864?
Answer: Atlanta
Question 326
From which European country did Mozambique declare independence in 1975?
Answer: Portugal
Question 327
What was Taiwan formerly known as?
Answer: Formosa
Question 328
After the fall of the iron curtain, Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced a period of restructuring known as what?
Answer: Perestroika
Question 329
In which year was the Rwandan Genocide?
Answer: 1994
Question 330
When was Nelson Mandela elected as South Africa’s first black president?
Answer: 1994
Question 331
When did the United States transfer the Panama Canal to Panamanian control?
Answer: 1999
Question 332
In which year was the vaccine for tuberculosis created?
Answer: 1921
Question 333
When was the pacemaker invented?
Answer: 1958
Question 334
In which year did women gain the right to vote in the UK?
Answer: 1928
Question 335
When was the first blood bank opened?
Answer: 1937
Question 336
In which year did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat in protest of racial inequality?
Answer: 1955
Question 337
In which year was GPS invented?
Answer: 1974
Question 338
When was the first supersonic Concorde flight?
Answer: 1969
Question 339
In which year was the first commercial jet flight?
Answer: 1952
Question 340
What was the name of the major conflict between France, Austria, Prussia, Saxony, Russia and Great Britain in the 18th century?
Answer: The Seven Years' War
Question 341
What was the first country to legalize trade unions, in the 19th century?
Answer: The United Kingdom
Question 342
What is the name of the Norse goddess of love and beauty?
Answer: Freyja
Question 343
What is the name of the Aztec calendar?
Answer: The Tonalpohualli
Question 344
What was the name of the Aztec creation goddess?
Answer: Coatlicue
Question 345
What is the name of the Aztec rain god?
Answer: Tlaloc
Question 346
In which year did the Six-Day War take place?
Answer: 1967
Question 347
What was the first US state to join the Union?
Answer: Delaware
Question 348
What year did the United States purchase the Louisiana Territory from France?
Answer: 1803
Question 349
Which of the following is the oldest city in the United States?
Answer: St. Augustine, Florida
Question 350
Who was Napoleon's first wife?
Answer: Josephine de Beauharnais
Question 351
Who was the British commander at the Battle of Waterloo?
Answer: The Duke of Wellington
Question 352
Who was the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: Suleiman I
Question 353
What was the name of the Ottoman Empire's governing body?
Answer: The Divan
Question 354
Who succeeded Anthony Eden as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1957?
Answer: Harold Macmillan
Question 355
What term is often closely associated with James Monroe's presidency?
Answer: Era of Good Feeling
Question 356
Who said 'I've looked over, & I've seen the promised land' one day before his assassination?
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.
Question 357
Who became imperial mathematician to the Holy Roman Emperor in 1601 after the death of Tycho Brahe?
Answer: Johannes Kepler
Question 358
Who did Stalin allegedly force Norway to expel in 1936 by buying its entire herring catch?
Answer: Leon Trotsky
Question 359
In which country did the Kemalists oppose the Sultan and eventually prevail in the 1920s?
Answer: Turkey
Question 360
Who was born in Assisi in 1181 and later became a missionary?
Answer: St. Francis
Question 361
Who, with a Swiss team, came within 1,000 feet of the summit of Mount Everest in 1952 before reaching the summit in 1953?
Answer: Tenzing Norgay
Question 362
What is the name of the African country that was formerly known as The Republic of Upper Volta?
Answer: Burkina Faso
Question 363
What country's government resigned due to Gustav V's 1914 borggardstalet or 'courtyard speech'?
Answer: Sweden