Multiple Choice Questions Trivia Questions
1. How many colonies were there in the United 9. What woman discovered radium and polonium?
States?
Answer: Marie Curie
a. 12
b. 13 10. What was the name of Blackbeard / Edward
c. 14 Teach’s ship?
2. During what period did the title of Dictator Answer: Queen Anne’s Revenge
originate?
11. In what year did the Battle of Hastings take
a. Roman Republic place?
b. Napoleonic Europe
c. Soviet Union Answer: 1066
3. What was Michelangelo’s last name? 12. Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of what
former European country?
a. Brunelleschi
b. Buonarroti Answer: Yugoslavia
c. Botticelli
13. Who was the first explorer to sail around the
4. The Louisiana Purchase took place in what world?
year?
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
a. 1803
b. 1813 14. True or False: Sweden was neutral in WWII
c. 1823
Answer: True
5. Which of the following was NOT Greek?
15. Who was President during the Bay of Pigs
a. Homer Invasion?
b. Herodotus
c. Virgil Answer: John F. Kennedy
6. In Japanese history, what was a Rōnin? 16. Which Roman Emperor was famously known as
‘Little Boots’?
a. A banished Samurai
b. A young Samurai Answer: Caligula
c. A Samurai with no lord or master
17. On what island was Napoleon born?
7. Who was in power the longest?
Answer: Corsica
a. Franklin D. Roosevelt
b. Winston Churchill 18. Where was the first British colony in the
c. Margaret Thatcher Americas?
8. Which conflict was the shortest? Answer: Jamestown, Virginia
a. WWII 19. When did the Berlin Wall fall?
b. American War of Independence
c. American Civil War Answer: 1989
20. Where did Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and
Franklin D. Roosevelt meet following the conclusion
of WW2?
Answer: Yalta
