HISTORY quiz
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Which queen of Castile supported the voyages of Christopher Columbus?
In 1469 she married Ferdinand of Aragon, and in 1492 she took Granada, ending the Reconquista.
What is the name of the person in the photo?
How many years did the Hundred Years' War last?
You can be off by 10.
116
What title did Minamoto no Yoritomo receive in Japan in 1192?
He was the first shogun of the Kamakura period and held the post until 1199.
In which century did the Middle Ages begin?
V century
What is the name of the person in the photo?
Who was the last Roman emperor to rule both the eastern and western halves of the empire?
He died on January 17, 395.
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
Who led the USSR as First Secretary of the party from 1953 to 1964?
In 1956 Khrushchev delivered the Secret Speech denouncing Stalin's cult of personality. In 1964 he was ousted from power and replaced by Brezhnev.
Which city did the Turks capture in 1541 and make the seat of a pashalik for a century and a half?
In 1872–1873 Buda merged with Óbuda and Pest to form Budapest.
What was East Germany's Ministry for State Security commonly called?
Who was the first Secretary-General of the UN?
The Norwegian politician held office from 1946 to 1952.
Nineveh was the capital of which ancient state?
The city lay on the Tigris, opposite present-day Mosul in Iraq. King Sennacherib made it the capital of Assyria.
How many years did the biblical Noah live?
You can be off by 150.
950
Noah lived another 350 years after the flood. In total he lived 950 years.
What was the name of the group that ruled Cambodia bloodily in the second half of the 1970s?
The movement was led by Pol Pot. Between 1975 and 1979, 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died from executions, starvation and forced labor.
On which sea did the ancient land of Phoenicia lie?
Phoenicia covered what is now Lebanon, western Syria and northern Israel.
By what nickname did the Scottish outlaw Robert MacGregor go down in history?
He was called the Scottish Robin Hood. Walter Scott described his life in the novel "Rob Roy".
According to legend, in what year was the city of Rome founded?
You can be off by 20 years.
−753
In which century was Jan Hus burned at the stake in Constance?
You can be off by one century.
XV century
He was executed on 6 July 1415 during the Council of Constance. Hus also helped codify the Czech literary language.
How many letters are in the classical Greek alphabet?
You can be off by 2.
24
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