History Questions Quiz
Test your knowledge and learn more about the fascinating events and figures that have shaped our world?
Popular History Questions
- What was the name of the ship that carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620?
- What was the name of the treaty that ended the Napoleonic Wars in 1815?
- Which king was the first Tudor monarch?
- Can you translate the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"?
- Which famous British explorer was killed in Hawaii in 1779?
- What do the stripes on the American flag represent?
- Which queen, the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, was made famous by the discovery and display of her ancient bust?
- Which king sent Christopher Columbus to explore the New World?
- Zonians were people associated with which land area and political entity?
- Which British queen said that when she died: "Calais would be found engraved on her heart"?
- The Belovezha Accords is the agreement declaring that what had effectively ceased to exist?
- The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is commonly believed to have started what war?
- Can you name the world’s oldest recorded civilization?
- In which month and year did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor happen?
- Who unified Germany in 1871 and became its first Chancellor?
- Cusco was the capital city of which empire?
- Which British engineer designed the Crystal Palace, a landmark building for the Great Exhibition of 1851?
- Which hill is generally accepted as the location on which Harold Godwinson deployed his army for the Battle of Hastings?
- Who was the first Emperor of Rome?
- The Treaty of Westphalia ended which war in 1648?
- Libya gained independence from which country in 1951?
- Who became the first Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD?
- Name the British nurse who went to the Crimean War with the plan of setting up the "British Hotel"?
- Bernardo O'Higgins was a military leader who became the first President of which country?
- Thailand was known by what name until 1939?
- What was the name of the period in Japanese history characterised by the rule of military shoguns from 1185 to 1868?
- Who do modern historians generally consider to be the first British prime minister?
- The War of the Triple lasted from 1864 to 1870 on which continent?
- Who said: 'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'?
- Who wrote the 95 Theses, sparking the Protestant Reformation?
Answers
- Mayflower
- The Treaty of Paris
- Henry VII
- Let Them Eat Cake
- Captain James Cook
- The 13 original colonies
- Nefertiti
- King Ferdinand of Spain
- Panama Canal Zone
- Mary I
- The Soviet Union
- World War I
- Mesopotamia
- December, 1941 (December 7, 1941)
- Otto von Bismarck
- The Inca Empire
- Joseph Paxton
- Senlac Hill
- Augustus
- Thirty Years' War
- Italy
- Charlemagne
- Mary Jane Seacole
- Chile
- Siam
- The Edo Period (or Tokugawa Shogunate)
- Robert Walpole
- South America
- Winston Churchill
- Martin Luther