World History
Do you always seem to Babylon and on about history? If your knowledge spans the centuries and the globe, this category is the one for you. Don't worry if you make a mistake – nothing is set in stone!
When was power steering first available in a petrol driven car?
Which economic theory that was the dominant school of thought throughout the early modern period holds that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital and that the global volume of international trade is unchangeable?
In Nazi Germany, what was Endloslung?
What was 11th-century Spanish military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better know as?
Which Anglican archbishop of Cape Town was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984?
How was Kublai Khan related to Genghis Khan?
What rank did Russian czar Peter the Great give himself in the Russian Army?
What Russian said that all modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organization is to exploit the working class?
Which explorer was the first to reach the Cape of Good Hope?
Britain, Ireland and what country joined the EEC simultaneously?
Who was the pacifist who led India’s struggle for independence?
To which royal house does the royal family of Monaco belong?
Chennai in India used to be known as what city?
What kind of car did Communist leader Nikolai Lenin equip with skis and half-tracks in order ot overcome Russia’s heavy snows?
Who was the 1st President of the fifth republic of France?
Who ended 27 years of exile when his caravan of cars zoomed into the Gaza Strip on July 1, 1995?
How did Russian leader Boris Yeltsin lose the thumb and forefinger of his left hand?
In which country did the widespread use of ISDN begin in 1988?
Who was president of the USSR from 1985-91?
What was the former name of Iran?
How many inmates were liberated from the Bastille after it was stormed by an angry mob on July14, 1789, at the start of the French Revolution?
In 1968/69, who became the 1st man to sail non-stop and single-handed around the world?
From 1922 to 1926, in the Russian revolution to eliminate religions, how many priests were killed? A) 1,200 B) 12,000 C) 120,000
P W Botha was prime minister of which country?
John Flynn invented what service in Australia?
Who was buried in Milan under the name of Maria Maggi to discourage grave robbers?
Who was the target of the failed “Bomb Plot” of 1944?
Which African explorer translated the Arabian Nights?
What war claimed Major Marie Rossi, the “First Female Combat commander to Fly into Battle”?
The V1 flying bomb used by the Germans against London and Southern England in 1944 was given a more popular name by the British people. What was it?
Who was captain of Darwin’s ship HMS Beagle, and subsequently became governor of New Zealand.
Robert Menzies was Prime Minister of which country?
Who did the Americans recognize as ruler of Vietnam in 1950 when the Soviets acknowledged Ho Chi Min?
What party did Mikhail Gorbachev suspend a day after returning from an ill-fated vacation?
What was the first country to recognize Mexico’s independence, in 1836?
Which Adolf was executed in May 1962 for his part in the Holocaust?
What did Czar Nicholas II of Russia buy from Hammacher Schlemmer in 1914?
Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that killed 3,360 people in 1631, is in what country?
Which Italian city was buried, along with Herculaneum, when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79?
Which country did Idi Amin go to when he fled Uganda?
In 2004, the government of Equatorial Guinea accused which popular English author of being one of the financiers of a failed 2004 coup d’Etat attempt against it?
Socrates was trained into what profession?
General Boris Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to leave where in 1989?
In what year did Hussein become king of Jordan?
What country saw a world record 315 million voters turn out for elections on May 20, 1991?
Scottish clan were traitors and caused the Glencoe massacre?
How many Queens have ruled France?
What ‘v’engeful weapon is the first known human artifact to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight?
In which country did the My Lai massacre take place?
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