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!
What city’s worker-student protests of 1968 resulted in a 33 percent rise in the national minimum wage?
Three Scottish kings and eight Popes share what name?
Hamida Djandoubi in 1977 was the last one – what?
Who was Pope during World War II?
What band of Mexican rebels took marching orders from the masked Subcamandante Marcos?
Which two Middle-Eastern countries fought a war from 1980 to 1988?
During the 20th Century, which British Prime Minister and American President have shared the same surname?
Various people have claimed to be the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who was shot in 1918, what was the daughter’s name?
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili became famous as who?
King Thibaw – imprisoned by the British – last king of where?
Who was the admiral of the French fleet defeated by Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Who said “Let them eat cake”?
Thor Heyerdal’s raft the ‘kon-tiki’ was made of what type of wood?
Which battle of 1746 ended the Jacobite revolution?
Solidarity was the mass movement of the people in which country?
What country maintained an official state of emergency from 1933 to 1945?
Name the Greenpeace trawler which was sunk in July 1985.
Vietnam was a former colony of which country?
What did Siam change its name to?
Which country was ruled for 40 years by the dictator Antonio Salazar?
In which Polish city was the Solidarity union formed in 1989?
Which Russian leader had a pronounced birth mark on his forehead?
Which South African island was used as a gaol for political prisoners under apartheid?
In which year did Mikhail Gorbachev resign as Soviet president?
Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta, which country was renamed in 1984 by its president Thomas Sankara to mean ‘the land of upright people’?
Celibate Egyptian priests were forbidden to eat what aphrodisiac?
Which 20th century head of state survived the most assassination attempts?
Which Soviet foreign minister gave his name to a petrol bomb?
Which city in central Spain was renowned throughout the middle ages as an important center for the production of swords and other bladed instruments?
In 1954, which country suggested that it should join NATO to preserve peace in Europe but this proposal was rejected as the other countries felt that it would weaken the alliance?
All told, how many children sis Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker father?
There are two general types of skiing Alpine and what?
How long is Indianapolis’s most famous motor race?
What U.S. state did Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky threaten to reclaim, in 1995?
Why did the BBC play the opening bars of Beethoven’s 5th symphony in all of its broadcasts to Europe during WWII?
Who was the first performer to sell over half-a-million copies of a Quadra disc – a stereo, four-channel record?
What name was give to the Ancient Textile Record of the Battle of Hastings ?
In 1903 Congress imposed a tax of how much per head for immigrants entering the country?
Who was the four-foot-tall, hairy character in the TV series, The Addams Family?
Who was the first person to record that the number of rings in the cross section of a tree trunk reveals its age?
What is the second lightest chemical element?
What film had this line? Better Get Under Cover, Sylvester. There’s A Storm Blowin’ Up, A Whopper.
Christine Jorgensen in 1952 was the world’s first what?
On the reverse side of the $100 bill, what time is shown on the Independence Hall clock?
Pompeii was buried by Vesuvious in AD 79 – what other city?
Why is the site of a boxing match called a ring when it’s square?
Which collection of orchestral movements were composed by George Frideric Handel in 1717 at the request of King George I? These are also his best known work.
What was President Warren Harding’s middle name?
What is the name of the brass tuba, which wraps around the body?
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