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 is the name of the British political regime 1649-60 established by Oliver Cromwell?
Launfal, Pelleas and Tristram were part of what group?
Who was the first freely elected Marxist president in Latin America?
What’s explorer Fernao de Magelhaes better known as in English?
The Tamil Tigers were fighting for a separate state on which island?
How many times had Wallis Simpson been married before she married Edward VIII?
Which country became the first sovereign state of the 21st century when Indonesia relinquished control on it in May 2002?
Where was the second Atom bomb dropped?
Where in Lybia did Australian troops take a seaport occupied by the Italians in 1941?
What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September of 1915, and April of 1918?
What military organisation did King Louis-Phillipe found in 1831?
In World War 2 what were Panthers and Tigers?
Who was British Prime Minister when World War II broke out?
Which English king was killed at the Battle of Bosworth?
What Revolutionary War figure laid the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument on June 17, 1825 – the 50th anniversary of the famous battle?
In which year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
Who turned over the reins of power to his hand-picked successor Thabo Mbeki?
Whose Headquarters were located at Sidi-bel-Abbes in Algeria for 120 years until 1962?
Churchill, Sherman and Panzer were all developed as types of what?
Which civilization originated the myth of the phoenix, which rose from its own ashes?
What country was the first to register a patent on polyester?
Q:What color metaphor for race originated in the late nineteenth century with immigration of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the US?
Various people have claimed to be the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who was shot in 1918, what was the daughter’s name?
What dictator is affectionately dubbed El Maximo by fans?
Who was king of France at the time of the French Revolution?
Karl Marx was an atheist, True or False?
The sword Joyeuse that is in the Louvre belonged to which person whose empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Romans?
WHICH EMBASSY DID THE SAS STORM IN 1980?
IN WHAT YEAR DID GENGHIS KHAN COME TO POWER?
IDI AMIN WAS THE HEAD OF STATE OF WHICH AFRICAN COUNTRY?
WHICH RULER REFFERED TO THE ENGLISH AS A NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS?
WHAT ‘G’ HELPED WIN INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE?
THE ROMAN ROADBUILDERS LACKED WHICH ELEMENTARY TOOL?
WHICH SHIPBUILDING COMPANY CONSTRUCTED THE TITANIC?
WHAT WAS INVENTED IN ROME 63 BC BY MARCUS TIRO?
WHAT ‘E’ ARE THE FAMOUS MARBLES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM?
IN WHICH YEAR DID THE BOER WAR BEGIN?
DURING WHICH WAR WAS THE BATTLE OF MARNE?
WHAT ‘PF’ CAUSED THOUSANDS OF IRISH TO DIE OF HUNGER IN THE 19TH CENTURY?
HOW DID CLEOPATRA REPUTEDLY COMIT SUICIDE?
WHICH OIL TANKER RAN AGROUND IN PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, ALASKA IN 1989?
IN WHICH YEAR DID PRINCESS DIANA DIE?
THE RESTAURANTS `PALM COURT`, `CAFÉ PARISIEN` AND `VERANDAH` WERE ALL CLOSED DOWN ON THE SAME NIGHT DUE TO EXTENSIVE FLOODING, BUT WHERE DID THEY USED TO EXIST?
WHAT DIGIT DID ARAB MATHEMATICIAN AL-KHWARIZMI GIVE TO THE WEST AROUND 800 B/B?
WHAT WAS FIRST BUILT IN THE PLACE DE GREVE IN 1792?
HAITI WAS THE SECOND COUNTRY IN THE AMERICAS TO ACHIEVE FREEDOM FROM COLONIAL RULE, WHAT WAS THE FIRST?
WHAT NATIONALITY WAS FIRST PERSON IN SPACE NOT US OR RUSSIAN?
WHICH VERTICAL TAKE-OFF JET MADE ITS FIRST FLIGHT IN 1966?
WHAT COUNTRY DID THE ALLIES INVADE IN WORLD WAR II’S OPERATION AVALANCHE?
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