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!
ATAHUALPA WAS THE LAST RULER OF WHO?
IN THE 1970S A ROCKET POWERED CAR CALLED THE BLUE FLAME BROKE THE WORLD LAND SPEED RECORD. CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW FAST IT WAS TRAVELING?
WHAT WAS ST. PETERSBURG CALLED FOR MOST OF THE 20TH CENTURY?
WHAT WAS THE VERY FIRST WORD TO BE SPOKEN ON THE MOON?
WHO WAS TIME MAGAZINES MAN OF THE YEAR IN 1938?
WHICH CITY WAS THE INTENDED DESTINATION OF THE OCEAN LINER TITANIC?
WHICH MAJOR WEAPON OF WAR WAS USED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1916?
WHO WERE THE TWO WOMEN WHO JOINED NAPOLEON DURING HIS 10-MONTH EXILE ON THE ITALIAN ISLAND OF ELBA?
WHAT ‘N’ IS WHERE ‘OPERATION OVERLORD’ TOOK PLACE?
WHAT WAS THE FIRST BATTLESHIP POWERED BY STEAM TURBINES 1906?
WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE POLISH TRADE UNION SOLIDARITY?
WHO WAS A KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF THE INVERTED DRAGON IN HUNGARY?
IN WHAT YEAR WAS THE TOMB OF TUTANKHAMEN DISCOVERED?
WHAT ‘BOTD’ IS KNOWN BY SOME AS THE BIBLE OF ANCIENT EGYPT?
WHICH FLAVIAN AMPHITHEATER WAS BUILT IN THE GARDENS OF NERO’S PALACE?
LET THEM EAST CAKE LET WHO EAT CAKE?
What connects an Olympic gold medal for Muhammed Ali, a Nobel Prize for Boris Pasternak and an Oscar for George C Scott?
Who was elected as Prime Minister of Australia in 1996?
What title was used by German Emperors until 1917?
Who assassinated…. Mahatma Gandhi
From which city was the ill-fated Titanic launched?
Which infamous pirate captained the ship Queen Anne’s Revenge?
Dacia was the Roman name of which country?
In what year of the 80s did the following person die… Rudolph Hess
Where and in which decade was Greenpeace founded?
Point Clue: I was born on November 2, 1775 the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. Who am I?
The real Saint Nicholas was born in which country?
Where was Che Guevara killed?
What was the full name of the V-2 rocket developed by Wernher von Braun for the Germans during World War II?
What name was given to the union (annexation) of Austria with Germany on March 14th 1938?
Who did Yigal Amir assassinate in 1995?
How many ‘victories’ did The Red Baron claim in aerial dogfights?
In which decade did Gorbachev lose power?
Where was the peace treaty signed that brought World War I to an end?
Which 1942 WWII battle set in Asia was termed as “Britain’s greatest defeat” by Churchill?
What was the nickname of the pirate Edward Teach?
Who’s been called “the French Stalin” for executing 20,000 during the Reign of Terror?
Who’s aliases John Willard Eric Gault George Ramom Sneyd?
Which country celebrates Aug 11 as independence day from France?
What was the nationality of the journalist who accompanied a docking mission to MIR in 1990?
Who did Iranian militants want returned in exchange for U.S. hostages in 1979?
In which war was the novel “For Whom The Bell Tolls” set?
Which country suffered the greatest civilian losses in World War II?
Great Briton fought which country over the Falkland Islands?
How much did Clint Eastwood receive per month for his duties as Mayor of Carmel?
Who stepped down as president of France in 1995, after serving two seven-year terms?
What staple of Sigmund’s profession lies in state at the Freud Museum in London?
What 1827 battle during the Greek War of Independence in which the Ottoman/Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian navy is notable for being the last battle to be fought with sailing ships?
What had Edmond Hillary worked at before taking up mountain climbing?
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