HISTORY QUIZ

In the Great Fire of London 1666, which destroyed 13,200 houses, only 8 people were killed.

John F. Kennedy, Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis all died on November 22.

The September 11 attacks caused the demolition of which buildings?

Who was made King at age 10?

The bashing of ........ led to the La Riots in 1992

This image shows

Which treaty ended World War 1 in 1919?

TRUE OR FALSE: Cleopatra was Egyptian

Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano on Mainland Europe

The Chernobyl Nuclear Exclusion Zone is now a...

The Kokoda War in 1942 occurred primarily between Allied (largely Australian) forces and the..

The witch trials commonly targeted

Which Queen famously burnt others at the stake?

Nirvana frontman was..

Who inherited the crown from Elizabeth I who died childless?

Researchers believe the Guanajuato Mummies’ are the result of the victims being buried alive.

The Space Race occurred between ....

TRUE OR FALSE: Elizabeth I had the first flushing toilet

The disease which devastated Europe in the 14th century was....

Magna Carta was published in which country?

The Battle of Hastings was led by

Heroin was once a perfectly acceptable medicine prescribed by doctors for coughs to headaches.

The bloody code was

TRUE OR FALSE? Ancient gladiators were mostly vegetarian eating grains, beans and dried fruits.

Roman Emperor Gaius, also known as Caligula, made one of his favorite horses a senator.

True or False: Monarch William II invented shoes that curled up at the toes.

John F Kennedy was assassinated in ..

Public Enemy were an influential group of which genre?

The Hippie Movement occured in the

Which King had 6 wives?

The Mayans used to sacrifice people by pulling their still-beating hearts out of their chests.

The Parliament of Iceland is the oldest acting parliament in the world established in 930.

Adolf Hitler was born in...

During World War 2, a bomb killed the only elephant in Berlin Zoo.

Jack the Ripper murdered women in what part of London?

What does this image show?

Who was the 'Nine Days Queen'?

John Lennon was one of the lead singers of ..

Saturday Night Fever made popular what kind of music?

In the 1800s, it was considered cruel and unusual punishment to feed convicts lobster.

TRUE OR FALSE? Henry III was given a polar bear from Norway's King and held in Tower of London

Elvis Presley was also known as ...

The Cold War influenced the following comic series:

The moon landing occurred in ..

Henry VIII declared himself head of the Protestant church as

What was the name of the fine that a whole village would have to pay if the killer was unknown?

Albert Einstein was offered the role of Israel’s second President in 1952, but declined.

What form of punishment saw people yell loudly at others who were committing crimes?

Which country held the first Olympic Games?

Famous lawsuit allowing education of BOTH black and white students in the USA?

What trophy did Jack the Ripper keep from his victims?

The youngest known soldier in World War 1 was how old?

The Vietnam War is known as what kind of war within the Cold War conflicts?

The Berlin Wall was a barrier between

Who is this a photograph of?

The shortest war ever recorded went for 38 minutes which was the ...

Grease was made in the 1970s but depicted a typical high school in the .....

The bombing of Pearl Harbour occurred December 7

Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat into a functioning telephone in 1929.

WW1 began in ...

The blood fueds were

Rosa Park's refusal to give her seat up to a white man led to...