50 Questions on World History

Question 1

Why did many Jews leave Spain/Portugal in 1492 AD?

Accepted Answer

They had to become Catholic, or were killed

Question 2

What did Russia sell to the United States of America in 1867 AD?

Accepted Answer

Alaska

Question 3

How did the Tiwanaku empire in modern day Peru and Bolivia most likely collapse? (~1100 AD)

Accepted Answer

Due to a severe drought

Question 4

What is not true about the Ming dynasty? (China, 1368 – 1644 AD)

Accepted Answer

The population declined drastically

Question 5

On what did Martin Luther have criticism? (1517 AD)

Accepted Answer

The Catholic Church

Question 6

In which country started the Industrial Revolution? (ca. 1760 - 1840)

Accepted Answer

Great-Britain

Question 7

For what did Indigenous Australians use the boomerang?

Accepted Answer

Hunting

Question 8

Where did the indiginous inhabitants of Madagascar come from? (ca. 0 AD)

Accepted Answer

Malaysia

Question 9

What was not one of the ideas of Athenian philosopher Plato (427 - 347 BC)?

Accepted Answer

There are people who are naturally born to be slaves

Question 10

Who was the founder of the Great Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in history?

Accepted Answer

Genghis Khan

Question 11

Mariachi evolved from a mix of pre-European and Spanish influences. What is true?

Accepted Answer

The indiginous population adapted the European instruments

Question 12

Why was astrology important for the Babylonians?

Accepted Answer

They needed to know the seasons for their agriculture

Question 13

What was the system in medieval Europe when farmers traded labour for protection? (500-1500 AD)

Accepted Answer

Feudalism

Question 14

How did the United Kingdom react to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil war? (1936 - 1939 AD)

Accepted Answer

They did not involve at all

Question 15

Why were Honduras and El Salvador at war for four days in 1969 AD?

Accepted Answer

A football match

Question 16

Where was the Maurya Empire, which was the first empire to embrace Buddhism? (263 BC)

Accepted Answer

India

Question 17

What organisation made Europe more united after the Cold War, due to economical collaboration?

Accepted Answer

European Union

Question 18

Why were the United Provinces, modern day Netherlands, so special in the 17th century?

Accepted Answer

They deposed their king and became a republic

Question 19

Against what in South Africa, committed Nelson Mandela's Umkhonto we Sizwe terrorist attacks?

Accepted Answer

Apartheid

Question 20

Why did the USA want a canal in Panama? (1902 AD)

Accepted Answer

To transport the fleet faster from one ocean to the other

Question 21

Why was Native American princess Pocahontas captured by British colonists in 1612 AD?

Accepted Answer

They wanted to trade her for captured colonists

Question 22

Who did African tribes trade as slaves in exchange for weapons and other goods from Europeans?

Accepted Answer

Prisoners of war

Question 23

What was the capital of the first Russian state - Kievan Rus' (882–1240 AD)?

Accepted Answer

Kiev

Question 24

Who was the first to be born?

Accepted Answer

Queen of Egypt Cleopatra VII

Question 25

Who was Pancho Villa? (1878 – 1923 AD)

Accepted Answer

a Mexican revolutionary general

Question 26

Who was the first European to discover the Americas?

Accepted Answer

Leif Erikson (1000 AD)

Question 27

Which river was the eastern border of Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great's empire? (~323BC)

Accepted Answer

Indo

Question 28

What is true about the terror attacks on september 11, 2001 AD on New York and the Pentagon?

Accepted Answer

A fourth plane didn't manage to attack a target

Question 29

Why did viking Erik the Red, who was banned from Iceland, call Greenland 'green'? (982 AD)

Accepted Answer

He wanted to trick people to come to the island

Question 30

What event is concidered as the direct cause of the first Wold War? (1914 - 1918 AD)

Accepted Answer

The muder on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

Question 31

What was not a consequence of the renaissance? (1300 – 1600 AD)

Accepted Answer

The invention of the printing press

Question 32

What consequence of industralisation made Karl Marx write The Communist Manifesto? (1848 AD)

Accepted Answer

The living conditions of the working class

Question 33

Why did the French king Louis XIV (1638-1718 AD) call himself the Sun King?

Accepted Answer

To emphasize his power

Question 34

Maya temples could be found on top of what kind of pyramids?

Accepted Answer

Step pyramids

Question 35

What does the Mandate of Heaven (天命) in Old China mean?

Accepted Answer

The order and will of the universe will justify the ruler

Question 36

Which country was not neutral during the first World War? (1914 - 1918 AD)

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 37

In 1643 AD, the Taj Mahal was completed. Why was it built by Mugal emperor Shah Jahan?

Accepted Answer

As a mausoleum

Question 38

What happened to Charles de Gaulle after the May student protests in France? (1968 AD)

Accepted Answer

He won the next elections by a landslide

Question 39

Who were not put in concentration camps during the second World War in Europe? (1939 - 1945 AD)

Accepted Answer

Muslims

Question 40

What probably caused the epedemic of syphilis in Europe? (1494 AD)

Accepted Answer

Columbus' discovery of Hispanola

Question 41

On what did the Sumerians in Mesopotamia write? (3000 BC)

Accepted Answer

Clay

Question 42

How did the United States end the second World War in Asia in 1945 AD?

Accepted Answer

By killing 250.000 with two atom bombs, so Japan surrendered

Question 43

How did the ancient Egyptians use the Nile river to grow more crops?

Accepted Answer

They built giant stone dams, to store fresh water

Question 44

Why did the United States of America join the second World War? (1939 - 1945 AD)

Accepted Answer

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

Question 45

Which is not a characteristic of the Gothic style? (1140-1500 AD)

Accepted Answer

Roman columns

Question 46

Algeria gained its independence from what country in 1962 AD?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 47

How did Hannibal Barkas cross the Alps in 218 BC to attack the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

With elephants

Question 48

Why did the United States of America, according to themselves, attack Iraq in 2003 AD?

Accepted Answer

To fight Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction

Question 49

What is the doctrine the US had, that legitimized the genocide of natives, to expend westwards?

Accepted Answer

Manifest destiny

Question 50

When does a tribe have a 'history' - according to the meaning of the word?

Accepted Answer

When they start to write things down

50 Questions on World History

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50 Questions on World History

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