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General history questions: From the Cold War to Ancient Egypt
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1
Who was the Roman Emperor in 1 A.D.?
Augustus
Caesar
Maximus Decimus Meridius
Marcus Aurelius
2
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were philosophers of which ancient civilisation?
Ancient Greece
The Roman Empire
Ancient Egypt
Persia
3
Who was the US President at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Donald Trump
J.F. Kennedy
4
In which century did the Industrial Revolution begin?
19th
20th
17th
18th
5
The Space Race culminated with the Lunar Landing in which year?
Never, it was faked!
1969
1976
1961
6
When was the Act of Union between England and Scotland?
1907
1707
1770
1807
7
Who is Britain's longest reigning monarch?
William the Conqueror
Henry VIII
Victoria
Elizabeth II
8
When did the Titanic sink?
1912
1932
1997
1878
9
Who won the Battle of Bosworth?
Neither, the battle never took place
House of York - Richard III
Neither, the battle ended in a draw
House of Lancaster - Henry Tudor
10
Where did the French Revolution take place?
The Queen's Theatre, West End (Do you hear the people sing?)
Germany (surprising, right?)
New York
France (obviously)
11
What is the approximate age of the Earth?
7,000 years
4.5 billion years
13.7 billion years
15.4 million years
12
In what year did the Berlin Wall collapse?
1961
1991
Never, we're going to rebuild it, and Mexico will pay for it
1989
13
True or false: The 300 Spartans won the Battle of Thermopylae?
True
False
14
Cleopatra lived closer to which event in history? (Think carefully)
The invention of the iPhone
The building of the Pyramids of Giza
15
What is the world's oldest major religion?
Mormonism
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
