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Throwback Thursday Week 1: History Trivia
Throwback Thursday Week 1: History Trivia
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1
Who were the Big Three during WWII?
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Shinzō Abe
Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin
Theodore Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Josef Stalin
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Which city was destroyed by Mt. Versuvius erupting?
Noreia
Pompeii
Paris
Jerusalem
3
Which ancient civilization built the pyramids?
Mayans
Babylonians
Aztecs
Egyptians
4
All but one of these people became rulers as children, who took the throne at age 25?
James V of Scotland
Mary Queen of Scots
Henry VI of England
Queen Elizabeth I
5
Which English Queen reigned for only 9 days?
Elizabeth I
Mary I
Anne Boleyn
Jane Grey
6
Which historical figure said “let them eat cake” (during the French Revolution)?
Louis V
Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
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Who invented the light bulb?
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Nikola Tesla
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How many presidents were assassinated and who were they?
Four:AbeLincoln, JamesGarfield, WilliamMcKinley, JohnKennedy
Two: Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy
Three:Benjamin Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses Grant
One: Abraham Lincoln
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Which war took place between 1950 and 1953?
Korean War
Wold War II
Vietnam War
World War I
10
Which was the first country to use paper money?
Great Britain
India
France
China
11
Who was the first man to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic in 1927?
Bessie Coleman
Charles Lindbergh
Bob Hoover
Steve Fosset
12
Who wrote Hamlet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, and Taming of The Shrewd?
George Orwell
John Osborne
William Shakespeare
Virgina Woolf
13
How many wives did Henry VII have?
Six
Three
Two
Five
14
Who was the Greek godess of love in Greek Mythology?
Demeter
Aphrodite
Rhea
Hestia
15
Who was the first person to discover North Ameica?
Sir Francis Drake
Christopher Colombus
Henry Hudson
Leif Erikson
16
What years was Prohibition, or the banning of alcohol in action?
1920-1933
1855-1864
1950-1960
1790-1801
17
Where was Adolf Hitler born?
Poland
Austria
Soviet Union
Germany
18
In what country did the Olympics originate?
France
Greece
Egypt
Germany
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Who were the first men to step on the moon?
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong and John Glenn
Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin
Michael Collins and Gordon Cooper
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In what year did the Titanic Sink?
1915
1905
1912
1920