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1
What sunken battleship is memorialized at Pearl Harbor?
USS Arizona
USS Laffey
USS Missouri
IJN Musashi
2
What is the earliest piece of written literature?
The Diamond Sutra
Kesh Temple Hymn
The Iliad
Tales of Gilgamesh
3
What disputed region led to many conflicts between Germany and France?
Alsace Lorraine
Wallenstein
Elsass Lothringen
Flanders
4
What President of the IOC was the most controversial and a former supporter of Nazi Germany?
Avery Brundage
Shinzo Abe
Nikita Khrushchev
Rafer Johnson
5
Who is the sniper with the most accredited kills?
Josef Alleberger
Vasily Zaytsev
Chris Kyle
Simo Häyhä
6
What career did Vladimir Putin work in during Stalin’s Regime?
KGB Foreign Intelligence Officer
Field Marshall of the Red Army
NKVD Senior Director
Director of The State Security Administration
7
Who was the famous German WW1 field Marshall and last president of the Weimar Republic?
Paul von Hindenburg
Joseph Konrad
Franz von Papen
Adolf Hitler
8
What war did Teddy Roosevelt fight in?
Crimean War
Spanish American War
WW1
Boxer Rebellion in China
9
Which State was made a U.S. territory through an illegal coup.
Alaska
Florida
Hawaii
Illinois
10
What was the longest battle in history? (Ten Months)
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Kursk
Battle of the Bulge
11
Who unified Feudal Japan following the Warring States Period?
Hideoki Kobayashi
Genichiro Ashina
Oda Nobunaga
Emperor Meiji
12
What creature is destined to bring about Ragnarok in Norse Mythology?
Fenrir
Loki
Jormungandr
Ägir
13
Which Chinese Dynasty was the first to be ruled by a family not Han Chinese?
Yuan Dynasty
Xia Dynasty
Eastern Han Dynasty
Ming Dynasty
14
What agreement between the Britain, the U.S., and the Soviet Union divided post war Europe into spheres of influence?
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Treaty of Versailles
Potsdam agreement
Treaty of Paris
15
What President had the shortest time in office?
James Rutherford
William Harrison
John Tyler
Bill Clinton
16
What ended the Renaissance Era?
The Hundred Years War
Battle of Vienna
Fifth Crusade
The Sack of Rome
17
Who was Otto von Bismarck?
Prince of Prussia and Brandenburg
First of the Hohenzollern Kings of Prussia
Archduke of Austria-Hungary
Founding Father of United Germany and the Iron Chancellor.
18
Who was the Unabomber?
Moltke von Roon
Erich Raeder
Ted Kaczynski
Joseph DeAngelo
19
What general of the U.S. army led the campaign known as the March to the Sea in the Civil War?
General Wheeler
General Patton
General Sherman
General Montgomery
20
What genetic disease was present in family of Tsar Nicholas the 2 that caused them to enlist the services of Rasputin?
Cholera
Cystic fibrosis
Polio
Sickle Cell Disease
21
What famous conquerer was named the “Scourge of Gods”?
Genghis Khan
Charlemagne
Emperor Charles V
Attila the Hun
22
What Warship obtained the longest hit by any naval artillery? (23km)
SN Kirov
RN Littorio (Glory of Naples)
HMS Warspite (The Grand Old Lady)
KMS Scharnhorst (Ugly Sister)
23
The Iran Contra Affair led to civil unrest in what country?
Liberia
Nicaragua
Iran
Guatemala
24
What warship had the nickname “The Grey Ghost”?
IJN Mogami
USS New Jersey
USS Enterprise
KMS Scharnhorst
25
The ideology of fascism began in what country?
Italy
Romania
Germany
Austria
26
What conflict had the U.S. Marines fighting in Beijing and Northern China?
Boxer Rebellion
Chinese Civil War
Spanish American War
Korean War
27
What federal organization organized the Waco Siege?
DEA
FBI
ATF
FDA
28
What nation embodied the last remnant of Roman culture and society?
The Byzantium Empire
Finland
The Holy Roman Empire
Russian Empire
29
What was controversial about the 1936 olympics?
The inclusion of South Africa
It was held in Nazi Germany
Russian doping
It featured the first black athletes
30
To what province did the Chinese Communists flee to during the Chinese Civil War?
Nanjing
Guangzhou
Teinstin
Shanxi