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Historical Misconceptions
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Historical Misconceptions
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1
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Queen Elizabeth II was a trained mechanic.
There was an African-American Samurai.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa never stood up straight.
Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity.
2
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
The Spanish Flu wiped a fifth of the world’s population.
The last surviving widow of a Civil War Veteran died in 2020.
The first Olympic games were held for Zeus.
The Trojan War took place in Ancient Greece.
3
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
The first pyramid in Egypt was built in 2630 BCE
Julius Caesar was assassinated by Roman senators in 44 BCE
Toilet paper was first used in China in the 600’s.
The Eiffel Tower was built as a temporary structure
4
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Cleopatra was racially Egyptian.
Women fought in the American Civil War.
Julius Caesar was not a tyrant
America joined WW1 in 1917
5
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
The Founding Fathers owned slaves.
Genghis Khan's invasion affected the climate by lowering carbon dioxide.
The electric car was invented before the first gas car automobile.
The French Revolution began in 1789.
6
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Muslims created veiling.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s hair was sold as a collectible after his death.
Wooly mammoths were alive during the building of the pyramids of Giza
In 16th-century England, people would sometimes be buried alive.
7
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
The ancient Romans believed that gladiators' blood had healing powers.
The longest war was the Reconquista
The Founding Fathers of the U.S. were Christians
The first successful flight was made by the Wright brothers in 1903.
8
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
The Confederate Army got close to inventing the first submarine.
Pocahontas married John Smith
Germany finished paying World War I reparations in 2010.
The Battle of Hastings took place in 1066.
9
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Barbers in medieval times would cut people’s veins to cure them.
George Washington had wooden teeth
The shortest recorded war lasted only 38 minutes.
Doctors believed that drinking powdered mummies cured injuries in the 1500s
10
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Thomas Jefferson has a living great grandson
Henry Ford invented the assembly line.
The first human flight to space was in 1961.
A Syrian brown bear served in the Polish army during World War II
11
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
The U.S.A. joined WW2 only because of Pearl Harbor.
A Samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
The Mayan civilization fell around 900 and remained hidden until 1900’s
The Roman empire lasted 500 years after Julius Caesar's death.
12
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Medieval Scholars believed the Earth was flat.
The Renaissance began in Italy.
Mansa Musa the third was estimated to be worth around $400 Billion.
The Battle of Waterloo took place in 1815.
13
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Paul Revere said, "The British are coming!"
The Magna Carta was signed by King John.
The Salem witch trials executed both men and women.
The first human-made structures in the Americas date back over 12,000 years
14
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
The Salem witch trials involved witches being burned at the stake.
Samurai‘s katanas were not their primary weapons.
In ancient Rome, urine was used as mouthwash and laundry detergent.
17th Century European doctors prescribed tobacco enemas to treat everything
15
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Rosa Parks was alive to be able to listen to Kanye West.
The first Olympic games were held in Greece in 776 BCE.
The Underground Railroad was a physical railroad.
During the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 some people wore masks.
16
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
The shortest recorded war in history was named the Anglo-Zanzibar War.
The Great Emu War in 1932 was a war between Australians and the emus.
The Great Wall of China is one continuous wall.
The Eiffel Tower was once planned to be torn down in 1910.
17
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
The Hindenburg had a smoking lounge.
Gladiators were slaves.
Cleopatra lived closer to the iPhone than the building of the Great Pyramid
Genghis Khan used biological warfare.
18
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
People in the past died way younger than they do today.
On average 1000 people died every hour during World War 2.
The first moon landing took place in 1969.
The last person to be guillotined in France was 1977.
19
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
The Russians sent a dog to space in 1957.
The last ice age reduced the human population to ten thousand.
Only six people died from The Great Fire of London.
Napoleon Bonaparte was short.
20
Which of the following is a historical misconception?
Vikings wore horned helmets.
The Great Fire of London started in 1666.
Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the island of Elba.
Coffee originated in Ethiopia.
