Stanley reed trivia night 1

Question 1

In what year did MTV launch?

Accepted Answer

1981

Question 2

What royal family at one time controlled Spain, the Low Countries, Austria, Bohemia, Hungary, and southern Italy?

Accepted Answer

The Habsburgs

Question 3

Which German statesman was the architect of a united Germany?

Accepted Answer

Otto von Bismarck

Question 4

What year did the Eastern Roman Empire fall?

Accepted Answer

1453

Question 5

What European nation once held its crown jewels in Kentucky?

Accepted Answer

Hungary

Question 6

Who was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity?

Accepted Answer

Constantine

Question 7

Who was the only American President to serve more than 2 terms?

Accepted Answer

FDR

Question 8

Who killed Hilter?

Accepted Answer

Hitler

Question 9

In what city was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?

Accepted Answer

Sarajevo

Question 10

What is the smallest country by land area in the world?

Accepted Answer

Vatican City

Question 11

What African country was formerly known as Rodeasia?

Accepted Answer

Zimbabwe

Question 12

What is the name of the unfinished Charles Dickens novel published posthumously in 1870?

Accepted Answer

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Question 13

Which American President was the first to serve two non-consecutive terms?

Accepted Answer

Grover Cleavland

Question 14

Which Roman leader was the first to cross the English Channel?

Accepted Answer

Julius Ceaser

Question 15

Which element has the highest melting point?

Accepted Answer

Tungsten

Question 16

Which swimming stroke was created as a form of breastroke in 1935 and got its event in 1952?

Accepted Answer

Butterfly

Question 17

How many vice presidents have gone on to become president?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 18

The Berlin Wall fell in what year?

Accepted Answer

1989

Question 19

What was the name of the rocket that brought astronauts to the moon?

Accepted Answer

Satern V

Question 20

What British prime minister was known as the Iron lady?

Accepted Answer

Margret Thatcher

Question 21

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

Accepted Answer

Marie Curie

Question 22

What is the only country in the world with a flag that is not square or rectangular?

Accepted Answer

Nepal

Question 23

What country is home to the world’s longest coastline?

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 24

Which film won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Picture in 1929?

Accepted Answer

Wings

Question 25

Who was the British Prime Minister at the start of WWII

Accepted Answer

Nevel Chamberland

Question 26

What was the first music video shown on MTV?

Accepted Answer

Video Killed the Radio Star

Question 27

What is the deepest point in the world’s oceans?

Accepted Answer

Mariana Trench

Question 28

The orange on the Irish flag represents protestants.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

What Beatles album was the last one recorded, though not the last released?

Accepted Answer

Abbey Road

Question 30

How many books are in the bible?

Accepted Answer

73

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